Deceased/Not Found NY - Etan Patz, 6, New York, 25 May 1979 #2 *P. Hernandez guilty*

[gregjrichards]

"A judge has ruled that potatoes cannot be used as evidence in the Etan Patz murder trial.

The defense had asked that a 50-lb. sack of potatoes and a produce box be admitted as evidence in an attempt to prove that Pedro Hernandez, 54, could not have carried young Etan's body to the trash where he said he dumped him."

http://www.people.com/article/etan-patz-murder-trial-judge-rules-defense-cant-use-potatoes-evidence

 

[gregjrichards]

"The jury in the trial of Etan Patz’s alleged killer was introduced Monday to the convicted pedophile who had long been suspected in the boy’s disappearance.

A former federal prosecutor, Stewart Grabois, testified that Jose Ramos had confessed to him that he was 90 percent sure Etan was the boy he had picked up for sex on the day the 6-year-old disappeared in 1979, WCBS 880’s Irene Cornell reported.

To gain leverage over Ramos, Grabois threatened to personally revive a sex-abuse charge against him in Pennsylvania."

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03...patz-case-try-to-shift-focus-to-past-suspect/

 

[gregjrichards]

"The Etan Patz murder trial heated up Tuesday with the current prosecutor and a former investigator verbally sparring in open court.

Defense star witness Stuart GraBois, a retired federal prosecutor who for years chased a convicted child molester as the primary suspect, was hammered on cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, who now fighting to convict former SoHo bodega clerk Pedro Hernandez in the infamous missing child case.

Illuzzi-Orbon attacked GraBois’ investigation skills, claiming he followed the advice of psychics and took minimal or no notes on leads and interviews."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...n-patz-trial-shouting-match-article-1.2160832

 

[gregjrichards]

New article about hearing yesterday

"Convicted pedophile Jose Ramos admitted to a jailhouse snitch that he — and not suspect Pedro Hernandez — committed vile acts against missing 6-year-old Etan Patz while boasting that authorities would never find the boy.

Jeffrey Rothschild, a serial credit card forger who testified for the defense representing suspected killer Hernandez, said Ramos once ranted about the prosecutor who doggedly persued the case against him in the late 1980s.

While Rothschild and Ramos were held together in the segregated area of the Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York around 1991, the pedophile made a series of damning admissions about his ties to the case and the former federal prosecutor, Stuart GraBrois.

“That b-tard knows I did it — he can’t prove it and it’s killing him,” Rothschild recalled Ramos boasting. “Good, let it kill him — we’ll both be buried next to Etan!”

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...pped-crime-jailhouse-snitch-article-1.2163688

 

[thefragile7393]

Its Ramos. Its not this very mentally ill man...though proving Ramos did it is a diff story

 

[dotr]

"In state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Julia Patz said she had avoided attending the trial except for her initial testimony on Feb. 2.

“I chose not to subject myself to hear the details of the alleged confessions,” she said.

Patz said if she heard the disturbing details, they would be etched in her mind and leave her unable to sleep.

Prosecutors asked her about Jose Antonio Ramos, who defense attorneys say is the real killer. Ramos’ girlfriend walked Etan Patz to school during a school bus strike, and for years Ramos was the prime suspect.

Ramos has said he had been inside the Patz family’s apartment, according to investigators in the case, but the boy’s mother disputed that claim.

He had never been in their home and his girlfriend was never left there alone babysitting, she said.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/217763/etan-patz-mother-testifies-at-accused-killers-tria/#ixzz3W0CurTfS

 

[gregjrichards]

New article about court hearing today

"The man who admitted in 2012 to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz also confessed to a prosecution psychiatrist nearly two years later, it was revealed Thursday.

Jurors saw footage of Dr. Michael Welner interviewing Pedro Hernandez while he was in custody on March 4, 2014, and he essentially repeated the details of his admission in May 2012.

Hernandez, during roughly 18 hours of interviews, told Welner that he thought Etan may have survived being choked and stuffed in a plastic bag by him on May 25, 1979, and that he did not actually see the boy’s face at all.

“Maybe he’s alive somewhere? Who knows? I don’t know,” the 54-year-old accused killer said in the recorded session.

Welner testified it was possible Hernandez tried to minimize the damage he’d done through that claim."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...d-killing-etan-patz-2-years-article-1.2172375

 

[gregjrichards]

"A new videotaped confession was played Monday in the Etan Patz murder trial from accused killer Pedro Hernandez.

It's the fourth in the trial so far and was made to a psychiatrist working for the prosecution.

"And whatever happened there, I choke him. It was something that just happened quick. I don't know why I did it," Hernandez says in the video.

Dr. Michael Welner spent 18 hours talking with the accused on video, 20 months after prosecutors charged him with kidnapping and killing the six-year-old.

He testified Hernandez does not have a serious mental illness, and didn't appear to have one on the day Patz vanished in 1979.

The defense says Hernandez hallucinated that he strangled Etan -- and then believed it.

That's why the defense says he told at least five people he killed the boy."

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...dez-confession-played-in-etan-patz-trial.html

 

[Mickie Mouse]

Doc says Patz killer had no 'major mental illness': http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/doc-says-patz-killer-had-no-major-mental-illness/ar-AAawsFP

 

[epiphany]

Welner’s view is that Hernandez has a personality disorder, but not a serious mental illness. He told jurors Hernandez had little difficulty functioning in the world, saying he is a good amateur mechanic, does home repairs, knows how to cook, taught himself to play the accordion and has held down several menial jobs.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04...an-patz-does-not-have-serious-mental-illness/


Dr. Welner testified that he disagreed with a defense expert, Dr. Michael B. First, who determined that Mr. Hernandez had schizotypal personality disorder, which Dr. Welner characterized as “not a serious mental illness.”

Dr. Welner said that while Mr. Hernandez had some schizotypal traits — like eccentric beliefs and visual hallucinations — his symptoms more closely resembled borderline personality disorder, which is characterized by inappropriate rages and difficulty with personal relationships. That disorder is common among people who commit crimes, he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/n...fact-from-fiction-psychiatrist-says.html?_r=0

 

[gregjrichards]

New article about hearing 9/4/2015

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The childhood sweetheart of the man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz told a jury Thursday that she saw no signs Pedro Hernandez was mentally.

Yvonne Velez, the final witness to testify in Hernandez’s murder trial, said she and the defendant were girlfriend and boyfriend in Puerto Rico when she was 12 and Hernandez was 15, WCBS 880’s Irene Cornell. They met at church, Velez said.

Velez, now 51, was flown in from Puerto Rico by prosecutors to dispute the defense’s claim that Hernandez is mentally unbalanced and has been hearing voices and having hallucinations since he was 15 years old.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04...tz-murder-suspect-he-never-seemed-delusional/

 

[gregjrichards]

NEW ARTICLE - Jury finished hearing evidence. Summations begin Monday 13th of April 2015

Jurors in New York City have finished hearing evidence in the case against Pedro Hernandez, who is charged with murder in the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz.

continued

Summations begin Monday.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/09/new-york-jury-etan-patz-1979-murder-disappearance

 

[gregjrichards]

"The case that has haunted New York for more than three decades will soon be in the hands of a jury.

On Monday, jurors were hearing closing arguments in the case against a 54-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz on May 25, 1979, as the boy walked to school for the first time on his own.

Pedro Hernandez confessed to the crime in 2012 in a case that has confounded law enforcement for decades. Etan’s body was never found, nor any trace of clothing or his belongings."

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/13/closing-arguments-expected-in-etan-patz-murder-trial/

 

[gregjrichards]

New article about hearing today. Case should be going to jury soon.

"Pedro Hernandez’s confession to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 isn’t just a sick fantasy — there’s plenty of proof to back it up, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon walked jurors through Hernandez’s version of events, which she said in her closing arguments are supported by facts pieced together after his bombshell admissions.

Hernandez was telling the truth when he identified the alleyway where he admitted to disposing of the small boy’s body, which he said he wrapped in a plastic trash bag and stuffed into a produce box, the prosecutor said.

That because the location, at 115 Thompson St., is one and a half blocks from the SoHo bodega where Hernandez worked and “is the very first dip where you could hide anything” in the vicinity, Illuzzi-Orbon argued in her summation.

The fact that Hernandez admitted to a killing to church group members months after the incident, and later to his ex-wife and a childhood pal cannot be ignored, Illuzzi-Orbon said.

The prosecutor said the stories he delivered varied slightly but were meant to cover up the sick sexual motive he could never admit and to avoid getting caught."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...confession-back-evidence-da-article-1.2184689

 

[gregjrichards]

Jury is most likely going to start deliberations today

"For the first time since 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to a New York City bus stop in 1979, fueling a national missing children’s movement, a criminal jury is set Wednesday to begin weighing evidence against the man accused of killing the child."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...fa2a18-e2d9-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html

 

[gregjrichards]

No verdict reached on first day of deliberations Wednesday 15th April 2015

"A New York jury reached no verdict on Wednesday in its first day of deliberations in the trial of a former deli worker accused of kidnapping and murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose 1979 disappearance called national attention to the issue of missing children."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/15/us-usa-crime-patz-idUSKBN0N62GX20150415

 

[gregjrichards]

Jury deliberating again today

"The jury in the Etan Patz murder trial is set to resume deliberations today.

Jurors began deciding the fate of Pedro Hernandez yesterday.

The panel deliberated for about 90 minutes, but didn't ask to review any evidence.

Hernandez is accused of killing 6-year-old Etan back in 1979.

The boy vanished while walking to his SoHo school bus stop by himself. His body was never found.

Jurors have seen four different taped confessions from Hernandez, but defense attorneys say Hernandez is mentally ill and could have hallucinated the attack. They've also suggested that convicted pedophile Jose Ramos may be the real killer.

"One can never predict with a jury as to how long they'll deliberate and know what their verdict will be," said Harvey Fishbein, Hernandez's attorney. "We're just very confident that we made our points. And they're a very smart jury, and that was our purpose."

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...ial-of-man-accused-of-killing-etan-patz-.html

 

[gregjrichards]

Jury deliberations update

The jury weighing the fate of the SoHo bodega clerk accused of killing little Etan Patz back in 1979 asked Thursday for a readback of some key testimony.

In particular, they wanted to hear the account of Pedro Hernandez’s ex-wife, Daisy Rivera.

Rivera testified that Hernandez, who she met when she was 16 and married shortly after, confided in her that he killed somebody.

“He said it was a young man, in Spanish he would be a ‘muchacho’ and he said it was a ‘gringo’,” she told the court. “This person had approached him and he felt violated."

Rivera also told the court she found a photo of Patz — that she believes was cut from a missing person poster — in the shoe box where Hernandez kept various documents.

Rivera said when she confronted her husband about it — thinking it might be his son by another woman — Hernandez said he kept the image because he knew the Patz family from the neighborhood."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ase-asks-readback-testimony-article-1.2187615

 

[gregjrichards]

Update about Jury deliberations today (Friday 17th April 2015) No verdict yet -Jury ask to review Pedro Hernandez's confession and other evidence

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jury-case-missing-boy-etan-patz-asks-view-30392729

According to information from reporters on Twitter the Jury have asked to see the missing poster of Etan's in which the accused wrote This is the kid I choked I'm sorry

 

[epiphany]

Jessica Schneider @JSchneiderTV · 48m 48 minutes ago

Court lunch break. Jurors get food in deliberation room and continue discussions. #EtanPatz


Jessica Schneider @JSchneiderTV · 2h 2 hours ago

NOTE from #EtanPatz jury: 1) 10 cups coffee; 2) Miranda rights card; 3) Missing Poster where Pedro wrote "I choked him" (misspelled)


Jessica Schneider @JSchneiderTV · 3h 3 hours ago

Judge gets a note from the #EtanPatz jury. Third note of the deliberations, now on Day #3. Judge says jury needs clarification on Miranda.


https://twitter.com/JSchneiderTV