After an appeals court overturned a conviction, prosecutors must decide whether to retry a man in the notorious 1979 child ...

The missing child case of six-year-old Etan Patz ushered in the “stranger danger” era and a reckoning across the US as to how ...

Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking to a school bus stop in 1979. The publicity of the case led to a societal ...

A New York federal appeals court ruled to overturn the guilty verdict for the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance of the ...

A New York federal appeals court ruled Monday to overturn the guilty verdict for the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance ...

Cyrus Vance prosecuted Pedro Hernandez twice. An appeals court overturned the conviction, ruling that the trial judge should ...

"Time is not the prosecution's friend," said Michael J. Brown, a Long Island defense attorney who represents alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex A. Heuermann.

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former Manhattan bodega clerk found guilty of kidnapping and ...

Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering six-year-old Etan Patz, could either get a new trial, or be ...

The man convicted of kidnapping and killing Etan Patz will get a new trial. The shocking decision was made by a Federal ...

"In a shocking ruling," a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled decided that Hernandez should be given ...

Six-year-old Etan Patz, who vanished in 1979, became one of the most recognizable faces on milk cartons in the 1980s. His ...