Manhattan’s top prosecutor says it’s “premature” to say how confident he is that a former stock clerk is the person who killed a boy who vanished in 1979.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. also declined to comment Thursday on whether Pedro Hernandez’s arrest clears two other men who had been eyed in the case.
Hernandez was charged last week with murder after police say he confessed to strangling Etan Patz.
Hernandez hasn’t entered a plea. His lawyer says he’s schizophrenic.
Vance says prosecutors are working on the case “in a measured, thoughtful, impartial manner.”
A civil court declared another man responsible for Etan’s death: a convicted child molester in a Pennsylvania prison.
Then last month, investigators dug up a basement linked to a handyman. Neither was charged.
(Source: NY Post)
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6 Responses
If he admitted it how is it premature?!?
#1- Because he is a certified nut case who may want the attention. The confession of a madman is worthless.
Because some crazies admit to things they didn’t do for the attention.
I hope for his parents sake this is it.
#1-Because he is schizophrenic. Read before you post !!!!!!!!
You’d have to be crazy to falsely confess to a crime like this. But you’d have to be even crazier to do the crime in the first place. So of the two choices, a false confession is actually more likely.
By the way, the Rambam writes that the reason a beis din cannot take judicial notice of a confession is that sometimes people falsely confess to capital crimes in order to commit “suicide by judiciary”, just as today we have many instances of “suicide by cop”.