Pedro Hernandez, the former bodega worker arrested on Thursday and accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979, was held overnight Thursday under a suicide watch and transferred to Bellevue Hospital Center early Friday morning, an official briefed on the matter said.
Mr. Hernandez, 51, was taken into custody on Wednesday and held Thursday night under close monitoring, the official said.
He was under the constant observation of a police sergeant until 5:30 a.m., when he was transferred to Bellevue, the official said.
It was unclear where Mr. Hernandez was held until he was moved to the hospital, and the official could not say whether he was transferred for any formal evaluation. Mr. Hernandez has been accused of second-degree murder by the police but has yet to be charged by prosecutors.
He told investigators that on the day Etan, 6, disappeared on his way to a school bus stop in SoHo, he lured the boy to the basement of the bodega where he worked with the promise of a soda, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Thursday night. Once inside, Mr. Hernandez said he choked Etan, stuffed his body in a bag and took the bag about a block and a half away, where dumped it in the open amid other trash.
Etan disappeared 33 years ago on Friday.
(Source: NY Times)
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Amid trash, you mean.
how come none of the Monday morning quarterbacks are comparing this to the kletzky case. there is no difference , this comes to show us how hypercritical we are , that when it strikes one of our own we say all these terrible things that should be done to to the accused killer , yet no one has said what should be done to Mr. Hernandez even though what he has done to etan Patz and his parents you would think was much worse.
Yosse, if you’d have the ability to think and evaluate, you might come to the conclusion that this six year old is older than me. It is very sad, but people don’t stay emotional for thirty years. I did not, and could not, participate in searching for this boy.
If you’re looking for negativity you’ll find it in a bird’s nest, but I found it in you.
In meanwhile in our civil system a fellow by the name of Ramos was found liable and was required to pay $2M (Never actually paid as he has no money) which goes to show how our justice system which allows a person to be found liable on a much lower level of evidence.
So as bad as out criminal justice system can be, the civil one is worse.
yosse:
One of the bad things that the dayanim did during the times of the Beis HaMikdash was that they said
We dont need to gothrough this.We just had someone with the same case.
Is there independent evidence that he actually did this? Or is it just his sudden confession?
#4
Ramos was found libel due to the fact that he refused to answer any question under oath. Don’t blame the justice system here.
I don’t understand something.
Why does this guy, out of the blue, admit to a crime committed 33 years ago, a crime for which the police and state have no suspects, aren’t looking for any, and have closed as unsolved, and frankly cannot have established as a crime because the boy was never found, and there is no evidence that he was murdered?