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Pictures from the Etan Patz case

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  • Stanley Patz, father of Etan Patz, walks back to the courtroom after a break Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, during opening arguments in the murder trial of Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to abducting and killing Etan Patz is what became one of the most famous missing persons case in history.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • (r) Rosemary, wife, and daughter Becky, family of Pedro Hernandez , return to the courtroom after a break Friday, Jan. 28, 2015, during opening arguments in the murder trial of Hernandez, who confessed to abducting and killing Etan Patz.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, left, arrives Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, for opening arguments in the murder trial of Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to abducting and killing Etan Patz in what became one of the most famous missing persons case in history.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • Stanley Patz, right, father of Etan Patz, arrives with his daughter, Shira, center, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, for opening arguments in the murder trial of Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to abducting and killing Etan Patz in what became one of the most famous missing persons case in history.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • George Safee of Brooklyn holds a 1985 milk carton image of Etan Patz saved by his wife Gigi for 27 years near the scene where young Etan Patz is now thought to have been abducted in 1979 as walked to the school bus.
    Photo Credit: Craig Ruttle
  • The J.F. Rey Eye Wear shop now occupies the space at 448 West Broadway in Manhattan. Police say Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing six-year-old Etan Patz at this site in 1979. (May 24, 2012)
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • FBI and NYPD forensic teams remove a dumpster of material they collected as they finish their search for traces of Etan Patz in the basement of a building in SoHo. Patz, a 6-year-old boy, disappeared in 1979. (April 23, 2012)” data-id=”13677632″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3677632″/>
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • FBI and NYPD forensic teams finish their search for traces of Etan Patz in the basement of a building in SoHo. Patz, a 6-year-old boy, disappeared in 1979. (April 23, 2012)” data-id=”13677634″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3677634″/>
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • FBI and NYPD forensic teams finish their search for traces of Etan Patz in the basement of a building in SoHo. (April 23, 2012)” data-id=”13677637″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3677637″/>
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • FBI and NYPD forensic teams continue to search the basement of a building in SoHo as they look for any traces of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979. (April 22, 2012)” data-id=”13675724″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3675724″/>
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Searchers use a tent for collecting evidence while a tarp covers the container where debris was dumped for forensic testing Sunday. (April 22, 2012)
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • FBI and NYPD forensic teams continue to search the basement of a building in SoHo as they look for any traces of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979. (April 22, 2012)” data-id=”13675720″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3675720″/>
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Rain and gusty wind conditions Sunday led to the suspension of the search for Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979. (April 22, 2012)
    Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
  • Stanly Patz, holding a camera on his fire escape, as crime scene investigator search for the remains of his son Etan, who disappeared in 1979. (April 20, 2012)
    Photo Credit: John Roca
  • FBI Evidence Response Team sifts through tools outside of the site where investigators searched for evidence in the case of missing 6-year-old Etan Patz in SoHo. (April 19, 2012)” data-id=”13671169″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3671169″/>
    Photo Credit: Nancy Borowick
  • FBI and NYPD surround the outside of a building on Prince and Wooster streets in SoHo as investigators look for possible evidence in the case of Etan Patz, who went missing in 1979. (April 19, 2012)” data-id=”13670651″ data-link=”https://cdn.newsday.com” class=”wp-image-1.3670651″/>
    Photo Credit: Nancy Borowick
  • Police spokesman Paul Browne talks about the investigation of the Etan Patz case in SoHo. (April 19, 2012)
    Photo Credit: Nancy Borowick
  • The scene on Prince and Wooster streets in SoHo where investigators are looking for evidence in the Etan Patz case. (April 19, 2012)
    Photo Credit: Nancy Borowick
  • Law enforcement officials surround the outside of a building on Prince and Wooster streets in SoHo as investigators looked for possible evidence in the case of Etan Patz, who went missing in 1979. (April 19, 2012)
    Photo Credit: Nancy Borowick

Photos from the case of Etan Patz, the boy from Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood who went missing May 25, 1979, when he was 6 years old. Pedro Hernandez, 53, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, who once worked in the SoHo neighborhood, was charged with the kidnapping and murder. Jury selection for the trial began Jan. 5, 2015.

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