most interesting case... |
28 May 2012 10:19 #88076
by artemis
Etan Patz's body hidden in NYC bodega's fridge before being dumped, sources sayText Size:
A
|
A
|
A
Print this Article
Email this Article
Sign up for text alerts
Sign up for e-mail headlines
By [color=rgb(4, 61, 99)] New York Post[/color]May 28, 2012NEW YORK -- The man who confessed to strangling little Etan Patz in New York was calculating enough to stash the child's corpse in a basement walk-in refrigerator before tossing it out with the trash.
Murder suspect Pedro Hernandez, 51, told authorities that after killing the child on May 25, 1979, "he put him in the walk-in box and kept him there until he took him out and put him in the garbage," a law enforcement source told the New York Post on Sunday.
It was unclear how long Hernandez, then 19, kept the boy's body hidden in the basement fridge at his family's SoHo bodega after killing him.
Etan's body was stuffed in a plastic bag and then put into a box before being stowed in the walk-in, sources said.
But the grisly package remained there until the coast was clear and Hernandez could sneak it out to the street that night. He told cops he wound up carrying the box to an alley down the block and dumping it in other garbage that was later hauled off by a trash truck.
The lurid detail came during Hernandez's stunning confession to cops last week in which he admitted to luring the towheaded six-year-old into the bodega with the promise of a cold soda. Etan had been walking to his school bus stop -- just across the street from the bodega -- by himself for the very first time when he was abducted.
Cops are feverishly poring over old blueprints of the building to see if they include any description of the walk-in.
A longtime resident said the bodega's owner at the time, identified as Luis, also used the basements of two neighboring businesses for storage and illegal cockfights.
Hernandez could have brought Etan's body to a refrigerator that was either in a common storage area used by both businesses or in a space directly below the bodega, where the owner's wife cooked.
Cops want to confirm that Hernandez's descriptions of the basement space where the walk-in was located matches architectural drawings from that time to make sure he is telling the truth.
They also are reviewing Sanitation Department records to try to confirm other details of his confession and to determine whether it would make sense to search for Etan's remains in a landfill.
The NYPD plans to scour sanitation, landfill and incinerator log books from that time before determining whether to launch a search for the remains, Sanitation Department spokesman Vito Turso said.
Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/et...KCVlOdG93RlWA9fxMSwI
HOME
By [color=rgb(4, 61, 99)] New York Post[/color]May 28, 2012NEW YORK -- The man who confessed to strangling little Etan Patz in New York was calculating enough to stash the child's corpse in a basement walk-in refrigerator before tossing it out with the trash.
Murder suspect Pedro Hernandez, 51, told authorities that after killing the child on May 25, 1979, "he put him in the walk-in box and kept him there until he took him out and put him in the garbage," a law enforcement source told the New York Post on Sunday.
It was unclear how long Hernandez, then 19, kept the boy's body hidden in the basement fridge at his family's SoHo bodega after killing him.
Etan's body was stuffed in a plastic bag and then put into a box before being stowed in the walk-in, sources said.
But the grisly package remained there until the coast was clear and Hernandez could sneak it out to the street that night. He told cops he wound up carrying the box to an alley down the block and dumping it in other garbage that was later hauled off by a trash truck.
The lurid detail came during Hernandez's stunning confession to cops last week in which he admitted to luring the towheaded six-year-old into the bodega with the promise of a cold soda. Etan had been walking to his school bus stop -- just across the street from the bodega -- by himself for the very first time when he was abducted.
Cops are feverishly poring over old blueprints of the building to see if they include any description of the walk-in.
A longtime resident said the bodega's owner at the time, identified as Luis, also used the basements of two neighboring businesses for storage and illegal cockfights.
Hernandez could have brought Etan's body to a refrigerator that was either in a common storage area used by both businesses or in a space directly below the bodega, where the owner's wife cooked.
Cops want to confirm that Hernandez's descriptions of the basement space where the walk-in was located matches architectural drawings from that time to make sure he is telling the truth.
They also are reviewing Sanitation Department records to try to confirm other details of his confession and to determine whether it would make sense to search for Etan's remains in a landfill.
The NYPD plans to scour sanitation, landfill and incinerator log books from that time before determining whether to launch a search for the remains, Sanitation Department spokesman Vito Turso said.
Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/et...KCVlOdG93RlWA9fxMSwI
HOME
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
28 May 2012 11:25 #88089
by artemis
Etan Patz Suspect Reported Decades AgoRelative Says He Told Police About Hernandez In The 1980sBy Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt CNNPOSTED: 9:38 pm PDT May 27, 2012UPDATED: 1:16 am PDT May 28, 2012NEW YORK (CNN) -- A member of Pedro Hernandez's family walked into a Camden, New Jersey, police station in the 1980s and reported that Hernandez told relatives and others that he had killed a boy in New York and threw the body near a dumpster -- but there's no indication anything came out of that report, the family member told CNN."You feel like they didn't believe you. I felt empty and a little bit mad," the relative said. "I was expecting something else."Now, 33 years after Etan Patz disappeared, Pedro Hernandez stands accused of choking to death the 6-year-old youngster after luring him to the basement of a corner grocery store in New York City and throwing away his body inside a trash bag.
The family member, who CNN has agreed to not identify, said there was no receipt of paperwork to document the information provided -- nor was the relative ever contacted again about the report."Police asked whether I was mad at him (Hernandez)," or had an ulterior motive, the source added.Hernandez allegedly confided the information to a New Jersey church prayer group that included some members of his family and his then-spiritual adviser, the source told CNN.At 19, shortly after Patz's disappearance on May 25, 1979, Hernandez left his job as a stock clerk and returned to his mother's home in North Camden, New Jersey. The attempt to tell police that Hernandez might have killed a child happened a few years after that.CNN has not been able to reach Camden police for comment."When he moved home, he was really nervous and shaking all the time," the family source said of Hernandez. "He constantly had diarrhea, and he spent a lot of time just looking out the window," the source added, saying the behavior was out of character for Hernandez.Hernandez also allegedly told his first wife that he had killed a boy, according to the source. CNN has not been able to reach her. The two divorced, and Hernandez has remarried.Before Hernandez was picked up for questioning last week, the family source was visited by police and asked about any previous confessions from Hernandez about killing someone.Surprised to be contacted after so many years had gone by without hearing anything, the family member asked, "What took you so long?"The family member didn't get an answer and doesn't know what prompted police to visit.The relative had no explanation for why no other relative spoke up years ago. "Maybe they didn't want to get involved," the source said. "I wasn't going to stay quiet. I have a conscience."On Friday, when Hernandez' defense attorney announced in court that his client has a long psychiatric history, is on medication for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and suffers from hallucinations, the family source was surprised.Attorney Harvey Fishbein said Hernandez -- who was on suicide watch at Bellevue Hospital on Sunday -- has not entered a plea due to a pending psychiatric evaluation.New York police say they tracked down Hernandez after a tipster they won't identify contacted police last month. The person came forward after seeing publicity surrounding the FBI's search of an unrelated basement in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, a half block from Etan Patz' home.New York police have not responded to a request for comment about the latest development.But in a press conference Thursday, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said no family members or spiritual advisers ever contacted police. It's not clear whether Kelly was referring to the New York Police Department or any police department.The Patz case was the first of several high-profile cases that catapulted concern about missing children to the forefront of national consciousness.The relative of Hernandez is concerned about what Etan Patz's parents must be going through."At this moment, they must be hoping this is the right guy, and they don't go through this again," the source said. "It's going to be like a nightmare for them, if it turns out it's not Hernandez.""They must want to know the truth and get this over with," the relative added. "At least they will know."
| <a href="ad.doubleclick.net/jump/ibs.sand.news/lo...00x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" > |
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Time to create page: 0.178 seconds
| ||||
