Pedro Hernandez was sentenced to 25 years to life after confessing to the 1979 murder of the 6-year-old first-grader.

The former bodega clerk convicted in the infamous 1979 disappearance and murder of little Etan Patz should be given a new trial — or set free, a federal appeals court ordered Monday in a

"48 Hours" goes inside the painstaking investigation through the eyes of those who have spent more than three decades trying to find the 6-year-old boy and to bring closure to his heartbroken parents

A federal appeals court said on Monday that Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of killing six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, should either be retried or released. Hernandez, 64, has been in a New York state prison since 2017,