A New York federal appeals court ruled Monday to overturn the guilty verdict for the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the Jewish 6-year-old whose kidnapping and presumed murder changed America’s approach to missing-child cases.

"In a shocking ruling," a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled decided that Hernandez should be given a new trial or go free, the “New York