Etan Patz case (almost) solved?

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162- ... hild-case/

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?secti ... id=8627648

For those of you who can't place the name, Etan Patz was the first missing child to have his picture put on a milk carton. In 1979, six-year-old Patz was walking by himself to the school bus stop for the first time when he disappeared without a trace.

Although his parents successfully sued[SUP]*[/SUP] convicted child molester Jose Antonio Ramos for his death, some - including police and prosecutors - are now doubtful about Ramos' involvement and are looking at other suspects.

The FBI has confirmed that they are now looking for unspecified human remains in a former ironworking shop not far from the Patz home, where Etan's parents still live. That shop had, at one time, been used by Othniel Miller, a handyman in the Patz's building at the time of the disappearance. Miller was friendly with the boy.

A cadaver dog has supposedly made a hit in the basement of the shop, and there are reports that the basement's floor was resurfaced with fresh concrete shortly after Etan disappeared.


[SUP]*[/SUP] The civil judgment is pretty meaningless as far as Ramos' guilt is concerned, as he never responded to questions about the case, resulting in the judge ruling against him. There was no real vetting of the facts by anyone.

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More information:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ead_module

This article says that Ramos worked for Miller at the time and goes into a little more detail about Ramos' confession, and why the police didn't do more than a cursory search of the basement at first.