Why was patz killed

Defense attorney Harvey Fishbein has long maintained his client has an "IQ in the borderline-to-mild mental retardation range" that made him susceptible to a false confession.

He vowed an appeal. Pedro Hernandez was convicted in the kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz. Hernandez has been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder, one of a group of conditions informally thought of as "eccentric" personality disorders. Juror Mike Castellon called the mental health issue "a red herring.

We think that he could tell right from wrong. He could tell fantasy from reality. This case will no longer be remembered as one of the city's oldest and most painful unsolved crimes. The jury convicted Hernandez of kidnapping and second-degree murder.

The case helped establish a national hotline for missing children and made it easier for law enforcement agencies to share information about them. It also helped tilt parenting toward more protectiveness in a nation where many families at the time felt comfortable letting children roam alone through neighborhoods.

Facebook Twitter Email. Man who killed Etan Patz in sentenced to prison. Pedro Hernandez was found guilty of murdering the young boy. The case that haunted New York. Man confesses to NYC killing in Mistrial declared in case of missing boy.

Stan Patz right reacts to news of the conviction. Related Topics. The heartbroken father of little Etan Patz called his son's convicted killer a "monster" Tuesday before a New York City judge closed the book on the year saga and sentenced the bodega worker to 25 years to life in prison. Dressed in a jail-issued tan sweatshirt and matching pants, year-old Pedro Hernandez barely flinched as Stan Patz took him to task for the killing of his 6-year-old son — a crime that struck terror into the hearts of parents in New York and across the nation and bedeviled the police for decades.

You are the monster in your nightmares. The God you pray to will never forgive you. Before imposing his sentence, Justice Maxwell Wiley also blasted Hernandez, telling him "you caused the Patz family indescribable anguish.