Patz case: Detective work still on

New York City police on Wednesday evening were searching the New Jersey home of Pedro Hernandez, who is accusing of killing Etan Patz more than three decades ago, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.

A former Manhattan store owner named Pedro Hernandez claimed he strangled 6-year-old Etan Patz, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation.

Authorities removed a computer drive and two satchels, among other items, during the execution of a search warrant at the home of Pedro Hernandez, accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, the attorney of Hernandez's wife said Thursday.

Investigators name suspect in the disappearance, from a Manhattan street, and the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz three decades earlier.

South African police named its top detective to take over the Oscar Pistorius case Thursday after it emerged the officer who had been leading the investigation faces attempted murder charges. "We recognise the significance, the importance and the severity of the matter," national police commissioner Riah Phiyeg said as she announced that detective Hilton Botha had been dropped from the case.

Thirty-three years ago today the parents of Etan Patz allowed their 6 year-old son to walk the two City blocks to his school bus stop alone for the first time. He never made it to his destination. The boy's disappearance sparked a massive nationwide manhunt marking one of the first times a missing child's photograph ...

CALGARY — Video of a police interview in which a Calgary woman confesses to putting two of her newborns into the garbage will be admitted as evidence at her murder trial. Justice Peter McIntyre ruled Tuesday that there is no indication that Meredith Borowiec’s confession that she put the babies into trash bins after they were born was involuntary. “The videotapes are the best evidence of voluntariness and whether charter obligations were met,” said McIntyre in his two-hour ruling.

A man arrested in the killing of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who vanished 33 years ago Friday in New York, will make his initial court appearance on the same day of the anniversary of the disappearance.