He said he lured the boy into the basement with the offer of a soda. Once they were downstairs, Pedro Hernandez said he put his hands around 6-year-old Etan Patz’s neck.
“I started to choke him… I wanted to let go but I just couldn’t,” Hernandez said in a chilling video confession played for jurors in his murder trial Tuesday. He put his hands to his neck as he spoke, mimicking his alleged strangling of the boy. “I know that I did something wrong but it didn’t bother me that much.”
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Once news of Hernandez’s arrest and confession broke, police scrambled to find corroborating evidence, the New York Times reported at the time.
