True Crime Vault: Missing Forever: What Really Happened to Etan Patz?

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True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The most famous missing child case in NYC is still a mystery 32 years later. In this story the shocking disappearance of a 6-year old boy in broad daylight leads to countless investigations and numerous dead-end leads, until a determined New York prosecutor finally gets the evidence he needs to prosecute the man he believes is responsible. What follows is an engrossing tale of dogged perseverance and enduring hope. Originally aired: 05/29/2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Jepper Roberts with 2020.
0:02.0	For more than four decades, 2020 has brought you an incredible variety of compelling stories.
0:08.0	Well now, we're going to bring you back to some of the most heart-stopping ones from the 2020 True Crime
0:14.5	vault and we're going to give you updates on what happened to the people involved.
0:19.0	Thanks for listening.
0:20.4	Coming up. listening.
0:23.0	Coming up, a beautiful spring morning and a young boy goes missing.
0:30.0	He vanished seemingly into thin air.
0:32.0	When he was last seen, he was wearing a blue jacket. vanished seemingly into thin air.
0:32.8	When he was last seen, he was wearing a blue jacket, blue pen, blue sneakers.
0:36.7	Get him back to us somehow, anyhow.
0:38.8	His disappearance, a mystery.
0:40.7	There were no leads.
0:41.3	There was no crime scene. They didn't even know where he disappeared.
0:44.4	There are moments in this case that are beyond chilling.
0:48.0	One moment of inattention, you look and they're gone.
0:52.0	Finally, a suspect emerges.
0:54.0	We have a man who's approximately 38 years of age.
0:57.0	I have no comment on the page case whatsoever.
1:00.0	But can they bring him to justice?
1:02.0	What we were trying to get was a complete admission.
1:05.0	It starts ranting about there is no body,
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