Sister of Etan Patz suspect says reporting confession ‘right thing to do’

She said she told the officer, “They should check this out.”

“Tell the police and they follow it. If not it’s not my problem,”
she said. “I don’t have no guilt in my conscience. I thought I did the
right thing.”

A spokesman for the Camden police could not be reached for comment, but police
there told media on Tuesday that this was the first they knew of Norma
Hernandez’ claim.

Pedro Hernandez’ defence attorney has said his client suffers from a history
of hallucinations.

Hernandez said her family members are now squabbling over who said what and
when. She said she has seven sisters and would not say which ones told her
about their brother’s alleged confession.

“This family is going to break apart. Everything is changed,” she
said. “We’re not going to have any family.”

Hernandez said she used to take her brother to dinner sometimes and last saw
him about six months ago. Authorities say he was living in nearby Maple
Shade, New Jersey with his wife and daughter.

Patz’s highly publicised disappearance prompted President Ronald Reagan to
sign into law the Missing Children’s Assistance Act in 1984, sparking the
start of a non-profit missing children’s centre and triggering enormous
changes in the way police and the public respond to reports of missing
children.

Patz was one of the first missing children whose face appeared on a milk
carton appealing to the public for information on his whereabouts.

Last week New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Hernandez confessed
during a videotaped interview that he strangled the boy in the store’s
basement, placed his body in a bag and dumped it in the trash. Apart from
the confession, however, Kelly said police have no physical evidence.

The break in the case came a month after the FBI and New York Police excavated
a basement in a neighbourhood building which failed to yield clues but
prompted a tip about Hernandez, who had told family members as far back as
1981 that he had killed a child in New York, Kelly said.

Source: agencies

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