A Manhattan prosecutor on Wednesday opened the retrial in the decades-old murder case of Etan Patz by painting the boy’s alleged killer—seated just yards away in court—as an intelligent man who confessed to the murder in a graphic, haunting video made by police.
Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi also appeared to imply that defendant Pedro Hernandez had abused the 6-year-old boy in 1979 moments before strangling him in a SoHo bodega, saying, “Choking wasn’t the first thing that happened. It was the second.”
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