Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente looks into the facts of the case of six-year-old Etan Patz – the first missing kid featured as a missing person on a milk carton.
Police already have a suspect in custody, Pedro Hernandez, who has been charged and will be tried for second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. But Clemente said there is a mountain of evidence against another suspect, convicted pedophile Jose Ramos.
Ramos was already being pursued in a child molestation case back in 1982 in New York, but various DA and police procedure failures led to him not being pursued and the evidence against him discarded. He was the boyfriend of the boy’s nanny at the time he went missing has violent history of abducted and molesting boys.
“He said, ‘I did abduct a boy on the day that Etan went missing. He looked just like Etan, but it wasn’t Etan – and I tried to have sex with but he wouldn’t, so I just let him go,’” Clemente said about statements by Ramos to police. “He also said that he put Etan on a train, because Etan wanted to go visit his aunt, or something upstate – that’s what he said happened that day.”
“So these are the kinds of ‘confessions’ this guy made. But he has a history of sexually victimizing boys that look a lot like Etan. And he has a documented violent past, and he had access to Etan, he knew exactly who he was they had met though Etan’s nanny.
“(Ramos) remains in jail, uncharged with the abduction and murder of Etan Patz,” he said. “In January, they are supposed to start the trial against Hernandez – and they are going to admit what I think is a totally ridiculous confession, and they are going to try and convict him of this crime.”
Watch the full episode to hear more about the case, including the reasons why Clemente believes Hernandez gave a false confession.
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