Patz Etan Kalil - After Etan: the missing child case that held America captive

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Copyright 2009 by Lisa R. Cohen

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Etan with Julie Patz in their home, at his sixth birthday party, October 29, 1978. (P ATZ I MAGING )

Etan perches on a ladder to approximate the proper height as he sits in for a professional model yet to arrive at his fathers photography studio. Stan Patz is later horrified to learn some found the photo salacious and suspicious.(P ATZ I MAGING )

In the days immediately following Etans disappearance, volunteers post makeshift fliers on every available surface in downtown Manhattan. (ABC N EWS /P RIMETIME )

On Memorial Day weekend 1979, the NYPD turn the Patz loft into a command post. (ABC N EWS /P RIMETIME )

Four months into the case, Stan Patzs camera catches Julie in a rare joyful moment with her three-year-old son Ari on their SoHo fire escape. Strangers would approach her when she smiled in public and accuse her of not being appropriately mournful. (P ATZ I MAGING )

Stan Patz constantly uses his home darkroom to print Etans image for the police, press, and searchers. April 1980. (CBS N EWS A RCHIVES )

In the first year of his search, NYPD detective Bill Butler walks the SoHo streets most mornings, like this one in April 1980, retracing Etans path in hopes of new witnesses or clues. (CBS N EWS A RCHIVES )

On the one-year anniversary of Etans disappearance, Stan Patz came across this tribute around the corner from the Patzes SoHo loft. (P ATZ I MAGING )

In March 1982 New York City police arrest drifter Jose Antonio Ramos, after a young boy accuses him of trying to lure the boy into the Bronx drainpipe where Ramos had been living. Charges are later dropped, but this is the first time a public connection is made between Ramos and the Patz case. (ABC N EWS /P RIMETIME )

When Jose Ramos is questioned by the Bronx DAs office after his 1982 drainpipe arrest, he tells Asssistant DA Frank Carroll that at the time of Etans disappearance, hed been dating a woman who looked after the boy.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stuart GraBois and FBI Special Agent Ken Ruffo travel to Israel in October 1985 to investigate the appearance there of a mysterious photo of Etan. (S TUART G RA B OIS )

The converted school bus where Jose Ramos lured at least one young victim in 1986 sits abandoned today in a western Pennsylvania salvage yard. (L ISA R. C OHEN )

Jose Ramos mug shot following his Pennsylvania arrest and rape charge involving eight-year-old Joey Taylor, June 24, 1986.

Based on a mediums vision, in January 1988 NYPD divers search the frigid water of New Yorks East River for Etan Patzs remains. (W ILLIAM J. S ILLERY )

Bill Sillery, Denise Cealie, and Stuart GraBois huddle in the cold as the NYPD searches the Wards Island shoreline, January 1988. (W ILLIAM J. S ILLERY )

PA Special Prosecutor/AUSA Stuart GraBois and PA Chief Deputy Attorney General Marylou Barton walk to court for Jose Ramoss sentencing in Warren, PA, November 29, 1990. (ABC N EWS /P RIMETIME )