How Detectives Coaxed Suspect in Etan Patz Murder to Confess  

September 22, 2014

Pedro Hernandez, a man with an IQ of 70 and history of mental illness, confessed to strangling a 6-year-old boy after investigators appealed to his religious faith

Joe Sexton, (ProPublica) and Nate Schweber

For more about the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, a case that frustrated and mystified police for decades, read the story ProPublica produced with WNYC in 2013.