Jury requests to see 32-gallon trash bag linked to Etan Patz murder

The jury in the retrial of the man accused of killing Etan Patz asked to review a chilling piece of evidence Thursday — a 32-gallon trash bag similar to the one the suspect says he used to discard the child’s body.Jurors also asked to examine the model...

Jury requests to see 32-gallon trash bag linked to Etan Patz murder

The jury in the retrial of the man accused of killing Etan Patz asked to review a chilling piece of evidence Thursday — a 32-gallon trash bag similar to the one the suspect says he used to discard the child’s body.

Jurors also asked to examine the model of the Soho building outside which former bodega worker Pedro Hernandez told authorities he disposed of the 6-year-old in 1979.

The panel was on their seventh day of deliberations. They will continue deliberating Friday.

Hernandez’s 2015 trial ended in deadlock when a lone juror voted against conviction after 18 grueling days of deliberations.

Prosecutors had to overcome significant hurdles in trying the 37-year-old case in the first place.

Etan’s body was never found, there are no eyewitnesses, and police were unable to gather useful forensic evidence.

Etan vanished from a Soho street the first time he walked alone to the school bus stop on May 25, 1979. Police canvassed the neighborhood for days but turned up nothing.

A 2012 tip led authorities to Hernandez, 56, who worked at the bodega next to the school bus stop at the time Etan vanished.

After a 6 ¹/₂-hour interrogation, Hernandez confessed to luring the child into the bodega basement, choking him and ditching the body a few blocks away.

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