"Unsolved Mysteries" explores cold cases, unexplained disappearances, mysterious UFO sightings, and more while presenting new facts and raising questions.
memorial day weekend when a little boy vanished on his way to school in new york city. and he quickly became a face we associate with the start of a nation movement. his name was etan patz, and now a man is facing murder charges after confessing to the killing. tonight, he s hospitalized and on a suicide watch and awaiting the next steps in what will be a complicated legal process all these years later. it s where we begin tonight with nbc s ron allen. the father of etan patz returned home today to a crush of media as the man who police say admitted killing his son, pedro hernandez, was charged with murder in a new york hospital instead of a courtroom because of an undisclosed illness. hernandez is married, a father with a college-aged daughter, who most recently was a construction worker. police arrested him yesterday at the family home in new jersey. he was remorseful. he seemed to i think the detectives thought it was a feeling of relief on his part. police say her