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Etan Patz Murder Case’s Overturned Conviction Reopens Old Fears

Child’s disappearance spurs a huge shift, not just in parents but in the basic idea that we can trust most people around our kids and vice versa.

A makeshift memorial in 2012 featuring a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, where the child lived before his disappearance in 1979.
A makeshift memorial in 2012 featuring a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, where the child lived before his disappearance in 1979. AP/Mark Lennihan, file

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