The video above (compliments of NBC New York) is of a press conference held by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly regarding the arrest of a suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

The suspect has been identified as Pedro Hernandez, 51, who was arrested yesterday in Camden, New Jersey. Kelly says Hernandez made statements to police implicating himself in Patz's disappearance -- he says Hernandez used candy to lure the boy into a bodega where he worked. He then attacked him, choking the 6-year-old to death before throwing the remains in the garbage.

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NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly announced this morning that a suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz is currently in custody.

The suspect has been identified as Pedro Hernandez, who was arrested yesterday in Camden, New Jersey.

Kelly says Hernandez made statements to police implicating himself in Patz's disappearance. Police sources tell the New York Post that Hernandez lured the boy with candy as he was walking to his bus stop before stabbing him, cutting up his body, and putting the remains in plastic bags. However, we were unable to independently confirm that information.

Last month, authorities tore up a basement in the SoHo neighborhood where Patz was last seen. They found nothing.

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Investigators removed hundreds of pounds of concrete from a SoHo basement in search of new evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz. So far, no new evidence was discovered.

The search for clues in a SoHo basement in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz was suspended indefinitely last night -- and, so far, it's turned up precisely zilch.

FBI agents and NYPD investigators spent the last four days tearing up the cement floor of a basement just blocks from where Patz was last seen more than 30 years ago. At the time of Patz's disappearance, the basement was a workshop for neighborhood handyman Othneil Miller, 75, who law enforcement sources tell the Voice is the "target" of the investigation.

Sources say no human remains were found in the basement, located at 127 Prince Street, and a promising stain found on a wall turned out to not be human blood.

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FBI agents and New York City police officers spent much of the afternoon lugging chunks of concrete out a basement where investigators are searching for new evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.

About 40 FBI agents and New York City police officers lugged hundreds of pounds of concrete out of a basement in SoHo today in their search for new evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.

As of this writing, authorities have not found a body in the basement of 127 Prince Street, where neighborhood handyman -- and "target" of the new investigation -- Othneil Miller, 75, had a workshop at the time of Patz's disappearance. Now the building is a high-end shoe store.

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Othneil Miller, the "target" of the new search for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.

The search for new evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz resumed this morning, and a photo of the "target" of the investigation, neighborhood handyman, 75-year-old Othneil Miller, has surfaced.

The mugshot to the right was taken several years ago after Miller was arrested in Florida for driving with a suspended license. Aside from that arrest, we couldn't find any other evidence that Miller's been in any sort of legal trouble -- in New York, anyway (he's never been a guest of the state at a correctional facility, and he's not listed on the state's sex offender registry, for example).

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Etan Patz was reported missing more than 30 years ago.

Law Enforcement officials confirm to the Voice that investigators have dug up the concrete basement of a SoHo building in search of evidence in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.

Additionally, sources say the "target" of the investigation is a neighborhood handyman named Othneil Miller, 75, who would often pay Patz a few dollars to help him out around his shop.

Patz -- who was the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton -- was last seen on May 25, 1979, as he was walking just two blocks to a bus stop on his way to school. It was the first time he'd made the trip alone. He was never seen again -- and was declared dead in 2001.

When Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance took office two years ago, he re-opened the case and developed new leads that are currently being investigated by the NYPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. One of those leads came from Patz's mother, Julie, who told authorities they should speak with Miller.

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Etan Patz was last seen in May of 1979.

A law enforcement source confirms to the Voice that authorities currently are searching a building in SoHo looking for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.

"The search on Prince Street is for new evidence in the Patz case," the source says, declining to go into further detail about what evidence authorities are looking for.

Patz -- who was the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton -- disappeared on May 25, 1979, as he was walking just two blocks to a bus stop on his way to school. He was never seen again -- and was declared dead in 2001.

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Angela Zheng, a 16-year-old Queens resident, left her house around 7 a.m. Friday -- and never returned.

Now, cops want your help finding her.

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Friends and family members of Ian Hunter Burnet, a 22-year-old engineering student at Virginia Commonwealth University, have launched a massive effort to locate him after he disappeared on December 30. Burnet had traveled to New York City on December 26, staying at an apartment with friends near 139th Street and Riverside Drive. He last texted his parents on December 28th; his last known text was to his roommate on December 30. He disappeared at approximately 4 p.m. on that day and has not been heard from since. Police say he has not used his cell phone or credit cards since that date.

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Lauren Spierer, the 20-year-old Indiana University student from Westchester who's been missing for 60 days, is still being sought. Except now, the FBI's focus has shifted to a dump in Terre Haute, Indiana. The agency announced that they have "reason to believe that something is in that landfill."

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