It has been 46 years since 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared in SoHo. After a lawsuit and two criminal trials, questions remain about how he died.

A federal appeals court said on Monday that Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of killing six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, should either be retried or released. Hernandez, 64, has been in a New York state prison since 2017,

Etan Patz case sparked one of the first major missing child cases, his image being one of the first to appear on milk cartons.