Investigators End Search for Missing Boy (Etan Patz, missing since 1979)

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Source: New York Times

F.B.I. agents and police detectives were wrapping up their search of a SoHo basement for the possible remains of Etan Patz on Monday morning, after sending parts of a cinder block with what appeared to be a bloodstain to the agency's lab in Quantico, Va., for testing, law enforcement officials said.

The team of F.B.I. evidence recovery specialists and New York police detective crime scene investigators have been working in the basement, at 127B Prince Street, since Thursday. The basement once housed the workshop of a man who has recently come under scrutiny in the boy's disappearance; the building is along the route that Etan, 6, took on the day in 1979 he disappeared.

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1. Good grief. This is so sad, but I hope it settles things

for the family to get closure.

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2. I remember seeing this little boy's picture on the subway back then...

It's a heartbreaking case.

Seems Mr. Miller should have been questioned right away - or maybe he was and now there's new info?