Man held over boy’s infamous 1979 death

A man has implicated himself in the death of six-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children’s movement that put kids’ faces on milk cartons, police said.

Investigators were still going over details of the man’s story. The development came just before today’s anniversary of the boy’s disappearance, when detectives traditionally receive a landslide of hoaxes and false leads related to the case.

The man was picked up late on Wednesday in Camden, New Jersey, according to a law enforcement official, and was being questioned by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is heading the probe by the FBI and police. The law enforcement official said the man has been tied to the case in the past.