Missing-boy suspect charged with murder

A lawyer for a man who police say confessed to choking a six-year old boy to death in a landmark 1979 missing child case said his client was mentally ill and had a history of hallucinations.

Pedro Hernandez, 51, appeared in court via a video link last night, charged with the second-degree murder of Etan Patz. He did not enter a plea and was remanded in custody.