The missing child case of six-year-old Etan Patz ushered in the “stranger danger” era and a reckoning across the US as to how disappearances are handled. Even though a conviction was secured in 2017,

The court found fault with the trial court’s instructions to the jury in 2017 and ordered either a new trial or Mr. Hernandez’s release, a decision that will fall to the Manhattan district attorney, ...