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On Wednesday, the jury in the Etan Patz murder trial told the judge they were unable to unanimously agree on a verdict, commonly referred to as a hung jury. This is their 11th day of deliberations.
The judge told the jury they should continue to deliberate: "No reason to believe that another jury will have better luck than you." The judge added that "after further deliberations, most jurors can reach a verdict."
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Patz was killed in 1979 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City at the age of six. Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing Patz in a basement by strangling him to death, though his defense team is arguing Hernandez is mentally ill and fabricated the story. Hernandez's 2012 confession brought the cold case back to the limelight, though Patz's body was never recovered.
The defense believes Jose Ramos, a convicted child molester, is responsible for Patz's disappearance and death. The prosecution did not find enough evidence to hold Ramos accountable for the crime. Ramos was not called to testify in Hernandez's trial.
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