Dramatic new details have emerged about the Hispanic who has confessed to killing six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, as police have announced that he was been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder

In a press conference, New York police chief Raymond Kelly revealed that Pedro Hernandez, who was aged just 19 at the time, claims to have lured the boy away from his bus stop by promising him a soda, but then took Etan into the basement of the bodega where he worked and strangled him. Hernandez then wrapped the boy's body in a plastic bag and disposed of it near the store in New York's SoHo district. Hernandez was just 12 years older than his six-year-old victim in 1979 when he lured him with candy and stabbed him to death, before chopping his body to pieces. Now aged 51, he has finally only come forward after being diagnosed with cancer. Hernandez's wife Rosemary, 51, took out a restraining order against him but recently allowed him to move back in with her and their daughter, who is in her early 20s. Hernandez's family are originally thought to have come from Puerto Rico.