After Etan

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by Lisa R. Cohen


  In March 1982 New York City police arrest drifter Jose Antonio Ramos, after a young boy accuses him of trying to lure the boy into the Bronx drainpipe where Ramos had been living. Charges are later dropped, but this is the first time a public connection is made between Ramos and the Patz case. (ABC NEWS/PRIMETIME)

  When Jose Ramos is questioned by the Bronx DA’s office after his 1982 drainpipe arrest, he tells Asssistant DA Frank Carroll that at the time of Etan’s disappearance, he’d been dating a woman who looked after the boy.

  Assistant U.S. Attorney Stuart GraBois and FBI Special Agent Ken Ruffo travel to Israel in October 1985 to investigate the appearance there of a mysterious photo of Etan. (STUART GRABOIS)

  The converted school bus where Jose Ramos lured at least one young victim in 1986 sits abandoned today in a western Pennsylvania salvage yard. (LISA R. COHEN)

  Jose Ramos mug shot following his Pennsylvania arrest and rape charge involving eight-year-old Joey Taylor, June 24, 1986.

  Based on a medium’s vision, in January 1988 NYPD divers search the frigid water of New York’s East River for Etan Patz’s remains. (WILLIAM J. SILLERY)

  Bill Sillery, Denise Cealie, and Stuart GraBois huddle in the cold as the NYPD searches the Ward’s Island shoreline, January 1988. (WILLIAM J. SILLERY)

  PA Special Prosecutor/AUSA Stuart GraBois and PA Chief Deputy Attorney General Marylou Barton walk to court for Jose Ramos’s sentencing in Warren, PA, November 29, 1990. (ABC NEWS/PRIMETIME)

  A furious Jose Ramos is trailed by the press as he is led from the Pennsylvania courtroom after being sentenced on November 29, 1990. (ABC NEWS/PRIMETIME)

  Assistant U.S. Attorney Stuart GraBois works the Patz case from his New York office in May 1991, while from the Otisville federal prison, his planted inmate informants report to him on their progress.(ABC NEWS/PRIMETIME)

  Julie Patz poses proudly with Lev Sviridov at his middle school graduation, June 1993.(L. SVIRIDOVA FAMILY ARCHIVE)

  Stan Patz is interviewed on 60 Minutes II, May 2000. “He’s a predator,” he says, describing Jose Ramos. “And he should never be allowed to be near children again.” (CBS NEWS ARCHIVES)

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  Contents

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Prologue

  Chapter 1: May 25, 1979

  Chapter 2: Twenty-four Hours and Counting

  Chapter 3: The Occupation

  Chapter 4: A Year for the Books

  Chapter 5: The Bigger Picture

  Chapter 6: The Devil in the Drainpipe

  Chapter 7: Up on the Roof

  Chapter 8: New Life

  Chapter 9: Reversing the Odds

  Chapter 10: No Stone Unturned

  Chapter 11: Welcome Home

  Chapter 12: Hard Evidence

  Chapter 13: Help from All Over

  Chapter 14: 90 Proof

  Chapter 15: “Just Watch Me”

  Chapter 16: More Lost Boys

  Chapter 17: “I Told You So”

  Chapter 18: On the Record

  Chapter 19: Done Deal

  Chapter 20: Another Door Opens

  Chapter 21: Confidential Witness

  Chapter 22: Into the Hole

  Chapter 23: Take Two

  Chapter 24: Double Play

  Chapter 25: Debrief

  Chapter 26: Nothing to Lose

  Chapter 27: Prime Suspect

  Chapter 28: Civil Action

  Chapter 29: The True Story

  Coda

  Postscript: After After Etan

  Acknowledgments

  Acclaim for After Etan

  Photos

  Newsletters

  Copyright

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2009 by Lisa R. Cohen

  Postscript Copyright © 2012 by Lisa R. Cohen

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