Patz suspect's mental health could be key

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

NEW YORK -- Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of hallucinations, his lawyer says.

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