Feds scour basement where Etan Patz met carpenter, sources say

THere was a little boy age 6 named Etan Patz who went missing in 1979. The day before he went missing he came in contact with a man that is 42 years old. He was a carpenter and this kids went to his basement.  The police are just now searching this basement because there is a source with knowledge of the investigation.  The man gave the little boy a dollar the day before he wernt missing. Patz went missing on his way to the bus stop the next day.  One of the sources thought that they should bring in a search dog and the dog found the scent of human remains. 

"We're looking for human remains, clothing or other personal effects of Etan Patz," New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said of the current investigation. "It's a very painstaking process."  Because this boy went missing they put his picture on the side of a milk carton and that is the first time that authorities have ever decided to do that for a missing child. Jose Antonia Ramos is a convicted child molester and was aquianted with Etan's baby sitter.  He has been identified as a suspect in the case but he was never charged. Jose is in the prison in Pennsylvania on unrelated charges.  The man that gave Etan the dollar, the carpenter, is now 75 years old and is not in custody.  The police say that they know where he is and are in contact with him. They do not want to say a name because that man has not been charged with anything yet. The day of his disappearance the police and Etan's family searched for him and could not find him. They searched for weeks and nothing of Etan was found.

I do not know why it took the police over 30 years to figure out that it might be this man. That little boys family has probably wondered about this everyday of their lives.

The boy's disappearance was thought to raise awareness of child abductions and led to new ways to search for missing children.

President Ronald Reagan named May 25, the day Etan went missing, National Missing Children's Day.