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Authorities search in NYC basement for new clues in 1979 missing child case
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- Date Apr 23, 2012
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News alert and a lot of hope there are new developments in a cold case decades old.
Involving a missing child it's 33 years after six year old each time pets disappeared from a New York City street.
Investigators.
Finding potential new evidence that could finally bring.
That family some closure and help keep -- children safe and it Kleiman is lots.
SoHo neighborhood downtown to tell us more -- search going today and a.
Well it it's going well they are back rain or shine just as they told us that they would be but investigators are staying mum in this case.
-- there are reports saying they may have found a brand new piece of evidence that could be an important one -- -- On a wall in the basement behind us that they've been tearing up for four days now we are working to get that information confirmed for you but we do know that they have been using a chemical called -- and all that can sometimes indicate.
The presence of blood.
A team of about forty.
FBI agents and NYPD officers are on site just as they said.
Rain or shine.
Teams are using jackhammers a -- -- fans out ripping up the concrete and then Begin digging in the dirt for the very first time yesterday they'll go about 46 feet and anticipate.
Finishing up that process today investigators are sifting through the seven backing up any potential evidence.
They think could lead them to answers your police commissioner Raymond Kelly says he will not discuss any potential suspects it is not calling the former -- -- -- and who was using the basement and suspect -- Miller now 75 years old has hired an attorney who says Miller is cooperating with investigators but has no involvement.
Miller is said to have had accessed at a time and there are reports that the concrete had been freshly poured -- for the time of -- on its disappearance.
For decades there was a prime suspect in the case Jose Ramos convicted child sex offender already locked up -- -- Pennsylvania prison.
-- could be getting out in November there was never enough evidence to convict Ramos criminally and they -- Bates case but he was held responsible.
In a wrongful death suit.
Belly to -- Kate's parents do you still live in the SoHo neighborhood his mother was spotted here yesterday but they are continuing their requests.
For privacy will be out here all -- and beat you any developments -- back.
One can understand why they would want that as this goes on in their neighborhood they never -- 33 years later I was told.
Not even change their phone number hoping their little boy would call.
And -- thank you so my.