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    A potential end to 33 year-old mystery

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A man confessed he killed eight on page in 1979 page -- Hernandez told investigators he suffocated to six year old boy the new York city police department is announcing the -- Of Pedro Hernandez.

-- 51 of maple -- New Jersey.

For the murderer on -- on pace.

And then there's confessed to choking UConn.

33 years ago tomorrow.

Fernandez who worked at a store in the men had neighborhood -- a -- -- was picked up in New Jersey late Wednesday he was tied to the case in the past and investigators recently received a phone call -- -- new -- If -- story checks out it could solve the 33 year old mystery in the years following -- this appearance.

Hernandez had told a family member.

And others.

That he had quote done a bad thing.

And killed a child in New York but DNA and other physical evidence might not be available in this case the investigation is continuing.

No physical evidence at this time.

This comes one month after the FBI in new York city police conducted a four day excavation of the basement and eight times neighborhood.

No human remains were found at that time a time that is -- walking along to a bus stop two blocks from his home his disappearance -- lead to the nation's missing child movement.

And it in the first abducted child to be pictured on a milk carton.

In New York David Lee Miller Fox News.