By Lydia Warren PUBLISHED: 06:30 EST, 24 May 2012 | UPDATED: 14:15 EST, 24 May 2012 A man has reportedly claimed he lured six-year-old Etan Patz with candy, before stabbing him to death and chopping up his body - nearly 33 years after the boy vanished as he walked to the bus from his Manhattan home. Pedro Hernandez, who worked as a shopkeeper and lived just blocks from Etan at the time of the boy's disappearance, reportedly told police he dumped the youngster's remains in the garbage. Investigators swooped on him in Camden, New Jersey on Wednesday evening after a relative tipped off police that Hernandez had admitted to killing a boy shortly after Etan vanished.
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Pedro Hernandez lived just blocks from Etan when he disappeared
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Told investigators he thew Etan's body parts into garbage after slaying
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Police tipped off by relative who said Hernandez had confessed to the crime
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Comes just weeks after the four-day excavation of handyman Othniel Miller's SoHo basement, where police found no new evidence
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Revelations come nearly 33 years to the day since Etan disappeared - and could solve one of the country's most enduring missing children cases
In May 2010, the @placeholder district attorney’s office said they were taking a fresh look at the decades-old case of the missing six-year-old.