By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:30 EST, 16 December 2013 | UPDATED: 17:41 EST, 16 December 2013 A jailed sex offender says he's tired of being linked to the 1979 disappearance of a New York City boy whose case helped mobilize a nationwide missing-children movement. Jose Ramos was for years the prime suspect in the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz. Authorities believe the boy was abducted off the street in SoHo and later murdered. Another man, Pedro Hernandez, has since been charged in Patz's death and faces trial, but a civil court once held Ramos responsible. He denies involvement.
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Jose Ramos was for years the prime suspect in the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York City
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Ramos has sent a letter to Pennsylvania newspaper to complain about media coverage linking him to Patz
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Pedro Hernandez, has since been charged in Patz's death and faces trial, but a civil court once held Ramos responsible
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@placeholder, confessed last year to strangling Patz in the basement of a SoHo bodega in 1979.
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no criminal charges, the Patz family sued @placeholder in civil court, where
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@placeholder, 70, is currently in a Pennsylvania prison for failing to register as a sex offender after serving a 27-year prison sentence.
Pedro Hernandez
Pedro Hernandez
Prosecutors may be forced to throw out the case against @placeholder - who is both schizophrenic and suffering from bipolar disorder - due to a lack of evidence.