Jurors were shown pictures of a little boy stuffed in a box to recreate the way six-year-old Etan Patz was allegedly discarded after being choked to death . A boy of Etan 's height , weight and age was pictured in court on Friday curled up in a zip-up bag and squeezed into a produce box similar to the one Pedro Hernandez said he used to store the child 's corpse in 1979 . Etan , who went missing as he walked to school , was never found . He was declared dead in 2001 . Horrific : This recreation shows a little boy stuffed inside a bag then a cardboard box . It is allegedly the way Etan Patz 's lifeless body was discarded after he was choked to death on the way home from school . Etan ( left ) , whose body was never found , was declared dead in 2001 . Pedro Hernandez ( right ) is the suspect . Defense attorneys , who claim Hernandez 's alleged confession is fiction , will begin presenting evidence on Monday in the trial that is expected to last for at least another month . Hernandez , from Maple Shade , New Jersey , told authorities he choked Etan in the basement of a Soho bodega and then put his body in a bag and tossed it in a box . In February , the trial was transformed by the discovery of three boxes of evidence from the investigation , including more than 1,400 pages of information . Alice Fontier , one of the attorneys representing Hernandez , said the findings could mean witnesses will be recalled . 'Given this massive disclosure at this point , in the middle of the trial , there may be issues , ' she said . The boxes were found recently at a Harlem police station that covers public housing complexes in the area , prosecutors said late last week . 'Confession ' : Defense attorneys claim Hernandez 's alleged confession ( pictured ) , when he told police he strangled Etan in the basement of a Soho bodega in 1979 , was fabricated . Fighting for justice : Here , Etan 's father Stanley Patz and his sister Shira Patz are pictured outside court . The location is miles from the precinct near where Etan disappeared on May 25 , 1979 , as he walked to school . Etan 's body has never been found , and he was declared dead in 2001 . The boxes contain police records from the investigation , notes from assistant district attorneys who worked on the case and handwritten memos from a detective who investigated longtime suspect Jose Ramos , who was never charged . Some of the information involves two informants who were working with prosecutors to try to link Ramos to Etan 's death . Other boxes contain missing-person posters , records of people arrested and catalogs of files made by the original detective on the case . Tragic : This is the missing poster which was made and plastered around New York after Etan 's disappearance . Immediately after the discovery in mid-February , Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said that prosecutors were working to turn over the information to the defense attorneys . Outside court , defense attorney Harvey Fishbein said it was unclear what the documents contain but he hopes they wo n't affect the case and he does n't want a mistrial . 'We want it resolved for Mr Hernandez , ' he said . 'He 's been in jail for three years , so we definitely want to continue this case . ' Hernandez , a former bodega worker , pleaded not guilty to Etan 's murder after telling police he strangled the boy .
Pictures of boy stuffed in a bag then a corpse shown to court on Friday . Murder suspect Pedro Hernandez allegedly told him he choked six - year - old Etan Patz then tossed his body in a box . The body was never recovered . Etan went missing as he walked to school in 1979 . Defense prosecutors filed evidence on Monday , trial scheduled to begin in April .