By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

The man who police say confessed to kidnapping and murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz back in 1979 will be formally charged Friday and will face a judge in Manhattan on this, the 33rd anniversary of the little boy’s disappearance.

In a tearful three hour confession, former stock clerk Pedro Hernandez told officials that he lured the child, who was walking to the bus stop for the first time alone, by promising to buy him soda. He then strangled Patz in the basement of where he worked. After the killing, he moved to New Jersey.

The 51-year-old was taken to Bellevue Medical Center for evaluation Friday, and he has been put on suicide watch. 

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“In the years following Etan’s disappearance, Hernandez had told a family member, and others, that he had ‘done a bad thing’ and killed a child in New York,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Authorities had received