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Neighbors shocked that Etan Patz’s confessed killer lived among them

A SMALL DOG yapped at the front door while Rosemary Hernandez sat in her living room on an antique couch with her head down, rocking back and forth. She cried sporadically, looking frightened and confused Thursday, knowing a throng of reporters, photographers and cameramen wasoutside, encircling her two-bedroom home in Maple Shade, N.J. For 33 years, almost to the day, her husband, Pedro Hernandez, had lived with a loathsome secret.

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