The Supreme Court on Monday sided with New York prosecutors and declined to invalidate the conviction of a man who confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, reversing a lower court decision that likely would have required a new trial.

The Supreme Court has reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

Six-year-old Etan Patz vanished in 1979 in one of the most infamous cold cases in American history.