The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that it will retry a suspect in the case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old Jewish boy who was kidnapped and murdered in 1979.

The suspect, Pedro Hernandez, was convicted in 2017, but his conviction was overturned earlier this year when a court of appeals said the jury had received improper instructions.

The conviction was Hernandez’s second trial in the case.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been given a December 1 deadline to make a determination about retrying Hernandez.

The district attorney’s office said in a letter to the court: “The District Attorney has determined that the available, admissible evidence supports prosecuting defendant on the charges of Murder in the Second Degree and Kidnapping in the First Degree in this matter, and the People are prepared to proceed.”

Patz went missing in May 1979 on the first day that he was allowed by his mother to walk alone to his school bus stop in New York City. He was one of the first missing children whose picture was........

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