Jurors in the Etan Patz murder trial have once again been sent home without reaching a verdict. Earlier, the judge ordered them back to work after they passed a note indicating they were once again deadlocked.

The note, which emerged around 12:20 p.m., read: "After serious, significant, and thorough negotiations we are unable to reach a unanimous decision."

The judge then sat the jury back down, telling them to "apply common sense."

It comes on the 14th day of deliberations to decide the fate of Pedro Hernandez, who confessed multiple times to killing the six-year-old boy back in 1979.

Last week, the panel said they could not agree but the judge ordered them back to work.

Speaking outside the courtroom today, defense attorney Harvey Fishbein said the judge's decision to send the panel back in for a second time after being deadlocked was grounds for coercion.

"He was encouraging them to try to judge this case just on the facts, just on the evidence, just on the lack of evidence. In that sense I found the charge to be perhaps helpful. On the other hand this is a tired jury and they have said that they are finished and we ask the court to respect that and not to send them back that's why he did this over our objection," Fishbein said.

Jurors spent seven hours behind closed doors on Monday.

At one point, they asked for 12 printed copies of four spreadsheets they had made - apparently to discuss their deadlock issues.

The jury has been deliberating since April 15th.

May 25th will mark 36 years since Etan's disappearance.

The young boy vanished on May 25, 1979, as he walked two blocks from his parents loft in SoHo to his school bus stop.

His body has never been found.

Hernandez was arrested 33 years later, in 2012, after a family member told police Hernandez spoke of having killed a child in New York in the late 1970s.

Prosecutors argued that Hernandez lured Etan to the basement of a bodega, tried to sexually assault him, strangled him, put his body in a bag and a box and dumped it blocks away in an alley.

Their case was built around the defendant's own words - jurors heard four videotaped confessions he gave to authorities, and the testimony of five people who said he confessed to them that he killed someone. However, defense attorneys have noted inconsistencies in the details between confessions. They said Hernandez suffers from serious mental illness and made up his alleged attack.

The defense said convicted pedophile Jose Ramos might be the actual killer. In 1982, police investigators discovered he had a relationship with a woman who frequently walked Etan home from school. Ramos had long been a suspect in the case, but was never charged due to a lack of evidence.

The disappearance of Etan Patz was one of the most infamous missing-child cases in New York history. It made parents across the city and country more aware of the potential dangers facing their children.

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