NEW YORK - The retrial of the accused killer of Etan Patz could begin as early as Wednesday.
The Associated Press says the judge in the case discussed the timing of Pedro Hernandez' second trial yesterday.
Twelve jurors have been seated, and the selection of six alternates is set to begin Tuesday.
The first murder trial ended with a hung jury in May of last year.
Hernandez has confessed multiple times on video to killing the boy, but his defense attorneys say he's mentally ill and hallucinated the killing.
The 6-year-old vanished as he walked to a SoHo bust stop in 1979.
Prosecutors say Hernandez lured the boy into the bodega where he worked with the promise of a soda, then killed him.
Patz's body was never found.