The jury in the kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz heard the videotaped confession of the accused today. Prosecutors then released the video to the public. NY1's Michael Herzenberg was in court and filed this report.

Pedro Hernandez describes in detail the murder of the six-year-old boy but, a warning: the detached delivery of those gruesome details is disturbing.

"Do you recognize this person?" the investigator says in the tape.

"Yeah, that's him," Hernandez replies.

Hernandez says in a three-hour taped interview that he murdered Etan Patz.

He says it was outside the Soho bodega where he worked in May of 1979. On the 25 of that month, Etan walked to the school bus stop alone for the first time. A a day shy of 33 years later, Hernandez told police and prosecutors he saw the boy on the sidewalk, asked him if he wanted a soda and told him to follow him downstairs.

"When he went in front of me, I grabbed him by the neck and I started to choking him. I was nervous. My legs were jumping. Iwanted to let go but I couldn't let go. I felt like something took over me," Hernandez says on the tape. "He was going [coughs] and his hands went like that."

Hernandez says the child wasn't dead—his legs were moving—but he stuffed the first grader into a 40-pound garbage bag.

"He was on the floor...and I kind of pushed him inside the bag," he says.

Hernandez said he hoisted the box on his shoulder, walked about two blocks and dumped it in the opening of a walkway to a building, went back to work and the next day it was gone.

"I just feel like nothing happened, like I didnt do nothing wrong," Hernandez says. "I don't know. I know that I did something wrong but it didn't bother me that much."

He also said that in the years since, a psychiatrist diagnosed him as schizophrenic and bipolar.

His attorney points out that he'd been interviewed for hours before investigators turned on the camera.

"The basic facts of what he says happened in 1979 could not have happened. The boy on the corner, the book bag, the locked basement. It's all inconsistant with the facts we've learned," says defense attorney Harvey Fishbein.

The defense just started to cross examine the detective on the stand who was in the room for the interview in 2012.

Court is on break for more than a week.

The cross examination resumes February 19.