The daughter of the man accused of murdering Etan Patz in 1979 testified Monday that her father had hallucinations and talked to people who were not there. NY1's Michael Herzenberg filed the following report.

Becky Hernandez cried as she testified about the clicking of cameras from the media attention since her father was arrested for the murder of Etan Patz.

She said she knows Pedro Hernandez loves her, but the 25-year-old testified that he confessed to her that he killed a child.

After he admitted to authorities in 2012 that he murdered Etan Patz, he told her he "took him to the basement, choked him, cut him up in little pieces. I put him in a bag. He was still breathing. I put the bag in a box."

Patz, 6, vanished in 1979 walking to his school bus stop and the bodega where Hernandez worked. Hernandez confessed on tape to detectives that he lured the boy to the basement and choked him. But what he told his daughter, that he chopped the child into pieces, is different from many of his other confessions.

The defense said it's just one of the indications he has mental illness and made the whole thing up.

Trying to bolster her father's case, Becky Hernandez said he would talk to himself and see people that weren't there, such as a non-existent man stealing his car, a lady in white who passed through him and black shadows.

Much of Hernandez's daughter's testimony focused on her father's alleged antisocial behavior, that he doesn't talk much or socialize with people and has few friends. However, prosecutors presented home video of him helping his goddaughter get ready for her christening. It also shows him socializing with other adults.

His attorney, Harvey Fishbein, said that video evidence proves nothing.

"What they take is whatever it was, 10 seconds maybe out of hours and hours of video," Fishbein said. "The man's not incapable of speaking. It's just that given the choice, he'd rather sit in the corner than have a conversation with someone."

Testifying for the defense Tuesday will be a psychiatrist who NY1 is told will talk about Pedro Hernandez's mental illness.