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Adjunct Prof. Lisa Cohen publishes book 30 years in the makingMay 18, 2009 Prof. Lisa R. Cohen has published After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive. It was released by Grand Central Publishing on May 7. Cohen's book is the first ever written on the iconic case of missing child Etan Patz, whose disappearance off the New York streets in 1979 sparked a movement and is marked every year on the day he disappeared, May 25, as National Missing Children's Day. Though the case remains officially unsolved, Jose A. Ramos, a convicted child molester, is the lead suspect. He's currently serving a long sentence in Pennsylvania, but he is scheduled for release in 2012. Former federal prosecutor Stuart GraBois, who led the charge against Ramos that resulted in his Pennsylvania conviction, has joined forces with Etan's father Stan Patz, to keep him in jail. The New York Times reviewed the book: "Lisa R. Cohen’s After Etan is a complex, many-tentacled account of just how tantalizingly close Mr. Ramos has come to incriminating himself in the Patz case and just how tirelessly he has tormented prosecutors, who have said they do not have enough evidence to charge him. In a book loaded with evidence... Ms. Cohen makes a persuasive case that Mr. Ramos was involved. But her emphasis is less on his actions than it is on the winding, obstacle-strewn path to justice. She tells a story that is stranger than crime fiction and messier too." The book has received acclaim across the Web, in print and on the air. The New York Times Cohen, a former ABC News/CBS News producer, covered Etan's disappearance for ABC News PrimeTime Live and CBS News 60 Minutes II. She is a former Princeton University Ferris Teaching Fellow and is now an adjunct professor at the J-School. |
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