jurors have started deliberations in the case against a man accused of killing 6-year-old etan patz , whose 1979 disappearance while on his way to school helped galvanize the national missing-children 's movement .
etan patz ` is larger than his very little , important life , ' assistant district attorney joan illuzzi-orbon said in closing arguments at the manhattan murder trial of pedro hernandez .
she asked jurors to convict hernandez of murder , saying he was a calculated killer who committed a terrible crime and then spent three decades trying to hide from it .