The notorious case of a missing New York City boy will go to trial for a second time early next year.

A judge on Monday set Feb. 22 for jury selection in the Etan Patz case.

A previous trial lasted for months. It ended in May after 18 days of deliberations with the jury deadlocked 11-1.

Etan vanished in 1979 after leaving his family’s SoHo apartment to walk to the bus. The disappearance helped galvanize the modern-day missing children’s movement with his picture appearing on a milk carton.

Defendant Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, New Jersey, confessed in 2012 to kidnapping and killing the 6-year-old – more than three decades after the boy disappeared. But his lawyers argued he was mentally ill and his statements were fictional ravings.

(AP)