Search for Boy's Body Returns to Cellar That Looked Uneven Decades Earlier.

Investigators looking into the disappearance of Etan Patz began focusing recently on a handyman after a review of old case files showed that a concrete floor in a building in SoHo where he once had a workshop -- and that was on the route Etan took when he disappeared -- had looked uneven or was not all the same color, a person briefed on the case said on Friday. The explanation the handyman, Othniel Miller, gave shortly after Etan disappeared 33 years ago -- that work had been done beneath the floor -- led investigators to conduct a new round of interviews in recent weeks that led to the search and excavation of Mr. Miller's old work space this week, the person said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]