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This comes as the niece of a local handyman who had a workshop in the basement apparently corroborated that he did rape her when she was a child.

After four days of forensic of searching and digging in a SoHo basement, the search for evidence in the Etan Patz investigation appears to be winding down.

Before the basement was domain of local handyman Othniel Miller, it was a playroom for neighborhood children.

Sources tell the Daily News that the suspect is still Jose Ramos, who was declared responsible for Etan's death in a civil lawsuit.

The NYPD said, "Time doesn’t matter to us and NYPD in investigations like this. He was 6 when he disappeared and we’re not going to quit."