He’s still the odd man out.
The lone holdout juror who prevented a conviction of Pedro Hernandez for the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz got a chilly reception from many of his fellow jurors who showed up in court Wednesday to support the Manhattan district attorney’s retrial of the case.
Seven jurors and two alternates, many teary eyed, shared hugs and handshakes with Etan’s father, Stan Patz, and his family after the brief hearing.
“There is going to be a retrial because of one individual with a huge ego and a small heart,” Alia Dahhan, flanked by the other jurors, ripped into holdout Adam Sirois as he stood fewer than five feet away.
“Pedro Hernandez needs to pay for what he did to Etan,” she emphasized.
Jennifer O’Connor said she and the other jurors were all business during deliberations but now was the time to unleash their true feelings.
“We are very frustrated and disheartened still — it still resonates with us to this day — which is why we’re here supporting the new [prosecutor] and his team,” she said.
“We really wanted to refocus our energies into something positive, turn it back to Etan, back to the Patz family.”
Sirois, 42, maintained his composure as several of his fellow jurors, with whom he deliberated for 18 days, shot him dirty looks.
“I made my decision based on the evidence. I feel very comfortable with how I voted,” he said.
Asked why he was there, Sirois said, “I feel vested in the case. I feel it was a big part of my life for a long time as I told everyone, and I just feel like I want to be here and I need to be here.”
The three-month trial against Hernandez, 54, ended on May 8 with 11 jurors voting for conviction and just Sirois voting against.
Hernandez confessed to authorities in 2012 after cops picked him up based on a tip from his brother-in-law.
Etan vanished from a Soho street the first time he walked alone to the school bus stop on May 25, 1979.
The haunting disappearance galvanized the missing children’s movement, and the 6-year-old was one of the first to appear on a milk carton.
The lead prosecutor on the case, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, resigned last month to run for Staten Island DA. Veteran prosecutor Joel Seidemann took over the case.
Justice Maxwell Wiley set the next court date of Aug. 3, when he’ll decide whether to begin jury selection in December or January.