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Boy's dismembered body found; man charged
UPDATE from previous post about this case.....Police and volunteers had been searching for two days for 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43736497/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
New York — An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was killed and dismembered by a stranger, and his remains were found stuffed in a trash bin and the man's refrigerator, police said Wednesday.
The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzy shocked the Hasidic community in Borough Park, in part because it is one of the safest sections of the city and because the man under arrest is himself an Orthodox Jew.
Levi Aron was taken into custody by detectives who said he lived alone in an apartment on Avenue C in a building occupied by his parents and other family members.
Kletzky got lost while walking home from a day camp and asked Aron for directions, police said.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Aron, who turned 35 on Wednesday, has implicated himself in the boy's death. Aron was charged with second-degree murder later in the day.
Aron provided a lengthy confession and told investigators he spent "several hours" with the boy before he killed him, a source told NBC New York.
Bloody signs
When detectives arrived at the man's attic apartment around 2:40 a.m., they asked him where the boy was and he nodded toward the kitchen, Kelly said.
Detectives saw blood on the freezer door and they opened it to discover bloody knives, a cutting board and feet inside, police said.
Additional body parts were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood, nearly two miles away.
Police and volunteers had been looking since late Monday afternoon for Leiby, who disappeared while on his way to meet his mother in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park.
Police said Aron worked as a clerk at the Empire State Supply Co., a hardware store in Kensington. Police accuse him of killing the child before cutting him into pieces. Aron told police that he had "panicked" after he saw reports of the massive search for the child.
He said he had suffocated the child, a source told NBC New York.
Coworkers said Wednesday that he showed up for work as usual on Tuesday and seemed fine.
Kelly said the boy's parents had taken him through the route the day before, and he was to walk the seven blocks from the camp to meet his mother. It was the first time the boy had been allowed to leave the camp on his own, sources told NBC New York.
He left at about 5:05 p.m. and got lost. He is shown on surveillance footage outside the dentist's office for about seven minutes, and then is seen getting into Aron's brown Honda sedan about 35 minutes later.
'Shock'
"I am in shock. I am not believing this," Debbie Kivel, Aron's ex-wife, told The New York Post. "He loved children. He loved kids. My kids are now 13 and 10, but when we were married they were younger — and he loved them."
The couple met online through a Jewish dating website. They married in March 2006, but parted later after a "clash of character," Kivel told The Post. They were divorced in 2008.
During his stay in Tennessee, Aron worked odd jobs as a security guard, clerk and butcher at a kosher deli at Kroger's, a supermarket, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported.
Kivel described Levi Aron as a person who was shy until he got to know you and said he enjoyed music, karaoke and "American Idol."
"He was creepy person," Kivel, told the Post. "I gather he went to the Hebrew School, but wasn’t smart enough and dropped out."
Balancing fear, freedom in wake of child's murder
The break in the case came when investigators focused on a grainy surveillance video that showed the boy, wearing his backpack, walking down the street, while a man walked nearby.
Detectives noticed the man on the video going into a nearby dentist's office, officials said. The dentist, located later in New Jersey, said he remembered someone coming by to pay a bill for a patient, and police said they were able to identify Aron using records from the office. When they went to his home, they made the gruesome discovery.
Police said Aron lived alone in the attic, in a building shared with his parents and uncle. He once had a summons for urinating in public but otherwise did not have a criminal record, Kelly said.
Aron has lived most of his life in New York, working as a clerk in Brooklyn, but spent about two years living in Memphis, Tenn., where he worked briefly, Kelly said.
Kelly said detectives were investigating whether he had a history of mental illness. He told investigators he panicked when he saw fliers with the boy's pictures on it, Kelly said. He would not say whether the boy had been sexually assaulted, and it didn't seem like Aron had ever seen the child before.
"It is every parent's worst nightmare," Kelly said.
There's more. If you're interested click on the link above!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43736497/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
New York — An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was killed and dismembered by a stranger, and his remains were found stuffed in a trash bin and the man's refrigerator, police said Wednesday.
The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzy shocked the Hasidic community in Borough Park, in part because it is one of the safest sections of the city and because the man under arrest is himself an Orthodox Jew.
Levi Aron was taken into custody by detectives who said he lived alone in an apartment on Avenue C in a building occupied by his parents and other family members.
Kletzky got lost while walking home from a day camp and asked Aron for directions, police said.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Aron, who turned 35 on Wednesday, has implicated himself in the boy's death. Aron was charged with second-degree murder later in the day.
Aron provided a lengthy confession and told investigators he spent "several hours" with the boy before he killed him, a source told NBC New York.
Bloody signs
When detectives arrived at the man's attic apartment around 2:40 a.m., they asked him where the boy was and he nodded toward the kitchen, Kelly said.
Detectives saw blood on the freezer door and they opened it to discover bloody knives, a cutting board and feet inside, police said.
Additional body parts were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood, nearly two miles away.
Police and volunteers had been looking since late Monday afternoon for Leiby, who disappeared while on his way to meet his mother in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park.
Police said Aron worked as a clerk at the Empire State Supply Co., a hardware store in Kensington. Police accuse him of killing the child before cutting him into pieces. Aron told police that he had "panicked" after he saw reports of the massive search for the child.
He said he had suffocated the child, a source told NBC New York.
Coworkers said Wednesday that he showed up for work as usual on Tuesday and seemed fine.
Kelly said the boy's parents had taken him through the route the day before, and he was to walk the seven blocks from the camp to meet his mother. It was the first time the boy had been allowed to leave the camp on his own, sources told NBC New York.
He left at about 5:05 p.m. and got lost. He is shown on surveillance footage outside the dentist's office for about seven minutes, and then is seen getting into Aron's brown Honda sedan about 35 minutes later.
'Shock'
"I am in shock. I am not believing this," Debbie Kivel, Aron's ex-wife, told The New York Post. "He loved children. He loved kids. My kids are now 13 and 10, but when we were married they were younger — and he loved them."
The couple met online through a Jewish dating website. They married in March 2006, but parted later after a "clash of character," Kivel told The Post. They were divorced in 2008.
During his stay in Tennessee, Aron worked odd jobs as a security guard, clerk and butcher at a kosher deli at Kroger's, a supermarket, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported.
Kivel described Levi Aron as a person who was shy until he got to know you and said he enjoyed music, karaoke and "American Idol."
"He was creepy person," Kivel, told the Post. "I gather he went to the Hebrew School, but wasn’t smart enough and dropped out."
Balancing fear, freedom in wake of child's murder
The break in the case came when investigators focused on a grainy surveillance video that showed the boy, wearing his backpack, walking down the street, while a man walked nearby.
Detectives noticed the man on the video going into a nearby dentist's office, officials said. The dentist, located later in New Jersey, said he remembered someone coming by to pay a bill for a patient, and police said they were able to identify Aron using records from the office. When they went to his home, they made the gruesome discovery.
Police said Aron lived alone in the attic, in a building shared with his parents and uncle. He once had a summons for urinating in public but otherwise did not have a criminal record, Kelly said.
Aron has lived most of his life in New York, working as a clerk in Brooklyn, but spent about two years living in Memphis, Tenn., where he worked briefly, Kelly said.
Kelly said detectives were investigating whether he had a history of mental illness. He told investigators he panicked when he saw fliers with the boy's pictures on it, Kelly said. He would not say whether the boy had been sexually assaulted, and it didn't seem like Aron had ever seen the child before.
"It is every parent's worst nightmare," Kelly said.
There's more. If you're interested click on the link above!
I was watching this on television. It seems the boys family and the man that killed the little boy knew each other? How incredibly sad. I have a few 8 year old grandsons so this one really hits home with me. Even where we live I do not let them out on their own any further than I can see them. But you cannot keep em at home their whole life either. Times are so frightening.
I have about (15-18) 10y/o boys in my BSA troop, and if I gave any of them a ride, I'd make sure they got HOME.
Spending the night at my house and waiting until morning to get them home, isn't an option.
I'm not sure I understand why he didn't pick up the phone and call the kids parents and just let them know where their child was, and what was going on.
I'm sure they would have been P-I-S-S-E-D off at both their child AND him, as an 8y/o child and a MAN (strangers, I might add) shouldn't be cavorting around in this manner, but at least they would have known where he was and possibly made a plan to arrange his return.
I'm so confused by this...
Spending the night at my house and waiting until morning to get them home, isn't an option.
I'm not sure I understand why he didn't pick up the phone and call the kids parents and just let them know where their child was, and what was going on.
I'm sure they would have been P-I-S-S-E-D off at both their child AND him, as an 8y/o child and a MAN (strangers, I might add) shouldn't be cavorting around in this manner, but at least they would have known where he was and possibly made a plan to arrange his return.
I'm so confused by this...
Some of the Killer's confession:
In the 450-word alleged confession, suspect Levi Aron claimed that Kletzy had asked him for a ride to a book shop, but then "changed his mind and wasn't sure where he wanted to go."
"So I asked if he wanted to go for the ride — (a) wedding in Monsey — since I didn't think I was going to stay for the whole thing since my back was hurting. He said OK," Aron said, according to the transcript.
Image: Leiby Kletzky
NYPD via AP
Leiby Kletzky went missing while walking home from a day camp.
"Due to traffic, I got back around 11:20 p.m. ... so I brought him to my house thinking I'd bring him to his house the next day," he added. "He watched TV then fell asleep in the front room. I went to the middle room to sleep."
'I panicked'
The next morning, Aron said, the child was still sleeping "when I was ready to leave."
"So I woke him and told him I'll bring him to his house ... when I saw the flyers I panicked and was afraid," he said. "I was still in panic ... and afraid to bring him home. That is when I went for a towel to smother him in the side room. He fought back a little bit."
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Aron said he again panicked "because I didn't know what to do with the body." He then described in graphic detail how he dismembered the body.
In the 450-word alleged confession, suspect Levi Aron claimed that Kletzy had asked him for a ride to a book shop, but then "changed his mind and wasn't sure where he wanted to go."
"So I asked if he wanted to go for the ride — (a) wedding in Monsey — since I didn't think I was going to stay for the whole thing since my back was hurting. He said OK," Aron said, according to the transcript.
Image: Leiby Kletzky
NYPD via AP
Leiby Kletzky went missing while walking home from a day camp.
"Due to traffic, I got back around 11:20 p.m. ... so I brought him to my house thinking I'd bring him to his house the next day," he added. "He watched TV then fell asleep in the front room. I went to the middle room to sleep."
'I panicked'
The next morning, Aron said, the child was still sleeping "when I was ready to leave."
"So I woke him and told him I'll bring him to his house ... when I saw the flyers I panicked and was afraid," he said. "I was still in panic ... and afraid to bring him home. That is when I went for a towel to smother him in the side room. He fought back a little bit."
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Aron said he again panicked "because I didn't know what to do with the body." He then described in graphic detail how he dismembered the body.
I think it was too soon to have the boy walk home alone. I mean the parents only practiced it with him once before...This is why I expose my 5 year old to news like this. It's reality and he needs to know he should NEVER get into a car with someone he doesn't know NO MATTER what that person tells him..I just feel for the parents. I feel for the boy b/c he was probably scared and this A$$hole tricked him. He probably told the boy he was going to bring him home..SMH..Man the little boy..My goodness..........I'm SO lost for words.
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