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Thursday, July 14, 2011

8-Year-Old Boy Killed And Dismembered...Remains Found In Fridge!

Police have arrested a 35-year-old man after the remains of a missing Brooklyn boy were discovered inside his refrigerator.

Levi Aron was taken into custody early Wednesday by detectives looking for
8-year-old Leiby Kletzky (LYE'-bee KLEHT'-skee). He lives alone in an apartment, in a building occupied by his parents and other family. He was in custody and it's not clear if he had an attorney. No one answered the door of his home.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says Aron has implicated himself in the boy's death.
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AP's earlier story is below.
A two-day search for an 8-year-old boy who vanished while walking home from a Brooklyn day camp ended Wednesday morning with the gruesome discovery of pieces of his dismembered body inside the home of a man who had been seen with the child around the time he disappeared, police said.
Additional body parts were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood.
The 35-year-old man who lived in the apartment was being questioned by detectives, but had not yet been arrested on any formal charges, said police department spokesman Paul Browne.
Police and volunteers had been looking since late Monday afternoon for Leiby Kletzky, who disappeared while on his way to meet his mother in one of the safest parts of the city, the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park.
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, Browne said. The dentist, located later in New Jersey, said he remembered someone coming by to pay a bill for a patient, and police were able to track down the man using records from the office. When they went to his home, they made the gruesome discovery.
The man made statements implicating himself in the crime, Browne said, but would not go into detail. He said the man lives alone in the apartment, in a building shared with his parents. The man, who police have not publicly identified, once had a summons for urinating in public but otherwise did not have a criminal record.
Outside the family's apartment building Wednesday morning, men and women from the community clustered in separate groups. Many of the mothers gathered there said the streets are safe enough for a child Leiby's age to walk home alone.
"This is a no-crime area," said State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes the area. He said the boy was the only son of the Kletzky family. The couple has four daughters, and the husband works as a driver for a private car service.
"Everybody is absolutely horrified," he said. "Everyone is in total shock, beyond belief, beyond comprehension ... to suddenly disappear and then the details ... and the fact someone in the extended community ... it's awful," he said.
He said the parents did not know the 35-year-old man, who lived about a mile away from the boy.
At about 6:45 a.m., an NYPD crime unit carted away the trash bin where some of the body parts had been found and put it in a truck, and police officers walked in a line looking for evidence under cars and on sidewalks.
The medical examiner's office will determine a cause of death and positive identification.
Leiby was one of the neighborhood's many Hasidic Jews, an ultra-Orthodox people who live in tight-knit, somewhat insular communities and abide by strict religious rules that require men to wear dark clothing that includes a long coat and a fedora-type hat. Men often have long beards and ear locks.
Most of the 165,000 members in the New York City the area live in neighborhoods in Brooklyn and are part of three different sects. Hasidism traces its roots to 18th-century Eastern Europe.
The man in custody at a Brooklyn precinct was Jewish but it's not clear if he's Hasidic. A $100,000 reward had been offered, Hikind said the outpouring of support has been tremendous with people from all over the state volunteering their time to scour the neighborhood and hand out flyers.
Adel Erps, who lives two blocks from the family, said she was very upset because the state of the body means it will be more difficult to do a proper burial. Like other neighborhood residents congregating near the boy's home Wednesday, she expressed shock that the suspect was Jewish.
"He's a sick person obviously, but it hurts so much more," she said.

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3 comments:

  1. This is so sad. I was following this all night Monday and Tuesday only to be woken up by my son who told me that the little boy had been murdered and so senselessly too!!!!!!!!! Watching the cctv footage of him lost and confused on the street is so disheartening. I feel sorry for his mother and father and my heart and prayers go to them. Only God knows what was/is in the head of Aron for him to do this kind of thing.

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  2. This is so disheartening! Very unfortunate!

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  3. It's a sick person that would take and kill an innocent. Liebby, you didn’t make it to moon in this lifetime, but with your outstretched arm, you’ve slipped the surly bonds of earth and gone to touch the face of God. RIP

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