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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Remains believed to be those of a little boy who disappeared while walking home from a Brooklyn day camp were found in a refrigerator Wednesday inside the home of a man being questioned by detectives, police said.
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Eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky is shown on grainy surveillance video footage wearing a backpack as he walks down the street on Monday. A man who is seen walking near the boy in the video is in now custody, chief police spokesman Paul J. Browne said. Detectives found other body parts believed to be those of Leiby wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood, Browne said.
At about 6:45 a.m., an NYPD crime unit carted away the trash bin and put it in a truck, and police officers walked in a line looking for evidence under cars and on sidewalks.
The 35-year-old man is still being interviewed, police said, and has not yet been arrested on any formal charges. He lives alone in his 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.
Dismembered remains of missing NYC boy Leiby Kletzky found
The man made statements implicating himself in the crime, Browne said, but would not go into detail.
Investigators hunting for the boy noticed the man on the video going into a nearby dentist about 5:30 p.m. Monday, Browne said. The dentist, located later in New Jersey, said he remembered someone coming in to the shop who wasn't a patient, but who was paying a bill for a patient there, 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 medical examiner's office will determine a cause of death and positive identification.
Leiby was last seen near 44th Street and 12th Avenue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn just before 5 p.m. Monday. The Hasidic boy was coming home from day camp and was supposed to meet his mother about three blocks away but never showed up.
According to CBS station WCBS, Kletzky had begged his parents to let him walk home. They gave him a note saying he wouldn't be taking the bus.
At the day camp, people said the children were susceptible to suggestions from strangers.
"He respects everyone...if you would tell him, you yourself were to tell him, 'I would like you to sit here until I come back,' he would sit down until you come back," Jacob Baskal of the Borough Park Shomrim told WCBS.
Hasidism is a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Followers live in tight-knit communities nearly closed off to modern society and wear traditional dress — for men, 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 major sects. Hasidism traces its roots to 18th-century Eastern Europe.
The insular community rarely seeks outside help, and State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes the area, often speaks for the group.
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.
Hikind 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.
Hikind said the parents did not know the 35-year-old man, who lived about a mile away from the boy.
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Media and members of the orthodox Jewish community watch police officers conduct a search of the street where the remains of an 8-year old boy were found in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
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updated 2 hours 21 minutes ago 2011-07-13T16:33:52
Police arrested a 35-year-old man Wednesday after the remains of a missing Brooklyn boy, 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, were discovered inside his refrigerator.
Levi Aron was taken into custody by detectives who said he lives alone in an apartment in a building occupied by his parents and other family members.
According to the police, Kletzky got lost while walking home from a day camp and asked Aron for directions.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Aron has implicated himself in the boy's death.
Investigators tracked Aron with the help of surveillance video that showed him being approached by the lost boy.
When detectives arrived at the man's home, 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, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Additional body parts were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood.
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.
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 were able to identify Aron using records from the office. When they went to his home, they made the gruesome discovery.
Leiby was supposed to meet his parents Monday afternoon about seven blocks away from the camp at Yeshiva Boyan on 44th Street in Borough Park, but did not show up. It was the first time the boy had been allowed to leave the camp on his own, sources told NBC New York.
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.
The medical examiner's office will determine a cause of death and positive identification.
A tight-knit community
Hasidism is a form of mystical ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Followers live in tight-knit communities nearly closed off to modern society and wear traditional dress — for men, 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 major sects. Hasidism traces its roots to 18th-century Eastern Europe.
The insular community rarely seeks outside help, and State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes the area, often speaks for the group.
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.
Hikind 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.
Shades of Etan Patz
For New Yorkers, the death of Leiby Kletzy has unmistakable parallels to the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first to be put on a milk carton. On May 25, 1979, the boy left for school from his SoHo home, never to return.
According to reports, it was the first day Patz walked the two blocks from his apartment to the bus stop.
A suspect was identified, but never charged. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. recently confirmed that his office was reopening the investigation into the disappearance.
Patz's disappearance was the subject of one of the most extensive missing-child searches ever. He was never found but was officially declared dead in 2001.
WNBC's Jonathan Dienst and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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Media and members of the orthodox Jewish community watch police officers conduct a search of the street where the remains of an 8-year old boy were found in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
NBC News and msnbc.com NBC News and msnbc.com
updated 2 hours 21 minutes ago 2011-07-13T16:33:52
Police arrested a 35-year-old man Wednesday after the remains of a missing Brooklyn boy, 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, were discovered inside his refrigerator.
Levi Aron was taken into custody by detectives who said he lives alone in an apartment in a building occupied by his parents and other family members.
According to the police, Kletzky got lost while walking home from a day camp and asked Aron for directions.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Aron has implicated himself in the boy's death.
Investigators tracked Aron with the help of surveillance video that showed him being approached by the lost boy.
When detectives arrived at the man's home, 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, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Additional body parts were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood.
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.
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 were able to identify Aron using records from the office. When they went to his home, they made the gruesome discovery.
Leiby was supposed to meet his parents Monday afternoon about seven blocks away from the camp at Yeshiva Boyan on 44th Street in Borough Park, but did not show up. It was the first time the boy had been allowed to leave the camp on his own, sources told NBC New York.
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.
The medical examiner's office will determine a cause of death and positive identification.
A tight-knit community
Hasidism is a form of mystical ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Followers live in tight-knit communities nearly closed off to modern society and wear traditional dress — for men, 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 major sects. Hasidism traces its roots to 18th-century Eastern Europe.
The insular community rarely seeks outside help, and State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes the area, often speaks for the group.
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.
Hikind 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.
Shades of Etan Patz
For New Yorkers, the death of Leiby Kletzy has unmistakable parallels to the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first to be put on a milk carton. On May 25, 1979, the boy left for school from his SoHo home, never to return.
According to reports, it was the first day Patz walked the two blocks from his apartment to the bus stop.
A suspect was identified, but never charged. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. recently confirmed that his office was reopening the investigation into the disappearance.
Patz's disappearance was the subject of one of the most extensive missing-child searches ever. He was never found but was officially declared dead in 2001.
WNBC's Jonathan Dienst and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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Leiby Kletzky Photo: NYC Police
Thousands attend funeral of Brooklyn Hassidic boy
Brooklyn Hassidic community distraught by brutal murder of Leiby Kletzky
Ynet Published: 07.14.11, 09:31 / Israel News
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of 8-year-old Hasidic boy Leiby Kletzky Thursday.
Kletzky went missing on Wednesday. He was abducted and killed as he walked home from camp.
The New York Police arrested 35-year-old Levi Aron in connection with the murder. It is believed that he strangled the boy to death before dismembering his body.
According to the New York Times, dozens of police officers and members of a local security patrol group, the "Shomrim," kept the order at the funeral, which was held just hours after the family learned that their search for Leiby, had come to a tragic end.
(Photo: Reuters)
It was estimated that nearly to 8,000 people were in attendance.
The service was held almost entirely in Yiddish. The boy's father, school principal and several rabbis spoke, repeatedly breaking down in tears.
They extolled the boy’s good qualities, and reminded the community to be careful, urging the adults to protect their children.
Kletzky's disappearance sparked a massive manhunt, with civilian, police and FBI teams out looking for the boy.
The suspect was arrested after surveillance footage taken along the route the boy took on his way home showed him in Aron's company.
He now faces charges of second degree murder.
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Levi Aron ~ Brooklyn Child Murderer
July 13, 2011 10:01 PM EDT
Brooklyn resident Levi Aron confessed to killing a child, in what is one of the most grisly murders to hit the greater New York area in a while.
Police found 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky's remains in a refrigerator at Levi Aron's Brooklyn apartment.
Leiby Kletzy, 8, found murdered in home of Levi Aron, 35.
Levi Aron glares icily at the camera last night as he’s escorted from the 67th Precinct station house.
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But who was Levi Aron, Brooklyn resident?
Aron was a seeming mild-mannered maintenance supply worker, whose neighbors said he prayed at a local synagogue daily.
"I can't believe this. He was a strange guy, but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy," one of Levi Aron's co-workers told Brooklyn media.
One of Levi Aron's former neighbors in Brooklyn reported that he was "disturbed."
"I kept my kids away from that house," the neighbor told The Jewish Week.
Still he Aron as praying daily at a local Brooklyn synagogue.
A massive search led by the local Brooklyn Chasidic community for the missing 8-year-old led police to Levi Aron's Brooklyn apartment, where sources say he "implicated himself" in the murder of the Chasidic boy.
Aron allegedly gestured toward the kitchen when asked about the whereabouts of the boy.
Part of Kletzky's dismembered remains were found in Aron's refrigerator, and the rest were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a nearby dumpster.
Surveillance video shows Leiby asking Aron for directions after he got lost on his way to meet his parents.
Although the video does not show what happened to the boy after speaking with Aron, investigators have confirmed that the boy got into Aron's 1990 Honda Accord.
Police Commissioner Kelly said that the massive search launched to find Leiby spooked Aron into doing the unthinkable: "He panicked, and that is why he killed the boy." It is believed that Leiby was suffocated before Aron cut up his body.
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July 13, 2011 10:01 PM EDT
Brooklyn resident Levi Aron confessed to killing a child, in what is one of the most grisly murders to hit the greater New York area in a while.
Police found 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky's remains in a refrigerator at Levi Aron's Brooklyn apartment.
Leiby Kletzy, 8, found murdered in home of Levi Aron, 35.
Levi Aron glares icily at the camera last night as he’s escorted from the 67th Precinct station house.
Read more:
NY Post LINK
edited by Fashionista
But who was Levi Aron, Brooklyn resident?
Aron was a seeming mild-mannered maintenance supply worker, whose neighbors said he prayed at a local synagogue daily.
"I can't believe this. He was a strange guy, but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy," one of Levi Aron's co-workers told Brooklyn media.
One of Levi Aron's former neighbors in Brooklyn reported that he was "disturbed."
"I kept my kids away from that house," the neighbor told The Jewish Week.
Still he Aron as praying daily at a local Brooklyn synagogue.
A massive search led by the local Brooklyn Chasidic community for the missing 8-year-old led police to Levi Aron's Brooklyn apartment, where sources say he "implicated himself" in the murder of the Chasidic boy.
Aron allegedly gestured toward the kitchen when asked about the whereabouts of the boy.
Part of Kletzky's dismembered remains were found in Aron's refrigerator, and the rest were found inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a nearby dumpster.
Surveillance video shows Leiby asking Aron for directions after he got lost on his way to meet his parents.
Although the video does not show what happened to the boy after speaking with Aron, investigators have confirmed that the boy got into Aron's 1990 Honda Accord.
Police Commissioner Kelly said that the massive search launched to find Leiby spooked Aron into doing the unthinkable: "He panicked, and that is why he killed the boy." It is believed that Leiby was suffocated before Aron cut up his body.
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WARNING
This transcript has been edited to remove parts of an extremely graphic nature. It has not been edited for clarity. These are the suspect's words as written on a legal pad during questioning, according to law enforcement sources.
The Accused Killer in His Own Words
Read a partial transcript of the confession that police say Levi Aron gave during questioning
My name is Levi Aron... On Monday evening around 5:30 I went to my dentist, Dr. Sorcher, to make a payment for visit for exam routine.
A boy approached me on where the Judaica book store was. He was still there when went out from the dentist’s office. He asked me for a ride to the Judaica book store. While on the way he changed his mind and wasn’t sure where he wanted to go.
So I asked if he wanted to go for the ride -- 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.
Due to traffic, I got back around 11:30 p.m. … so I brought him to my house thinking I’d bring him to his house the next day. He watched TV then fell asleep in the front room. I went to the middle room to sleep. That next morning, he 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. When I got home he was still there so I made him a tuna sandwich....
I was still in a panic...and afraid to bring him home. That is when approximately I went for a towel to smother him in the side room. He fought back a little bit until eventually he stopped breathing.
Afterwards -- I panicked because I didn’t know what to do with the body.… carried parts to the back room placing parts between the freezer and the refrigerator …
… went to clean up a little then took a second shower. I panicked and .. Then putting the parts in a suitcase. Then carrying suitcase to the car …placing in backseat on floor behind passenger side.
… drove around approximately around 20 minutes before placing it in the dumpster on 20th street just before 4th Avenue. Then went home to clean and organize.
I understand this may be wrong and I’m sorry for the hurt that I have caused.
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This transcript has been edited to remove parts of an extremely graphic nature. It has not been edited for clarity. These are the suspect's words as written on a legal pad during questioning, according to law enforcement sources.
The Accused Killer in His Own Words
Read a partial transcript of the confession that police say Levi Aron gave during questioning
My name is Levi Aron... On Monday evening around 5:30 I went to my dentist, Dr. Sorcher, to make a payment for visit for exam routine.
A boy approached me on where the Judaica book store was. He was still there when went out from the dentist’s office. He asked me for a ride to the Judaica book store. While on the way he changed his mind and wasn’t sure where he wanted to go.
So I asked if he wanted to go for the ride -- 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.
Due to traffic, I got back around 11:30 p.m. … so I brought him to my house thinking I’d bring him to his house the next day. He watched TV then fell asleep in the front room. I went to the middle room to sleep. That next morning, he 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. When I got home he was still there so I made him a tuna sandwich....
I was still in a panic...and afraid to bring him home. That is when approximately I went for a towel to smother him in the side room. He fought back a little bit until eventually he stopped breathing.
Afterwards -- I panicked because I didn’t know what to do with the body.… carried parts to the back room placing parts between the freezer and the refrigerator …
… went to clean up a little then took a second shower. I panicked and .. Then putting the parts in a suitcase. Then carrying suitcase to the car …placing in backseat on floor behind passenger side.
… drove around approximately around 20 minutes before placing it in the dumpster on 20th street just before 4th Avenue. Then went home to clean and organize.
I understand this may be wrong and I’m sorry for the hurt that I have caused.
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Murder Suspect Levi Aron Gave Neighbors Creeps; Used To Give Kids Rides In His Honda
(Thursday, July 14th, 2011)
Brooklyn loner Levi Aron gave people the creeps long before he was charged with slaughtering an innocent child.
The 35-year-old plumbing-supply store stockboy made his neighbors’ skin crawl with the rides he gave neighborhood kids in his clunker Honda Prelude and the way he’d stare at local elementary-school students in a playground.
“The parents on the block wouldn’t want their kids to go near him,” said a neighbor, Chaim Lefkovitz, 39, who added that Aron was prone to furious outbursts.
“Sometimes he would just get angry out of nowhere,” Lefkovitz added. “He was one of those people you stayed away from.”
A family acquaintance, Lee Vogel, 21, said, “There was something strange about him. You know when you see Charles Manson, he has that look in his eye? Levi had that look.”
He worked at a job that paid just above minimum wage at Empire State Supply Co. in Borough Park. His boss called him a “quiet” but good worker.
“He seemed a little emotionally disturbed. He was very quiet, didn’t communicate with people, and he went home,” said shop owner Michael Panzer.
Co-workers described Aron as “slow.” Some said there were signs of trouble.
“Casey Anthony didn’t fit the profile for a killer,” said a colleague. “But looking back now, this guy fit the profile.”
Aron was married in 2004 to a woman named Diana Diunov, according to court records and Diunov’s in-laws. The marriage lasted only about a year. After their breakup, Diunov, 38, was busted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and is locked up in federal prison until next year.
About a year later, he met his next wife, Debby Kivel, 34, on a Jewish matchmaking Web site.
Kivel told The Post that she and Aron married in March 2006. Aron moved from Brooklyn to Memphis, Tenn., to be with her and her two children.
Kivel said he was injured at age 9 when a car hit his bicycle and it made him nervous around people.
“I am in shock,” she said in Memphis. “He loved children. My kids are now 13 and 10 . . . and he loved them.”
She said that he worked hard as a security guard to make ends meet, but that they eventually divorced in 2007 because of “a clash of character.”
Still, she never saw the shocking criminal charges coming.
“I just talked to him — he seemed like normal Levi,” Kivel said. “Everything sounded fine and normal. This is totally out of character.”
But not all of Kivel’s family shared her rosy view.
“He was a creepy person,” her father, Michael Kivel said. “I gather he went to Hebrew school, but wasn’t smart enough and dropped out.”
Things didn’t go very smoothly during Aron’s time in Memphis. After their marriage fell apart, Kivel said, she filed an order of protection against him. But she added that she did so only because a boyfriend told her it would expedite her divorce, and she later withdrew the order.
Debby Kivel said that after they broke up, Aron was once again briefly engaged.
Aron, who has lived with his family in the area since the early 1980s, gave neighbors the creeps, even when he was young.
“When we walked into [his] house as kids, there was just a very eerie feeling in the air,” said one neighbor. “It was not a nice place.”
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(Thursday, July 14th, 2011)
Brooklyn loner Levi Aron gave people the creeps long before he was charged with slaughtering an innocent child.
The 35-year-old plumbing-supply store stockboy made his neighbors’ skin crawl with the rides he gave neighborhood kids in his clunker Honda Prelude and the way he’d stare at local elementary-school students in a playground.
“The parents on the block wouldn’t want their kids to go near him,” said a neighbor, Chaim Lefkovitz, 39, who added that Aron was prone to furious outbursts.
“Sometimes he would just get angry out of nowhere,” Lefkovitz added. “He was one of those people you stayed away from.”
A family acquaintance, Lee Vogel, 21, said, “There was something strange about him. You know when you see Charles Manson, he has that look in his eye? Levi had that look.”
He worked at a job that paid just above minimum wage at Empire State Supply Co. in Borough Park. His boss called him a “quiet” but good worker.
“He seemed a little emotionally disturbed. He was very quiet, didn’t communicate with people, and he went home,” said shop owner Michael Panzer.
Co-workers described Aron as “slow.” Some said there were signs of trouble.
“Casey Anthony didn’t fit the profile for a killer,” said a colleague. “But looking back now, this guy fit the profile.”
Aron was married in 2004 to a woman named Diana Diunov, according to court records and Diunov’s in-laws. The marriage lasted only about a year. After their breakup, Diunov, 38, was busted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and is locked up in federal prison until next year.
About a year later, he met his next wife, Debby Kivel, 34, on a Jewish matchmaking Web site.
Kivel told The Post that she and Aron married in March 2006. Aron moved from Brooklyn to Memphis, Tenn., to be with her and her two children.
Kivel said he was injured at age 9 when a car hit his bicycle and it made him nervous around people.
“I am in shock,” she said in Memphis. “He loved children. My kids are now 13 and 10 . . . and he loved them.”
She said that he worked hard as a security guard to make ends meet, but that they eventually divorced in 2007 because of “a clash of character.”
Still, she never saw the shocking criminal charges coming.
“I just talked to him — he seemed like normal Levi,” Kivel said. “Everything sounded fine and normal. This is totally out of character.”
But not all of Kivel’s family shared her rosy view.
“He was a creepy person,” her father, Michael Kivel said. “I gather he went to Hebrew school, but wasn’t smart enough and dropped out.”
Things didn’t go very smoothly during Aron’s time in Memphis. After their marriage fell apart, Kivel said, she filed an order of protection against him. But she added that she did so only because a boyfriend told her it would expedite her divorce, and she later withdrew the order.
Debby Kivel said that after they broke up, Aron was once again briefly engaged.
Aron, who has lived with his family in the area since the early 1980s, gave neighbors the creeps, even when he was young.
“When we walked into [his] house as kids, there was just a very eerie feeling in the air,” said one neighbor. “It was not a nice place.”
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NYC man charged with kidnapping, dismembering lost boy says he hears voices, hallucinates
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG
A New York City man accused of kidnapping and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions says he hears voices.
A lawyer for Levi Aron told a judge Thursday that his client also told him he has had hallucinations.
Police and prosecutors say the 35-year-old Aron confessed to luring Leiby Kletzky to his home on Monday, and then smothering him and chopping him up when he learned that a search was under way for the missing child.
Aron pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and kidnapping charges. A judge ordered a psychological evaluation.
Aron entered a Brooklyn courtroom for the arraignment looking disheveled and pale.
As he was led out from the courthouse holding pens, other inmates screamed obscenities at him.
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By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG
A New York City man accused of kidnapping and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions says he hears voices.
A lawyer for Levi Aron told a judge Thursday that his client also told him he has had hallucinations.
Police and prosecutors say the 35-year-old Aron confessed to luring Leiby Kletzky to his home on Monday, and then smothering him and chopping him up when he learned that a search was under way for the missing child.
Aron pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and kidnapping charges. A judge ordered a psychological evaluation.
Aron entered a Brooklyn courtroom for the arraignment looking disheveled and pale.
As he was led out from the courthouse holding pens, other inmates screamed obscenities at him.
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Man charged in Brooklyn boy's killing; confession emerges
By Jonathan Dienst, Shimon Prokupecz and Tom Llamas
NBCNewYork.com
NEW YORK — The 35-year-old hardware store clerk accused of abducting an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy off the street and killing him before cutting up his body has been formally charged as police revealed more troubling details about the crime.
Levi Aron entered no plea Thursday to charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping, and was ordered held without bail. He is accused of snatching Leibby Kletzky on Monday and taking him to his apartment, where police say he suffocated and dismembered him.
His attorney, Pierre Bazile, said Aron hears voices and has hallucinations. A psychiatric exam was ordered.
"His demeanor is not good," Bazile said, adding his condolences to the boy's family.
As Aron was led into and out of the courtroom, other prisoners awaiting arraignment at the courthouse could be heard jeering and yelling at him.
Aron wrote in a confession exclusively obtained by NBC New York that: "I understand this may be wrong and I'm sorry for the hurt that I have caused." (Read a redacted transcript of Aron's alleged confession here.)
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday that Aron has shown "no remorse," at times giggling when speaking with investigators.
Kelly said the boy appeared to have defensive wounds, which leads investigators to believe he fought back when he was being smothered to death.
Aron had told police in his confession that he let the boy sleep while he went to work on Tuesday, but Kelly said the child appeared to have been restrained. Officials think he might have been tied up in the apartment while Aron went to work.
Kelly said Aron denies sexually assaulting Kletzky. He said police are still trying to figure out when the boy was killed. His remains were found in Aron's refrigerator and in a Dumpster about two and a half miles away.
In his confession, Aron told police that he took the boy to a wedding upstate on Monday, the night he is accused of abducting him. Kelly said witnesses saw Aron there, but so far have no information that the boy was there.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said investigators are poring over Aron's computer and looking into whether he approached other children in New York and Memphis, Tenn., where he briefly lived.
Meanwhile, mourners lined the streets of Borough Park Wednesday night to honor the boy's memory.
His grieving parents were joined by thousands from the community at a Borough Park synagogue for Kletzky's funeral service, with speakers broadcasting over a loudspeaker and intermittently breaking down in sobs. They spoke and chanted in Yiddish, stressing the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.
"There's no greater pain than this," one said, as translated by a mourner.
Story: Slain Brooklyn boy alive for hours after disappearance, suspect allegedly says
Among the women, who listened separately from men according to Hasidic custom, some said their children attended the same day camp from which Kletzky was walking home from when he disappeared. It was open Wednesday and counselors were on hand to help the children deal with the news.
"This is not human," said Moses Klein, 73, a retired caterer who lives near the corner where the boy was last seen.
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By Jonathan Dienst, Shimon Prokupecz and Tom Llamas
NBCNewYork.com
NEW YORK — The 35-year-old hardware store clerk accused of abducting an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy off the street and killing him before cutting up his body has been formally charged as police revealed more troubling details about the crime.
Levi Aron entered no plea Thursday to charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping, and was ordered held without bail. He is accused of snatching Leibby Kletzky on Monday and taking him to his apartment, where police say he suffocated and dismembered him.
His attorney, Pierre Bazile, said Aron hears voices and has hallucinations. A psychiatric exam was ordered.
"His demeanor is not good," Bazile said, adding his condolences to the boy's family.
As Aron was led into and out of the courtroom, other prisoners awaiting arraignment at the courthouse could be heard jeering and yelling at him.
Aron wrote in a confession exclusively obtained by NBC New York that: "I understand this may be wrong and I'm sorry for the hurt that I have caused." (Read a redacted transcript of Aron's alleged confession here.)
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday that Aron has shown "no remorse," at times giggling when speaking with investigators.
Kelly said the boy appeared to have defensive wounds, which leads investigators to believe he fought back when he was being smothered to death.
Aron had told police in his confession that he let the boy sleep while he went to work on Tuesday, but Kelly said the child appeared to have been restrained. Officials think he might have been tied up in the apartment while Aron went to work.
Kelly said Aron denies sexually assaulting Kletzky. He said police are still trying to figure out when the boy was killed. His remains were found in Aron's refrigerator and in a Dumpster about two and a half miles away.
In his confession, Aron told police that he took the boy to a wedding upstate on Monday, the night he is accused of abducting him. Kelly said witnesses saw Aron there, but so far have no information that the boy was there.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said investigators are poring over Aron's computer and looking into whether he approached other children in New York and Memphis, Tenn., where he briefly lived.
Meanwhile, mourners lined the streets of Borough Park Wednesday night to honor the boy's memory.
His grieving parents were joined by thousands from the community at a Borough Park synagogue for Kletzky's funeral service, with speakers broadcasting over a loudspeaker and intermittently breaking down in sobs. They spoke and chanted in Yiddish, stressing the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.
"There's no greater pain than this," one said, as translated by a mourner.
Story: Slain Brooklyn boy alive for hours after disappearance, suspect allegedly says
Among the women, who listened separately from men according to Hasidic custom, some said their children attended the same day camp from which Kletzky was walking home from when he disappeared. It was open Wednesday and counselors were on hand to help the children deal with the news.
"This is not human," said Moses Klein, 73, a retired caterer who lives near the corner where the boy was last seen.
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By Joseph Berger
Boy's killing rattles Jewish community's trust of its own
'The fact that this came from within... it’s beyond belief,' resident says
Yocheved Schachter, a 47-year-old nurse who lives in Borough Park, Brooklyn, acknowledges that she has a double standard of sorts: one for people who share her background, and one for people who do not.
“If you’re in the airport and need help, a Jew will help you,” said Ms. Schachter, who is a mother and a grandmother. “I pick up hitchhikers, boys waiting to go to yeshiva. When I travel and see another Jew, we’ll eyeball each other; there’s a connection. Everywhere you go, all over the world. I’ll still do it.”
So like her neighbors in Borough Park, she has been bewildered by the fact that Leiby Kletzky, 8, was kidnapped and killed, the police say, at the hands of another apparently religious Jew, though not a Hasidic one.
“The fact that this came from within,” she said, “it’s beyond belief.”
With its distinctive dress and customs, the insular ultra-Orthodox community of Borough Park has always been somewhat wary of outsiders who might introduce temptations and ideas that could erode their way of life. But the converse — too much trust of those within — has also been true, many civic and religious leaders say, and it is only in recent years that people have become less guileless about and protective of ill-doers from inside their tribe.
On Thursday, Levi Aron, 35, was ordered held without bail on a charge of second-degree murder, and the police disclosed elements of a confession. Mr. Aron, according to the police, said that Leiby had approached him on the street Monday afternoon, that he had taken the boy to a wedding in Rockland County that night and that he had suffocated the boy in a panic the next day when he realized the huge search effort that was under way. The police also say the boy may have put up a struggle.
It may never be known whether Leiby trusted Mr. Aron because he appeared to be someone like him. But the murder occurred at a moment of a slow change in how Borough Park residents regarded one another, and some people interviewed on Thursday predicted that, for better or worse, the tragedy would only accelerate it.
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“Someone told me, ‘Now you know who your neighbors are,’ ” said Ben Herb, 37, who works at MS Optical on 16th Avenue. “I said: We always had to be cautious in this neighborhood. Here in the center of Borough Park is where you have to be very careful. Most of your neighbors are Orthodox Jews with which children are comfortable. That, in itself, is a risk.”
“My children don’t talk to strangers whether they wear a yarmulke or a do-rag,” he added.
'Dirty laundry'
The authorities and social service officials in Borough Park agreed that attitudes have been changing. Ruchama Clapman, who runs a small agency that deals with drug and alcohol abuse and sexual molestation largely within the pious Jewish community, recalled that 14 years ago when she started her agency she encountered tremendous resistance simply talking about the problems, “and it took many years before the community was accepting that we had these issues in our community.”
“It was hanging out dirty laundry,” she said.
Video: Cops: Man confesses to killing NYC boy (on this page) People were afraid that if a victim sought help and a problem became widely known, parents might find it difficult to find matches for their sons and daughters, and social and business relations would be hurt. There was also the often misinterpreted prohibition against mesirah — informing on a fellow Jew to non-Jewish authorities — that was a leftover tenet from a time when European Jews had to deal cautiously with anti-Semitic officials.
Dov Hikind, the local assemblyman, has a radio show that for several years has highlighted the issue of sexual abuse by people in the Orthodox community.
“People were upset at me,” he said. “People were furious. They would say: ‘You’re embarrassing us. We’re dealing with it ourselves.’ They were not dealing with it.”
But they have been more willing to alert the authorities when crimes are committed by other Hasidim or Orthodox Jews. In a spate of cases between October 2008 and October 2009 alone, Brooklyn prosecutors arrested 26 ultra-Orthodox men — rabbis, teachers and camp counselors among them — on sexual abuse charges. Many others have come forward to the Jewish news media and to social agencies.
Mr. Hikind said there was no evidence that sexual abuse or other deviance was any more widespread in the Hasidic community than in other ethnic groups, but what is different, they said, is that the Hasidic community has just begun to grapple with these problems and educate its members.
Ms. Clapman, head of Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Kids, said Hasidim were aware that “we have problems that the outside world may have and the outside world is seeping in.”
Diverse community
The often overlooked diversity of Borough Park, with a Jewish population that has been estimated by local officials at 100,000 and with 250 synagogues, could in theory be a fertile field for distrust.
Although most outsiders tend to view Borough Park monolithically, seeing only men in black garb and women in long-sleeved dresses surrounded by a scrum of children, there are many important distinctions.
The Hasidim, who define themselves as such by their loyalty to particular grand rabbis and by their zeal in observance, are divided into numerous sects like the Bobov, Satmar and Belz, each originating from a different part of Eastern Europe and each with its own synagogues, yeshivas and even subtleties of dress (the Satmar hat brim is wider, the Bobov crown higher).
Moreover, a significant minority of Borough Park’s Jews are simply Orthodox, like Leiby’s parents, and do not revere a particular grand rabbi; others are Conservative, Reform or secular, a remnant of the mid-20th century when Borough Park’s Jews included people like Sandy Koufax.
There are rivalries between sects and even within sects. Yet there is a general amity that prevails, a belief that, as Ms. Schachter said, a Jew will readily help another Jew in need.
“I’m not saying that bad apples don’t exist,” she said. “You can have bad police officers, bad nurses and bad doctors. But you still trust a doctor.”
Joe Levin, a private investigator who works in the Orthodox world, said “some people in Borough Park are very naïve” because “they don’t believe Orthodox people can do bad things.”
Indeed, Motty Jay, 28, a wine consultant who had joined the search party for Leiby, said of the suspect: “This is not an Orthodox Jew that did it,” adding: “In order to do this you’ve got to be something different. Different than us.”
This article, "Killing Rattles a Jewish Community’s Long-Held Trust of Its Own," first appeared in The New York Times.
Juliet Linderman, Jed Lipinski and Liz Robbins contributed reporting
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Boy's killing rattles Jewish community's trust of its own
'The fact that this came from within... it’s beyond belief,' resident says
Yocheved Schachter, a 47-year-old nurse who lives in Borough Park, Brooklyn, acknowledges that she has a double standard of sorts: one for people who share her background, and one for people who do not.
“If you’re in the airport and need help, a Jew will help you,” said Ms. Schachter, who is a mother and a grandmother. “I pick up hitchhikers, boys waiting to go to yeshiva. When I travel and see another Jew, we’ll eyeball each other; there’s a connection. Everywhere you go, all over the world. I’ll still do it.”
So like her neighbors in Borough Park, she has been bewildered by the fact that Leiby Kletzky, 8, was kidnapped and killed, the police say, at the hands of another apparently religious Jew, though not a Hasidic one.
“The fact that this came from within,” she said, “it’s beyond belief.”
With its distinctive dress and customs, the insular ultra-Orthodox community of Borough Park has always been somewhat wary of outsiders who might introduce temptations and ideas that could erode their way of life. But the converse — too much trust of those within — has also been true, many civic and religious leaders say, and it is only in recent years that people have become less guileless about and protective of ill-doers from inside their tribe.
On Thursday, Levi Aron, 35, was ordered held without bail on a charge of second-degree murder, and the police disclosed elements of a confession. Mr. Aron, according to the police, said that Leiby had approached him on the street Monday afternoon, that he had taken the boy to a wedding in Rockland County that night and that he had suffocated the boy in a panic the next day when he realized the huge search effort that was under way. The police also say the boy may have put up a struggle.
It may never be known whether Leiby trusted Mr. Aron because he appeared to be someone like him. But the murder occurred at a moment of a slow change in how Borough Park residents regarded one another, and some people interviewed on Thursday predicted that, for better or worse, the tragedy would only accelerate it.
.
“Someone told me, ‘Now you know who your neighbors are,’ ” said Ben Herb, 37, who works at MS Optical on 16th Avenue. “I said: We always had to be cautious in this neighborhood. Here in the center of Borough Park is where you have to be very careful. Most of your neighbors are Orthodox Jews with which children are comfortable. That, in itself, is a risk.”
“My children don’t talk to strangers whether they wear a yarmulke or a do-rag,” he added.
'Dirty laundry'
The authorities and social service officials in Borough Park agreed that attitudes have been changing. Ruchama Clapman, who runs a small agency that deals with drug and alcohol abuse and sexual molestation largely within the pious Jewish community, recalled that 14 years ago when she started her agency she encountered tremendous resistance simply talking about the problems, “and it took many years before the community was accepting that we had these issues in our community.”
“It was hanging out dirty laundry,” she said.
Video: Cops: Man confesses to killing NYC boy (on this page) People were afraid that if a victim sought help and a problem became widely known, parents might find it difficult to find matches for their sons and daughters, and social and business relations would be hurt. There was also the often misinterpreted prohibition against mesirah — informing on a fellow Jew to non-Jewish authorities — that was a leftover tenet from a time when European Jews had to deal cautiously with anti-Semitic officials.
Dov Hikind, the local assemblyman, has a radio show that for several years has highlighted the issue of sexual abuse by people in the Orthodox community.
“People were upset at me,” he said. “People were furious. They would say: ‘You’re embarrassing us. We’re dealing with it ourselves.’ They were not dealing with it.”
But they have been more willing to alert the authorities when crimes are committed by other Hasidim or Orthodox Jews. In a spate of cases between October 2008 and October 2009 alone, Brooklyn prosecutors arrested 26 ultra-Orthodox men — rabbis, teachers and camp counselors among them — on sexual abuse charges. Many others have come forward to the Jewish news media and to social agencies.
Mr. Hikind said there was no evidence that sexual abuse or other deviance was any more widespread in the Hasidic community than in other ethnic groups, but what is different, they said, is that the Hasidic community has just begun to grapple with these problems and educate its members.
Ms. Clapman, head of Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Kids, said Hasidim were aware that “we have problems that the outside world may have and the outside world is seeping in.”
Diverse community
The often overlooked diversity of Borough Park, with a Jewish population that has been estimated by local officials at 100,000 and with 250 synagogues, could in theory be a fertile field for distrust.
Although most outsiders tend to view Borough Park monolithically, seeing only men in black garb and women in long-sleeved dresses surrounded by a scrum of children, there are many important distinctions.
The Hasidim, who define themselves as such by their loyalty to particular grand rabbis and by their zeal in observance, are divided into numerous sects like the Bobov, Satmar and Belz, each originating from a different part of Eastern Europe and each with its own synagogues, yeshivas and even subtleties of dress (the Satmar hat brim is wider, the Bobov crown higher).
Moreover, a significant minority of Borough Park’s Jews are simply Orthodox, like Leiby’s parents, and do not revere a particular grand rabbi; others are Conservative, Reform or secular, a remnant of the mid-20th century when Borough Park’s Jews included people like Sandy Koufax.
There are rivalries between sects and even within sects. Yet there is a general amity that prevails, a belief that, as Ms. Schachter said, a Jew will readily help another Jew in need.
“I’m not saying that bad apples don’t exist,” she said. “You can have bad police officers, bad nurses and bad doctors. But you still trust a doctor.”
Joe Levin, a private investigator who works in the Orthodox world, said “some people in Borough Park are very naïve” because “they don’t believe Orthodox people can do bad things.”
Indeed, Motty Jay, 28, a wine consultant who had joined the search party for Leiby, said of the suspect: “This is not an Orthodox Jew that did it,” adding: “In order to do this you’ve got to be something different. Different than us.”
This article, "Killing Rattles a Jewish Community’s Long-Held Trust of Its Own," first appeared in The New York Times.
Juliet Linderman, Jed Lipinski and Liz Robbins contributed reporting
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Leiby Kletzky's parents skip burial of slain son because it was too painful, visitor says
BY Christina Boyle and Kerry Wills
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friends and family of Leiby Kletzky sit shiva Thursday in Borough Park. The boy's parents have yet to know the gruesome details of their son's murder.
They could not bear to say goodbye.
Leiby Kletzky's stricken parents did not attend his burial after a massive funeral service because it was too painful, a visitor said Thursday.
Nachman and Esther Kletzky spent a sleepless night before sitting shiva in their Borough Park home, taking a phone call from Mayor Bloomberg and mourning with prominent rabbis from Israel.
Leiby's father - who still does not know his son was dismembered - told sweet stories about the innocent child and sobbed over his loss.
Rabbi Yisroel Hager, a leader of the Viznitz sect of Hasidim, had to wait for the tears to stop so he could pray with the family.
"[He] looked at the father's face for a few minutes without being able to talk," said Chayim Levy. "The father was crying. It was very, very sad."
Nachman Kletzky told the rabbi a story about what a kind heart the 8-year-old had: When he was playing ball recently, he switched from the good team to the struggling one, because he felt bad for the underdogs.
His wife spoke with with neighborhood women, trying to keep tears at bay by chatting about school issues. Whenever anyone offered words of comfort, she began to weep again.
"I can't even imagine," one woman said of the mother's grief for the second of her six children. "It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from."
Toy store owner Jonathan Schwartz, whose son was friends with Leiby, said the Kletzkys have not expressed anger toward Levi Aron, who confessed to the murder.
"All they say is that this is something that God wanted and they have to accept it with love and peace," Schwartz said.
Leiby's grandmother said she couldn't speak at all. "It's not going to bring my grandson back," she said.
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BY Christina Boyle and Kerry Wills
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friends and family of Leiby Kletzky sit shiva Thursday in Borough Park. The boy's parents have yet to know the gruesome details of their son's murder.
They could not bear to say goodbye.
Leiby Kletzky's stricken parents did not attend his burial after a massive funeral service because it was too painful, a visitor said Thursday.
Nachman and Esther Kletzky spent a sleepless night before sitting shiva in their Borough Park home, taking a phone call from Mayor Bloomberg and mourning with prominent rabbis from Israel.
Leiby's father - who still does not know his son was dismembered - told sweet stories about the innocent child and sobbed over his loss.
Rabbi Yisroel Hager, a leader of the Viznitz sect of Hasidim, had to wait for the tears to stop so he could pray with the family.
"[He] looked at the father's face for a few minutes without being able to talk," said Chayim Levy. "The father was crying. It was very, very sad."
Nachman Kletzky told the rabbi a story about what a kind heart the 8-year-old had: When he was playing ball recently, he switched from the good team to the struggling one, because he felt bad for the underdogs.
His wife spoke with with neighborhood women, trying to keep tears at bay by chatting about school issues. Whenever anyone offered words of comfort, she began to weep again.
"I can't even imagine," one woman said of the mother's grief for the second of her six children. "It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from."
Toy store owner Jonathan Schwartz, whose son was friends with Leiby, said the Kletzkys have not expressed anger toward Levi Aron, who confessed to the murder.
"All they say is that this is something that God wanted and they have to accept it with love and peace," Schwartz said.
Leiby's grandmother said she couldn't speak at all. "It's not going to bring my grandson back," she said.
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Child killer Levi Aron never gave up his quest for love despite failed marriages
Child butcher Levi Aron was a lonely man desperately looking for love.
He married two Jewish single moms - and was then jilted by a fiancée who fit the same profile.
"We both wanted to have a nice Orthodox home," said his second wife, Debbie Kivel of Tennessee, who dumped him after a year.
Even though his marriages didn't work, he continued searching for romance.
When he was arrested for murder this week, his profile on an online dating site was active. He did duets of sappy love songs with women he'd never met on a karaoke website.
It's not clear how Aron, 35, met wife No. 1, an Israeli named Diana Diunov, who came to the U.S. in 2002 for a liver transplant with her daughter, Edita.
They married in June 2004. Seven months later, Diunov was indicted in Manhattan Federal Court for bilking diamond supply companies of $1.7 million.
Aron and Diunov split in August 2005; less than a month later, she married Boris Shvartzman, her co-conspirator in the diamond scam. She's in prison.
Aron also jumped back into the saddle quickly. He married Kivel, a Memphis mom of two, just seven months after his divorce. They met via a Jewish matchmaking site, sawyouatsinai.com, and Aron moved in with her and her young kids.
The marriage lasted less than a year - and again, Aron wasted little time looking for a new wife.
He moved to Florida, where his latest flame lived. She broke off their engagement just weeks before their 2009 wedding. Aron returned to Brooklyn to live in the attic of his parents' house.
Though described as painfully shy, he continued to woo women on the Internet, and like many online daters, he wasn't 100% truthful. On Zoosk.com, he listed himself as "never married."
His Facebook "friends" list was full of pretty women, including celebrities he likely never met. On SingSnap.com, he recorded the male parts of duets in a raspy voice and they were paired with the female parts, which were recorded separately.
"This puts chills up my spine," said a duet partner.
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Child butcher Levi Aron was a lonely man desperately looking for love.
He married two Jewish single moms - and was then jilted by a fiancée who fit the same profile.
"We both wanted to have a nice Orthodox home," said his second wife, Debbie Kivel of Tennessee, who dumped him after a year.
Even though his marriages didn't work, he continued searching for romance.
When he was arrested for murder this week, his profile on an online dating site was active. He did duets of sappy love songs with women he'd never met on a karaoke website.
It's not clear how Aron, 35, met wife No. 1, an Israeli named Diana Diunov, who came to the U.S. in 2002 for a liver transplant with her daughter, Edita.
They married in June 2004. Seven months later, Diunov was indicted in Manhattan Federal Court for bilking diamond supply companies of $1.7 million.
Aron and Diunov split in August 2005; less than a month later, she married Boris Shvartzman, her co-conspirator in the diamond scam. She's in prison.
Aron also jumped back into the saddle quickly. He married Kivel, a Memphis mom of two, just seven months after his divorce. They met via a Jewish matchmaking site, sawyouatsinai.com, and Aron moved in with her and her young kids.
The marriage lasted less than a year - and again, Aron wasted little time looking for a new wife.
He moved to Florida, where his latest flame lived. She broke off their engagement just weeks before their 2009 wedding. Aron returned to Brooklyn to live in the attic of his parents' house.
Though described as painfully shy, he continued to woo women on the Internet, and like many online daters, he wasn't 100% truthful. On Zoosk.com, he listed himself as "never married."
His Facebook "friends" list was full of pretty women, including celebrities he likely never met. On SingSnap.com, he recorded the male parts of duets in a raspy voice and they were paired with the female parts, which were recorded separately.
"This puts chills up my spine," said a duet partner.
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Indictment possible soon in Leiby Kletzky murder
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A grand jury is expected to hand down an indictment as early as Tuesday against the man accused of murdering an 8-year old boy in Brooklyn.
Meantime, crime scene investigators returned to the Kensington home of suspect Levi Aron, who is expected to face murder and kidnapping charges in the death of Leiby Kletzky.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, the latest high-profile elected official to pay a visit to the still-grieving family, promised them he would get to the bottom of the unsettling crime.
"I understand the torture that they're going through, and I wanted them to understand further that they have my personal committment that every resource in the office will be used," Hynes said.
Hynes is hoping the grand jury will make its decision soon.
"I would say that the case is 90 percent presented," he said. "And the last step is the actual testimony of the deputy medical examiner of the precise cause of death."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly paid their personal respects to the family on Monday.
They met at the home of the boy's parents in Borough Park and emerged looking deeply affected.
"I think we all should, before we go to bed, take a look at our children and recognize how lucky we are to have them, and pray this doesn't happen to us, and say a prayer for the young boy and for his family," Bloomberg said.
Kletzky's murder and its horrific nature are still resonating throughout the community.
"The heart of this community has been ripped out for the time being," Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind said. "That's how we all feel."
Aron's lawyers indicated on Monday that an insanity defense is becoming more and more of a possibility.
Aron is undergoing an mental health evaluation at Bellevue Hospital, and his lawyers say their client has difficulty answering direct questions.
"One thing he did reiterate to myself and [defense attorney] Pierre [Bazile] is that he is hearing voices," defense attorney Gerard Marrone said. "he's been hearing voices for quite some time."
According to reports and lawyers, Aron went to karaoke bars to try and block out or remove those voices from his head.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?secti ... id=8258277
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NEW YORK (WABC) -- A grand jury is expected to hand down an indictment as early as Tuesday against the man accused of murdering an 8-year old boy in Brooklyn.
Meantime, crime scene investigators returned to the Kensington home of suspect Levi Aron, who is expected to face murder and kidnapping charges in the death of Leiby Kletzky.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, the latest high-profile elected official to pay a visit to the still-grieving family, promised them he would get to the bottom of the unsettling crime.
"I understand the torture that they're going through, and I wanted them to understand further that they have my personal committment that every resource in the office will be used," Hynes said.
Hynes is hoping the grand jury will make its decision soon.
"I would say that the case is 90 percent presented," he said. "And the last step is the actual testimony of the deputy medical examiner of the precise cause of death."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly paid their personal respects to the family on Monday.
They met at the home of the boy's parents in Borough Park and emerged looking deeply affected.
"I think we all should, before we go to bed, take a look at our children and recognize how lucky we are to have them, and pray this doesn't happen to us, and say a prayer for the young boy and for his family," Bloomberg said.
Kletzky's murder and its horrific nature are still resonating throughout the community.
"The heart of this community has been ripped out for the time being," Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind said. "That's how we all feel."
Aron's lawyers indicated on Monday that an insanity defense is becoming more and more of a possibility.
Aron is undergoing an mental health evaluation at Bellevue Hospital, and his lawyers say their client has difficulty answering direct questions.
"One thing he did reiterate to myself and [defense attorney] Pierre [Bazile] is that he is hearing voices," defense attorney Gerard Marrone said. "he's been hearing voices for quite some time."
According to reports and lawyers, Aron went to karaoke bars to try and block out or remove those voices from his head.
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by resigned » Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:18 pm
Authorities: Slain boy was drugged, smothered
From Nina Golgowski, CNN
July 20, 2011
New York (CNN) -- The 8-year-old boy who was abducted and killed last week in Brooklyn died after being drugged and then smothered, the office of New York's Chief Medical Examiner announced Wednesday.
The autopsy results for Leiby Kletzky listed a cocktail of four prescription and over-the-counter drugs in the boy's system: cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant; quetipine, an antipsychotic drug; hyrocodone, a pain medication and acetaminophen, the drug found in Tylenol, according to a statement from the medical examiner's office.
Levi Aron, 35, was arraigned in a New York court July 14 on charges of murder and kidnapping in the first degree in the killing of the boy. He could be indicted as soon as Wednesday evening, according to Jerry Schmetterer, director of public information for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
Kletzky disappeared July 11 while walking home alone from his summer day camp. Police located human remains in Aron's freezer during a search of the Brooklyn neighborhood, as well as in a trash bin. Both Aron and Kletzky are members of the borough's close-knit Orthodox Jewish community, although police say it doesn't appear that they knew each other.
Aron, who was being held without bail, did not enter a plea at his arraignment last week. He was under a suicide watch at the jail and his attorneys had asked that a mental evaluation be conducted on their client.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said last week that Aron told authorities he was sorry for the trouble he has caused. Statements made by the suspect indicated that he kidnapped Kletzky and, as a neighborhood search for the boy intensified, he became panicked and killed him, Kelly said.
At the arraignment, defense attorneys Pierre Bazile and Gerard Marrone told the court that Aron has said he hears voices and hallucinates.
"He's been hearing voices for quite some time," Marrone said, adding that his client tries to silence the voices by listening to music. "He listens to it with earphones and he listens to it very loud, and that helps him quell some of his voices."
"I have sincerest concerns about the defendant's mental state and his cognitive abilities," Bazile said.
Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes had said he would ask a grand jury for the "maximum charges permitted by law" for "the vicious and callous murder and dismemberment of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky."
Kelly called the case "heartbreaking."
"Obviously in this business you see a lot of violence, but there's usually some sort of irrational twisted logic that's given to why a violent event took place," Kelly said in a news conference last week.
"Here, I mean it's just, it defies all logic and I think that's what's really so, so terribly disturbing about this case. There's absolutely no reason. There's nothing more innocent than an 8-year-old child and to be, you know, killed in this manner it's just ... heartbreaking."
On the day he disappeared, Kletzky was supposed to meet his parents after walking seven blocks from his summer day camp, but he became lost and asked the suspect for directions, Kelly said.
Surveillance video showed Aron entering a dentist's office while Kletzky waited for him across the street for seven minutes, Kelly said.
Aron claims he took Kletzky to a wedding July 11 in Monsey, New York, and then brought him back, Kelly said. Police said Aron went to the wedding, but have not been able to confirm that Kletzky actually went with him, as no one has said they saw him.
According to Kelly, police showed up at Aron's third-floor attic apartment at 2:40 a.m. July 13 and asked him about Kletzky's whereabouts. The suspect pointed them to the kitchen, where blood was visible on the freezer handle. Inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three blood-spattered carving knives, Kelly said.
Remains were found in Aron's freezer and in a trash bin more than two miles away, wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a suitcase, Kelly said.
Aron worked as a clerk at a maintenance supply company, authorities said. His only known criminal summons was for urinating in public last year.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/20/new.york.boy.slain/
From Nina Golgowski, CNN
July 20, 2011
New York (CNN) -- The 8-year-old boy who was abducted and killed last week in Brooklyn died after being drugged and then smothered, the office of New York's Chief Medical Examiner announced Wednesday.
The autopsy results for Leiby Kletzky listed a cocktail of four prescription and over-the-counter drugs in the boy's system: cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant; quetipine, an antipsychotic drug; hyrocodone, a pain medication and acetaminophen, the drug found in Tylenol, according to a statement from the medical examiner's office.
Levi Aron, 35, was arraigned in a New York court July 14 on charges of murder and kidnapping in the first degree in the killing of the boy. He could be indicted as soon as Wednesday evening, according to Jerry Schmetterer, director of public information for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
Kletzky disappeared July 11 while walking home alone from his summer day camp. Police located human remains in Aron's freezer during a search of the Brooklyn neighborhood, as well as in a trash bin. Both Aron and Kletzky are members of the borough's close-knit Orthodox Jewish community, although police say it doesn't appear that they knew each other.
Aron, who was being held without bail, did not enter a plea at his arraignment last week. He was under a suicide watch at the jail and his attorneys had asked that a mental evaluation be conducted on their client.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said last week that Aron told authorities he was sorry for the trouble he has caused. Statements made by the suspect indicated that he kidnapped Kletzky and, as a neighborhood search for the boy intensified, he became panicked and killed him, Kelly said.
At the arraignment, defense attorneys Pierre Bazile and Gerard Marrone told the court that Aron has said he hears voices and hallucinates.
"He's been hearing voices for quite some time," Marrone said, adding that his client tries to silence the voices by listening to music. "He listens to it with earphones and he listens to it very loud, and that helps him quell some of his voices."
"I have sincerest concerns about the defendant's mental state and his cognitive abilities," Bazile said.
Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes had said he would ask a grand jury for the "maximum charges permitted by law" for "the vicious and callous murder and dismemberment of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky."
Kelly called the case "heartbreaking."
"Obviously in this business you see a lot of violence, but there's usually some sort of irrational twisted logic that's given to why a violent event took place," Kelly said in a news conference last week.
"Here, I mean it's just, it defies all logic and I think that's what's really so, so terribly disturbing about this case. There's absolutely no reason. There's nothing more innocent than an 8-year-old child and to be, you know, killed in this manner it's just ... heartbreaking."
On the day he disappeared, Kletzky was supposed to meet his parents after walking seven blocks from his summer day camp, but he became lost and asked the suspect for directions, Kelly said.
Surveillance video showed Aron entering a dentist's office while Kletzky waited for him across the street for seven minutes, Kelly said.
Aron claims he took Kletzky to a wedding July 11 in Monsey, New York, and then brought him back, Kelly said. Police said Aron went to the wedding, but have not been able to confirm that Kletzky actually went with him, as no one has said they saw him.
According to Kelly, police showed up at Aron's third-floor attic apartment at 2:40 a.m. July 13 and asked him about Kletzky's whereabouts. The suspect pointed them to the kitchen, where blood was visible on the freezer handle. Inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three blood-spattered carving knives, Kelly said.
Remains were found in Aron's freezer and in a trash bin more than two miles away, wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag inside a suitcase, Kelly said.
Aron worked as a clerk at a maintenance supply company, authorities said. His only known criminal summons was for urinating in public last year.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/20/new.york.boy.slain/
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by gwen » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:57 pm
Attorney for accused butcher of Leiby Kletzky resigns; suspect Levi Aron eligible for death penalty
An attorney for the accused butcher of Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky abruptly resigned Thursday night, saying his conscience prevented him from going on.
Gerard Marrone, one of two attorneys defending Levi Aron, said he bowed out because of "the horrific way this boy was killed."
"I have three little boys," he said. "You can't look at your kids and then look at yourself in the mirror, knowing that a little boy, who's close in age to my eldest son, was murdered so brutally."
As Aron was left with one attorney, Pierre Bazile, legal experts told the Daily News the suspect is eligible for the federal death penalty because he took Leiby across state lines.
"That crime is punishable by up to life in prison or the death penalty," said former federal prosecutor Morris Fodeman.
Cops believe Aron drove the 8-year-old to an upstate wedding, stopping at a gas station on the Palisades Parkway in New Jersey.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch declined comment, but a source said her office "has no interest" in taking on Aron's prosecution. A key reason is that the suspect may be mentally incompetent to stand trial. His lawyers, who have hinted at an insanity defense, have asked for a psychological evaluation, claiming Aron has been hearing voices.
Aron, 35, was indicted for first-degree murder and is facing life behind bars without the possibility of parole if convicted in New York.
Meanwhile, Leiby's parents, Nachman and Itta Kletzky, released a statement thanking New Yorkers for their outpouring of support.
The grieving couple also asked people to honor their son with "acts of unity and loving kindness" and by lighting a candle for him on the Shabbat.
"We pray that none of you should ever have to live through what we did," the parents' statement reads.
Cops yesterday took boxes and bags from Aron's home. One bag was tagged "kids pants" and another was labeled "pillow, blue child's spoon and pink cup," but there's no indication he attacked more than one child.
"The evidence so far, including clothing items, relates to the one victim," Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said.
Leiby's family has set up a memorial website in his honor with the hope of raising $1 million for needy kids.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim ... ience.html
An attorney for the accused butcher of Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky abruptly resigned Thursday night, saying his conscience prevented him from going on.
Gerard Marrone, one of two attorneys defending Levi Aron, said he bowed out because of "the horrific way this boy was killed."
"I have three little boys," he said. "You can't look at your kids and then look at yourself in the mirror, knowing that a little boy, who's close in age to my eldest son, was murdered so brutally."
As Aron was left with one attorney, Pierre Bazile, legal experts told the Daily News the suspect is eligible for the federal death penalty because he took Leiby across state lines.
"That crime is punishable by up to life in prison or the death penalty," said former federal prosecutor Morris Fodeman.
Cops believe Aron drove the 8-year-old to an upstate wedding, stopping at a gas station on the Palisades Parkway in New Jersey.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch declined comment, but a source said her office "has no interest" in taking on Aron's prosecution. A key reason is that the suspect may be mentally incompetent to stand trial. His lawyers, who have hinted at an insanity defense, have asked for a psychological evaluation, claiming Aron has been hearing voices.
Aron, 35, was indicted for first-degree murder and is facing life behind bars without the possibility of parole if convicted in New York.
Meanwhile, Leiby's parents, Nachman and Itta Kletzky, released a statement thanking New Yorkers for their outpouring of support.
The grieving couple also asked people to honor their son with "acts of unity and loving kindness" and by lighting a candle for him on the Shabbat.
"We pray that none of you should ever have to live through what we did," the parents' statement reads.
Cops yesterday took boxes and bags from Aron's home. One bag was tagged "kids pants" and another was labeled "pillow, blue child's spoon and pink cup," but there's no indication he attacked more than one child.
"The evidence so far, including clothing items, relates to the one victim," Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said.
Leiby's family has set up a memorial website in his honor with the hope of raising $1 million for needy kids.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim ... ience.html
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by resigned » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:40 am
Leiby Kletzky only known victim of New York murder suspect Levi Aron, police say
By Casey Glynn Topics Daily Blotter .
Levi Aron is arraigned before Judge William Miller in Brooklyn criminal court, July 14, 2011, in New York.
(Credit: Pool,AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - Police say they haven't established any links between New York murder suspect Levi Aron, accused of killing and dismembering 8-year-old Hasidic boy Leiby Kletzky, and unsolved crimes in other states.
According to CBS station WCBS, police are using Aron's DNA to investigate whether he may be connected to any other cases of child abuse or murder.
Forensic DNA expert Lawrence Kobilinsky said it's obvious to him what cops are up to, reports WCBS.
"It's rather unusual for a stellar citizen to jump to the point of murdering a child and dismembering the body," Kobilinsky said. "I think the police feel that there may be other victims."
So far investigators haven't found anything more serious in Levi's criminal history than a speeding ticket and an arrest for public urination, reports Fox News.
The 35-year-old pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and kidnapping. Prosecutors say he lured Leiby Kletzky to his home Monday after the little boy got lost while walking home from an Orthodox Jewish day camp.
Video cameras captured the fateful encounter between the two on a Brooklyn street, while Leiby's mother waited anxiously just a few blocks away. Detectives later found the boy's severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in the man's freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives.
Police and prosecutors said Aron, a clerk at a hardware supply store, has confessed to suffocating the boy with a bath towel, but they continued to work on verifying his horrific and bizarre explanation for the boy's death.
Officials said the killing stands out because there's no clear motive. Aron has written a confession which ended with "I'm sorry for the hurt that I caused," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told WCBS.
"It defies all logic and I think that's what's been so terribly disturbing about this case," Kelly said. "There's absolutely no reason. There's nothing more innocent than an 8-year-old child and to be killed in this manner is just heart breaking."
Complete coverage of Leiby Kletzky on Crimesider
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162- ... 04083.html
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by Fashionista » Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:58 am
<center>Vigil for Leiby Kletzky held in Brooklyn</center>
July 25, 2011
On July 24, 2011, a vigil was held in Brooklyn, New York for slain 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Leiby was abducted on July 11, 2011 while walking home from a day camp in the Borough Park area. It was the first time he attempted the journey alone; his abduction and death left his local community as well as the nation shocked. According to latest reports by the New York City medical examiner, the boy was given a prescription drug cocktail before he was smothered to death by Levi Aron, 35. Aron is accused of dismembering Leiby; his body was discovered in two separate locations. More than 200 people attended the vigil in honor of Leiby and to show their support for his family during their time of grief and mourning.
New York News has made a video report of the candlelight vigil available to the public.
The Kletzky family, Hasidic Jews, released a statement through the website, Chabad.org where they have offered their gratitude for those who helped search for Leiby and continue to seek justice for this senseless act of violence.
The statement is titled “Together we Mourn, Together we Grow” and was released by Rabbi Nachman and Itta Kletzky, Leiby’s parents. The statement reads in part, “We thank G‑d for the nearly nine beautiful years that He entrusted us with Leiby’s pure soul. We are certain that Leiby is now looking down from heaven and blessing us all.
“We would like to once again thank all our friends and neighbors; all the selfless volunteers from near and far; local, city, state, and federal agencies; and all our fellow New Yorkers and beyond who assisted us physically, emotionally, and spiritually—as well as all of G‑d’s children around the world who held our dear Leiby in their thoughts and prayers.”
The family has also established a memorial fund in conjunction with Rabbi Binyamin Eisenberger that will be used to help those in dire need. Those who would like to contribute may visit the website: Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund
http://www.examiner.com/amber-alerts-in ... d-brooklyn
July 25, 2011
On July 24, 2011, a vigil was held in Brooklyn, New York for slain 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Leiby was abducted on July 11, 2011 while walking home from a day camp in the Borough Park area. It was the first time he attempted the journey alone; his abduction and death left his local community as well as the nation shocked. According to latest reports by the New York City medical examiner, the boy was given a prescription drug cocktail before he was smothered to death by Levi Aron, 35. Aron is accused of dismembering Leiby; his body was discovered in two separate locations. More than 200 people attended the vigil in honor of Leiby and to show their support for his family during their time of grief and mourning.
New York News has made a video report of the candlelight vigil available to the public.
The Kletzky family, Hasidic Jews, released a statement through the website, Chabad.org where they have offered their gratitude for those who helped search for Leiby and continue to seek justice for this senseless act of violence.
The statement is titled “Together we Mourn, Together we Grow” and was released by Rabbi Nachman and Itta Kletzky, Leiby’s parents. The statement reads in part, “We thank G‑d for the nearly nine beautiful years that He entrusted us with Leiby’s pure soul. We are certain that Leiby is now looking down from heaven and blessing us all.
“We would like to once again thank all our friends and neighbors; all the selfless volunteers from near and far; local, city, state, and federal agencies; and all our fellow New Yorkers and beyond who assisted us physically, emotionally, and spiritually—as well as all of G‑d’s children around the world who held our dear Leiby in their thoughts and prayers.”
The family has also established a memorial fund in conjunction with Rabbi Binyamin Eisenberger that will be used to help those in dire need. Those who would like to contribute may visit the website: Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund
http://www.examiner.com/amber-alerts-in ... d-brooklyn
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by gwen » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:43 am
Brooklyn Boy's Accused Killer Fit To Stand Trial; Pleads Not Guilty
The man accused of killing and dismembering an eight-year-old Brooklyn boy last month entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment this morning, where lawyers also confirmed he will stand trial.
Levi Aron, 35, appeared briefly in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
He's charged with kidnapping and murdering Leiby Kletzky.
Prosecutors say the boy asked him for directions after getting lost while walking home from camp on July 11th in Borough Park.
Defense lawyers say Aron has been found competent of standing trial after undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
His attorneys say he told them he hears voices.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind was among those present for today's arraignment.
He is urging members of the community to join him in support of the Kletzky family.
http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_sto ... not-guilty
The man accused of killing and dismembering an eight-year-old Brooklyn boy last month entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment this morning, where lawyers also confirmed he will stand trial.
Levi Aron, 35, appeared briefly in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
He's charged with kidnapping and murdering Leiby Kletzky.
Prosecutors say the boy asked him for directions after getting lost while walking home from camp on July 11th in Borough Park.
Defense lawyers say Aron has been found competent of standing trial after undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
His attorneys say he told them he hears voices.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind was among those present for today's arraignment.
He is urging members of the community to join him in support of the Kletzky family.
http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_sto ... not-guilty
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by gwen » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:33 pm
Accused Brooklyn child killer deemed fit to stand trial, pleads not guilty to murder charge
The remorseless sicko who allegedly kidnapped and later killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky was deemed fit to stand trial after pleading not guilty during his arraignment today on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges.
Shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Levi Aron said nothing during his court appearance in Brooklyn, where he was charged with murdering Leiby after the lost little boy asked for directions, then got into his car.
But he was more talkative after his arrest.
"I’m famous," the suspected killer bragged to cops who took him in, court records show.
Once in the lockup, Aron sickeningly begged for a meal from McDonalds but had to settle for Chinese food instead.
After his disappearance, parts of Leiby’s body were later found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped a trash bin.
The boy’s feet were found in Aron’s freezer – and Aron told cops he forgot about them when he was stuffing the rest of the boy’s remains into the suitcase, the records show.
After the hearing, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes vowed there would be no plea bargain in the case and that Aron would stand trial for Leiby’s murder.
"Now that Mr. Aron has been found fit to proceed we will move forward expeditiously to bring his case to trial. I want to reaffirm that this case will go to trial and that there are absolutely no circumstances which would lead me to accept a plea bargain," Hynes said.
Records also show that cops grilled the sicko about Patrick Alford, another missing boy, but Aron claimed he had nothing to do with his disappearance.
Aron’s lawyer Pierre Bazille said after the hearing that he may still pursue an insanity defense.
"We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder," he said.
Bazille said Aron is getting "treatment" but would not elaborate.
The Brooklyn DA’s office has said that the boy was given a sickening concoction of drugs, then smothered and dismembered on July 12.
Aron will continue to spend time at Bellevue Hospital as he awaits trial. He is slated to undergo more psychological tests.
Cops said a set of bloody carving knives were recovered from his kitchen.
Before Aron’s arraignment, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) told the reporters that the "idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable" to the community.
"He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed," he said.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/broo ... dSZlyONnOO
The remorseless sicko who allegedly kidnapped and later killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky was deemed fit to stand trial after pleading not guilty during his arraignment today on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges.
Shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Levi Aron said nothing during his court appearance in Brooklyn, where he was charged with murdering Leiby after the lost little boy asked for directions, then got into his car.
But he was more talkative after his arrest.
"I’m famous," the suspected killer bragged to cops who took him in, court records show.
Once in the lockup, Aron sickeningly begged for a meal from McDonalds but had to settle for Chinese food instead.
After his disappearance, parts of Leiby’s body were later found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped a trash bin.
The boy’s feet were found in Aron’s freezer – and Aron told cops he forgot about them when he was stuffing the rest of the boy’s remains into the suitcase, the records show.
After the hearing, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes vowed there would be no plea bargain in the case and that Aron would stand trial for Leiby’s murder.
"Now that Mr. Aron has been found fit to proceed we will move forward expeditiously to bring his case to trial. I want to reaffirm that this case will go to trial and that there are absolutely no circumstances which would lead me to accept a plea bargain," Hynes said.
Records also show that cops grilled the sicko about Patrick Alford, another missing boy, but Aron claimed he had nothing to do with his disappearance.
Aron’s lawyer Pierre Bazille said after the hearing that he may still pursue an insanity defense.
"We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder," he said.
Bazille said Aron is getting "treatment" but would not elaborate.
The Brooklyn DA’s office has said that the boy was given a sickening concoction of drugs, then smothered and dismembered on July 12.
Aron will continue to spend time at Bellevue Hospital as he awaits trial. He is slated to undergo more psychological tests.
Cops said a set of bloody carving knives were recovered from his kitchen.
Before Aron’s arraignment, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) told the reporters that the "idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable" to the community.
"He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed," he said.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/broo ... dSZlyONnOO
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