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Indictment Against Levi Aron Imminent In Leiby Kletzky Murder Case

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Levi Aron (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool); Leiby Kletzky (handout)

Levi Aron (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool); Leiby Kletzky (handout)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Key clues from the Medical Examiner’s report are paving the way for murder charges against Levi Aron following days of collecting and cataloguing piece of evidence, CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey reported.

It has been a week since the dismembered body of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky was found.  Tuesday evening, the ME turned over his report to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office.  An indictment in the case is expected to come as soon as Wednesday.

Earlier Tuesday, Hynes paid his respects to Kletzky’s family at their Borough Park home.

PHOTOS: Death Of 8-Year-Old Leiby Kletzky | A Community In Mourning

CBS 2 learned that information from the Medical Examiner included clinical information about the cause of the little boy’s death and the ME’s opinion of when that murder may have occurred.

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Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes Speaks With Pablo Guzman. (credit: CBS 2)

Hynes has promised to bring justice to Kletzky’s memory and told the boy’s grieving parents and sister that he is going to work his hardest to make sure the case against Leiby’s accused killer is tight and thorough.

WCBS 880′s Paul Murnane In Kensington, Brooklyn


“There will be several steps in this case before he goes to trial,” Hynes said. “We are gathering, with the police, every piece of forensic evidence necessary to support our case.”

1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reports: A Very Careful Process


Aron is being held in a psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital under tight security. His attorneys met with him for about two and a half hours and they said their focus is on their client’s mental state.  They are also seemingly already laying the groundwork for an insanity defense.

“All we can say at this time without going into specifics upon talking to him for quite some time is that there’s a severe diminished capacity,” said Gerard Marrone, one of Aron’s defense attorneys.

Marrone said his client still hears voices, and is trying to use loud music to drown them out.

At Aron’s house in Kensington, Brooklyn where the brutal murder and butchering allegedly occurred, investigators have been removing evidence, including a cat that was brought out on Tuesday afternoon.

cat removed from arons home Indictment Against Levi Aron Imminent In Leiby Kletzky Murder Case

Police remove cat from home of Levi Aron. (credit: CBS 2)

Asked why crime scene detectives were still at Aron’s home, Hynes said “this is a a very, very careful process.”

“If you look at cases that have happened recently, if these kind of cases are rushed, mistakes are made,” Hynes said.

Police are investigating whether Aron may be connected to any other cases of child abuse, or worse, by checking his DNA against evidence gathered at crime scenes around the country.

At the home of Leiby’s family in Borough Park, visitors from around the region and nation are coming to pay their respects.

A single, heartbroken mourner wept quietly outside the Kletzky home Tuesday for the murdered little boy and his mother’s unimaginable loss.

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Dapne Zerbovley mourns outside the Kletzky home (credit: CBS 2)

‘This should have never been. She should have never been stripped of her son,” Dapne Zerbovley, of Great Neck, told CBS 2′s Scott Rapoport.

Zerbovley said that she doesn’t know the Kletzky family, but knew she had to come.  She said she wished that God would give the boy’s mother the “strength to survive this horrifying, horrifying ordeal.”

Joe Gross has known the victim’s father, Nachman, since their boyhood and says the dad’s pain is immeasurable.

“It’s like a knife in the heart,” Gross said. “Very, very, very emotional about it. Distraught.”

How credible does an insanity defense sound to you? Sound off in our comments section below…

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  • IgnoranteElephante

    Rodin’s problem is he reads these grandiose passages from history books or more likely they are read to him or are audio books, but he does not comprehend the meaning of them. It would be nice if he could respond to mine or anyone else’s questions, but he can’t because his small brain can’t comprehend what he is actually writing.

    Yes, Rodin, we have been down this road before when you were going on your anti cop diatribe, and thought for sure the cops would be found guilty of raping that girl, despite the lack of evidence. There, as here, I was right. Thus, I comprehend what you right and respond to all of your questions, but what I don’t get is the substance you intend to convey. You point out that the Dutch in the Golden Age banned outward expression of religion and had a near utopian society. What you omit is the causal connection between the religion ban and the utopia. Since we know from past dealings you are a connoisseur Latin, look up the following “Post hoc; ergo propter hoc.”

    One last thing, your rabid anti religious and anti God fanaticism is more fervent than most religious zealots. What separates your deeply seeded beliefs from theirs? In other words, you are practicing an anti religion, religion. If you are allowed to continually preach your distain for faith and God, should not everyone else be allowed to show their support for them. The converse also holds true. If outward religious expression is banned, like in the Golden Ages Dutch, then, so too, should your anti religious and anti God beliefs.

    • Rodin

      I have no problem. YOUR problem is people like me doubt, question, THINK, while you follow.

      You stop peddling your gods, you’ll never hear from the likes of me again.

      • IgnoranteElephante

        You are incapable of holding a thought. That is why you can’t show me a connection between lack of religion and utopia. You’re not a follower? You just proposed to FOLLOW the Golden Age Dutch! You like zealotry all right, as long as it is your own.

        I hope I will never hear from you again, but I won’t hold my breath.

      • Rodin

        You’re incapable of surpassing and escaping the bounds of dogma. You’re right not to hold your breath. You wish you could silence inquiry! But why give ignorance a pass? YOU might be cattle but we are not sheep and, therefore, need no shepherd.

        “People seem to be offended by facts, or what used to be called truth.”
        - RANCIS BACON
        (1909 – 1992)
        Irish born British artist

        ‘nough said!

    • IgnoranteElephante

      You’re the one who said you were leaving, not me. I like you here. There’s always someone to make a fool of. It is like you’re a twelve year old with a encyclopedia of quotes. You say things from it but have no idea what any of it means.

      Francis, not Rancis, Bacon used the imagery of the crucifix heavily in his writings. I doubt He was also known to fancy little boys. This is the second time that you have brought up people are cultures that were known pedophiles. Whatever you are trying to tell us, please stop. Perhaps, you meant to quote John Adams who said “Facts are stubborn things . . .” at eh Boston Massacre trials in 1770.

      • Rodin

        Sorry about the typo. Spellcheck didn’t catch it. It was ‘cut and paste’ one letter short.

        I may be a “twelve year old with aN encyclopedia of quotes” but a very well-read 66-year-old 12-year-old and the ‘encyclopedia’ is my own, what I’ve gleaned over the years, counselor,
        http://www.from-the-doghouse.com/CANINE_QUOTES/Anasagasti/Anasagasti_List.html#ALPHA

        I never said I was leaving. Wishful thinking? I’m having a blast! What I said is “You stop peddling your gods, you’ll never hear from the likes of me again.” READ AGAIN. Stop proselytizing every chance you get and I will do in kind.

      • Rodin

        Point of information: Francis Bacon the artist, had you bothered to check the dates. And he wasn’t into “little boys” but just about everything and anything else.

        “I believe in nothing. You are born, you die and that’s it.” ~ FRANCIS BACON (the same one I quoted before)

        He used the imagery of the crucifixion too,
        http://artinvestment.ru/en/news/exhibitions/20080907_bacon_in_the_tate_gallery.html

      • Rodin

        Re: John Adams:

        “The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.”

        “I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.”

        “Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”
        ~ JOHN ADAMS

        Check out Adams, listed alphabetically.
        http://www.from-the-doghouse.com/CANINE_QUOTES/Anasagasti/Anasagasti_List.html#A
        Then check Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln … and keep going.

  • Zaide

    I think that saying anything even remotely anti-Semetic or offensive to us should be a crime. As the chosen people, we do not have to tolerate this questioning from outsiders and mongrols. We run the country and especially the city. We should never be questioned, let alone insulted. This is a complete Holocaust.

    I proposed “Lieby’s Law” include a provision making it a crime for any non Jew to question, insult, or say somethiing anti-Semmitic to a Jew.

    • Bubbys

      Zaide,
      There is actually a law about hate crimes, so if you were saying these kinds of things in public, directly to a Jew, it would be considered a crime, and if I would say it about anyone different from me, it would be the same.

      • IgnoranteElephante

        Well, Bubbys, looks like the pot called the kettle black. Ignorant you are. One of the most cherished rights in this country is the freedom of speech. Thus, you can say anti Semitic things directly to a Jew. As long as you refrain from threatening anyone, the Constitution protects speech, no matter how repulsive you may find its content. In fact, the reason the first amendment is there is to protect speech people find offensive. Speech that everybody likes does not need protection because no one is looking to surpress it.

        You should stop studying religion, and begin studying civics. Afterall, this is America.

      • Rodin

        @ Bubbys
        “… if you were saying these kinds of things in public, directly to a Jew, it would be considered a crime.”

        Wrong! Speech, even hateful speech is no crime.

        The New York Times
        ‘Even Hurtful Speech’
        Published: March 2, 2011
        http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/opinion/03thu2.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Hateful%20speech%20editorial&st=cse

        @ Zaide

        BTW, it’s mongr-E-ls, not mongr-O-ls.

    • Rodin

      ” As the chosen people ….” Hence the problem.

  • IgnoranteElephante

    I agree with Bubby’s comment about us being unfairly persecuted because we are perceived as powerful.

    We are not, and are strapped for cash just like other New Yorkers. I own six nursing homes and 4 office buildings in Manhattan. When I am not tending to my equitable holdings, I cut and sell diamonds on the side. After the staff of my buildings and nursing homes are paid, and overhead and lawsuits are taken into account, I barely take in 3.5 million a year. Now, with 16 children, six of whom are in Yeshiva, and 5 of whom are in medical school, I can barely ends meet.

    This year we had to scale back on trips to Israel. Now we only go three times a year, not four. My wife’s designer dress budget was cut in half, and I told her she can only buy three $6000 dollar wigs this year, and not 11. With religious prohibitions requiring her to wear longer skirts and long sleeves, she has to buy two dresses that are combined into one dress that is religiously acceptable. I worry that with the price of Matzos going up, I might not even be able to have lavish Sabbath dinners.

    My wife, who is the director of an obstetrics department at a local hospital recently had to take on a second job as board of director of a Fortune 500 company.

    It certainly is not easy.

    • Bubbys

      ignorant, you certainly fit your name. I will not even bother to reply to that sarcastic comment which appears to be heavily influenced by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

      • IgnoranteElephante

        Protocols? What Protocols? Is there some Jewish plan to take over the world that we should know about?

        How dare you tell Zaide that it is illegal to be anti Semitic. Don’t you take credit, as a Jew, for being at the forefront of civil rights and liberties, and you go counsel someone that certain non threatening speech is illegal?

    • Bubbys

      Ignorante,
      Unlike you, I have one job. I teach in the NYC public school system, and I teach children of all races. To me they are children, period, and I treat them as I would want my own to be treated. Teachers do not get paid much. My husband is a teacher and has two additional jobs besides. Obviously we are not eligible for gov’t entitlements, and we do struggle to make ends meet, just like the average “middle class” person, in addition to having to pay tuition, which is of course our choice, but benefits the children who attend my local public school. My real estate taxes go to pay for their education. I am happy to do it.
      My friends are mostly just like me. Are there people who abuse the system? Sure there are. But I assure you, people like you would find nasty and bigoted things to say even if everyone in my community was perfect. Which is why I will not even bother responding any more.

      • IgnoranteElephante

        I have a job. I am a lawyer. I never accused you of bilking the system, just of claiming poverty while you are sitting on mountains of gold. Please do not teach your children about hate crimes because you are wrong. In order for there to be a hate crime, there needs to be a crime. Pure, non threatening speech is not illegal.

        When you talk about the rich Jewish people that donate to charity, be honest with your fellow posters.

        They donate to Jewish causes and to send Jewish kids to Israel. They don’t donate to any non Jewish chariities. Let’s face the facts here. Anyone says anything you don’t like and right away, they are an anti Semite, jealous, or ignorant. These are old and ineffective.

  • Bubbys

    I am horrified by the outright anti semitic comments so prevalent on this page.
    On a different note, I am absolutely certain that NO parent in the city would be charged for child neglect because they allowed a child to walk home alone from school. Many non-Jewish parents do the same, though personally, I would have my child walk with a friend or two, and educate him about safety.
    Secondly, I am aware of plenty of Hasidic parents who were charged or questioned re: child abuse or neglect when they took their children to the e/r to have an injury treated, or if they had a 12 year old babysit their children )14 is the legal age. Jews are not immune to the legal system. Yes, their is a problem with many Chasidic Jews being wary of reporting to police. However, a large proportion of parents and people in the community have no compunction about calling the police. When you paint a community with a broad brush you are being bigoted and racist.
    If this community gets a good NYPD response, is because we are exceptionally organized and we are aggressive in trying to get resources for our community. There is nothing wrong with that. We are lucky to have dedicated leaders who work on that, and political and law enforcement people who respond.
    It would behoove any community to do the same

    • Bubbys

      As for comments about Jews using money to get what they want. That is a classic anti semitic comment. I can assure you that most Chassidic people struggle to make ends meet, and have greater expenses because of their religious beliefs. They have to pay tuition for day schools, kosher food is more expensive, large families mean more money. There is a very strong commitment to charity in our community, and the rich people in our community give a tremendous amount of charity every day, to individuals and organizations, and I know it is usually charity that they cannot deduct from their taxes, because it is given in cash to private people. And our real estate taxes go to pay for your child’s public school education, while we pay for our children’s education out of our own pockets.

      • saltine

        You seem to be completely forgetting the fact that every Hassidic family gets the highest amount possible for Food Stamps, Section 8 and Medicaid. Funny how the very same rabbi signs their paychecks, is their landlord and signs their birth certificates. funny how they all make the EXACT amount needed to get the MAXIMUM amount of FOOD STAMPS AND WELFARE. Yeah! The jig is up. We all know what they do. We all know now how they send “reps” to Food Stamp offices because the thousands of families are just too damn busy to come in themselves. they don’t wish to “mingle” with the poor black people who have to give them these illegally gotten funds. We all know how they send half their kids to Israel and conveniently ALWAYS forget to take them off the FOOD STAMP rolls. We all know! Nothing but generations of parasites. So much inbreeding. so much raping of boys and little girls. This family sent this kid to “pay” this guy for services. With what? His body?! Probably!

      • IgnoranteElephante

        You left out that the community’s rich only give to Jewish charities. For a group that touts itself as being on the forefront of civil rights, arm in arm with labor, there is sure a lot of exclusion.

        Exclusive (and illegal) police force.
        Exclusive ambulance service.
        Exclusive lock smith.
        Exclusive industries where non Jews are only allowed to do the menial labor that Jews don’t want to do.
        Exclusive community.
        Exclusive court system.
        Exclusive transportation system.
        Forbidding intermarriage.
        Forbidding social integration.
        Forbidding outside news media.

    • moe

      I must respectfully disagree with your contention that there are anti-semitic comments on this board. There may be comments based on a person’s observations or perceptions but that does not make them anti-semitic.

      Let’s face it. There are people within the Jewish community who feel that because they are Jewish, they are special and above everybody else who is not Jewish. This is proven by the quotes from within the community that news organizations have recorded. One might argue that racism and elitism can be found within the Jewish community and not the other way around.

      Just saying.

      • Bubbys

        Moe, I think racism and bigotry is found in all communities. This does not excuse anyone when they engage in it.
        The difference between your comment and other comments here is this “there are people within the Jewish community who do so and so”. You did not say “they all” or “Hasidic Jews as a whole”. It is valid to say that there are many Hasidic people who do things that are wrong, and I myself am critical of those people. The words “they all” are usually a sign that a comment is coming from a bigoted person.

  • WHO COULD THEY BE?

    Ignorante, and who may I ask are you referring to?

  • Barre Flynn

    This man is profoundly evil not mental. However, our society and judicial system has no regard for profound evil so they call him insane because people just are not evil. So my best bet is that he will sit in a nut house for the rest of his life and the evil that he is and did will be disregarded or misrepresented.

  • A mom

    Leiby is little boy like your son or my son, Leiby’s family is like any other hardworking family like yours or mine…That’s why Leiby’s tragic end feels like it happened in my family!
    I am not Jewish but it does not matter! What does matter to me is how scared the little boy must have been in his last 2 days on this earth, how he must have thought about all things he loved and what a tragic end came to this little, innocent life…….Children are considered a form of God in my religion and I cry that God did not protect his own little angel and he had to endure so much at such an age! I feel for Leiby’s mother, who may never forgive herself for letting him walk alone……This grief goes beyond religion, race, geography and language…….The only thing I want to do is pray to my Gods that Leiby is in heaven and will never have to come back to this lowly human life again!

    • Bubbys

      Thank you, A Mom. The most despicable thing about many comments on this page, is that people are jumping on this very human tragedy, that can happen to anyone, to air their biases and bigotry in re: the Chassidic community and Jews in general. Shame on you who do that.

  • kristinalee

    are you deaf or blind or plain stupid? the reports said they were a simple family living in a 2 modest bedroom apartment with 5 children, and the reports said they were an average family in the neighborhood.

  • IE Hata

    Yes. When are you going to S T F U ?

    • WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE

      ie hata …. WHY SHOULD HE STFU? Everyone has freedom of speech even you. The last time I check this was or is America NOT Israel or any other country..

  • Ima Toonces

    scarier than the murder, He met his wife on j-date! Jews will have to switch to ashley madison or e-harmony!

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