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[h1][h1]Missing Boy’s Dismembered Body Found; Suspect Says He Panicked[/h1]By AL BAKER, LIZ ROBBINS and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Updated, 11:55 a.m. | The search for a missing 8-year-old Brooklyn boy ended early on Wednesday when investigators discovered what they believed to be his dismembered remains in a third-floor attic refrigerator of a Brooklyn man and in a trash bin on a street, the police said. The man, who made incriminating statements, was being questioned and was expected to be charged, the police said.
NYPD, via Associated PressLeiby Kletzky
The grim discovery capped two days of intense searching for the boy, Leiby Kletzky, who had disappeared while on what was supposed to be a short walk between a Borough Park school and a meeting place with his parents on Monday. Police detectives searched around his neighborhood and used helicopters to find the boy, who was part of the Hasidic Jewish community. They recovered video clearly showing the boy alive.
In the end, the inquiry led to 466 East Second Street, in Kensington, Brooklyn, the home of the suspect, Levi Aron, 35, who was taken into custody at 2:40 a.m., said Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.
Mr. Kelly said that Mr. Aron had told investigators that he panicked and killed the boy once he realized the extent to which the Hasidic community and the police had mobilized to find the child. The commissioner said he did not yet know if the child had been sexually abused.
“He panicked, and that is why he killed the boy,
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Updated, 11:55 a.m. | The search for a missing 8-year-old Brooklyn boy ended early on Wednesday when investigators discovered what they believed to be his dismembered remains in a third-floor attic refrigerator of a Brooklyn man and in a trash bin on a street, the police said. The man, who made incriminating statements, was being questioned and was expected to be charged, the police said.
The grim discovery capped two days of intense searching for the boy, Leiby Kletzky, who had disappeared while on what was supposed to be a short walk between a Borough Park school and a meeting place with his parents on Monday. Police detectives searched around his neighborhood and used helicopters to find the boy, who was part of the Hasidic Jewish community. They recovered video clearly showing the boy alive.
In the end, the inquiry led to 466 East Second Street, in Kensington, Brooklyn, the home of the suspect, Levi Aron, 35, who was taken into custody at 2:40 a.m., said Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.
Mr. Kelly said that Mr. Aron had told investigators that he panicked and killed the boy once he realized the extent to which the Hasidic community and the police had mobilized to find the child. The commissioner said he did not yet know if the child had been sexually abused.
“He panicked, and that is why he killed the boy,
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