Leiby Kletzy : Lost NYC boy asked stranger for directions, was then killed and dismembered

New York police say 8-year-old Leiby Kletzy, who got lost while walking to meet his parents from day camp, was killed and dismembered by a stranger after asking for directions.

What happened to Leiby Kletzy?

Kletzy went missing on Monday, after he did not show up to meet his mother in one of the safest parts of the city, an Orthodox Jewish community neighborhood Borough Park in New York.

Leiby’s parents, agreed to let their son walk by himself, giving him precise directions to walk the eight blocks to meet his parents after his summer day camp was over. The two day search ended in a gruesome discovery of his body parts in a home of a man he did not know.

Suspect

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, 35-year-old, Levi Aron, was arrested early Wednesday morning as a suspect after remains were found in the man’s refrigerator.

Kelly said Aron, made statements implicating himself in the disappearance and murder of Leiby Kletzy.

According the NY Daily News, when detectives arrived at his Aron’s home, they asked him where the boy was and he nodded toward the kitchen.

Detectives saw blood on the freezer door and opened it to find bloody kitchen knives, a cutting board, and feet inside. Additional body parts were found in a red suitcase that had be tossed in the trash in another Brooklyn neighborhood.

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A break in the case came when investigators were able to track Aron with the help of surveillance cameras that shows the lost boy approaching him. Surveillance cameras show the boy wearing his backpack walking down the street, while a man walked nearby. Investigator’s noticed the man going into a nearby dentist office where police were able to track down the man using records from the office. When they went to the home, they made the gruesome discovery.