Leiby Kletzky,8, NYC missing

[Lady Cop]

very frightening. :(

Anguished family members and hundreds of volunteers have launched a massive search for a missing Hasidic boy who vanished on his way home from a Brooklyn day camp on Monday.

Leiby Kletzky, 8, was last spotted leaving the Boyan Day Camp on 44^th Street near 12^th Avenue at 4:50 p.m., police said.

He was supposed to meet his mother on 13^th Avenue and 56^th Street but mysteriously failed to show up.

“Volunteers have been out there all night searching backyards, front yards, anywhere where a child could possibly be” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn).

Police are searching for Leibby Kletzky, 8, after he didn't return home after leaving a day camp Monday afternoon.

Buses loaded with volunteers have come from New Jersey to aid in the search.

Hikind's office is offering a $5,000 reward, while the boy's family and friends have added another $20,000, for any information on his whereabouts.

“We’re hoping for a good outcome but this is becoming very scary,” Hikinds said.

Kletzky, the oldest of five kids, was last seen wearing a blue shirt with green and white stripes, blue pants and black sneakers.

Police also ask anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.



http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/Gene...NG%5D.html

[Lady Cop]

The following report is from WCBSTV:

Dozens of Borough Park residents spent the night searching for 9-year-old Leibby Kletzky. The boy has been missing for over 12 hours. Leibby was supposed to meet his mother at 5 p.m. Monday after leaving day camp in Brooklyn, but never showed up. Those with the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol said they’ve seen surveillance video that shows the little boy leaving the camp, but there was no sign of him otherwise.

Almost immediately people in the community came out to search, continuing through the overnight hours.

It’s unclear if Leibby’s disappearance is suspicious, but residents said they’re not taking any chances.

“Everywhere, up and down the neighborhood, every single block, every park, and so have hundreds of others,” one resident told Thorne.


Volunteers have scoured the neighborhood since, but the boy remains missing.

"Right now, as we speak, (police) dogs are tracking the boy's scent," said Jacob Daskel, coordinator of Borough Park Shomrim neighborhood patrol. "We are trying to map out a map detailing where he has been."

Business leaders had raised a $20,000 reward for information leading to the boy's safe return.

Chaim Deutsch, founder of Flatbush Shomrim Patrol put in another $10,000 and Assemblyman Dov Hikind chipped in $5,000 - for a total of $35,000.

"This is every parent's and every community's worst nightmare," Hikind said. "Anyone with credible information of Leibby's whereabouts should immediately contact the authorities."

The boys parents held vigil in the family's home on 15^th Ave. Leibby is the second youngest of their five children, neighbors said,.

"Leibby is a carbon copy of his dad. He's a very good kid, a great kid. He's an angel. He has no rebellious streak to him," said family fried Schmuel Eckstein.

Daskel said those who knew the boy could not imagine he would have wandered off on his own.

"The boy's teachers told us he is very obedient. Very quiet. If someone told him to get in a car. He would listen. We hope and pray that someone hasn't done that," Daskel said.

[Lady Cop]

big worry for this boy, reward is up to $50,000.

A reward of $50,000 has been offered to anyone with information leading to the boy’s whereabouts.

[WolfHouse]

How was the child to get from 44^th St to 56^th Street? That is
a hike for a 9 year old and most kids walk in groups. I know
of no one who allows a child that age to walk alone. This is
very very upsetting.

Here is an updated article about the investigation.
http://privateinvesigations.blogspot.com/

[Lady Cop]

Wall St. Journal

(with their errors)

A massive search effort is underway for a 9-year-old boy who went missing after leaving his summer camp in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood on Monday afternoon.

Leiby Kletzky was last seen leaving the yeshiva where Nechmod Camp is held, located at 1205 44^th Street in Brooklyn just before 5 p.m. Monday, police said.

Bob Moskovitz, a member of the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol, said people in the community have been searching for the 4-foot tall, 50-pound boy since around 8 p.m. Monday evening. A Shomrim command center with food and water has been set up on 15^th Avenue and 57^th Street.

Moskovitz estimated that anywhere between 1,000 and 2,000 volunteers have joined the search so far. To coordinate search efforts, the neighborhood safety patrol has been handing out grid cards that assign each volunteer a two-block area to search, he said.

“They haven’t stopped for one minute,” Moskovitz said of the response from volunteers. “I cannot hand out the grids fast enough.”

New York Police Department officers using helicopters, horses and search dogs have also been canvassing the area, so far without success.

Moskovitz said the searchers have covered a 10-square-foot area from Borough Park into Flatbush twice since Monday night. “But unfortunately we’ve hit a brick wall,” he said Tuesday afternoon.

The searchers have looked in streets, alleyways and stores, but Moskovitz said they have not yet entered homes. According to the boy’s family, Leiby doesn’t have a history of being a runaway and is in good physical and mental condition, Moskovitz said.

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind said that pledges from local residents and businesses had increased the initial $5,000 reward for information about the boy’s whereabouts to $100,000.

Shomrim officials are also handing out cards with information about Leiby, including what he was last wearing: a blue shirt with green and white stripes, blue pants, black belt, black socks and sneakers and a blue backpack with a “Nechmod Camp” logo.

Pearl Tyrnauer, a friend of the boy’s family, said that Leiby is a “very friendly boy.” He described Leiby’s mother as an over-protective parent who would assign one of her older daughters to accompany the boy if he wanted to go the park to play.

Tyrnauer said that her husband spoke with Leiby’s parents, who said their son had walked home from camp with another student on Monday. The student’s home is about a block away from Leiby’s, and that’s where the two children parted ways.

[Lady Cop]

Yeshiva World News

5:05PM EST (Tuesday) Highly credible sources tell YWN that 9-year-old Leiby Kletzky has been spotted on CCTV footage walking on 44^th Street in the area of 14^th Avenue, after 5:00PM on Monday evening. We are also being told that there may be additional footage with Leiby in it. NYPD Detectives are in possession of the footage.

Based on this latest development, Shomrim Coordinators have decided to leave the Mobile Command Center at the current location of 15^th Avenue and 57^th Street.

Additionally, there are many false rumors going around. They are nothing more than that: False rumors.
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YWN was the first to report this incident Monday night, and we will continue to bring you the most accurate information possible.

Hundreds and hundreds of volunteers are arriving from the Catskills, Lakewood, Monsey and other areas to assist in the search.

[Middle Finger]

I hope there is no foul play here. I am already maxed out on feeling sickened about the misfortunes of children.

[Lady Cop]

well i'm glad you stopped in, it's not really your neighborhood, but you never know what you might see.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ianYeVy2...r_embedded

[Lady Cop]

very good news video here.
more video of child.
amazing outpouring from community.

link:
http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stor...ooklyn-boy

[Lady Cop]

rumor on twitter boy was found dead, but it's unsubstantiated at this time. 0530. i hope it's false. but this sheltered child certainly did not run away. :(






A 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home alone from camp may have driven off with a man he met on the street, police said Tuesday night.

A massive search is underway for Leiby Kletzky, who had begged his parents to let him walk home alone from camp for the first time. His parents agreed to meet him halfway between his Borough Park school and the family's home on Monday afternoon.

But he never showed up - and now cops think his disappearance may be linked to a man he was seen following on the street.

The Orthodox Jewish boy was filmed by a store surveillance camera standing alone about 5:30 p.m. at the corner where 45^th St., 18^th Ave. and Dahill Road intersect, police said. At that point, he was already far off course from a seven-block walk to meet his parents.

The video shows a bearded man turn the corner and walk down Dahill Road with the boy walking behind him. The man then gets into a gold-colored sedan and drives off - but the video does not show the passenger side of the car.

Leiby is not seen getting into the car or driving away with the man.

"We have not ruled out that the boy got into that same vehicle," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the department's top spokesman.

Police are asking the public for help in identifying the man, who Browne described as white and wearing a white shirt and dark pants. The frightening revelation capped more than 24 hours of frantic searches by dozens of police and hundreds of volunteers from the Orthodox Jewish community.

The boy's family has faith the intense police search will pay off. "Now that they are zeroing into the area where he was last we are very encouraged and hopeful he will be found," said Isaac Kletzky, Leiby's uncle.

On an earlier surveillance video, Leiby was filmed leaving the camp at Yeshiva Boyan at 4:50 p.m.

About 30 minutes later, yet another video shows him walking alone on 15^th Ave. near 44^th St., police said. The 4-foot-tall boy was carrying a backpack and wearing blue pants and a blue shirt with green and white stripes. The encounter with the bearded man in the gold car, shown on a third surveillance video, came seven minutes later.

"Everyone's thinking the worst and hoping for the best," said Shmuel Eckstein, 44, a friend of Leiby's father. "He's a very good kid. He's an angel. He has no rebellious streak to him."

NYPD cops were searching the neighborhood by helicopter and door to door. Agents from the FBI's New York office also joined in the search.

The Shomrim neighborhood patrol provided dozens of members and arranged for more than a hundred volunteers to join the hunt.

Leiby's parents were wracked by dread yesterday, their pain etched into their faces. "They're distraught," said Simcha Bernath, head of the Borough Park Shomrim. Leiby's father, Nachman Kletzky, huddled in his home yesterday afternoon with four rabbis while his wife rested for the first time since her son went missing.

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who spoke to the father , said the dad was depressed. "'Let's hope,'" the father said, according to Hikind.

[Lady Cop]

Hikind said part of the body was found in a house in Kensington and part in a dumpster in another part of Brooklyn."I've never seen a community feel more depression than they are at the moment," he said in an interview broadcast on NY1. "Whoever did this is sick beyond belief.”

there has been an arrest.



July 13^th, 2011)

With an indescribable amount of pain, and a heavy heart, YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of 9-year-old Leiby Kletzky A”H. Although the details are still unfolding, Misaskim is working closely with the NYPD and NYC Medical Examiner to ensure that the proper Kavod is given to the Niftar.



A 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home alone from camp was found dead in a dumpster in Park Slope early Wednesday morning, police sources said.

More than a dozen NYPD detectives swarmed the scene outside the Park Slope Auto Center at 651 Fourth Ave. where the dismembered remains of little Leiby Kletzky may were discovered. Sources said the body was found after police in a passing patrol car checked the large gray trash container, which had its lid open.

[aussiefriend]

That's horrific. You could tell in the picture there was something special about that child. How bad is the world? Not even safe for kids to walk home. Gorgeous angel.

Thanks for the video LC. That is terrifying to watch. No sound. You do a great job getting all this stuff for us. Thank you.

[aussiefriend]

LC this is precious child know his killer? I mean, do they think its a family friend or something of that nature, or like an internet thing?

[Kip]

They don't believe Leiby knew his killer.

Remains found in apartment refrigerator and trash[/u]

...Mr. Browne described the contents of another videotape showing the boy following a bearded man in dark trousers and a white shirt. Video recorded at 5:30 p.m. showed the same man entering a dentist’s office on 18^th Avenue, in Brooklyn.

“Detectives located one of the dentists who worked there at his home in New Jersey late last night, and established that the suspect had been in the dentists’ office on Monday to pay a bill,” Mr. Browne said on Wednesday morning. “With the assistance of a receptionist and another dentist associated with the practice, detectives at 2:00 a.m. today found records at the dentist’s office that established the suspect’s name and address. He was apprehended 40 minutes later....

[aussiefriend]

Dear Kip, one million thank you's for the link. This little boy was pure and holy.

[aussiefriend]

oh God this is terrible. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/nypd...boy-096382

[Lady Cop]

what are the damn odds?? this was the first time this protected and sheltered child was permitted to walk home alone. and a monstrous beast disguised as a human lays in wait.
his poor parents. he was the little brother in a family of 5 girls. you know he had to be adored. how they must be berating themselves for letting him walk alone.


monster



The dismembered body of a missing 9-year-old Hasidic boy was found at two locations in Brooklyn this morning and police arrested a suspect in the slaying who had the child's severed feet in his freezer.

Police made the gruesome discovery after raiding a Kensington home and arresting 35-year-old Levi Aron, who led them to parts of missing boy Leibby Kletsky's body, stuffed in a red suitcase and hidden in a Dumpster outside an auto repair shop about two miles away, sources said.

Cops said Aron, who works at the Empire State Supply Co. hardware store on McDonald Avenue in Kensington, allegedly suffocated the boy before chopping him up. Police said they also found three knives in a butcher block inside Aron's apartment.

A co-worker said Aron is divorced with no kids and acted completely normal at work yesterday. Aron worked as a stock clerk.

"I can't believe this," he said. "He was a strange guy, but he was here yesterday and he was fine after killing this little boy."

[Kip]

oh God this is terrible. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/nypd...boy-096382

OMG, this is creepy (from the above article):

...Included in the “Activities and Interests” on Aron’s Facebook profile is a link to a page for a non-profit organization that offers tips on how to find sex offenders in your neighborhood. The page is headlined, “IS YOUR FAMILY SAFE? Find out who really lives in your area!”

This surely can't be this guy's first crime.

[WolfHouse]

And the body parts are found. (Daily News, NYC) My heart is breaking.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011...slope.html

[Lady Cop]

Formal charges are pending against Aron, who lived alone in the apartment in a building shared with his parents. Aron, whose birthday is Wednesday, once had a summons for urinating in public but otherwise did not have a criminal record.

Aron has lived most of his life in New York, working as a clerk at a maintenance supply company in Brooklyn, but spent about two years living in Memphis, Tenn., where he worked briefly, Kelly said. He lived about a mile away from the boy and was believed to be Orthodox.




some reports say the poor child was autistic. certainly not street smart by any means. what a horror. an innocent baby who simply was a little lost.