DEAD BOY 'S BODY PARTS FOUND IN FREEZER AND DUSTBIN

**LJC** Thu 14 Jul - 21:51

The dismembered remains of an eight-year-old boy have been discovered two days after he asked a stranger for help when he got lost on the way home.

Leibby Kletzky vanished while walking to meet his family halfway between their home and a day camp in Brooklyn, New York City.

A two-day search by police and members of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community led to a 35-year-old man's flat, where Leibby's feet were found in a freezer.

The rest of the boy's body was discovered inside a red suitcase thrown into a large rubbish bin in another Brooklyn neighbourhood.

CCTV footage obtained by police showed Leibby on the day he disappeared asking a man, later identified as Levi Aron, for directions, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

It also showed the boy wearing his backpack walking down a street with a man, waiting outside a dentist's office while the man went inside and then getting into his car.

Detectives were able to trace the man - Aron - using records from the dentist's office.

Mr Kelly said Aron made statements implicating himself in the boy's death. The suspect was arrested and charges are pending, the police commissioner added.

When detectives arrived at the man's flat and asked him where the boy was, he is alleged to have nodded towards the kitchen.

Police then saw blood on the freezer and opened it to discover knives, a cutting board and Leibby's feet.

Mr Kelly said investigators were checking whether Aron has a history of mental illness.

The boy's parents had agreed to let him walk by himself seven blocks from the camp to a meeting point halfway home and showed him the route last Friday.

"This is every parent's nightmare. That's what makes this so horrific," Mr Kelly said.

He added: "It's just a terrible, terrible tragedy."

Thousands of mourners, mainly from the Hasidic community, gathered for Leibby's funeral hours after his remains were discovered.

RIP little laddie.