Episode 146 - The Butcher of Brooklyn: Levi Aron

13 May

On 11 July 2011, 8 year old Leiby Kletzy was walking home from school when he vanished. After an extensive police hunt for CCTV, Leiby’s tight-knit Hasidic community were shocked to see that the man who had taken the little boy was wearing a yarmulke; he was one of their own...

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Sources:

https://nymag.com/news/features/levi-aron-2011-12/

https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/aron-levi.htm

https://wildabouttrial.com/trial-coverage/levi-aron/

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/nyregion/borough-park-residents-reeling-with-news-of-boys-death.html

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sundown-lieby-kletzky-killer-pleads-guilty

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/levi-arons-interview-from-rikers

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/missing-hasidic-boy-found-murdered

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sundown-signs-of-struggle-before-kletzky-murder

https://crownheights.info/jewish-news/445459/today-3rd-yahrtzeit-of-leiby-kletzky-obm/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-man-pleads-guilty-in-leiby-kletzkys-murder/