Confessed child butcher Levi Aron's crime was so barbaric and his confession so bizarre that it has even left experts baffled.
In the hours after cops found Leiby Kletsky's dismembered body, Aron told investigators he was only trying to help the lost little boy find his way home.
He claims he didn't hurt the child for an entire day - until he panicked when he learned a massive search was underway.
"It's highly illogical and makes no sense," said Lawrence Koblinsky, a professor of forensic science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
"If you realize there's a big search out there, okay you might be upset or frightened because you've got the kid, but you let the kid loose on the street."
What makes the case especially perplexing, experts say, is that Aron, 35, does not have a violent criminal history and early indications are Leiby was not sexually assaulted.
Kobilinsky said he thinks the crime might "boil down to a psychotic episode."
"If the guy is psychotic, that would explain a lot of things," Kobilinsky added. "Then, there's no logic to what they do."
Aron's lawyers have already laid groundwork for a possible insanity defense, telling a Brooklyn judge the suspect "hears voices and has had hallucinations."
But Joseph Pollini, a retired NYPD homicide detective, believes an insanity claim would not succeed.
"For him to make such statements such as he panicked, that he was aware they were looking for him, that would take away his ability to claim insanity," Pollini said.
"For someone to claim insanity, they would have needed not to know what was going on. They'd [have to] be in a different world."
Pollini said he doubts Aron's claim he brought Leiby to a wedding Monday night and that he was alive at lunchtime Tuesday.
"It doesn't sound like a plausible scenario," Pollini said, adding that Aron's "ulterior motive still remains to be seen."
Retired FBI profiler Clint Van Zandta said there are still too many uncertainties to decide if Aron is a liar or a lunatic.
"Right now, I've got as many questions as I do answers," Van Zandt said. "Either his story is all a lie, or this is a massive break from reality that a psychologist is going to have to explain."
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Shomrim knew about Aron's Stalking For weeks
Leiby Kletzky may not be the first boy targeted for harm by accused child killer Levi Aron in a tight-knit Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, N.Y., The Daily has learned.
A source close to the shomrim, a neighborhood watch group in the Jewish community, told The Daily that the patrol had been warned about Aron after he allegedly stalked an 11-year-old boy in the past two weeks.
The boy “was walking home on his own block when he noticed a gold car was tailing him,” the source told The Daily. “He kept turning around, feeling suspicious, and kept noticing the car was there, so he broke into a run and quickly went home to tell his parents.”
The car is believed to be Aron’s 1990 Honda, the source said. Leiby, just days short of his ninth birthday, disappeared Monday evening after getting lost on a short walk home from his day camp.Surveillance video showed him talking to a man, and then leaving with him in a gold-colored Honda.
It was unclear if police had been informed about the earlier incident. When asked by the Daily about it, Yankel Daskel, one of the head shomrim coordinators in the neighborhood of Borough Park, said the community has a problem with filing police reports.
Accused child-killer Levi Aron is a "cold sociopath" who's all too fit to stand trial, his incarcerated ex-wife told The Post yesterday.
Ex-Wife says that Aron is Sane!
"His soul is doomed forever," Diana Diunov, 38, said from a federal prison in Danbury, Conn., of the man she divorced in 2005. "He will have Yom Kippur forever in his life!"
Diunov, in jail for wire fraud, said Aron should not be able to claim insanity.
"Trust me, this man is sane!" she said.
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