Lakewood couple accused of kidnapping Israeli man to force him to give his wife a "get"

The Gangster who calls himself the "victim" Yisroel Meir Briskman, he refuses to give his wife a "get"

David and Judy Wax

The FBI says an Ocean County couple abducted an Israeli man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he didn't give his wife a religious divorce.
Federal authorities say the victim had refused to give his wife a "get," or a divorce sanctioned by the Rabbinical Court, preventing her from remarrying.
The victim left Israel for the United States. Authorities say David and Judy Wax, of Lakewood kidnapped him, robbed him and forced him to say he would grant the divorce.
David Wax is also accused of threatening to have the victim's father killed if he didn't pay the wife $100,000.
Defense attorney Steven Secare says Judy Wax will plead not guilty today in federal court. It isn't clear if David Wax has an attorney.

The couple, who have eight children, were charged today in federal court after they surrendered to the FBI.

At one point Wax, 49, allegedly showed Mr Briskman a body bag and told him 'if he did not comply, he would be buried alive in the Pocono Mountains', according to court documents.

Then he laid the body bag on top of 36-year-old Mr Briskman, and said: 'For you to get used to the size.'

If found guilty of kidnapping the pair could be sentenced to life in prison.

The couple are not thought to be related to Mr Briskman, and police said they had no conclusive motive for the kidnapping.

Mr Briskman had fled Israel two years previously, after refusing to grant his wife a 'get', an Orthodox Jewish divorce document which allows a woman to remarry. 

At the time the High Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem issued an order to all observant Jews to shun Mr Briskman until he agreed to the religious divorce.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016193/Rabbi-David-Wax-wife-Judy-kidnapped-Yisrael-Meir-Briskman.html#ixzz1SVMGNZCl

Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky rules that Suspected Child Abusers should first be reported to Rabbis not "Authorities"

In light of the latest tragedy it is impossible to comprehend Rav Kamenetzky's ruling, that a suspected pedophile should not be reported to Police without the consultation of a Rav. This speech was last Tuesday night in Flatbush in the Bostoner Bais Midrash, at the same time that little Leiby was being brutally murdered! 
Listen to 4 minutes of speech supplied by Failed Messiah.

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Harav Shmuel Kamenetzky

Aron's Confession very "Bizzare" laughed during Police interview, showed no remorse! Shomrim Knew For Weeks about his stalking little children and did not report it to Police! Ex-Wife says Aron is NOT insane! Video of Aron in Court!

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."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/16/2011-07-16_levi_arons_confession_about_panicking_bringing_leiby_to_wedding_so_bizarre_exper.html#ixzz1SKGdxHlr


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.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/monster_ex_wife_sociopath_knows_RSMWJu3vzhd2YjWSZQzuxO#ixzz1SKIrw4sM

Outrage! "Shomrim" has list of sexual child abusers and will not share list with Police!

They call themselves "Shomrim" (protectors), they should call themselves "Mazikim" (harmful)!
In a report in today's Daily News,  Shomrim advocate Jacob Daskel told the reporter, "The community doesn't go to the police with these names because the rabbis don't let you. It's not right," .
Read this disturbing Daily News Article!

A Jewish patrol in Borough Park keeps a list of suspected child predators, but Levi Aron's name wasn't on it, the Daily News has learned.

"No one ever complained to us about him," Borough Park Shomrim member Jacob Daskel said.

The list has about 15 names. It was compiled by Shomrim members and is not shared with the NYPD because some rabbis oppose civilian police involvement.

"The community doesn't go to the police with these names because the rabbis don't let you. It's not right," Daskel said.

He said when a resident tells Shomrim they suspect someone is a molester, the patrol finds a picture and shows it to area kids, trying to substantiate the allegation.

"It's against Halacha [Jewish law] to go the police without speaking to the rabbis," said Rabbi Joseph Hershkowitz, 57, who counsels families in Borough Park and Williamsburg.

"We consider Shomrim and Hatzolah [the Jewish ambulance service] family. So you go to family first," said Hershkowitz.

He stressed that the rules apply only when a life isn't in danger. "Nothing supersedes an emergency," he said.

Leiby Kletzky's family first reported his disappearance to Shomrim. The patrol notified cops three hours later. "We have no problem with Shomrim being notified but we'd like to be notified as well," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. But in Leiby's case, he said, the delay didn't make a difference.

Rabbis said their followers talk to Shomrim because they trust it to get the job done.

"If you call 911 they are not personally involved in your problem. But if you call Shomrim, every job is number one," said Bernard Freilich, a Jewish liaison to the NYPD. "But my position is to always call the cops."


Now read something even more disturbing  from "Vosizneias" reported by Sandy Eller
The report says that 2 yeshiva boys, actually saw Levi Aron's car and instead of reporting it to the Police, they reported it to Shomrim, and inquired about the Honda, and Shomrim couldn't confirm it and Shomrim didn't follow up..... this was during a very critical time .....Police may have been able to save little Leiby Kletzky had they known.. I highlighted in red the problem:
Read:

While Police Commissioner Raymond Kelley publicly credited Shomrim for locating the gold car that was used to lure Leibby Kletzky HY’D to his death, according to Yiddish weekly newspaper ‘Der Yid’, it was a pair of Flatbush yeshiva bochurim who spotted the car and provided Shomrim with the license plate number of the vehicle.  The two young men, who are brothers, joined the search after watching video of the missing boy being lured into a car on Vos Iz Neias. according to their account.

As the pair drove around Flatbush, they noticed a car that fit the description parked on East 3rd Street.  Taking pictures and video of the car, they parked further down the one way street, deciding to watch for any passing cars that might match the appearance of the vehicle they had seen on Vos Iz Neias.  During that time, the gold car they had photographed never passed their vehicle.

The pair drove to East 2nd Street, between Cortelyou Road and Avenue C and the same vehicle they had first seen on East 3rd Street was now parked on East 2nd Street.  Wondering how the car had gotten there without having passed them on East 3rd Street they decided paid closer attention, noticing a man wearing a cap who not only appeared to be nervous but also resembled the man they had seen on the video of Leibby’s disappearance.

As the man entered a house, the brothers debated what to do.  Driving past the house again, they noted that the gold Honda that had first been parked on East 3rd and then on East 2nd was now nowhere to be found.  A call to Shomrim couldn’t confirm that the vehicle in question was a Honda and, discouraged, the two decided to return home.

As they looked for parking on their block, the two saw a member of Shomrim and several reporters from Der Yid.  Approaching the group, the brothers showed them the video of the car on they had taken on East 2nd Street.  The license plate number was called into Shomrim at 1:42 AM and just a short time later, the police arrived at Levi Aron’s house where the gruesome discovery was made.

Dusiznies: Why did they call Shomrim to begin with?

Levi Aron Awaits Arraignment For Murder Of Leiby Kletzky, gets a ride in police car wearing his "kippah"

Levi Aron at arraignment
Watch Aron wearing a Kippah!

He's a former butcher who confessed to killing 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky and cutting up the boy's body. Now, Levi Aron awaits arraignment on a murder charge while detectives in two different cities try to find out why he carried out this crime, and if he is behind any others.


Investigators took DNA samples from Aron, 35, Thursday morning as compare them with genetic prints left behind at other crime scenes, with the focus on unsolved crimes against children.
Essentially, police have two reasons to suspect that Aron is a serial killer. One, the precision with which he tried to cover up the murder. When cops raided his home Wednesday and asked Aron where the boy was, he gestured to his otherwise empty refrigerator, which had three bloody knives and a cutting board inside. They found the little boy's severed feet in separate Ziploc bags in the freezer.


Detectives say the man who most people describe as a quiet loner had also packed other parts of the boy's body into sealed plastic bags that he put into a red suitcase which he then put in a dumpster two miles away. All are signs, police say, of careful planning by a killer to cover his tracks.


Another reason detectives are investigating whether or not Aron carried out this sort of crime before is the abrupt change in his life six years ago. That's when he left his lifelong home in Brooklyn for Memphis, Tennessee after marrying a woman from there whom he'd met online.


He stayed for two years, working as a kosher butcher in a supermarket for a time and as a security guard. He remained married for only a year, and his wife ended up filing an order of protection against him. Chip Washington, a spokesman for the sheriff's office of the county in which Memphis is located, Shelby County, wrote in an email to The Commercial Appeal newspaper of Memphis, "According to our records, he appeared in court where the charges were dismissed so there is NO mug shot available. This is the ONLY record we have of him."


Not much else is known about Levi Aron's life in Memphis. Investigators from both the NYPD and Shelby County Sheriff's Office search for more details now.


Late Thursday morning, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly confirmed at a newsconference that his detectives are looking into the possibility that Aron is a serial killer. However, Kelly said, "there's no reason to believe that at this time."


Kelly said that his investigators have been in contact with a variety of law enforcement agencies that Aron may have come into contact with, but there was no indication of significant foul play on Aron's part. "They don't have any record of him... no strange, unusual or illegal activities. We don't have any record of that at this time."


Another place detectives are searching are Aron's home, a third floor attic apartment in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn. There were 3 computers in the house," Commissioner Kelly said. "That information is going to be gone through."


Back in Borough Park, Brooklyn, one of Aron's neighbors told police that he had tried to get her son into his car months ago, but she assumed Aron was trying to be helpful.


Also, in his written and taped confessions to detectives, Aron said that he suffocated the boy with a towel on Tuesday, and even took Leiby with him to a wedding Monday evening upstate in Monsey. But investigators believe the killing took place Monday, giving Aron time to dismember his victim and try to hide the evidence.


Commissioner Kelly said that even he was emotionally affected by this case, despite handling and overseeing decades of hard cases. "In this business you see a lot of violence," he said, regarding the thousands of cases he's dealt with. "There's usually some twisted logic [involved]. Here, it defies all logic. That's what's so terribly disturbing about this case."

Updated !!!Levi Aron brought little Leiby Klatzky to Monsey for a Wedding before Killing Him! Tied him Up and possibly tortured him!

According to his own written confession, the sick crazed killer of little Leiby Klatzky brought him to a wedding in Monsey.....

UPDATE JULY 14, 2011 12:38PM

Police reviewing time stamped video recordings of Ateres Charna Wedding Hall in Monsey, indicate that Levi Aron was indeed at the Wedding but little Leiby Klatzky was not with him, so they believe,  Leiby was outside in the car.


Updated 4:30PM
Accused Brooklyn child-killer Levi Aron apparently went to a relative’s wedding at a New Square catering hall the same day he smothered 8-year-old Leiby Kletsky with a towel, police said.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that police believe Aron did go to the wedding Monday night but he did not take the boy, whose dismembered body was found two days later. Other guests at the wedding confirmed Aron was there, but didn't see the boy, the commissioner added. Detectives seized video surveillance from a New Square catering hall, where the wedding took place, The Journal News learned today. New York City detectives stopped by Ateres Charna wedding hall in New Square Wednesday and downloaded footage from Monday night’s wedding, said the hall’s manager, Izzy Goldstein. “The police were here yesterday,” Goldstein told The Journal News today. “They said he (Aron) said he was here. But I did not see him and I did not want to see him. It’s very gruesome.” He said 400 to 600 people, including many children, attended the Jewish wedding. The bride was from Far Rockaway, Queens, and the groom from Rockland. He has no idea whether Aron and the boy attended. “I wouldn’t know who he is,” Goldstein said. “I hope he was not here. An evil person like him, it’s unbelievable what he did. I didn’t sleep all night.” He said he wouldn’t contact the newlyweds. This would ruin their simcha — happy time — if they knew someone like him 
might have been there,” he said.  Aron is related to the bride, said Nathan Meisner, of L'Chaim Catering in Monsey, which handled the wedding. “I know the groom personally,” he said. “The piece of venom (Aron) was related to 
the other side, not the groom side.” In what WNBC says is his statement to police, Aron says of Leiby: "I asked if he wanted to go for the ride — wedding in Monsey — since I didn’t think I was going to stay for the whole thing since my back was hurting. He said ok. Due to traffic, I got back around 11:30 p.m. … so I brought him to my house thinking I’d bring him to his house the next day."   Aron told police he panicked when he saw the fliers for the missing boy and smothered him with a towel.  Investigators believe Leiby may have been tied up and tried to fight off his alleged captor before he was killed, police officials said today. At a news conference, Kelly said Aron had scratches on his arms and wrists — a sign "there was some kind of struggle." There also were marks on the victim's remains that could have been caused by restraints, the commissioner added. A preliminary medical examination indicates Leiby Kletzky was "smothered or suffocated," Kelly said. Aron appeared in court today and was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after his lawyer told a judge that his client might be mentally ill. "He has indicated to me that he hears voices and has had some hallucinations," attorney Pierre Bazile said. Walking home alone from day camp for the first time on Monday afternoon, the 8-year-old disappeared. A day-and-a-half search led police to the Brooklyn home of a man seen on a surveillance video with the young Orthodox Jewish child. They asked Levi Aron: Where is the boy? The man nodded toward the kitchen, authorities said, where blood stained the freezer door. Inside was the stuff of horror films — severed feet, wrapped in plastic. In the refrigerator, a cutting board and three bloody carving knives. A plastic garbage bag with bloody towels was nearby. "It is every parent's worst nightmare," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday, following the arrest of 35-year-old Levi Aron on a charge of second-degree murder. Leiby disappeared Monday afternoon while on his way to meet his mother on a street corner seven blocks from his day camp, the first time the young Hasidic child was allowed to walk the route alone. Authorities said he had evidently gotten lost after missing a turn, and had reached out to Aron, a stranger, for help. The gruesome killing shocked the tight-knit Hasidic community in Borough Park, in part because it is one of the safest sections of the city and because Aron is himself an Orthodox Jew, although not Hasidic. The Hasidim are ultra-Orthodox Jews. "This is a no-crime area," said state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes the area. "Everybody is absolutely horrified," he said. "Everyone is in total shock, beyond belief, beyond comprehension ... to suddenly disappear and then the details ... and the fact someone in the extended community ... it's awful." While the medical examiner's office said it was still investigating how the boy was killed, the body was released so that the boy could be buried Wednesday evening according to Jewish custom. Thousands gathered around a Borough Park synagogue for the funeral service. Speakers broadcast over a loudspeaker, chanting and speaking in Yiddish and Hebrew. They stressed the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death. "This is not human," said Moses Klein, 73, a retired caterer who lives near the corner where the boy was last seen. The break in the case came when investigators watched a grainy video that showed the boy, wearing his backpack, getting into a car with a man outside a dentist's office. Detectives tracked the dentist down at his home in New Jersey, and he remembered someone coming to pay a bill. Police identified Aron using records from the office, and 40 minutes later he was arrested, shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday. Aron told police where to find the rest of the body; it was in pieces, wrapped in plastic bags, inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood, Kelly said. would not otherwise shed any light on a motive except to say Aron told them he "panicked" when he saw photos of the missing boy on fliers that were distributed in the neighborhood. Police were looking into whether Aron had a history of mental illness. Police said Aron, who is divorced, lives alone in an attic in a building shared with his father and uncle. Kelly said it was "totally random" that Aron grabbed the boy, and aside from a summons for urinating in public, he had no criminal record. A neighbor told authorities her son had said Aron had once tried to lure him into his car, but nothing happened and she didn't think much of it until the news of the killing, police said. He lived most of his life in New York and worked as a clerk at a hardware supply store around the corner from his home, authorities said. Co-workers said Aron was at work on Tuesday. "He seemed a little troubled," said employee Chaim Kramer, who added Aron usually came and went quietly. Aron lived briefly in Memphis, Tenn., and his ex-wife, Deborah Aron, still lives in the area. She said he never showed signs of violence toward her two children from a previous relationship. "It's utter disbelief," she said from the toy-littered backyard of her home in the Memphis suburb of Germantown. "This ain't the Levi I know." Deborah Aron said the couple divorced about four years ago after a year of marriage. She described Levi Aron as a person who was shy until he got to know you and said he enjoyed music, karaoke and "American Idol." She said he attended Orthodox Jewish services in Memphis. He was "more of a mother's boy than a father's boy," who lived at home until he met her, she said. She said Levi injured his head when he was hit by a car while riding his bike at the age of 9 and suffered problems stemming from that accident.

Here read his confession:

This transcript has been edited to remove parts of an extremely graphic nature. It has not been edited for clarity. These are the suspect's words as written on a legal pad during questioning, according to law enforcement sources.

My name is Levi Aron... On Monday evening around 5:30 I went to my dentist, Dr. Sorcher, to make a payment for visit for exam routine.

A boy approached me on where the Judaica book store was.  He was still there when went out from the dentist’s office. He asked me for a ride to the Judaica book store.  While on the way he changed his mind and wasn’t sure where he wanted to go.

So I asked if he wanted to go for the ride -- wedding in Monsey -- since I didn’t think I was going to stay for the whole thing since my back was hurting.  He said ok.

Due to traffic, I got back around 11:30 p.m. … so I brought him to my house thinking I’d bring him to his house the next day. He watched TV then fell asleep in the front room. I went to the middle room to sleep. That next morning, he was still sleeping when I was ready to leave.

So I woke him and told him I’ll bring him to his house… when I saw the flyers I panicked and was afraid.  When I got home he was still there so I made him a tuna sandwich....

"I was still in a panic ... and afraid to bring him home. That is when I went for a towel to smother him in the side room. He fought back a little."

"Afterwards, I panicked because I didn't know what to do with the body."

"... [I] carried parts to the back room, placing parts between the freezer and the refrigerator."

"I understand it may be wrong, and I'm sorry for the hurt that I have caused."

Afterwards -- I panicked because I didn’t know what to do with the body.… carried parts to the back room placing parts between the freezer and the refrigerator …

… went to clean up a little then took a second shower.  I panicked and .. Then putting the parts in a suitcase.  Then carrying suitcase to the car …placing in backseat on floor behind passenger side.

 … drove around approximately around 20 minutes before placing it in the dumpster on 20th street just before 4th Avenue.   Then went home to clean and organize.

I understand this may be wrong.

Thousands Mourn Leiby Kletzky

The casket carrying Leiby Kletzky, 8, is carried through a crowd of mourners for a funeral service in the Brooklyn borough of New York Wednesday, July 13, 2011. The boy, who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood, was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions, and his remains were found stuffed in a trash bin and the man's refrigerator, police said Wednesday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

The Kletzky Family

With shock and grief clutching Borough Park in Brooklyn, thousands of mourners and residents poured into a neighborhood courtyard Wednesday evening for the funeral of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who was abducted and killed this week as he walked home from camp.

“Here lies my child. Purity of heart. Very quiet and very respectful. Satisfied and never demanding. My child is gone. I’m in very deep sorrow,” Nachman Kletzky said as he choked up.

He cried and shrieked during his speech, leading a crowd of thousands of faithful at a Borough Park synagogue in prayer and tears.

They spoke and chanted in Yiddish, stressing the community’s resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.

“I see and appreciate the love from the community,” said Rabbi Benjamin Eisenberger. “Love emanates from the community and God. We must continue to show support for family.”

Is Leiby Kletzky, Levi Aron's first victim? Not likely

Police do not believe that Kletzky is Aron's first victim. He cut up the body with such precision that investigators believe that he must have had previous unknown victims, and may very well be a child serial killer. Sources have told us that the FBI are investigating unsolved murders in Tenn and New York.

Sheila Anne Feeney from  AM New York postulates that 
It’s possible that Levi Aron, 35, the Kensington man accused of killing 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, might be severely mentally ill or have a personality disorder. But “most of us gravitate to thinking that this fellow was a pedophile,” who allegedly killed the child for sexual excitement or to prevent him from telling anyone about a sexual assault, said N.G. Berrill, director of New York Forensic, a behavioral science consultant group.

Aron reportedly told cops he killed the boy in a panic, but that explanation didn’t wash with experts.

“That’s an after-the-fact statement offenders make,” to obscure actual motives, said Stanton Samenow, author of “Inside the Criminal Mind.” “There may have been sexual interest and there are very high odds there was sexual contact,” Samenow said.

Sometimes “there is sexual gratification in the dismemberment itself,” added Louis Schlesinger, a professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College and author of “Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicide.”

The boy’s feet may have been kept as some sort of “trophy” or “prize,” possibly to be used for sexual gratification at a later time, Berrill added.

Rarely do such crimes occur out of the blue, nor are they out of character, said Samenow. While little is known at this point about the suspect, Samenow said that forensic investigations usually reveal a history of atypical, antisocial behaviors which may include deviant sexual interests, an extensive fantasy life, the need to control others, an inability to get along with peers or to respond in a constructive way to life’s challenges, and a track record of intimidating, deceptive, and even violent behavior.

Aron may have been abused himself, added Berrill, explaining that for some victims, committing violent acts is a way for them to “relive the experience” of their own childhoods but in the role of the aggressor.

But no history of abuse can justify the murder of an innocent child.

“People who commit terrible crimes come from all walks of life. It’s not the environment that makes them violent, but the way they respond and the way they think,” Samenow said.  “Typically, these people who have a brother or sister who grew up in the same environment, but who do not rush out and kill eight-year-olds,” he added.

The Kletzky murder rivets the attention of all New York in part because stranger abductions of children are “enormously, enormously rare,” in the words of Schlesinger. And they are almost inconceivable in the Orthodox community, which is believed by researchers to have lower rates of substance abuse and violence than society at large.

Parents need not put their children on lock-down out of fear for their safety, Schlesinger stressed, noting the Casey Anthony case is more representative of most child murders.

“The typical person who kills a child is the child’s mother, father, step father or another member of the family,” Schlesinger said.