"Kletzky disappeared on the afternoon of July 11, 2011 as he returned home from a school day camp in Borough Park. Police and thousands of volunteers conducted a block-by-block search. Investigators focused in on Aron, then a 35-year-old hardware store clerk, after security video showed Leiby meeting a man outside a dentist's office and getting into his car. Cops identified the man as Aron and went to his apartment on July 13."
"Aron then displayed parts of Leiby's body to the police and told them he had discarded the rest of his body in a dumpster in the Greenwood Heights section of Brooklyn. He provided a written confession admitting to drugging and smothering the boy, though he pleaded not guilty to the crime. Leiby's body had traces of a muscle relaxant, the painkiller Vicodin and Tylenol in his blood."
Levi Aron died about 10:25 a.m. in an upstate medical facility after being transferred from Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo and receiving treatment since Aug. 23. Aron had been serving a 40-years-to-life sentence after conviction in August 2012 for second-degree murder and kidnapping in the 2011 killing and dismemberment of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Investigators linked Aron to the crime through security video and a written confession; Aron displayed body parts to police and said he discarded remains in a dumpster. Leiby showed traces of a muscle relaxant, Vicodin and Tylenol, and had ligature marks on his wrists. State prisons spokesman said the death was expected and the family requested no autopsy; further information was to come from the Erie County Medical Examiner's office.
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