"Panicked, he drugged the youngster, smothered him with a towel, chopped up his body and dumped the remains, Brooklyn prosecutors said at his bombshell trial the following year. "I went for a towel to smother him in the side room," the deranged murderer confessed after his arrest. "He fought back a little bit but eventually he stopped breathing. "I was still in panic from the fliers and afraid to bring him home.""
"The monster who killed and chopped up 8-year-old Leiby Kletzy more than a decade ago - in one of the Big Apple's most infamous child abduction and murder cases - died behind bars, The Post has learned. Levi Aron, 49, died shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at a hospital near Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, state correction officials confirmed. The twisted killer was serving 40 years to life for little Leiby's brutal 2011 murder."
Levi Aron abducted 8-year-old Leiby Kletzy from Borough Park on July 11, 2011, then took him to a wedding in Rockland County before returning home. After a massive search developed, Aron drugged the child, smothered him with a towel, dismembered the body and discarded the remains. He confessed after his arrest and was convicted on murder and kidnapping charges, receiving a 40-years-to-life sentence. Aron was taken from prison for a medical condition and died at a hospital near Wende Correctional Facility at age 49. The victim's father sued for punitive damages and the killer's family requested an autopsy.
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