New York , NY – Accused Killer Quiets Voices in Head With Music, Lawyers Say

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    Officials have brought out various objects from the house, including furniture and electronics, and the towel believed to have been used to suffocate the boy. On July 18 2011. Photo VIN NewsNew York, NY – The man accused of abducting and killing an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions on a Brooklyn street is seeking to quiet the voices in his head by listening to music, his lawyers said Monday.

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    Levi Aron met with his lawyers Monday at Bellevue Hospital, where he is being held in the prison unit. They described his demeanor as “abnormal.”

    A psychiatric exam is being conducted on Aron, who has pleaded not guilty to murder and kidnapping charges.

    Aron’s attorneys spent a few hours with him to discuss the case and see how he is doing. Attorney Pierre Bazile said in court last week that Aron hears voices and sees hallucinations, and the lawyers reiterated those claims on Monday.

    Attorney Gerard Marrone said Aron is trying to soothe the voices by listening to music. He said Aron seems to be speaking clearly but then “goes somewhere else” and has trouble making eye contact.

    Leibby Kletzky was snatched on July 11 after he left day camp. Walking alone for the first time, he was supposed to travel seven blocks to meet his parents, but took a wrong turn.

    Aron told police in a confession obtained exclusively by NBC New York that he picked up the boy, took him home, and later suffocated him before dismembering his body.


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    12 years ago

    Sounds like Aron saw the movie Primal Fear and is trying to copy it to the letter

    Darth_Zeidah
    Darth_Zeidah
    12 years ago

    Put your prejudices aside for one moment and tell me, please, how this Levi Aron is going to get a fair trial with all this “information” flying around?

    How is any juror going to be able to reach a fair and unbiased verdict?

    jewru
    jewru
    12 years ago

    The voices are probably those of Leiby and his future progeny(that will never be) shouting at him for all the lost lives, torah and mitsvos! From what we have been reading so far, both of his ex-wives said he was normal. He hasn’t heard voices till now…

    He held down a job for who knows how many years. They didn’t think he was insane, strange, maybe. But not insane…

    12 years ago

    Those are the words of his lawyers. He is perfectly sane. How else was he able to keep a job?????

    sig. f
    sig. f
    12 years ago

    his electrical cicuit is malfunctioning

    chenyok
    chenyok
    12 years ago

    They’re giving this lowlife too much attention. He wants us to follow his every move. Let’s turn instead to Hashem in Teshuvah, and not waste our time on this brute.

    ipcha_mistabra
    ipcha_mistabra
    12 years ago

    Wonder if he could listen to music during the 3 weeks, or he’ll have to hear the voices???

    Lodzker
    Lodzker
    12 years ago

    yeah sure… I believe you’re insane. anyone would become insane after doing what you did to leiby. But I refuse to believe he was insane when he did the murder.

    12 years ago

    Why “accused” killer. He is the “Admitted murderer” of Leiby Kletzky.

    Bluntness
    Bluntness
    12 years ago

    Please… they are just laying the foundation for an insanity plea.

    ToldUSo
    ToldUSo
    12 years ago

    When that Drek was at work the following day, how did he fulfill the customers requests or orders, did he give sheet rock instead of hammer ??? or then he heard good !!! Tell those lawyers to where to go their defense, because it sucks !!!

    bracha18
    bracha18
    12 years ago

    he had a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and married twice!!!! the ex wives say he was normal and had no mental illness…..
    why didnt his voices tell him to commit suicide??? or dismember himself??
    btw- rumor has it that his parents are geirim…..and that he is from italian descent…..dont know…just repeating…
    poor leiby!!! i hope he didnt suffer too much….. 🙁 i wish this didnt happen…i cant function….i keep thinking of leiby’s last moments and how his parents will deal with this…..its sooooooo painful……HaShem yeracheim!

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    12 years ago

    I do not believe a word he says!! He is perfect;ly SANE!! Just does not want to go to prison!!

    stamm
    stamm
    12 years ago

    i guess i am ignorant but what does it mean to confess to all that he did and then to plead not guilty.

    genendel
    genendel
    12 years ago

    THIS IS CRAZY! HE SHUD BE HUNG!

    Pickle
    Pickle
    12 years ago

    Reminds me of the old joke: How do you know when a laywer is lying? His lips are moving……..

    MazelKGH
    MazelKGH
    12 years ago

    He was sane enough to have the decency to take his yarmulke off in court.

    Sherree
    Sherree
    12 years ago

    I’m not buying it either, not for one minute. If he heard voice that told him to pick hurt Lieby he could have listened to music to quiet the voices or go to the computer and watched music videos until he calmed down.

    bubble
    bubble
    12 years ago

    I too hear voices they tell me to go to work and pay my bills and respect people around…

    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    12 years ago

    Let him use a hammer on his head instead of a walkman!!

    republic
    republic
    12 years ago

    Its likely the lawyers are looking for lifetime in psychiatric institution instead of jail. A psychiatric ward is probably where he should have been a long time ago. I believe he is a danger there too. But that’s the “due process” in law. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was taking illegal drugs. if so, that is something that should be eradicated from its sources as well.

    12 years ago

    #3–If this goes to trial, the defense will almost certainly ask for a change of venue and will probably get it.

    #4 and #5 –Insanity is a legal term, not a medical term. Insanity means not knowing the difference between right and wrong. Many people suffering from mental illnesses do nonetheless know the difference between right and wrong. That Aron claims that he panicked when he heard of the search and that he took pains to dispose of the remains seem to indicate that he knew what he did was wrong and that he didn’t want to get caught. His defense is apparently planning to argue otherwise.

    In any case, it is entirely possible to be mentally ill and hold down a job. My own aunt heard voices, indeed held animated conversations with people who weren’t there, and was in other respects a very strange and difficult person (so difficult that my mother would threaten us kids that if we didn’t behave we would grow up to be like our aunt which was enough to get us to clean up our room or whatever pronto), and yet she had a long career in a very demanding health care field. So, hearing voices would not necessarily prevent Aron from being a stock clerk.

    Justthefacts
    Justthefacts
    12 years ago

    To #3 Chaim Ben yehuda
    I don’t believe the right term is “all this information flying around”. There are clearly FACTS already disclosed in this case.
    FACT: Levi is filmed on surveillance video picking up this poor child.
    FACT: Levi was in the possession of body parts of the boy he murdered.
    FACT: Levi confessed to having murdered the boy along with a detailed account of his brutality.
    FACT: Levi led police to the location where he dumped this poor child’s body

    The list goes on….however seeing as you are so concerned that this monster won’t get a fair trial, I hope you are not among the many who shirk jury duty. Perhaps this will be your lucky day. As to the current legal system, I wouldn’t worry about getting a murderer off Scot free. His lawyers are already hard a work spinning a tale of insanity with all the trimmings. Rest assured.

    12 years ago

    Levi Aron demonstrates classic symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. His thought processes and emotions appear to be “out of sync.” If this was his state of mind when he murdered Leiby, a”h, then he was insane and therefore not criminally responsible for his actions. The examining psychiatrists will determine whether he is guilty as charged, or innocent by reason of insanity. The judicial system will then proceed based on the psychiatric evidence. Let’s withhold our personal opinions until the judicial process performs its functions. From the information presented to date via the press, it appears that a trial is unlikely

    2tellthetruth
    2tellthetruth
    12 years ago

    This is really upsetting. Look he is going to lie. VOSIZNEIAS, pleast post this. Let just say this jerk is telling the truth, the music from the wedding in New Sqaure, wouldnt that have been enough to calm these voices in his head? I don’t believe think about it…. the chasunah has plenty of music to quiet is psychotic head. These lying skills are cultivated from the community who has spent generations teaching people who to finess the truth. Dont give me that b.s. Lawyers if your reading, ask him during the case, if the chasunah wasn’t sufficient to kill the voices in his head. OR did he hurt levy BEFORE he went to new square. GD!!!!!

    Jew12
    Jew12
    12 years ago

    Now we all hear voices קול דמי אחיך צועקים אלי מן האדמה

    ikleinit
    ikleinit
    12 years ago

    So not only isn’t he in prison, but he gets to listen to “music ” from the comfort of his hospital bed ! It’s time for this abomination to face the MUSIC !

    12 years ago

    The end of the reported confession Aron said he was sorry for causing everyone trouble. This is an odd thing to say after you have murdered someone, I think, like he didn’t really grasp the seriousness of what he did. That’s the kind of statement a person makes if they mess up someone’s schedule or project. It just doesn’t fit. He was sorry, but not for taking the boy’s life.

    nuttybutty
    nuttybutty
    12 years ago

    why would anyone not want to beleive that he is really insane and he did because he does not know right from wrong

    Anthony
    Anthony
    12 years ago

    Obviously he is insane to do what he did. The question is or will be is he sane enough to stand trial. That will be determined.

    12 years ago

    I’ll give him music…the death march.

    Normal
    Normal
    12 years ago

    #9 and others. Enough of the stupid comments. This is not a joke.

    skeptic
    skeptic
    12 years ago

    There is no doubt that the man is insane and needs to be institutionalized. The acutely awdisturbing question remains – is he responsible?

    12 years ago

    I hope this will be a wakeup call to frum parents who are afraid of a shanda, that they look away from signs of mental illness in their children. Everyone is saying he was creepy and something wasn’t right since he was a young child. If he is in fact schizo, that manifests at 25 the latest — where was his father for the past decade? The killer’s sister killed herself 2 years ago — even that wasn’t enough to convince this family that psychiatric intervention was warranted??? The blood of this poor neshomo is on the killer’s family as well.

    Lamden-But-A-Glate-Kop
    Lamden-But-A-Glate-Kop
    12 years ago

    I think who is insane and hears voices and sees hallucinations is Aron’s attorney for taking this case and try to defend such a cold blooded murder! He needs a psychiatric exam to see if he can stand trial for such a mounster! Make sure you bring him an ipod when he comes to defend his client so he shouldn’t hear does voices!!

    jross
    jross
    12 years ago

    Were could I bring up my Concern to Askunim, about schools sending children, boys or girls, big and small, to private homes, to collect money? Isn’t it time to stop it now? I understand that “shlichei mizvah..?

    12 years ago

    May we all be zoche to see the Geula!!!!

    Rifka
    Rifka
    12 years ago

    Murder can have various motives:
    -crime of passion (betrayal by a spouse)
    -idealism (Arab kills Jew)
    -vendetta (settling a score mafia style)
    -money (armed robbery or life insurance claim)
    -molester who tries to cover up the trace

    Murder without motive is the act of a mentally ill person.

    Babishka
    Member
    Babishka
    12 years ago

    He will be examined by a team of forensic psychiatrists who will determine if he is fit to stand trial. They are qualified to tell if he really is experiencing hallucinations or if this is just BS that he is making up.

    Rifka
    Rifka
    12 years ago

    My post #72 is directed to the masses. Commenter #48 has the right education.

    allmark
    allmark
    12 years ago

    Regardless of whether Aron is determined to be insane by the judge, he will undoubtedly end up spending the rest of his life in prison.
    There are no conceivable circumstances where he will ever be a free man. He will end up dying in prison.

    annony
    annony
    12 years ago

    The voices he hears is poor child shouting not to be hurt…

    whataworld
    whataworld
    12 years ago

    Of course he hears voices, the voices are “poor leiby screaming”. Let him hear those voices, don’t let him squash them with music. Let him hear his cries and the cries of his family and am yisroel. He shouldn’t be insane to be hearing those voices. on the contrary it should show that in that brutal head of his there is a tiny iota of sanity that is hearing the screams!

    whataworld
    whataworld
    12 years ago

    Can someone please explain what went on in his head when at work the next day he was acting as usual and inquired by his coworker how he can join the search?

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    12 years ago

    Do not believe a word this man says!! He is a LIAR!! He is sane!!

    mayu4205
    mayu4205
    12 years ago

    The only (and last) music he should be hearing is Chopin’s
    “Funeral March” as he is taken to his execution!!!!

    republic
    republic
    12 years ago

    The family of the murderer hired their son an attorney to cover themselves as the attorney claimed on fox 5 news. If you say there is regret, has anyone come forward to express any sympathy or compassion for the Kletskys? This murderer does not have a soul. He has displayed a brutal killing comparable to Dahmer.