Germantown, TN – Investigators say they haven’t established any links between New York murder suspect Levi Aron and unsolved crimes in other states, a day after the Brooklyn man was indicted in the killing and dismembering of an 8-year-old Hasidic boy.
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Aron, 35, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering and kidnapping Leiby Kletzky, who got lost July 11 while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and asked the suspect for help.
After an extensive manhunt for the boy, police allegedly found his severed feet inside a freezer in Aron’s apartment and other remains in a suitcase thrown into a Dumpster in another Brooklyn neighborhood.
Police have since used Aron’s DNA to investigate possible connections to crimes in other states where Aron once lived, according to a report on CBS 2’s website. The website reported that investigators are looking at crimes in states like Tennessee, Arkansas and Florida.
New York City Police spokesman Paul Browne told FoxNews.com on Thursday that it is “standard procedure” to look for possible connections to other crimes.
“We would do that in every serious crime,” Browne said.
“We don’t have anything to suggest victims other than the one in this case,” he said. “We have him linked to only the one.”
But that could change, law enforcement sources say, as more details emerge about Aron, who authorities say has no known criminal past.
The New York Post, citing police sources, reported Thursday that authorities searching Aron’s Brooklyn apartment removed children’s clothing that did not belong to Leiby. But police have not discovered any other victims.
Aron’s only other arrest was for public urination but police are looking into reports that Aron may have once tried to lure another boy into his car, according to the New York Daily News.
Captain Mike Griffus of the Germantown Police Department in Germantown, Tenn., a suburb of Memphis where Aron once lived, told FoxNews.com on Thursday that “we’re not looking at him for anything.”
“We don’t have anything remotely related to that type of a crime,” Griffus said, adding that the only involvement his department had with Aron was over a speeding ticket issued on April 7, 2006.
A spokeswoman with the police department in Memphis also told FoxNews.com that Aron is not currently being investigated for any crimes committed within the city.
The FBI said Thursday that the case is still considered a “local matter” and that the bureau has no involvement in the case at this point.
The FBI can very easily take over the case because he crossed state lines but that would create a conflict between NY officials and the Feds.
The local law enforcement and the Feds would be tripping over each other in conflicts over evidence collection and custody of evidence.
Charles Heine’s want to take political credit for this most notorious case, ‘purchasing’ Jewish votes as being a”tough cop’.
If Charles Heine’s lets the FBI take over then all the notoriety will go to the FBI as they will be in the spotlight and they will be the ones in front of the TV Cameras every other day as new details emerge.
Once Charles Heine’s is “done with his part of notoriety” the feds can come in later.
There is also an added benefit that we get try Aaron in court, potentially 2 times. In case the local government looses the case in NY, th Feds can come back and retry him on Federal charges.
It’s all part of the law enforcement, theatrical game-plan.
Maybe they should be looking for missing kids in areas surrounding that small townin Tennessee. Hopefully they will match all DNA found with a national database of missing persons. if only for the families of their lost kids, so they rest in peace just as the kletzky family now can.
I think it was his first murder but he was planning on doing many more, that is why he kept the feet as trophy to what he has done. He loved the evil act he did and kept part because of how happy he was by what he has done. Pure evil!
“…police allegedly found his severed feet inside a freezer in Aron’s apartment “
The police did find severed feet. You don’t have to say allegedly. Nobody is “alleging” that the police found the severed feet. They found them in fact.
I allegedly hate when alleged news outlets allegedly preface every alleged comment with the word alleged.
Isn’t it strange how so many writers to VIN attempt to rationalize the irrational?
Why is it so difficult to accept that Levi Aron is meshuga???
Aron is sissy coward who probably wouldn’t have dared to kidnap a Christian child in the south. Down there they know how to handle baby killers, and this sissy coward would be facing the executioner, that’s if he wouldn’t have been lynched by the local populance first.