Investigators spent four hours yesterday scouring newly discovered color surveillance video from a New Jersey gas station that shows Brooklyn monster Levi Aron escorting Leiby Kletzky to the bathroom late July 11—the last known images of the boy.
“It gave me chills in my spine,” said an attendant at the Sunoco station on the Palisades Parkway after looking at still images from the video, time-stamped 8:15 p.m. “I know the child is dead. It made me sad.”
The footage shows Aron opening his car door for Leiby, and the two walking into the bathroom together.
“The pictures were just the kid and the guy walking behind him,” the attendant said. “The man had a hat with glasses.
The little boy was dressed like the way they described him when they were looking for him.”
They were in the facility for only one to two minutes, said a second attendant who saw the video.
“There was no pushing, no nothing. The little kid goes easily,” the second attendant said.
The footage then shows them leaving in a Honda, the second attendant said.
“It just looked like anyone else walking in and out. The child didn’t look frightened,” the first attendant said.
Later that night, they returned to Aron’s attic apartment in Kensington.
The next day, July 12, Aron allegedly bound Leiby and left him “in a captive position” for 12 hours while he went to his plumbing-supply stockboy job.
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what happened to Amber Alert?
I strongly believe the first law to pass should be the amber alert law as soon as child or adult is reported missing. Had there been an amber alert warning by 6.30pm Leiby would’ve been found and hopefully saved and aron arrested. The green sticker law is good for molesters and kidnappers.
There was no Amber alert issue, a great failure on part of the NYPD. Yet the NYPD has the audacity to blame the Shomrim for the delay in contacting them.
I know that there were people here in the coffee room who wanted an Amber Alert called on that Monday night, the same day he went missing and perhaps 24 hours before he was murdered. I don’t believe at any point was an Amber Alert actually created by the authorities.
The reason there was no Amber Alert for Leiby Kletzky (Z”L, HY”D) is that no one knew that a crime (kidnapping) had been committed.
As late as 10 PM Tuesday night on the Zev Brenner Show on 620 AM, everyone was talking about how it was just a lost kid – and no one suspected that he had been kidnapped.
If there would’ve been an Amber alert, the murderer wouldn’t walk with the boy in public, nor use the restrooms at a public gas station.
mik5 – I dont know what Zev Brenner said, but I was well aware that it was suspected that he had been kidnapped
So I guess there is proof the kid was taken out of state which makes it a federal crime.
#8 – this isn’t the sort of thing that interests the United States attorney – and in any event, a federal trial is likely to better for the defendant since he’ll have a judge with life tenure as opposed to one who is running for reelection (the jury will probably be upstate and any Orthodox Jews would probably be excused since most will know to much from reading the press coverage).
Federal crime = federal death penalty.