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Members of the orthodox Jewish community gather around Shimon Jacobowitz, in pink shirt, who shows a picture on his phone of a man he believes to be the perpetrator in the murder of a recently missing boy in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Ju Seth Wenig, Associated Press
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A subway commuter reads a missing person flyer about eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky, Wednesday, July 13, 2011, in New York. Remains believed to be those of Kletzy, who disappeared while walking home from a Brooklyn day camp, were found in a refrigerator We Bebeto Matthews, Associated Press
By Associated Press

NEW YORK — Police say an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home from a day camp was killed and dismembered by a stranger who he asked for directions.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Wednesday that a 35-year-old suspect had been arrested after the remains of the missing boy were discovered inside the man's refrigerator.

Levi Aron was taken into custody early Wednesday morning by detectives who had been looking for Leiby Kletzky (LYE'-bee KLEHT'-skee) since Monday.

Kelly says Aron made statements implicating himself in the boy's death.

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Investigators tracked Aron with the help of surveillance video that showed him being approached by the lost boy.

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