A Brooklyn man convicted of murdering an 8-year-old boy in 2011 died in custody, according to state correction officials.<\/p>\n
Levi Aron, 49, was serving 40 years to life for killing Leiby Kletzky and dismembering his corpse.<\/p>\n
Aron died after he was admitted to a hospital in August for a medical condition. Officials say his death was expected, and his family did not request an autopsy.<\/p>\n
Aron kidnapped Kletzky on his way home from a day camp school in July 2011.<\/p>\n
Kletzky was suffocated to death, and his dismembered corpse was found by police.<\/p>\n
Kletzky’s severed feet were discovered in a freezer at Aron\u2019s home in Kensington, just 2 miles from the boy\u2019s home, while the rest of his body was found inside a suitcase that had been thrown in a trash bin a mile away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man convicted of murdering an 8-year-old boy in 2011 died in custody, according to state correction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9236,32758,7126,2977,259,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-61501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-concealment-of-a-corpse","tag-department-of-corrections-and-community-supervision","tag-kensington","tag-kidnapping","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}