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Aron’s confession so bizarre experts are confused
13-07-2011
Tagged Under : Experts, Experts Confused
Levi Aron had such a bizarre confession that experts are questioning his sanity.
Confessed child butcher Levi Aron’s crime was so barbaric and his confession so bizarre that it has even left experts baffled.
In the hours after cops found Leiby Kletsky’s dismembered body, Aron told investigators he was only trying to help the lost little boy find his way home.
He claims he didn’t hurt the child for an entire day – until he panicked when he learned a massive search was underway.
“It’s highly illogical and makes no sense,” said Lawrence Koblinsky, a professor of forensic science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“If you realize there’s a big search out there, okay you might be upset or frightened because you’ve got the kid, but you let the kid loose on the street.”
What makes the case especially perplexing, experts say, is that Aron, 35, does not have a violent criminal history and early indications are Leiby was not sexually assaulted.
Kobilinsky said he thinks the crime might “boil down to a psychotic episode.”
“If the guy is psychotic, that would explain a lot of things,” Kobilinsky added. “Then, there’s no logic to what they do.”
Aron’s lawyers have already laid groundwork for a possible insanity defense, telling a Brooklyn judge the suspect “hears voices and has had hallucinations.”
But Joseph Pollini, a retired NYPD homicide detective, believes an insanity claim would not succeed.
“For him to make such statements such as he panicked, that he was aware they were looking for him, that would take away his ability to claim insanity,” Pollini said.
“For someone to claim insanity, they would have needed not to know what was going on. They’d [have to] be in a different world.”
Pollini said he doubts Aron’s claim he brought Leiby to a wedding Monday night and that he was alive at lunchtime Tuesday.
“It doesn’t sound like a plausible scenario,” Pollini said, adding that Aron’s “ulterior motive still remains to be seen.”
Retired FBI profiler Clint Van Zandta said there are still too many uncertainties to decide if Aron is a liar or a lunatic.
“Right now, I’ve got as many questions as I do answers,” Van Zandt said. “Either his story is all a lie, or this is a massive break from reality that a psychologist is going to have to explain.”
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