police say he got lost and asked levy aron for help. investigators say he ended up in aron's car and eventually in his home. police say the suspect has confessed to the brutal crime, but that hasn't stopped their investigation. they're looking into whether he could be tied to other missing persons cases. jeff pegues, abc news, new york. >>> a texas mom is in trouble after leading police on a high-speed chase with her two little girls in the car. investigators say that the car hit speeds of more than 100 miles an hour through three counties before her car was disabled. they say the mother took the children from their legal guardian without permission. >>> if you think only us little people have to suffer the indignities of airport security checks, take a look at this. the website tmz got a hold of this showing donald rumsfeld getting a full-on patdownt o'hare airport. he cooperated fully with the procedure. everybody's got to do it. >> putting his words in action, i suppose. >>> taking a look at this morning's weather from around the nati

levy aron has told attorneys he hears voices and has had hallucinations. jeff pegues has details. >> reporter: no matter how much they hear about the case. >> i don't know how anybody could do that. >> reporter: there are still so many unanswered questions for this community. residents line up behind the barricades, some praying, others staring at the home that has become a symbol of the horror a little boy endured. the search for evidence in the home continued but what about the man who lived here? >> he looked quite the normal guy. he was quiet. didn't talk much. >> reporter: but authorities allege he is a killer. they say he's a man who kicked and murdered a little boy then disposed of the body parts. police say it included the 8-year-old's struggle to survive. police commissioner ray kelly says, leibby kletzky tried to fight. >> it's reasonable to say at this time based on the marks on the defendant here that there was some struggle. >> reporter: the suspect appeared inourt for the first time and during the arraignment levy aron stood with his head dow

levi aron told his attorney he sometimes hears voices and has hallucinations. watch. andrea canning has more from new york. >> reporter: he's accused of an unthinkable crime. and as an angry crowd shouted in the distance, levi aron appeared in court charged with the murder of leibby kletzky. >> i have serious concerns about the defendant's mental state -- >> reporter: monday 8-year-old leibby asked his parents to let him walk home alone from camp for the first time, just seven short blocks. but the boy took a wrong turn and asked the wrong man for directions. leibby and his attacker can be seen on this surveillance video. leibby's parents felt they were acting safely. they had even practiced the route and were waiting for him. but he never arrived. now the tragedy has parents everywhere talking about when children should be allowed to walk home alone. each year about 115 children are abducted by strangers. experts say a seemingly safe neighborhood can be an even greater risk. >> the predator picks a place where a child will walk down the street because crime doe

suspect levi aron is expected to be arraigned soon. aron led police to the body of 8-year-old leibby kletzky in his brooklyn apartment. the little boy that he confessed that he smothered and then dismembered. for little leibby's parents, the worst kind of horror. it was the first time they had allowed their little boy to walk home alone. this is a crime that has absolutely shocked this city. >> reporter: it certainly has, and really the country. it's relatable for all parents, to have a child say i want to do this or that, it really raises the question when do you let your child walk alone. this young boy was 8 years old, had begged his parents to just walk home alone from camp. he wanted to feel like a big boy and his parents said yes, they rehearsed the route, they practiced it. it was about seven blocks from camp to the rendezvous point with his mom. he never made it. he got lost and asked for directions of a stranger, according to police. that stranger, the man who is now under arrest, police say took him, kidnapped him, brought hi

then in the evening, he's seen at the dentist office here with the suspect, levi aron who was later arrestedple days later up in here. when you see this tight space, what goes through your mind as someone who has profiled major cases like this? >> well, this is unlikely to have been a crime that could have been pulled off as easily in downtown nebraska. this is new york city. hundreds of thousands of people. much easier for the offender to kind of blend in and this child was used to be surrounded by lots of people. so i can see why it was pretty easy for aron to take the boy. >> and if you read the confession, which police have now authenticated, mr. aron write, i was still in panic. he's confessing to having the boy in his home. i was still in panic and afraid to bring him home. that's when i went for a towel to smother him in the side room. he fought back a little bit until eventually he stopped breathing. he described what he did to the body. we will not repeat it here tonight. then he ends -- and i find this -- i don't know if curious is the right word. he understands that this may be wr

but police say he got lost and asked levi aron for help. in aron's car and eventually in his home. police say the suspect has confessed to the brutal crime. but that hasn't stopopd their investigation. they're looking into whether he could be tied to other missing persons cases. jeff pegues, abc news, new york. >> terrible story. >>> a north texas mom is in trouble after leading police on a high-speed chase with her two kids in the car. investigators say that the car hit speeds of more than 100 miles an hour. the pursuit sped through three counties before her car was disabled. they say that the mother took the children from their legal guardian without permission. the little girls, age 3 and 5, were not hurt. >>> to washington now where the debt talks have turned tense to say the least. president obama, frustrated with the lack of progress, said there would be no short-term extensions. according to those in the meeting, he said, "this may bring my presidency down but i will not yield on this." the president then walked out. now moody's is t

it shows 8-year-old leibby kletsky with 35-year-old levi aron walking into a dentist office. investigators traced aron's address from records at that office. when they arrived at his apartment early this morning, the door was ajar. when asked about the child, aron pointed to the kitchen. >> inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three carving knives with blood on them. some of the remains were in the freezer, and others in the dumpster 2 1/2 miles away. >> police say aron and the boy did not know each other. they say the boy had simply asked for directions in what's considered a no-crime neighborhood. >>> juror number 3 in the casey anthony murder trial is talking about what it feels like to be associated with a very unpopular verdict. >> it's just very stressful and, you know, you get anonymous letters from people that are hateful and nasty. >> jennifer ford says the hate mail and threats began when she revealed her role as a juror. she says anthony may not be innocent, but she stansd by her decision saying that prosecutors failed to prove their case. >> they had g

they say levi aron, on your screen right now, has actually confessed to the crime. 35 years old, livesrents, lives with his father and uncle, i should say, works in a hardware store. no criminal history. police say this defies logic. they can't figure out why this man, who has no history of this, there's no evidence that he has trawled the area for other children, would snap and do this. here's part of his confession about how he panicked and snapped when he saw the missing person flyers go up looking for this little boy. quote, when i saw the flyers, i panicked and was afraid. i went for a towel to smother him in the side room. he fought back a little bit. afterwards i panicked because i didn't know what to do with the body. i understand this may be wrong and i'm sorry for the hurt that i have caused. police say he has been talking to them. the suspect, they say, confessed to taking the boy to a wedding. the boy slept in his house for a night or two. so it is just a gruesome detailed kind of story, as you know, and a parent's worst nightmare. he is charged with second degree murder, i

what values was levi aron raised on if he's crazy? he's an absolute monster.s from this community. these are are not our values. security in numbers. saw how many people were out volunteering to save this little boy, help this boy and saw the community being galvanized and working together, but the third thing is if the purpose to live together in religious communities is to protect our kids from popular culture, television, some of the lyrics of music, can you imagine this, that a boy inside this insular protected community is butchered in a manner reminiscent of -- i can't even imagine this. the community is shocked to its absolute core. it has no precedence. >> what is the sense of trust, rabbi, in this community? i mean, is that why you think maybe this little boy might have approach this stranger? i mean, i don't think they knew each other, certainly hasn't been report that had they did, so is it just a matter of trust in this very insulated community? >> that's a very good point. look, we have a childhood obesity epidemic in america because parents won't

the man he asked levi aron murdered him and mutilated his body. so far there is no motive. >>> in afghanistan there's been an explosion at a memorial after the after for the slain brother of hamid karzai. the government says a senior cleric was killed and 11 others wounded. ahmed wali karzai, a powerful political presence in kandahar, was killed this week at home by an associate. president hamid karzai was not at today's service. >>> indian officials say they have no leads in yesterday's deadly bombing in mumbai. three bombs exploded during rush hour killing at least 17 and wounded 131 people. police say there was no warning and no group has claimed responsibility for that. in 2008, terrorists killed 166 people during a siege that lasted several days. >>> u.s. lawmakers have asked the attorney general to investigate rupert murdoch. they want to know if murdoch's company broke any u.s. laws for allegedly bribing police in the phone hacking scandal that forced murdoch to close his largest paper. mean dock pulled the plug on a it is 12 billion busine

now levi aron made his first appearance in court just a few minutes ago. he's just been formally charged with murder and kidnapping in the first degree. our deb feyerick joins us live from new york. how did this all go down in court? >> very brief. aron has been ordered to undergo a two-week psychiatric evaluation, also put on suicide watch. his defense lawyers in court saying that he told them that he hears voices. now, aron has been charged with kidnapping and murdering of that 8-year-old little boy, leibby kletzky. surveillance chid shows the child walking home by himself, a backpack slung over his shoulder. he was walking home for the first time from day camp. he had arranged with his parents to meet them halfway. again, every parent wrestles with this. how much freedom do you give a children, and at what age? they had done a dry run, but apparently he took a wrong turn, and police say that he -- he -- he met aron and then they went to a dentist office where he waited for the man. this wasn't technically a stranger because he looked like all the other

in a terrible twist of fate he ran into levy aron and asked him for directions. n told the little boy to wait while he entered a nearby dentist's office. seven minutes later aron takes the boy away in his car. his abduction set off a massive search by the boy's tight-knit community. >> with the assistance they found records that established his name and address. >> reporter: at 2:30 cops entered his home. at 35 years old aron still lived in his parents' home a plumbing store clerk he was religious and his facebook shows 225 friends and interests like "american idol" but neighbors described him as a loner who hung out in play many grounds. why is this so rare? >> wrong place, wrong time for the little boy and the exact time for sexual perversion to want to snatch seize and destroy. >> reporter: police say he confessed to the abduction and led them to a suitcase that contained the boy's body parts. thousands gathered to celebrate the life of thennocent boy who would have been 9 years old next week. and one news report says during the killer's confession he told the

and as an angry crowd shouted in the distance, levi aron appeared in court this afternoon, charged with the murder of leiby kletzky. >> i have serious concerns about the defendant's mental state. >> reporter: monday, 8-year-old leiby had asked his parents to let him walk home alone from camp for the first time. just seven short blocks. but the boy took a wrong turn and asked the wrong man n r directions. leiby and his attacker can be seen on this survey lens individu video. >> it defies all logic and i think that's what's really so terribly disturbing about this case. >> reporter: leiby's parents felt they were acting safely. they had even practiced the route and were waiting for him. but he never arrived. and now, the tragedy has ignited debate everywhere, talking about when children should be allowed to walk home alone. each year, about 115 children are abducted by strangers. experts say a seemingly safe neighborhood can be an even greater risk. >> the predator picks a place where a child will walk down the street because crime doesn't happen there. perversion happens everywhere. >> r

police are trying to figure out if levi aron is linked to any other crimes.lieve he abducted leiby kletzky when he was walking home from camp on monday. he killed him and dismembered him. laura ingle has more. >> reporter: investigators are scour eurpbg aron's third floor apartment in block lynn going through phone records and belongings. they are back there today as well as taking a sample of his dna and running it through a national database to see if he could be connected to any other missing persons cases. police are said to be hearing more gruesome details of the horrifying last moments of little leiby kletzky's life. in his reported confession aron levi complains he was approached by the lost boy for directions monday. he offered him a ride in his car and he says he took him to a wedding outside of new york city and got home late with the boy. he also reportedly told police that the boy fell asleep. but now there are reports claiming that there is evidence that leiby kletzky was tied up to a couch with rope. we are also hearing that aron had scratches o

we're learning disturbing new information about levi aron.his gruesome murder has many asking why a little boy was walking alone in a big city anyway. people asking should he have been been. we're going to discuss that and more with wendy walsh right after the break. stay with us. stay with us. [ tires squeal ] an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that's one model-year newer with 15,000 fewer miles on it. there's no other auto insurance product like it. better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual. it's a better policy that gets you a better car. call... or visit one of our local offices today, and we'll provide the coverage you need at the right price. liberty mutual auto insurance -- responsibility. what's your policy? >>> lawyers for levi aron says their client hears voices, and they have questions about his mental state. he's the brooklyn man who pleaded not guilty yesterday to kidnapping

detectives identified him as 35-year-old levi aron.s not immediately clear. >> there was no indication at this time the victim was known to the suspect previously. it was just happenstance and a terrible fate for this young boy. >> reporter: little leibby kletzky had been missing since he left his orthodox day camp on monday afternoon. this morning the boy's rabbi left the apartment with nypd detectives moments after the parents learned of the child's fate. >> i got a call from police to come down because we're going to make notification. >> reporter: the child's disappearance gripped ro eped bs tight knit orthodox community for 36 hours. leibby is last seen asking directions from a bearded man on his way home. police tracked the suspect who was seen on another surveillance camera leaving a nearby dentist's office. the dentist confirmed the identity, and the detectives made the arrest in the middle of the night. >> when detectives asked where the boy was, aron nodded toward the kitchen, where detectives observed blood on the freezer ha

levi aron was arrested wednesday. he has been placed on suicide watch and ordered psychiatric tests. >>> and a public apology from rupert murdock took out a full page ad today in seven british papers saying he's sorry about the phone hacking scandal that has overwhelmed his media empire. the shouts that actually greeted murdock yesterday as he went to meet with the parents of a murdered girl whose phone was alledgedly hacked by staffers with one of murdock's tabloids. >>> on to los angeles now. a traffic nightmare may be the norm, but that's nothing normal about this. today a ten mile section of the congested usually 405 has shut down for the entire weekend for a construction project. it's an event so fear that residents are calling it c carmagedd carmageddon. let's go to corinne winter. half a million people traveling the 405 on a typical weekend. hot today, but give us an idea why driving really is so engrained in the lifestyle of people there in southern california. >> reporter: this is not a typical city like new

police say levi aron, or levi, tied the boy to a couch to keep him from escaping. he still hasn't provided a motive for the crime. his attorney told the judge, his client is hearing voices. and he wants him placed on suicide watch. entering the court to boos and heckling in the distance, the monster who confessed to killing 8-year-old leibby kletzky appeared emotionless in court on thursday. >> he admitted to smothering him and dismembering him. >> reporter: new details are now emerging about the two horrifying days leibby was held captive. monday he walked home alone from camp but tragically asked for directions from the wrong man. authorities say aron abducted him around 5:30. and you can see them on this surveillance video. shortly after he claims he drove to a wedding and brought the boy here but no one can recall seeing him. police hope a camera might provide more clues. >> i have surveillance. but t ey took whatever they had to take. >> reporter: at 4:30 the next morning, aron went to work at a plumbing store with a new appearance. >> he stated that he had cl

levi aron, the chops his body into pieces.ults reveal a cocktail of prescription and over-the-counter drugs in the boy's system. if convicted aron could face a maximum of life in prison without parole. >>> "atlantis" returns for the last time today. it's been an emotional journey for everyone. "atlantis" retires for a museum, but the commander says this is not the end of america in space. he says, quote, america is not going to stop exploring. >>> a bombshell, after tiger woods fired longtime caddy steve williams, after years of service, williams says he's disappointed and shocked by the move. williams also says the sex scandal made him lose respect for woods. woods has not announced a replacement. >>> a catastrophe in chile, a rare and massive snowstorm blanketed parts of the country, the nation's interior minister calls it a white earthquake. they sent in trucks and military helicopters to help more than 6500 people trapped. to make matters worse, chile is bracing for more bad weather. >>> while much of the u.s. is suffering

. >> at what point did you see this little boy with the suspect in this case, levi aron? three or four blocks later after the next surveillance camer cameras. it was to the school surveillance that brought me down to 18th corner of 44. i saw two surveillance, i brought a friend of mine to open up the cameras. we went back and he's lost. he walked to 18th and went up and down and didn't know where he was going anymore. >> we see the video of them together as you and i are talking to the phone. how did you bring this to the attention of the police? what was their reaction? >> right after i saw back and forth and we saw the guy he's following, i picked up my phone and called a man from 66. he was in a car of three of the detectives. i called him and i have exactly four different civilians and i see him going to the car leaving the scene. i needed detectives to take over from here further. hours later i reviewed the film again with the technician. we started seeing that while he was at the corner, he crossed and he walked into a white house. so i passed by, and we saw it was

and next to him was 345-year-old levi aron who's been charged with murder and kidnap in the first degreeas given a muscle relaxant, an anti-psychotic drug, a pain medication and the drug find in tylenol. when you hear that, what's your first reaction? >> well, the first thing that i think of is in kidnapping and sexual assault cases and pedophilia involving children, these drugs are sometimes used, especially the opiates, the muscle relaxants are used to maintain control over the child. so inform all likelihood this was done to calm him and to allow aron to perpetrate whatever it was that he perpetrated against him during that time that he had him incarcerated. i noticed in the press release, we don't see really the concentration, so it's kind of hard to see or judge how badly it may have affected him during that time period. >> also in what we've been reading from new york police commissioner who's just describing this whole thing as heart breaking and heart wrenching. he says this suspect told authorities he was sorry for the trouble he'd caused and that he hears voices and ha luis nat

yesterday, levi aron appeared in court where a judge ordered a psychological evaluation and aron was placed on suicide watch. outside court yesterday, he faced outrage. >> police say aron told him he killed leiby after a search was under way. cletzky was abducted on monday while you walked to home for the first time in his life. >> there are indications of scratches on aron's arms and wrists. i think it's -- it's reasonable to say at this time based on the marks on the -- on the defendant here that there was some struggle. >>> investigators say it appears the boy was tied up before he was killed but he tried to fight off his captor anyway. >>> an alarm, on-board computer failed and they got it running again. the second computer failure on this last shuttle mission. the nasa says there are no safety concerns. today, they are transferring more supplies from "atlantis" to the space station. >>> if you're hoping for an nfl season, it looks pretty good right now. nfl owners and players have made significant progress in contract talks. there has been major movement on rookie contracts whic

a new york grand jury indicted levi aron on six charges.g leiby clo kletzky. >>> mohammed hasan was arraigned without his lead defense attorney. he removed him voluntarily. instead, three military lawyers were at the arraignment today. hasan was accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others. >>> jury selection will begin in september in the trial of conrad murray. the doctor who allegedly administered a fatal dose of anaesthetic to michael jackson. at a hearing today, murray's defense lawyer says he is concerned about media coverage and mentioned nancy grace by name. >>> and kim kardashian endorses a slew of products, but old navy isn't one of them. so he is suing. today, kim filed a lawsuit against old navy over this commercial, which features someone who looks a lot like her. what do you think? >> yeah. i can't believe she's suing. i mean, it's just going to make her more famous, this commercial? >> she is not just suing. she is suing for something in the region of $15 million to $20 million, according to media reports. >> wow. >> s

aron levy who was going here to see his dentist. >> 35 minutes later leany was in a 1990 brown honda accord with leiby aron who subsequently brought the boy to his apartment, killed him there, and then dismembered the body. according to statements that he made. >> police caught up with aron whose car was identified by eyewitnesses two days later. the shocking nature of the crime affecting even veteran top cop ray kelly and mayor michael bloomberg who visited the boy's home this week to pay respects as his family sat shiver. >> we all before we go to bed should take a look at our children and recognize how lucky we are to have them and hope this doesn't happen to us. >> the tragedy shined light on neighborhood watch groups operating sesk strictly within the orthodox communities. >> why do you think it's necessary that you have own private security within these neighborhoods? >> let us not kid ourselves, so many crimes are committed and also we believe that we are a target. >> now some are asking what leany known in the community and did he try unsuccessfully to kip kidnap others. this

new york city cops continue to haul out evidence from the home of accused child killer levi aron.he first foreign born general to become chairman of the joints chiefs of staff. the general passed away from complications of a stroke. he was 75. >>> well, treasury secretary tim geithner said moments ago he is sure america will not default before august 2nd, but john boehner's two-tier plan won't pass, either. >> nats the problem. that's the question right now, whether or not the votes will be there. both of those power players joining chris wallace. chris joins us moments before he speaks to those gentlemen. nice tto see you thisnice to se. >> the fox news bureau is briftling with security guards. we've got the geithner team, the boehner team. this is the only place they will both be on this sunday dpl maybe the security team can find the votes. to me, that's the big question this morning. you have what speaker boehner reportedly asked the president yesterday or laid before the president. we'll hear that later today before the asian markets which is this two-tier plan, a short-term