News: New Details – Missing Brooklyn Boy
(Long Island, N.Y.) A week after an eight-year-old boy went missing from the streets of Borough Park, Brooklyn details have emerged about the case. Experts relied on old-fashioned detective work to track down the boy’s steps after leaving his summer day camp. A man involved in the boy’s Hasidic community was largely responsible for all of the success in capturing the man charged with his murder.
Police and authorities on the case looked at a variety of surveillance footage from the different establishments along the boy’s route from day camp. They believed to be stuck when they realized he wasn’t on the video from the footage along the intended route. One man drew the reasonable conclusion, contrary to popular belief, that he didn’t take a right on 13th avenue.
After further examination of the surveillance footage, it seemed to be clear to police and authorities on the case that the boy had missed his turn. He was finally spotted on surveillance footage taken from two cameras along 44th Street and 14th Avenue at roughly fifteen minutes after five that evening. The clearest images of the boy came from the next corner at 44th Street and 15th Avenue.
Police and investigators encountered more surveillance footage from a camera on the next block. The video was from a resident’s garage, but was deemed corrupted and unwatchable. The principal of Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Krasna, located past 16th Avenue on 44th Street, had taken surveillance of the entire block. The eight-year-old was captured on a video near 17th Avenue.
The boy’s killer was eventually captured from surveillance video at a car-leasing company called Tristate Fleet. The cameras were newly installed and the killer was seen entering and exiting the nearby dentist office. The dentist office appeared to be a white house, and the boy’s killer had stayed in the building for the duration of three minutes.
The man involved with the case had been in close contact with the New York City Police Department’s Clergy Liaison Program. The team was able to determine who the killer was because he was the only man to enter and exit the dentist’s office quickly. The boy’s remains were found inside the killer’s freezer, located two miles from the rest of the remains found inside a dumpster.
The old-fashioned detective work was completed by a man who once shopped at the hardware store where the boy’s killer worked. He allegedly had tears in his eyes when given the news. Many claimed that he should have received more credit for solving the entire case.
