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Cold Cases in Brooklyn, New York

ColdCaseIndex documents 2 cases in Brooklyn, New York, dated 2001 to 2011. 1 is recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Henryk Siwiak (2001) and the most recent is Leiby Kletzky (2011).

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Status of the 2 cases
  • Unsolved 1 (50%)
  • Solved or convicted 1 (50%)

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Conviction 2011

Leiby Kletzky

Eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky was on his first walk home alone in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn when he got lost. He asked Levi Aron for directions; Aron abducted and killed him.

Brooklyn Homicide Age 8
Unsolved 2001

Henryk Siwiak

Henryk Siwiak, a 46-year-old Polish immigrant, was shot at about 11:40 p.m. on September 11, 2001, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, after getting lost on the way to a new job.

Brooklyn Homicide Age 46

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