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Episode 146 - The Butcher of Brooklyn: Levi Aron

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On 11 July 2011, 8 year old Leiby Kletzy was walking home from school when he vanished. After an extensive police hunt for CCTV, Leiby’s tight-knit Hasidic community were shocked to see that the man who had taken the little boy was wearing a yarmulke; he was one of their own...


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0:00.0

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0:17.4

I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to Red-handed now endorsed by Anna Pacquins.

0:23.2

I know!

0:25.2

Ah, that was crazy. That was mad.

0:28.0

My god, when I was at uni, I used to like obsessively watch True Blood every single week when it was on.

0:34.4

God.

0:35.2

Ah, man.

0:36.4

What a woman. She won an Oscar age 11.

0:39.2

Because her Instagram handle is an underscore before her name and I was like,

0:42.6

oh, it's just a fan account, don't worry.

0:44.4

Because the blue tick didn't load on my phone for whatever reason.

0:47.8

And then I like double-checked it and I was like, oh god, no, it's actually the real life Anna Pacquins.

0:52.4

Yeah, I'd even seen people being like, it's a somebody because I had like been on social media that morning

0:58.2

for you sent it to me, but I didn't really take it in. I think it's because I didn't click on to

1:02.8

the actual Instagram account. So I was just like, I don't know, someone just recommended us great.

1:09.5

But I was like, fuck, when you sent me that screenshot, I was like, oh my god, that's mad.

1:13.8

But yeah, thanks Anna. I, thanks for listening.

1:16.4

Yeah, come to our Elation.

1:19.3

When we're eventually allowed to do one.

1:21.0

Yes, when we're eventually allowed to.

1:23.4

Yeah, don't hold your breath, but maybe one day we'll see you guys there.

1:27.0

Other than that, very quick announcements before we kick off.

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