Take A Good Look At The Face Of EVIL, Darlings!!!!!!!!!

Remember the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Shadow Of A Doubt," girls???? The killer, played by the underrated Joseph Cotten, was able to skillfully cloak his sins, being the Merry Widow murderer on one hand, while an adored family member to his relations, most especially his adoring older sister, played by Patricia Collinge. Only his niece, named Charlie, after him (excellently played by Teresa Wight) stumbles onto the truth, and when he dies at the end, it is with his secret kept from his still adoring relations by Charlie. At one point, Collinge reveals that he was in some accident--falling off a bike, I think, and suffered some head trauma--which changed him in some way.

How disturbingly similar this sounds to Levi Aron. Except with some minor differences.

Slowly and inexorably, things are coming out about him.

His ex-wife Debbie, got an order of protection, before their divorce.

A neighbor says her son, months before, was approached and offered a ride
in the car by Aron. He rightfully declined, and she thought nothing of it until Leiby Keltzsky's disappearance.

Various people described him as "creepy," "one who liked to hang out at playgrounds."

Darlings, it is clear enough to me! Levi Aron was a ticking Time Bomb, waiting to detonate, and on July 12 and 13 he did, when he abducted, killed, and, if anything could get worse, and it did, mutilated the body of an innocent young boy, the aforementioned Leiby Kletzsky.

There was no doubt in my mind, as of yesterday, as to who would be this weeks's Bitch Of The Week Award Winner. In fact, so heinous are Aron's deeds, I cannot see anyone beating him out, when the time comes, for Bitch Of The Year.

Alas, this is not a fun column. It is a far cry from the days when someone like 70's homophobe Anita Bryant might have been named, even though she kissed little Orange Bird on all those juice commercials, unaware he was getting all the action he could at every gay bar in Florida!!!!!!!!! If her timing had been better, Anita could have been a great Fag Hag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This column is usually fun to write. But occasionally it is not, and not only is this one of those times, it is one of the darkest.

Levi Aron reminds me, to a degree, of the Peter Lorre character, in "M." In that film, the entire underworld community united to find him, just as the Brooklyn Jewish community of the Kletzslys united in the boy's search. But Lorre was judged by a kangaroo court of his peers; Aron will undergo more conventional justice, but with a city shocked by the most heinous crime against a child since Etan Patz a generation before, cries of outrage, bloodlust and retribution are sure to follow.

It is a good thing investigators are starting to dig into Aron's background. Because, as I said yesterday, things do not add up. And the more that comes out, the more is needed to know.

Aron is Jewish Orthodox, but not of the Hasidic community. His father was said to be religious and domineering. He is described as "more of his mother's boy than his father's" by one neighbor. And that mother died in 2,000, while Aron was still in his early twenties. Perhaps she was the glue holding him together. And perhaps with her passing and the years following, Aron eroded.

I would hazard a guess that Aron sent out signals without anyone realizing it, or wanting to. His penchant for picking up kids in cars, or wanting to, indicates a deep seated struggle with impulses he finally lost control of with Leiby Kletzsky. This was just waiting to happen to Aron, and, unfortunately, the Opportunity of Evil presented him with young Kletzsky, who crossed paths with him in a neighborhood with which the boy was not at all familiar. Aron saw and seized the opportunity, and then impulse and events seized him.

That is my take on all this, girls!!!!!!!!!! And of course one's heart goes out to the innocent soul of Leiby Kletzsky, and his surviving family. But something needs to be said of the Aron family, too. They are in the proverbial rock and hard place. And, as this crime becomes a part, as it will, of city history, descendants of theirs will unfortunately not be able to escape the stigma of people saying "you're related to that guy who killed Leiby Kletzsky", long after they would know or have any connection to it. That is indeed unfortunate.

But it is equally unfortunate that, within the immediate family, more of Levi Aron's signals were not picked up on, or, maybe, ignored. Then he might have gotten the help he needed. And Leiby Kletzsky would be here to celebrate what would have been his ninth birthday next week.

The evil festering in this man's heart went unnoticed. Is his fammily to blame? Technically, no, though they will be found guilty in the Court of Public Opinion. In the end, though, it is Levi Aron, Bitch Of The Week, who will stand trial, and face whatever sentence--death or life confinement--gets pronounced upon him. If given the latter (life), he should, probably be placed in Solitary, because, for certain he will be murdered if thrown in with the prison community. With very few to mourn him, as we now mourn Leiby Kletzsky.

This will surely be remembered by all us New York dwellers as the single most memorable event of Summer 2011. And you can be sure I will report to my girls in weeks to come.

But right now, we have Levi Aron, one of the most evil BOTW's to grace this column!!!!! May his like not be seen again too soon!!!!!!!!!!!

And may we all find peace in the wake of this unspeakable tragedy!!!!!!!