Tragedy grows in Brooklyn as questions emerge.

“When we walked into [his] house as kids, there was just a very eerie feeling in the air. It was not a nice place.” This is how a neighbor remembered going into Levy Aron’s family home in Brooklyn when he was a kid. What happened in that home?

Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the Police Department stated a neighborhood woman told him that Aron had tried to lure her son into his car a year ago. How many children had he lured before? How many had he wanted to lure?

Parents on the block didn’t want their kids to go near him, said another neighbor, Chaim Lefkovitz, 39. A family acquaintance, Lee Vogel, 21, said, “There was something strange about him. You know when you see Charles Manson, he has that look in his eye? Levy had that look.” Why hadn't someone done something about him before?

Levy Aron, a 35-year-old loner who still lives in the same house with his father and uncle, confessed last week to kidnapping and murdering Leiby Kletzky, an eight-year-old boy who got lost while walking seven blocks from his day camp to meet his mother. Various reports since then have raised more questions than answers.

Aron said in his confession he saw Kletzky standing around in Borough Park, an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. He asked if he needed a ride somewhere and the boy, who was autistic, went with him. Did his autism make him susceptible?

Aron said he attended a wedding later that day, but witnesses say they didn't see the boy there. What did he do with the boy? The following day went to work. What did he do with the boy? Police say they saw rope marks on the boy's remains. Was he tied up that day? Aron said he suffocated the boy with a towel, then cut the boy's body up and put it in a dumpster. For some reason, he wrapped the boy's feet in plastic bags in his refrigerator. Why did he keep the feet?

At his arraignment Aron's lawyer, Pierre Bazile, asked for a psychiatric exam, pointing out that Aron was hearing voices and having hallucinations. During the proceedings, Aron giggled. These are all symptoms of schizophrenia. Why had his schizophrenia never been diagnosed and taken care of?

Recent research has linked schizophrenia with childhood abuse. Other research has shown that kids molested or abused during childhood often end up becoming molesters or abusers themselves. Leonard Shengold used the term, "Soul Murder," to describe severe abuse. Monsters, this research suggests, are not born, but made by monstrous childhood conditions. When a man has had his soul murdered as a boy, does he look for another susceptible boy on whom to displace his murderous rage?

Leibby Kletzky, the only boy among four sisters, was described by family friend Schmuel Eckstein as "a great kid. He's an angel." What would his future have been?

Aron dreamed of singing on American Idol, but his profile on MySpace listed only one interest, a movie called What is Love? Had Aron ever known love?

Questions arise about two tragedies in Brooklyn. One happened to a boy who grew up in a twisted house on Second Street. The other happened when that boy became an adult and met another boy in Borough Park. Tragedies that bring up many questions, but few answers. Meanwhile a family and a community must find the guts to go on.