Accused Leiby Kletzky killer “creeped out children,” paper reports (VIDEO)

Neighbors of Levi Aron, the man accused of murdering and dismembering a 9-year-old Hasidic boy, Leiby Kletzky, in Brooklyn have told a New York newspaper that he had a history of "creeping out children."

Aron, 35, a hardware store clerk, is to be arraigned on murder charges Thursday morning. He was arrested on Wednesday and charged with second-degree murder. Police allege he snatched Kletzky off the street, then suffocated and dismembered him.

Here's the police press conference announcing the arrest:

Meanwhile, NBC New York has a partial transcript of Aron's alleged confession, which does not contain the confession of murder but suggests the author cleaning up after one:

Afterwards — I panicked because I didn’t know what to do with the body.… carried parts to the back room placing parts between the freezer and the refrigerator …

… went to clean up a little then took a second shower. I panicked and .. Then putting the parts in a suitcase. Then carrying suitcase to the car …placing in backseat on floor behind passenger side.

… drove around approximately around 20 minutes before placing it in the dumpster on 20th street just before 4th Avenue. Then went home to clean and organize.

I understand this may be wrong and I’m sorry for the hurt that I have caused..

Back to the New York Post's extraordinary report, quoting neighbors as saying they saw Aron engage in such "creepy" behavior as driving around neighborhood kids in his Honda and leering at playgrounds.

"The parents on the block wouldn't want their kids to go near him," the Post quoted an unnamed neighbor as saying. "Sometimes he would just get angry out of nowhere."

The paper, which also interviewed Aron's ex-wife, Debbie Kivel, 34, who lived with him in Tennessee, does point out that Aron had no previous criminal record, save a citation for public urination.

Kivel meanwhile told the Post she was "shocked" at his arrest. "He loved children. He loved kids. My kids are now 13 and 10, but when we were married they were younger — and he loved them."