Long Island: the murder case of Chaim Weiss z"l was opened

Long Island police suddenly decided to reopen the investigation of the murder of Chaim Weiss z"l, a yeshiva student in Long Beach, despite the passing of nearly 27 years since the murder.

In a letter sent to the family by police, inter alia, that the decision to reopen the case is due to new facts which came to the police, which may shed light on the shocking affair.

This week the police will hold a joint press conference with the family, which will report new findings.

Yeshiva Rabbi, who can recall the murder, remembers that black Shabbos on 29th Tishrei תשמ"ז: "It was a Shabbos morning, I was in shul in the middle of shacharis, and suddenly I hear there is a hassle in the Beis Medrash. Someone came up to me and told me there was a murder in the dormitory of the mesivta, and a 15 year old named Chaim Weiss was found dead.

"We finished the davening and rushed to the yeshiva, where there was already police. That day was the Halloween holiday of the goyim, a holiday where they dress up in costumes, knocking on doors and getting drunk. It turned out that a boy entered the room of Weiss discovered his body on the floor covered with a blanket and a candle lit on the table. Later a police pathologist revealed that he was stabbed all over his body.

"At first we thought that this case was anti-Semitic, but later, when we found out the candle and the fact that the killer put the victim to the floor and covered him with a blanket as is the custom in Israel, we focused on the investigation that one of the members of the dormitory murdered the boy. I remember we told the family on Motzei Shabbos, and there was a huge levaya of thousand people. The most difficult problem was the fear that attacked the two hundred yeshiva students. Following consultation with psychologists and rabbis we decided to release the boys to their home a week to calm down.

The Rabbi further relates: "Then we sat all the staff and we thought about the future of the yeshiva, whether to close it or move it elsewhere. We decided to close the specific building campus, and move everyone to an exchange building, but continue to hold the yeshiva. By mercy of Hashem the yeshiva was not closed and until today it is considered one of the best yeshivas. I have no idea what are the new findings obtained by the police, but I do believe that the killer - who might have been one of the yeshiva staff at the time - did some soul searching and after almost 27 years he decided to turn himself in."

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