An 83-year-old transgender woman, who spent more than five decades in state prison for the murder and manslaughter of her two ex-girlfriends, may face fresh murder charges after being accused of dumping human remains, including a head, near her apartment in Brooklyn last week.
The New York City Police Department slapped the octogenarian serial killer Harvey Marcelin with concealment of a human corpse in the murder of Susan Layden, 68, whose dismembered body turned up in an abandoned shopping cart at the corner of Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues last week.
The area is less than a block from Marcelin’s apartment, the New York Post reported.
Per the criminal complaint, the woman allegedly bought electric saws at Home Depot, which she used in committing the horrendous crime. Law enforcement executed a search warrant in Marcelin’s unit, where they recovered “a human head” in the Cypress Hills home.
Sources further claimed that CCTVs captured the moment the victim entered Marcelin’s Pennsylvania Avenue apartment on Feb. 27 and wheeled a multi-colored bag with a flower decal on it.
Three days later, Marcelin would leave the building carrying the same bag, which police discovered a day later, with Layden’s torso in it, the complaint said per NBC New York. Layden was living in an LGBTQ shelter in the Clinton Hill area at the time of her death.
Marcelin already carries disturbing murder and manslaughter convictions and served jail time of more than 50 years, state prison records show.
The octogenarian was sentenced to 20 years to life and freed on lifetime parole in May 1984 in the shooting death of her live-in girlfriend, Jacqueline Bonds, following a row inside the couple’s Manhattan apartment. Less than a year later, the killer fatally stabbed another live-in partner.
Court records detailed that Marcelin, who stuffed the victim’s body into a bag she dumped near Central Park, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1986 and sentenced to a six-to-12-year term in jail, according to CBS News. The serial killer was released from the upstate Cayuga Correctional Facility in late 2019.
Marcelin is now being held without bail at Riker’s Island, with her next date in Brooklyn Supreme Court slated on Thursday.
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