New York authorities arrested Harvey Marcelin on Thursday, who they say is an 83-year-old serial killer, and that he killed the woman who appeared beheaded in shopping cart, a few days ago.
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On Thursday of last week, around 1:45 a.m., a person walking through the intersection of Pennsylvania and Atlantic in Brooklyn stumbled upon a horrific discovery: in a shopping cart was the body of a woman who was missing her limbs and head.
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Shortly after, a few blocks away, a female leg, believed to be from the body part discovered in that shopping cart, was found inside a tire.
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Security Videos Lead to 83-Year-Old Serial Killer
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Security videos led NYPD investigators to Harvey Marcelin, who was residing in a home for LGBT seniors. Inside her home, they found the head of her victim, Susan Leyden.
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In surveillance video, Leyden was seen entering the defendant’s Pennsylvania Avenue apartment on Feb. 27, carrying “a multi-colored bag with a flower decal on it,” according to the criminal complaint. However, after that, the prosecution assures, she was never seen again.
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Who was seen was the suspect walking, shortly after, through the streets near his residence, with the same bag with which his victim had entered his home.
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The serial killer had spent 50 years in prison
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Marcelin is no stranger to the authorities. Previously, He spent two decades in prison for shooting a girlfriend to death., got out and then went back to jail for killing another girlfriend a year later. In total he has spent more than 50 years in prison, but was released in 2019.
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Last week, the suspect was arrested in New York City on charges of concealing a human corpse, and on Thursday a grand jury indicted him for murder.
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“The facts of this horrific case are shocking and disturbing and my heart goes out to the family and friends of the victim,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez in a statement.
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According to court records, in 1963 a jury found Marcelin guilty of murder for fatally shooting Jacqueline Bonds inside a Manhattan apartment. At the time, he was also facing a charge of attempted rape involving another woman. The judge sentenced him to life in prison after jurors could not agree on whether the crime warranted the death penalty.
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the serial killer paroled in 1984 and was arrested the following year for fatally stabbing another girlfriend and leaving her body in a garbage bag on the street. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to between six and 12 years in prison.
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Authorities released him in 2019
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The NY Post reported that in the 1990s, as release time approached, state officials were reluctant to grant parole. During a State Board of Parole hearing in 1997, the convicted murderer He admitted to having “problems” with women.
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The accused was released in 2019.
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His new arrest was sparked after a passerby found a dismembered torso inside a bag on a street corner near Marcelin’s apartment building on March 3.
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