An 83-year-old ex-convict who served 20 years in jail for fatally taking pictures a girlfriend, bought out, after which went again to jail for killing one other girlfriend a 12 months later, is now charged in a brand new crime: the dismemberment of a girl whose head was discovered within the parolee's condo.
Prosecutors recognized the ex-convict as Harvey Marcelin, who was free of jail in 2019. Marcelin was arrested in New York Metropolis final week on a cost of concealing a human corpse after being recorded on surveillance video abandoning a bag later discovered to include the sufferer's torso.
A grand jury charged Marcelin on Thursday with homicide.
Marcelin's court-appointed lawyer did not return telephone messages.
The Brooklyn district lawyer's workplace recognized the sufferer as Susan Leyden, a 68-year-old Brooklyn resident.
"The information of this horrific case are ugly and unsettling and my coronary heart is with the sufferer's household and associates," Brooklyn District Legal professional Eric Gonzalez stated in a press release.
Leyden's Brooklyn neighbors had been horrified after studying of her sudden dying.
"I am simply heartbroken," neighbor Mary Pupko informed CBS New York.
Although recognized as a person in court docket filings in previous a long time, Marcelin was booked this time as a girl, a police spokesperson stated. Acquaintances informed reporters Marcelin recognized lately as a girl.
Marcelin's earlier convictions had been for killing live-in girlfriends, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
A jury discovered Marcelin responsible of homicide in 1963 for fatally taking pictures Jacqueline Bonds inside a Manhattan condo. On the time, Marcelin was additionally going through an tried rape cost involving one other girl, in keeping with court docket information. The decide gave Marcelin life in jail after jurors had been unable to agree on whether or not the crime justified a dying penalty.
Marcelin was paroled in 1984 and was arrested the next 12 months for fatally stabbing one other girlfriend and leaving her physique in a trash bag on the street. Marcelin was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 to 12 years in jail.
State officers had been reluctant to grant parole when Marcelin grew to become eligible within the Nineties. Throughout one State Parole Board listening to in 1997, Marcelin admitted to having "issues" with ladies, in keeping with court docket information.
Different boards rejected parole citing Marcelin's "try to put the blame" on the victims.
The brand new investigation started after a passerby discovered a dismembered torso inside a bag on a road nook close to Marcelin's condo constructing on March 3.
Surveillance video confirmed Marcelin wheeling a multi-colored bag from the constructing to the nook on March 2 and leaving it there, prosecutors stated in a court docket submitting. The torso was found contained in the bag hours later, authorities stated.
In accordance with court docket papers, safety video confirmed a girl getting into Marcelin's constructing rolling the identical bag on February 27. The lady was by no means seen leaving the constructing.
Officers executed a search warrant and located a human head inside Marcelin's condo, in keeping with the court docket papers. Police stated a leg was later discovered just a few blocks away.
"She was a quiet girl. I bought the sense that she favored to buy. She was actually trendy," one other neighbor informed CBS New York. "It'll take a very long time to course of this."