An 83-year-old Brooklyn lady convicted twice of killing girls she lived with was charged with homicide on Thursday, after investigators discovered a head in her condo that, officers stated, belonged to a physique found in a purchasing cart final week.

Harvey Marcelin, who had served a long time in jail for homicide and manslaughter earlier than her launch in 2019, was arrested March 4 and was initially charged with concealment of human stays.

Ms. Marcelin — who was listed as male in earlier courtroom information however now identifies as a girl, in response to a regulation enforcement official — was indicted on second-degree homicide expenses on Thursday within the demise of Susan Leyden, 68. She is accused of dismembering her and hiding her physique components.

The official stated it was not clear how Ms. Marcelin and Ms. Leyden knew one another. A lawyer listed as Ms. Marcelin’s lawyer couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

The police first found items of Ms. Leyden’s stays within the early hours of March 3, when a 911 caller reported that that they had discovered physique components in a purchasing cart exterior a pawnshop on the nook of Atlantic and Pennsylvania Avenues in Brooklyn. Cops arrived to discover a lady’s torso inside a multicolored bag with a flower decal.

Days later, the police searched Ms. Marcelin’s constructing close by, after surveillance footage confirmed Ms. Leyden coming into the constructing with the identical multicolored bag on Feb. 27, however not leaving. They found Ms. Leyden’s head inside Ms. Marcelin’s dwelling.

Since Ms. Marcelin’s arrest, authorities have additionally reviewed surveillance footage exhibiting her leaving the condo with what investigators imagine was the torso, prosecutors stated throughout a courtroom listening to on Thursday.

Ms. Marcelin has served a long time in state jail in reference to two Manhattan homicides, in 1963 and 1984.

In October 1963, she was convicted of first-degree homicide for fatally capturing her then-girlfriend in a Harlem condo constructing.

The state courtroom choose overseeing the case imposed a life sentence, after the jury was unable to resolve whether or not to impose the demise penalty, courtroom filings present.

In Could 1984, Ms. Marcelin was launched from jail on lifetime parole, in response to state information.

Lower than a 12 months later, after a physique was present in a bag close to Central Park, Manhattan prosecutors stated Ms. Marcelin had stabbed to demise one other lady she had been dwelling with. In 1986, she pleaded responsible to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 6 to 12 years in jail, state information present.

Due to her parole standing, that sentence was added to the unique life time period, information present. Over the following three a long time, she repeatedly sought launch on parole and was denied. In a 1997 look earlier than the state parole board, Ms. Marcelin described the 1984 crime and stated she had “issues” with girls, in response to a state courtroom submitting.

In 2010, the state denied one other bid for parole, saying “your launch presently is incompatible with the welfare and security of the neighborhood,” courtroom filings present.

She was launched on parole in 2019, information present.