NYC convicted killer, 83, found with new victim’s leg in wheelchair, head in apartment, cops say

An 83-year-old transgender girl who spent a long time in jail for 2 unrelated killings and is now charged in reference to the invention of a girl’s torso was allegedly captured on surveillance video using on a motorized wheelchair sitting on the sufferer’s severed leg whereas inside a retailer. 

Harvey Marcelin is charged with dismembering 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose physique – with out her head, legs and arms – was present in a procuring cart by a passerby on March 3 in Brooklyn, the New York Police Division mentioned. She is charged with second-degree homicide, proof tampering, and concealing a lifeless physique.

“This can be a grotesque and barbaric murder which resulted in a headless torso being disposed of on a New York Metropolis nook,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig mentioned throughout a information briefing. “And it takes a serial killer off our streets.”

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Authorities mentioned Marcelin and Leyden, who had been dwelling in an LGBTQ shelter for eight months, knew one another for not less than two years however the nature of their relationship was unclear. 

On March 1, Marcelin and one other girl went to a Residence Depot retailer in Manhattan and bought a noticed, trash luggage, and cleansing fluid, Essig mentioned. The opposite girl has cooperated with detectives, he mentioned. 

The following day, Marcelin was seen on surveillance footage leaving the procuring cart behind on the road, police mentioned. It was found six hours later and a passerby notified the police, who found the dismembered physique inside a trash bag.

Throughout a search of Marcelin’s house on March 4, detectives discovered a human head and different physique components, Essig mentioned. On March 7, a human leg was discovered when Marcelin was seen within the wheelchair just a few blocks from the homicide scene, police mentioned. 

New York Police Commssioner Keechant L. Sewell updates the information media on a number of circumstances investigators are engaged on. 
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Video surveillance launched by the NYPD confirmed Marcelin inside a retailer on the wheelchair with a leg on the seat, Essig mentioned.

“The underside from the leg, the leg from the knee down, she was sitting on,” he mentioned. 

He added that investigators had been nonetheless attempting to find out a motive for the killing “however primarily based on her historical past, she’s able to loads of evil issues on the market.”

Marcelin beforehand served greater than 50 years in jail for 2 different slayings. She was on lifetime parole for manslaughter, in line with a New York State database. 

In 1957, she was convicted of felony assault and has a rape conviction from 1963, police mentioned. On April 18, 1963, she allegedly shot and killed a girl in Harlem. She was convicted and served 20 years in jail and was launched in 1984 on lifetime parole. 

NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.
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In November 1985, Marcelin stabbed a girlfriend to demise in Central Park and positioned the physique in a trash bag and left it on the road, Fox affiliate WNYW-TV reported. She was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and was paroled once more in August 2019.