Identified! NY - Brooklyn, dismembered woman found in shopping cart on street, Mar'22 - Susan Leyden *Arrest*

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Headless, Armless Body Found in Shopping Cart in New York Intersection (newsweek.com)
In the article is states -

This is one of several similar incidents that have recently occurred across the country.


JMO but have I missed something in the national news lately that there are several dismembered bodies turning up in the US?
dismembered bodies turn up from time to time but i dont think they are all related. Sara Goodwin was dismembered by her killer in Houston, TX in Feb but he is in jail already.
 
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Did I miss the race being reported? If you have skin then you should know race right?
 
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it looks like they know who it is but its not released yet. also know the killer.

Woman whose dismembered torso was found in Brooklyn shopping cart was victim of 83-year-old killer, NYPD suspects

from link - "The victim, the suspect and the other woman all know each other, the source said. The woman who dumped the body appears to have been asked to discard the torso, though it’s not clear if she realized what she was throwing out."

how do you not know what you are discarding if its the size of a torso?
 
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Update article now with names and photos, more story at link

Transsexual on parole for killing two, is arrested and charged for the murder of a third | Daily Mail Online

  • Harvey Marcelin, 83, who killed two women in 1963 and 1983, was arrested in connection to the murder of a 68-year-old woman in Brooklyn last week
  • Marcelin was charged with concealing a body believed to belong to Susan Leyden, an acquaintance who was last seen at Marcelin's apartment
  • A search of Marcelin's home turned up a human head days after a headless torso and leg turned up in the streets near the Cypress Hills apartment
 
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83? That seems like a lot for an 83 year old...
 
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Serial killer, 83, eyed in case of dismembered body found in NYC (nypost.com)
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Daily Mail

Transsexual on parole for killing two, is arrested and charged for the murder of a third | Daily Mail Online

Amazing. Some of these killers just won't stop, regardless of their age. It's something judges will have to consider when granting parole to elderly killers.

Who would have thought such an elderly person who has spent most of his adult life in prison would still be capable of this? Most won't, but there are always exceptions.

The evidence against him is solid, including security cam video that shows the victim carrying a flowered bag going into the killer's apartment, followed by the killer leaving his apartment later while carrying the victim's bag. Also receipts from the killer buying an electric saw at the local hardware store.

Marceline was arrested and jailed in 1986. He was released on lifetime parole in 2019.
 
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it looks like they know who it is but its not released yet. also know the killer.

Woman whose dismembered torso was found in Brooklyn shopping cart was victim of 83-year-old killer, NYPD suspects

from link - "The victim, the suspect and the other woman all know each other, the source said. The woman who dumped the body appears to have been asked to discard the torso, though it’s not clear if she realized what she was throwing out."

how do you not know what you are discarding if its the size of a torso?
ok that clears up the confusion, it was the suspect themself dumping the remains.
 
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I am truly shocked that someone in their 80s was able to physically commit this heinous murder.
 
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Not at all the weirdest feature of this case is the fact that a trans woman seems to have kept the name Harvey.
 
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She did about 21 yrs for the shooting murder of her live-in GF in 1963. Paroled in May 1984.

<snip> Then, on November 2, 1985, Marcelin fatally stabbed another girlfriend, also in Manhattan.

Her body was found in a bag near Central Park, and Marcelin was convicted of manslaughter and later released on lifetime parole in August 2019.

Human head found in shopping cart torso suspect's home in Brooklyn, police say

That should have been the end of her ever being released again. Her elderly age should not have mattered after her quick second murder of another female.

She was charged with second degree murder today, and the concealment of a human corpse after a human head was found in her apartment.
 
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Not at all the weirdest feature of this case is the fact that a trans woman seems to have kept the name Harvey.

Probably the press deadnaming her.
 
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I'm glad to see that this appears to have been solved so quickly, but how horrible for the victim. :(
 

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