Serial Killer Found With Human Head Charged With Murder: DA

BROOKLYN, NY — An 83-year-old convicted killer found with a human head in her home has been indicted on murder charges in the death of a woman whose dismembered body parts were found scattered across eastern Brooklyn, according to the district attorney.

Harvey Marcelin — a transgender woman who spent decades in jail for killing two ex-girlfriends— was charged with murder on Thursday, a week after authorities found the woman's severed head in her Cypress Hills home, according to the DA.

Marcelin had been charged with concealing a human corpse after she was caught on surveillance footage dumping a bag in which police later found a human torso, court records show.

"Last week my office charged Harvey Marcelin with allegedly concealing the severed head of a woman in her home and discarding the victim's torso in a bag on the street," DA Eric Gonzalez said in a statement on Thursday.

"Today, the grand jury indicted Harvey Marcelin for murder, and my office is committed to vigorously seeking justice. The facts of this horrific caseate gruesome and unsettling and my heart is with the victim's family and friends."

The woman — identified in a New York Post report as 68-year-old Susan Layden — was seen on video entering, but never leaving, Marcelin's apartment on Feb. 17, according to the criminal complaint.

Three days later, Marcelin can be seen leaving her home with the large, floral print bag in which police later found a human torso, the complaint states. The torso was found inside a garbage bag, sitting in a shopping cart near Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues last Thursday.

A leg — which Post sources said was also Layden's — was discovered inside a discarded tire a few blocks away on Monday, according to police and the report.

The search of Marcelin's home also turned up electric saws she bought at Home Depot, according to the report.

Marcelin was released from state prison in 2019 after serving more than 50 years' time for killing two ex-girlfriends, according to the Post.

The 83-year-old was first convicted in the 1963 death of her live-in girlfriend Jacqueline Bonds, whom she shot three times in their Manhattan apartment, according to the outlet.

Marcelin was released on lifetime parole in 1984 but charged with fatally stabbing another girlfriend less than a year later, the Post reported.

The Post reported Marcelin stuffed the woman's body into a bag and dumped it on the street near Central Park.