Serial Killer, 83, Suspected In BK Body Parts Case: Complaint

BROOKLYN, NY — A recently-released 83-year-old serial killer is suspected of murdering a woman — whose dismembered body parts were found scattered across eastern Brooklyn last week — after police found a human head in her home, according to police, court records and reports.

Harvey Marcelin — a transgender woman who spent decades in jail for killing two ex-girlfriends — was arrested March 4 after police found the human head in her Cypress Hills home, court records show.

Evidence includes surveillance video showing a woman 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.

Marcelin faced a single charge of concealing a human corpse as of Thursday, court records show.

A New York Post report identified 68-year-old Susan Layden as the woman whose headless body 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.