An 87-year-old, transgendered New York City serial killer is trying to stay out of prison for a third time, as his trial for viciously butchering a woman and then riding around with her severed arm in his mobility scooter began this week in Brooklyn. <\/p>\n
Harvey Marcelin<\/a> stands accused of gruesomely slaying 68-year-old Susan Leyden<\/a> and chopping up her body into pieces, which he stuffed in a bag and dumped on an East New York street before taking his disturbing scooter ride in March 2022.<\/p>\n Marcelin sat in a wheelchair, dressed in a black jacket, pants, and a white shirt, as a jury was told how he allegedly became so obsessed with his victim that he created multiple Facebook accounts using her photo as his profile picture,\u00a0the NY Daily News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Serial killer Harvey Marcelin has gone on trial for butchering a friend and going shopping with her dismembered leg. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n \u201cOn Feb.27, 2022, Susan Leyden went over to the defendant\u2019s apartment at 50 Pennsylvania Ave., carrying her grey and black rolling bag with her, there to see her friend,\u201d Assistant D.A. Viviane Dussek told the jury during her opening argument Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cSusan Leyden walked into that building not knowing she would never walk out again,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Marcelin, who asked to be referred to as \u201cMr. Harvey\u201d in court even though he has previously identified as transgender<\/a>, allegedly\u00a0bludgeoned Leyden to death and used a reciprocal saw<\/a>\u00a0to dismember her body at his Cypress Hills apartment, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n \u201cCutting through skin, cutting through flesh, through tissue, through bones. So many bones. So many cuts. He packages Susan\u2019s body up in plastic bags,\u201d Dussek said.<\/p>\n Leyden had been down on her luck at the time after losing her jewelry business, becoming estranged from her daughter, and ending up in a homeless shelter, but had \u201cstarted getting back on track\u201d just before the murder, Dussek said.<\/p>\n