A Brooklyn jury has convicted Harvey Marcelin of killing and dismembering a 68-year-old woman in 2022 and scattering her remains across East New York. <\/p>\n
Marcelin, 87, was found guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and concealment of a human corpse after roughly one hour of jury deliberations, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 10 and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Susan Leyden, 68, was last seen alive on surveillance video entering Marcelin\u2019s Pennsylvania Avenue apartment on Feb. 27, 2022. She was never seen alive again.<\/p>\n
Days later, investigators say surveillance footage captured Marcelin rolling a gray shopping cart carrying a black plastic bag. On March 3, Leyden\u2019s torso was discovered inside that bag at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n
Police later found Leyden\u2019s head and limbs, blood, cleaning supplies, a hammer and the box for an electric saw inside Marcelin\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n
One of Leyden\u2019s legs was later discovered near a garbage can about three blocks away, according to the investigators.<\/p>\n
During the trial, prosecutors presented surveillance video showing Marcelin buying a saw and cleaning supplies at a Manhattan Home Depot around the time Leyden disappeared.<\/p>\n
The city medical examiner determined Leyden died from blunt force trauma to the head and other injuries.<\/p>\n
During the trial, jurors heard testimony from Lisa Lindahl, a woman who was also inside the apartment during parts of the aftermath. <\/p>\n
She testified that she accompanied Marcelin to Home Depot to buy supplies and later helped clean blood inside the apartment, after discovering Leyden\u2019s body. <\/p>\n
Defense attorneys questioned her credibility and suggested she may have been more involved than she admitted.<\/p>\n
Marcelin had previously been convicted of murder in 1963 and 1985 for killing two other women. <\/p>\n
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez called the killing \u201ccruel and reprehensible\u201d and said the handling of Leyden\u2019s remains \u201cshocks the conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope Ms. Leyden\u2019s family finds a measure of solace in this guilty verdict,\u201d Gonzalez said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn jury has convicted Harvey Marcelin of killing and dismembering a 68-year-old woman in 2022 and scattering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}