A Brooklyn jury convicted an 87-year-old of killing and dismembering a woman in an East New York apartment, the district attorney\u2019s office announced Friday. The defendant, Harvey Marcelin, was on parole at the time after being convicted of two other killings.<\/p>\n
Jurors found Marcelin guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and concealing a human corpse, prosecutors said. They returned the verdict after one hour of deliberations, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.<\/p>\n
Marcelin faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sentencing is scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis conviction holds the defendant accountable for the cruel and reprehensible murder of Susan Leyden,\u201d Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. \u201cFollowing the senseless murder, the defendant desecrated the victim\u2019s remains in a manner that truly shocks the conscience. I hope Ms. Leyden\u2019s family finds a measure of solace in this guilty verdict, which ensures this defendant will never walk free again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The case made headlines at the time, as Leyden\u2019s body parts were discovered and information came to light about Marcelin\u2019s past convictions. The killing was also featured on an episode of the True Crime NYC TV show and various true crime podcasts.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said surveillance footage shows Leyden, 68, entering Marcelin\u2019s apartment on Feb. 27, 2022. But she was never seen leaving alive.<\/p>\n
Additional video footage shows Marcelin wheeling around a shopping bag in which Leyden\u2019s torso was later found, according to the DA\u2019s office. Prosecutors said investigators later discovered the woman\u2019s head and limbs in Marcelin\u2019s apartment, as well as blood, cleaning supplies, a hammer and the box for an electric saw.<\/p>\n
Leyden\u2019s legs turned up in a nearby garbage can several days later, the DA\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
The medical examiner\u2019s office determined that Leyden suffered blunt force trauma to her head and other injuries. Prosecutors said Marcelin and Leyden both lived in the same shelter in the Bronx in 2019, but that questions remained about the nature of their relationship.<\/p>\n
Marcelin was convicted of first-degree murder in a separate case in Manhattan in 1963, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Marcelin\u2019s defense attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn jury convicted an 87-year-old of killing and dismembering a woman in an East New York apartment,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224919","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\/224919","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=224919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}