{"id":263645,"date":"2026-06-11T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263645\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:19:10","slug":"87-year-old-parolee-sentenced-to-life-for-dismembering-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263645\/","title":{"rendered":"87-year-old parolee sentenced to life for dismembering woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 AN 87-YEAR-OLD PAROLEE was sentenced on Thursday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynda.org\/2026\/06\/10\/elder-parolee-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murdering-and-dismembering-brooklyn-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">life in prison<\/a> without the possibility of parole by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun, after his conviction on first-degree murder for killing and dismembering a woman whose body parts were discovered inside and outside his East New York apartment, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Marcelin had prior convictions for murder and manslaughter in the deaths of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/22\/us-news\/nyc-trans-serial-killer-87-on-trial-for-butchering-pal-and-taking-her-leg-shopping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">two girlfriends<\/a> in 1963 and 1985, according to the New York Post. He was out on parole when victim Susan Leyden, 68, was killed. On Feb. 27, 2022, surveillance footage captured Leyden entering Marcelin\u2019s Pennsylvania Avenue apartment, the last time she was seen alive. Footage also showed Marcelin purchasing a saw and cleaning supplies, and outside rolling a shopping cart with a black plastic bag in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s torso was discovered in the shopping cart at the corner of Atlantic and Pennsylvania avenues, and a leg three blocks away. Police discovered the victim\u2019s head and other limbs, as well as blood, cleaning supplies, a hammer, and the box from an electric saw, inside his apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brutality of this shocking crime is almost beyond words,\u201d Gonzalez said in a release Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 AN 87-YEAR-OLD PAROLEE was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,303,89213,5533,259,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-263645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-dismemberment","tag-eric-gonzalez","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263645","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=263645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}