{"id":48567,"date":"2025-11-22T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:45:32","slug":"brooklyn-man-gets-life-for-chopping-up-his-drug-dealer-hiding-body-parts-in-fridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/48567\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man gets life for chopping up his drug dealer, hiding body parts in fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bloodthirsty Brooklyn murderer who hacked up his former roommate and drug dealer,<\/a> then stored the man\u2019s body parts in his fridge, will spend the rest of his life behind bars \u2014 and a new court filing offered a harrowing blow-by-blow description of the horrific crime.<\/p>\n

Nicholas McGee, 48, turned his Flatbush apartment into a grotesque scene that would give a grindhouse B-movie director pause when he killed 39-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer<\/a> in a seedy dispute over sex, drugs and disrespect in March 2022.<\/p>\n

A Brooklyn Supreme Court jury convicted McGee of first-degree murder last month. On Wednesday, Justice John Hecht sentenced him to life without parole.<\/a><\/p>\n

McGee and his wife, Heather Stines,<\/a> lived in the apartment on Nostrand Ave. near Farragut Road in Flatbush, and Gelzer and others dealt them heroin and crack, assistant District Attorney Cassandra Pond said in a Tuesday sentencing memo that described the gory crime in detail.<\/p>\n

Gelzer would give the couple drugs in exchange for sexual favors from Stines, and for the couple letting him crash on their couch.<\/p>\n

That arrangement came to a violent, angry end on March 25, 2022, when Gelzer asked Stines for oral sex, and she refused. He then fell asleep on the couple\u2019s couch, and McGee shook him awake, demanding drugs.<\/p>\n

Gelzer wouldn\u2019t give McGee what he wanted, so McGee stormed out and found another dealer.<\/p>\n

He got high and came home, stewing in rage over what he felt was Gelzer\u2019s disrespect, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to kill him. F\u2014 this motherf\u2014er,\u201d McGee told Stines.<\/p>\n

Gelzer was still asleep, face-down on the couch, but not for long.<\/p>\n

McGee grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the back, causing Gelzer to leap up in shock. McGee kept stabbing and slashing, and Gelzer fought back, knocking the knife to the ground.<\/p>\n

Undaunted, McGee picked up a hammer and repeatedly slammed it into Gelzer\u2019s head, giving McGee the opening to reclaim the knife.<\/p>\n

Gelzer, still conscious, tried to flee the apartment, but slipped on his own blood and dropped to the floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you doing this?\u201d Gelzer pleaded, and McGee responded, \u201cBecause you\u2019re a piece of s\u2014, smart-mouth motherf\u2014er and I\u2019m tired of you,\u201d according to the prosecution sentencing memo.<\/p>\n

McGee then stabbed Gelzer repeatedly in the chest, finishing him off. He searched the dead man\u2019s pockets for drugs \u2014 which he and Stines smoked on the spot \u2014 and cash.<\/p>\n

McGee then dragged Gelzer\u2019s body to his bathtub, leaving it there to rot for several days until a leak from upstairs flooded the tub.<\/p>\n

So he hid Gelzer\u2019s decomposing body in another room while a maintenance worker drained the tub, then later dragged the corpse back into the living room and laid it on a blanket.<\/p>\n

He then sawed through Gelzer\u2019s arms, legs and neck \u2014 police said he used a Leatherman-like multitool \u2014 and used a hammer to break his legs. McGee placed the body parts in black plastic garbage bags, stuffed the torso in a suitcase, shoved it all in his refrigerator and freezer, and taped the fridge shut.<\/p>\n

Gelzer\u2019s mother reported him missing a couple of months later. McGee and Stines would lie whenever someone came calling about him, claiming he left the apartment after selling them drugs.<\/p>\n

All the while, the couple kept getting arrested for retail shoplifting to fuel their drug habits. In September 2023, McGee headed to Chesapeake, Va., where he was busted for trying to get a bank statement in someone else\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 20, 2024, while he was locked up, someone called an anonymous tip to 911 that Stines had a body in the refrigerator. Stines let the police in, and officers immediately noticed the large tarp hanging from the kitchen doorframe.<\/p>\n

When an officer tried to open the fridge, Stines became agitated and combative, so the cops cuffed her and took her into the living room.<\/p>\n

They opened up the refrigerator, found Gelzer\u2019s severed, decaying head inside, and immediately called detectives and crime-scene investigators to secure the apartment.<\/p>\n

NYPD detectives traveled to the Chesapeake Sheriff\u2019s Office to interview McGee on Jan. 31, 2024, and after they agreed to give him a cigarette, he described the crime in detail.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel bad at all. Like, I should, but I don\u2019t,\u201d he told a detective at one point. And sitting in a courthouse, he made another admission: \u201cThe first one was easy. If I was out, I would probably have two or three more bodies, it was so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGee even got a tattoo on his arm memorializing the killing, prosecutors said. Sources said the ink appeared to be an image of a severed head and a kitchen knife.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a deeply disturbing act of violence by a defendant who not only stole a man\u2019s life, but then desecrated his body. The cruelty and disregard for human life shown in the case are almost beyond comprehension,\u201d Brooklyn D.A. Eric Gonzalez wrote Wednesday. \u201cToday\u2019s sentence holds the defendant accountable for his horrific crimes and serves as a reminder that those who commit such heinous crimes in Brooklyn will face the most serious consequences under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stines, 48, pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2024, to concealment of a human corpse and third-degree bail jumping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bloodthirsty Brooklyn murderer who hacked up his former roommate and drug dealer, then stored the man\u2019s body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,10916,27391,27389,27390,25865,9,24,25866,63],"class_list":["post-48567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-supreme-court","tag-flatbush-apartment","tag-heather-stines","tag-horrific-crime","tag-kawsheen-gelzer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicholas-mcgee","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48567","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=48567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}