{"id":7552,"date":"2025-10-18T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7552\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:23:08","slug":"brooklyn-murder-mystery-cops-seek-killer-who-chopped-mans-body-up-and-left-it-in-garbage-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7552\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn murder mystery: Cops seek killer who chopped man\u2019s body up and left it in garbage bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-18-at-8.50.15-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police at Brooklyn scene where man was murdered and chopped up\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn murder mystery: Cops seek killer who chopped man's body up and left it in garbage bin 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in Brooklyn are still on the hunt for the suspect who murdered and chopped up a man whose body parts were discovered inside a trash receptacle at an apartment building on Oct. 17, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Citizen<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> are still on the hunt for the suspect who murdered and chopped up a man whose body parts were discovered inside a trash receptacle at an apartment building on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the grim find was made inside a garbage disposal bin at 569 East 21st St. in Flatbush just before 9:15 a.m. on Oct. 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd70pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">70th Precinct<\/a> responded to a 911 call about the incident and examined the remains, which were confined within a garbage bag. The remains were a man\u2019s head and torso, according to published reports.<\/p>\n<p>An official police report said the male had suffered trauma to the body. How the victim died is unknown; the remains were transferred to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which will conduct an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Police also do not yet know the man\u2019s identity.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Building residents told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/body-parts-found-trash-bag-dumped-outside-apartment-building-brooklyn\/18027030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WABC-TV<\/a> that they had smelled a foul odor emanating from a hallway for several days before the body was found on Friday.\u00a0They also claimed to have heard a violent argument from one of the units between two men.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources on Saturday could not confirm the details of that report, or that the victim\u2019s boyfriend was being sought in connection with the killing.\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives in Brooklyn are still on the hunt for the suspect who murdered and chopped up a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[780,6571,6572,98,100,6573,99,6574,6575,6576,6577,9,24,63,791,792,6578,6579,6580,6581,6582],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-70th-precinct","tag-apartment-building-crime","tag-body-parts-found","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-homicide","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-dismemberment-case","tag-flatbush-murder","tag-foul-odor-reported","tag-medical-examiner-autopsy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-investigation","tag-ongoing-investigation","tag-possible-domestic-dispute","tag-suspect-at-large","tag-trash-receptacle-discovery","tag-unknown-victim","tag-violent-argument-heard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","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=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}