{"id":8939,"date":"2025-10-20T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:50:08","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-head-and-torso-discovered-in-trash-outside-brooklyn-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8939\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after head and torso discovered in trash outside Brooklyn apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A foul smell coming from the trash outside a New York<\/a> apartment building led police to a grisly discovery \u2014 a head and torso wrapped in plastic.<\/p>\n

Construction workers called police on Friday after noticing a putrid odor coming from the garbage outside an apartment in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they discovered a dismembered body stuffed inside a blue trash bin, according to the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Christopher Moss, 38, was taken into custody and charged with concealment of a human corpse.<\/p>\n

Moss\u2019s relationship to the victim, who has not been identified, was not immediately clear. But neighbors said the two men were both roommates and a couple, and that they were often heard fighting.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police arrived at the Flatbush, Brooklyn apartment to find a man\u2019s head and torso in the trash outside the building (Google Maps)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe apartment was in the short one\u2019s name, and the tall one was always, like, violent with the short one,\u201d neighbor Eduardo Lemus told CBS New York<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy to think somebody would just, you know, do it and just leave the person right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several of the neighbors told local news outlets that the fights escalated in the past week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last couple days, it was heated,\u201d said Phyllis Larrier. \u201cI think the other young man was not letting him in, wouldn\u2019t let him, because he was banging on the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then the fighting abruptly stopped earlier in the week, replaced by the unmistakable stench that filled the hallway of the sixth floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night when we came in \u2026 he was burning incense,\u201d Larrier said. \u201cThat\u2019s the first time I heard there was incense burning in the hallway. That\u2019s unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as that door opened that whiff would just smack you in the face,\u201d another neighbor told ABC7<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019d be on the other side of the apartment from the entrance and you would still smell it. It definitely was the body.\u201d<\/p>\n

The building\u2019s superintendent told police he saw a tenant place several large trash bags outside Friday morning, just before the discovery of the body parts.<\/p>\n

The gruesome discovery has rattled residents in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cShocking. Very shocking,\u201d said neighbor Thomas Williams. \u201cBecause I\u2019ve lived here since 2004, and we\u2019ve never had an incident of this magnitude in this block.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYPD has not released additional details but say the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A foul smell coming from the trash outside a New York apartment building led police to a grisly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7352,98,100,99,7695,7553,7694,9,24,4652,63,7693],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-apartment-building","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cbs-new-york","tag-christopher-moss","tag-grisly-discovery","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-police","tag-nyc","tag-trash-bin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","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=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}