An 83-year-old ex-con who did two stints in prison for killing different women is now charged with murder once again after police found human body parts in and near her apartment.
The NYPD updates the public about Harvey Marcelin, 83, a transgender woman who has been convicted twice of killing women, and is now charged with the concealment of a body.
"This is a gruesome and barbaric homicide which resulted in a headless torso being disposed of on a New York City corner," Essig said, adding that the arrest and indictment "takes a serial killer off our streets." Marcelin spent decades behind bars for killing two ex-girlfriends. She was on lifetime parole for manslaughter, according to aHer record has five previous arrests, including felony assault in September 1957 and rape in March 1963.
On April 18, 1963, Marcelin shot Jacqueline Bonds with a .32-caliber revolver inside an apartment in Harlem. Bond ran into a bedroom where Marcelin shot her again. Bonds then staggered into the living room, collapsed, and died. Three bullet wounds were found in her body.Then in November 1985, she stabbed a girlfriend to death in Central Park, police said. After repeatedly stabbing the victim, Marcelin placed her body in a trash bag and left it on a street in Manhattan.
Marcelin was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to a prison term of 6 to 12 years. She was released from the Cayuga Correctional Facility in August 2019.
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