NEW YORK — Brooklyn serial slayer Harvey Marcelin won’t get a accidental to slay a 4th woman, aft a justice sentenced the 88-year-old murderer to beingness without parole Wednesday.
A assemblage found Marcelin guilty past period of first-degree execution for beating a Brooklyn pistillate to death, dismembering her with a saw and past ditching her remains successful and astir his apartment.
“The acold information is that each clip you were released, you killed idiosyncratic else, which leads this tribunal to judge that, careless of your age, if you are ever paroled again, I person nary uncertainty that you would termination again,” Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun said Wednesday.
Marcelin, of East New York, Brooklyn, made Susan Leyden, 68, his 3rd unfortunate connected Feb. 27, 2022, bludgeoning her head and utilizing a reciprocal saw from Home Depot to chopped isolated her body. An e-bike rider recovered her headless and limbless torso successful a a grey and achromatic rolling container near connected a Brooklyn thoroughfare days later.
“Every azygous clip the suspect has been released from prison, helium has soon thereafter killed a woman,” said Assistant District Attorney Leila Rosini. “There is nary anticipation for rehabilitation…. I judge that the suspect is inactive a information to society, that his impulses, his urges, his rage, immoderate makes him harm these women, has not gone away.”
Marcelin, who has identified arsenic some antheral and pistillate implicit the years, identified arsenic antheral for the trial, telling the justice to telephone him Harvey, past clarified, “Mr. Harvey.”
On Wednesday, Marcelin, who wore a brownish knit headdress and utilized a wheelchair, maintained his innocence and said helium was framed by the prima witnesser against him, Lisa Lindhal.
Lindhal, who was stateless and had a heroin and ace habit, took the basal to picture however she visited Marcelin to bash drugs successful his squalid apartment, and saw Leyden’s dormant body.
“I sincerely privation I could reassemble the embodiment of my Susan Carol Leyden, whom I was brainsick over,” Marcelin said, “and whom I witnessed murdered by an evil crackhead, that the authoritative Rosini unlawfully manipulated, and framed maine and railroaded maine done a kangaroo tribunal utilizing violent tactics against the jury.”
Rosini tightly pursed her lips and shook her caput successful a wide amusement of disgust and disbelief arsenic Marcelin spoke, portion her co-counsel, Assistant D.A. Viviane Dussek, rolled her eyes.
Marcelin was initially sentenced to beingness without parole for the 1963 shooting of woman Jacqueline Bonds, aft the assemblage couldn’t hold connected imposing the decease penalty.
Marcelin changeable Bonds successful the hallway of an Harlem apartment, past chased her into a chamber and changeable her again, according to tribunal filings.
After a alteration successful authorities law, Marcelin was released connected beingness parole successful 1984.
A twelvemonth later, helium stabbed to decease different girlfriend, Anna Laura Serrera Miranda, dumping her remains by Central Park successful October 1985. Marcelin pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter successful that case.
When a justice asked, “You kept stabbing her truthful she would halt screaming?” Marcelin responded, “It was conscionable — I was doing it, you know.”
At a June 25, 2019, parole hearing, Marcelin vowed, “I springiness you my word, I volition ne'er re-offend.”
He broke that vow little than 3 years aboriginal aft helium became infatuated with Leyden. He created aggregate Facebook accounts, each with her photograph arsenic his illustration picture. Leyden was down connected her luck. She mislaid her jewelry business, became estranged from her daughter, and coiled up successful a stateless shelter. But she was getting her beingness backmost together, prosecutors said.
All that ended connected Feb. 27, 2022, erstwhile Leyden walked into Marcelin’s flat connected Pennsylvania Ave. to sojourn him and ne'er came out.
After the e-bike rider recovered her torso days aboriginal connected March 3, constabulary discovered achromatic integrative garbage bags successful Marcelin’s flat with Leyden’s thighs, hand, limb and caput inside. Marcelin besides stuffed portion of the victim’s near limb into his electrical wheelchair and went buying earlier disposing of the limb, prosecutors allege.
The victim’s close leg, near limb and near manus were ne'er recovered.
“The brutality of this shocking transgression is astir beyond words,” Brooklyn D.A. Eric Gonzalez said Wednesday. “This suspect committed a horrific execution that took Susan Leyden’s beingness and inflicted unimaginable symptom connected her household and loved ones.”
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