Harvey Marcelin, who identifies as a transgender woman, has served two stints in prison for two murders. The 83-year-old serial killer is now being charged with the death of Susan Layden, 68.
Layden’s dismembered torso was recovered from an abandoned shopping cart less than a block from Marcelin’s Brooklyn apartment.
Marcelin, who has spent 50 years in prison, was charged last week with the concealment of a human corpse. The octogenarian suspect is being held without bail at Rikers Island.
Sadly, the case proves that a serial killer when given the opportunity will kill again.
A serial killer begins killing in 1963
Her first manslaughter conviction dates back to 1963, the shooting death of her then-live-in girlfriend, Jacqueline Bonds. Marcelin shot Bonds in the hallway of their Manhattan apartment as she threatened to leave.
She was sentenced to 20-years-to-life. And was freed on lifetime parole in May 1984.
She was free less than a year before she fatally stabbed another live-in girlfriend. This time she stuffed her victim’s body into a bag and dumped it on the street near Central Park, sources and court records allege.