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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.

Her second conviction of first-degree manslaughter was in 1986. And she was denied parole on multiple occasions. At the time Marcelin admitted that she had “a problem with women.”

Marcelin was denied parole several times, sources said, and admitted at one hearing that she had “a problem with women.”

She was released from Cayuga Correctional Facility in late 2019, the records show.

Murder number 3 in Brooklyn

In the latest murder, Layden, the victim, was seen on February 27th surveillance video entering Marcelin’s Pennsylvania Avenue apartment. She was wheeling “a multi-colored bag with a flower decal” on it, according to the criminal complaint.

She was never seen alive again, prosecutors said. And the complaint says that “Upon review of the video surveillance, the original female Jane Doe never exits the residence.”

Three days later, there is video footage capturing Marcelin wheeling what appears to be the same bag out of the building.

The next day, “a human torso was discovered inside the bag.”  

A few days later, Layden’s leg was discovered a few blocks north, the New York Post reported. And her arm is still missing.

A search of the known serial killer’s Cypress Hills apartment turned up “a human head” and electric saws she bought at Home Depot.

The twice-convicted killer will most likely face a murder charge in the death, authorities claim.

Her case came up today at the Brooklyn Supreme Court.  And she did not appear in court due to COVID-19 protocols.

 The Brooklyn District Attorney's office says the NYPD is still involved in an active investigation.