She Killed Two Women. At 83, She Is Charged With Dismembering a Third.
An 83-year-old Brooklyn woman convicted twice of killing women she lived with was charged with murder on Thursday, after investigators found a head in her apartment that, officials said, belonged to a body discovered in a shopping cart last week.
Harvey Marcelin, who had served decades in prison for murder and manslaughter before her release in 2019, was arrested March 4 and was initially charged with concealment of human remains.
Ms. Marcelin has served decades in state prison in connection with two Manhattan homicides, in 1963 and 1984.
In October 1963, she was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting her then-girlfriend in a Harlem apartment building.
The state court judge overseeing the case imposed a life sentence, after the jury was unable to decide whether to impose the death penalty, court filings show.
In May 1984, Ms. Marcelin was released from prison on lifetime parole, according to state records.
Less than a year later, after a body was found in a bag near Central Park, Manhattan prosecutors said Ms. Marcelin had stabbed to death another woman she had been living with. In 1986, she pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison, state records show.
That's the way NY's "justice system" wants it, they gets it.
An 83-year-old Brooklyn woman convicted twice of killing women she lived with was charged with murder on Thursday, after investigators found a head in her apartment that, officials said, belonged to a body discovered in a shopping cart last week.
Harvey Marcelin, who had served decades in prison for murder and manslaughter before her release in 2019, was arrested March 4 and was initially charged with concealment of human remains.
Ms. Marcelin has served decades in state prison in connection with two Manhattan homicides, in 1963 and 1984.
In October 1963, she was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting her then-girlfriend in a Harlem apartment building.
The state court judge overseeing the case imposed a life sentence, after the jury was unable to decide whether to impose the death penalty, court filings show.
In May 1984, Ms. Marcelin was released from prison on lifetime parole, according to state records.
Less than a year later, after a body was found in a bag near Central Park, Manhattan prosecutors said Ms. Marcelin had stabbed to death another woman she had been living with. In 1986, she pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison, state records show.
That's the way NY's "justice system" wants it, they gets it.
