The body parts recently discovered in a freezer in an apartment in New York are of a missing Brooklyn, New York, USA drug dealer who had a series of child molestation cases breathing down his neck, police say.
Kawsheen Gelzer, 39, who has been on the state sex offender registry since he was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy in 2005, was reportedly killed inside the fourth-floor apartment in September 2023, chopped up and stored in plastic bags inside one tenant’s freezer.
But surprisingly a neighbour said everyone in the vicinity always knew the alleged criminal was killed and stored in the house.
“Everybody in the building knew it,” tenant Dorothy Williams said Thursday to NY Post.
“Everybody knew he went in there and never came back out. We all talked about it.”
Neighbours and sources confirmed that Gelzer was the man whose severed head and dismembered body were found inside the Nostrand Avenue apartment Monday.
Records show Gelzer has at least five other arrests on his file, including serving two years in state prison on a first-degree sexual abuse conviction before he was released from an upstate prison in 2012.
Heather Stines, the woman living in the apartment, claimed to police that her jailed husband killed Gelzer in September and stuck his body parts inside the fridge after getting into a fight over drugs.
A makeshift memorial for Gelzer was set up in the lobby of the building, with candles and photos.
“It’s like a terrible thing,” Williams, the building tenant, said Thursday.
“He didn’t deserve to die like that. Nobody deserves to die like that. You can see the ladies in the building, we’re putting up pictures of him and writing stuff like, you know, ‘rest in peace’ and stuff like that.”
Stines, who had outstanding petty larceny warrants, was taken into custody and sent to Brookdale Hospital for psychiatric observation following the gruesome discovery.
Stines, 45, and her husband, 45-year-old Nicholas McGee, who is currently jailed in Chesapeake, Virginia on an identity fraud case, have not been charged in Gelzer’s disappearance and death.
Police responded to the fourth-floor apartment around 6:15 a.m. on Monday, January 22 after getting a tip about a body inside the home and found the dismembered body in a fridge that was sealed with tape, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters at a briefing.
