Posted on 05/16/2026 10:57:14 AM PDT by Morgana
A twice-paroled transgender serial killer with a six-decade history of murdering women has been convicted yet again, this time for the savage 2022 beating death and dismemberment of 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose headless torso was found stuffed in a shopping cart near his East New York apartment.
Harvey Marcelin, 87, who has also gone by “Marceline Harvey,” was found guilty by a Brooklyn Supreme Court jury last week of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and concealment of a human corpse.
On February 27, 2022, surveillance video captured Leyden entering Marcelin’s apartment on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York and never leaving alive.
Days later, on March 3, her headless torso was discovered inside a plastic bag in a wheeled shopping cart just blocks from the apartment.
Additional body parts, including her head, thighs, hand, arm, and one leg, were recovered from black garbage bags inside Marcelin’s unit, along with bloody sheets, cleaning supplies, a hammer, and an electric saw.
Investigators also recovered video showing Marcelin purchasing the saw and cleaning materials at a Home Depot around the time Leyden disappeared.
He was even caught on dollar-store surveillance driving a motorized scooter while sitting on one of the victim’s severed legs as he disposed of evidence.
Marcelin and Leyden had previously lived in the same Bronx homeless shelter in 2019, but the nature of their relationship at the time of the murder remains unclear.
The jury deliberated for less than one hour before delivering the verdict following a two-week trial.
This conviction marks Marcelin’s third murder of a woman in 63 years.
In 1963, the transgender lunatic was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Jacqueline Bonds, in Manhattan. He was paroled in 1984.
One year later, in 1985, Marcelin stabbed his girlfriend, Ana-Laura Sierra, to death. Her body was found in a garbage bag.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was paroled again in 2019, just three years before killing Leyden while still under parole supervision.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez issued a statement after the verdict, saying:
“This conviction holds the defendant accountable for the cruel and reprehensible murder of Susan Leyden. Following the senseless murder, the defendant desecrated the victim’s remains in a manner that truly shocks the conscience. I hope Ms. Leyden’s family finds a measure of solace in this guilty verdict, which ensures this defendant will never walk free again.”
Marcelin now faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Sentencing is scheduled for June 10.
One year later, in 1985, Marcelin stabbed his girlfriend, Ana-Laura Sierra, to death. Her body was found in a garbage bag.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was paroled again in 2019, just three years before killing Leyden while still under parole supervision.
He's till breathing air because he's a democrat who's been handed the 'luck' of getting democrat 'judges'...
But 15+ years on death row is also a mockery of justice.
That is certainly justice denied if there is DNA or surveillance video evidence of murder.
That is too quick. Kill him the same way he killed his victims. By dismembering him one limb at a time, with the same electric saw he had.
When are these progressive Democrats going to learn than people like this need to be erased from humanity.
A twice paroled killer kills again?
Come on he’ a serial killer and should be treated as such.
“I hope Ms. Leyden’s family finds a measure of solace in this guilty verdict, which ensures this defendant will never walk free again.”
You’re joking, right? LOL
That’s why .357 mag was invented.
Yep. Mine all burned.
Why did they parole a serial murderer? Did they think he was too old to murder another person?
In this case, yes.
(Marceline Harvey)
When are the Godless Reprobate Democrats
running “TRANSGENDER” “Marceline Harvey” for Congress?
Wait. I thought it was a horrible, Tragic Canoe accident?
I don’t even know what you are talking about.
You said:
That’s why .357 mag was invented.
I replied:
Mine all burned
That is just a way to guarantee that no one studies or treats mental illness again. Too much liability- they will go to veterinary school instead.
I'm certain that we need something else.
Government obviously no longer protects us from predators.
I think you need to keep reading.
Who’s more insane? Marcelin, or the parole boards that keep letting him go free?
. I hope Ms. Leyden’s family finds a measure of solace in this guilty verdict, which ensures this defendant will never walk free again.
He said for the third time....
AGREE!
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