Prosecutors on Thursday charged Heather Stines with hiding a body in her apartment's refrigerator, the New York Daily News reported.
Investigators were called to her apartment after a tip on Monday and identified the body as Kosheen Gelser, a registered sex offender and drug dealer, the New York Daily News reported. court documents said. report. Officers said they found Gelser's body parts wrapped in black plastic bags, which had been stored in the refrigerator and freezer. Police also found Gelser's severed head in the refrigerator, court documents said, according to the New York Daily News. (Related article: Chiefs fan's frozen body found outside friend's house, family condemns)
“There was tape on the refrigerator,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said at a news conference Tuesday, according to the newspaper. Kenny suspected that this was done to keep the terrible “smell” inside. According to the New York Daily News, Ms. Stein's husband is currently incarcerated in another state on an unrelated crime, and Ms. Stein was the only person in the apartment when police searched her home.
“She was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to jail,'” said Jermaine Roberts, 53, who lives in Stines' neighborhood. Said outlet. Roberts added that police would not allow Stines to leave the apartment. “My kitchen could see into her kitchen and I could see them taking pictures with forensic light.”
Police have filed charges against a 44-year-old Brooklyn woman after the decapitated and dismembered body of a registered sex offender was found inside a refrigerator taped up.https://t.co/z60e7OwmPY
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According to the criminal complaint, the medical examiner identified Gelser based on fingerprints, ABC News reported. report. The report said Stein is currently being held in a New York City jail, but it is unclear whether she has a lawyer who will take her case. She is being held on $50,000 cash bail, according to the New York Daily News.
According to the New York Daily News, law enforcement said Gelser went missing after visiting Stines and her husband, Nicholas McGee. Police suspect the death may have occurred during an argument regarding the couple's ongoing drug dispute, the newspaper said.
Stines has not been formally charged with Gelser's murder, the New York Daily News reported. According to the New York Daily News, court documents state that Stein did not comment on the body in the apartment, but admitted he lived there.
According to court documents obtained by the New York Daily News, Stines had a previous conviction for three shoplifting charges in 2022, but allegedly failed to appear in court.
