Man Whose Dismembered Body Was Found in NY Apartment’s Fridge Molested Children, Dealt Drugs

The man whose dismembered body was found stashed in a refrigerator inside an apartment in New York City’s Flatbush area was a drug dealer and a registered sex offender who was earlier arrested by police on several occasions for molesting children, the New York Post said citing people familiar with the matter.

Kawsheen Gelzer, 39, was on the sex offender registry of the state of New York since 2005 when he was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy. He was killed in September, chopped up and stored in plastic bags inside the freezer of a tenant, who has been identified as Heather Stines.

Stines says her husband, 45-year-old Nicholas McGee, who is currently jailed in Chesapeake, Virginia on an identity fraud case, killed Kawsheen Gelzer after getting into a fight over drugs.

The New York-based newspaper said that Gelzer was arrested five times earlier and he also served two years in state prison on a first-degree sexual abuse conviction and was released in 2012.

The apartment’s occupants and people familiar with the developments also told the newspaper that the man who was beheaded and chopped up was Kawsheen Gelzer.

Stines and McGee have not been charged in Gelzer’s disappearance and death but the former has been identified as a person of interest in the case by the police. Cops told the newspaper that Stines identified Gelzer from photographs and from one of his tattoos.

New York police responded to the fourth floor on Monday morning after they received a tip from CrimeStoppers that there was a body inside the home and found a dismembered body in a fridge that was sealed with tape. They stacked nearly a dozen bags of evidence, most of which were Gelzer’s dismembered body parts.

Memorial

The newspaper said people in the apartment set up a makeshift memorial for Gelzer and had prior information regarding what may have happened. “Everybody in the building knew it. Everybody knew he went in there and never came back out. We all talked about it,” a tenant told the newspaper.

“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,” she further added.

Stines, meanwhile, was sent to Brookdale Hospital for psychiatric observation following the discovery of the body parts.