Missing drug dealer found decapitated and dismembered in freezer after months

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Kawsheen Gelzer was dismembered and stashed inside a freezer (Image: Daily Mail WS)
Kawsheen Gelzer was dismembered and stashed inside a freezer (Image: Daily Mail WS)

A missing Brooklyn drug dealer was found cut up and stuffed in a freezer, with a couple accused of keeping his body in their fridge for months and neighbours saying that "everyone knew".

Kawsheen Gelzer, 39, who was also a registered sex offender with child molestation convictions, was reportedly killed and dismembered in September. His remains were then put into plastic bags and kept in a tenant's freezer.

One neighbour said "everybody in the building knew" about the murder. Dorothy Williams commented: "Everybody knew he went in there and never came back out. We all talked about it." Police records show that Gelzer had other arrests, including a two-year prison sentence for first-degree sexual abuse.

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Neighbours identified Gelzer as the man found in a Nostrand Avenue apartment freezer, headless and in pieces. Heather Stines, 45, living in the flat, confessed to the police that her husband murdered Gelzer over drugs in September, then cut him up and put him in the fridge.

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"It's like a terrible thing," Williams said. "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." A little memorial has been made for Gelzer in the building's lobby with candles and photos.

Stines, who had some small theft warrants out for her, was taken by the police and is now getting a mental health check-up after what happened. Her husband, 45-year-old Nicholas McGee, is locked up in Virginia for a fake ID case. They haven't been charged with anything about Gelzer's death yet, but Stines is someone the police are really looking at.

The police records show Gelzer was arrested five times before, including a two-year time in prison for a serious crime before he got out in 2012. After a tip-off about a body, the police went to the fourth-floor flat at 6:15am on Monday and found the body in a freezer all taped up, shared NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. On Wednesday, the crime team took nearly a dozen bags of clues from outside the flat.

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Alex Croft

New York, Drugs, Crime

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