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Couple kept chopped up body of NYC drug dealer in fridge for four months as neighbors say ‘everybody in the building knew it’
The man whose dismembered body was found in a Brooklyn freezer was Kawsheen Gelzer, a 39-year-old drug dealer and registered sex offender, according to sources, records and neighbors.
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Couple kept chopped up body of NYC drug dealer in fridge for five months as neighbors say ‘everybody in the building knew it’
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Published Jan. 25, 2024, 4:23 p.m. ET
A missing Brooklyn drug dealer whose dismembered body was stashed in a Flatbush fridge for five months after a fight over drugs was a registered sex offender who had a string of child molestation busts on his rap sheet, law enforcement sources told The Post.
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, chopped up and stored in plastic bags inside one tenant’s freezer.
“Everybody in the building knew it,” tenant Dorothy Williams said Thursday. “Everybody knew he went in there and never came back out. We all talked about it.”
Neighbors 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 rap sheet, 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 beef over drugs, the sources said.
4 Kawsheen Gelzer, 39, was identified as the man whose dismembered body was found in a Brooklyn apartment. NY.gov
4 Police found a dismembered body in a fourth-floor apartment at this Flatbush building early Monday morning. Gabriella Bass
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 sources did identify Stines as a person of interest in the case.
4 Heather Stines, right, and her husband, Nicholas McGee, have not been charged for body parts found in her fridge. @heatherstines9
4 Police stack bags of evidence outside the Brooklyn apartment where a dismembered body was found on Monday. Gabriella Bass
Cops responded to the fourth-floor apartment around 6:15 a.m. Monday 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.
Police sources said Stines identified Gelzer from photographs and said a tattoo on the butchered body matched one on the career sex offender.
In a grisly scene, crime scene detectives stacked nearly a dozen bags of evidence outside the apartment on Wednesday as part of their investigation.
No one answered the door at Gelzer’s Brooklyn apartment on Thursday.