The severed head and body parts found stashed in plastic bags inside a freezer at a Brooklyn apartment are likely the remains of a local drug dealer who went missing last year, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Cops responding to the grisly scene in Flatbush Monday said the woman living in the apartment — who is now a person of interest in the case — claimed her husband killed the dealer in September in a dispute over drugs and stuck his dismembered body in the fridge.
The woman, identified by neighbors and sources as 45-year-old Heather Stines, is now undergoing psychiatric evaluation but has not been charged.
Her husband, whose name is being withheld by The Post, has not been officially tied to the body.
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Police responded to the Nostrand Avenue apartment around 6:15 a.m. Monday on a tip about a body stashed inside, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press briefing on the case on Tuesday.