Opening statements began Monday in the murder trial of Harvey Marcelin, an 87-year-old alleged serial killer charged with killing and dismembering a woman and scattering her remains across East New York in 2022.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys laid out different versions of what happened to 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose torso was found inside a bag at the corner of Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues in March 2022.
Other body parts were later recovered from Marcelin’s apartment and other locations in East New York…