NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- An 83-year-old woman who spent decades in prison, reportedly for killing two ex-girlfriends 20 years apart, was arrested in connection with the discovery of a woman’s torso on a Brooklyn street last week, sources said.
The suspect was picked up last Friday and is due in court Thursday, according to sources.
She was charged last week with concealing a human corpse, and additional charges are expected, the sources said.
The remains were a 68-year-old woman who was seen entering the suspect’s Cypress Hills apartment on Feb. 27 but never leaving the home, the New York Post reported.
The torso was found on the morning of March 3 near the corner of Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues on the border of Cypress Hills and East New York. Police said the torso was in a large bag, which was inside a shopping cart.
A human leg was found in a discarded tire this week, just blocks from where the torso was found. While police haven’t said the grisly discoveries are connected, sources told the Post that the leg belonged to the same victim.
The suspect was allegedly caught on surveillance video dumping the remains near her Pennsylvania Avenue apartment, where authorities found a human head and electric saws from Home Depot, according to the Post, which cited sources and a criminal complaint.
The suspect spent more than 50 years in New York state prisons after she was convicted of murder and manslaughter in a pair of killings dating back to the 1960s, the report said.
She was reportedly convicted of murder in the shooting of her live-in girlfriend in Manhattan in 1963.
She was released on lifetime parole in 1984 but arrested again less than a year later for fatally stabbing another live-in girlfriend and dumping her body near Central Park, according to the report. She was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in that case and released from an Upstate prison in 2019.
The suspect was being held without bail at Rikers Island Thursday ahead of her next court appearance.
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