Law enforcement officials told The Post that the missing Brooklyn drug dealer, whose dismembered body was hidden in a Flatbush fridge for four months following a drug-related altercation, was a registered sex offender with a history of child molestation convictions on his rap sheet.
According to reports, Kawsheen Gelzer, 39, was killed inside the fourth-floor flat in September and his body was broken up and put in plastic bags inside a tenant’s freezer. Gelzer had been on the state sex offender registry since he was found guilty of abusing a 12-year-old kid in 2005.
Dorothy Williams, a resident, stated on Thursday that “everyone in the building knew it.”
“Everyone was aware that he entered and never emerged. We all discussed it.
Gelzer was the man whose severed head and mutilated body were discovered inside the Nostrand Avenue apartment on Monday, according to neighbors and other sources.
To Abby, please: I don’t want my stepson, who has a criminal record for sexual offenses, to live in my home.
According to records, Gelzer has been arrested for at least five additional offenses. He was freed from an upstate jail in 2012 after serving two years in state prison for first-degree sexual abuse.
The apartment’s resident, Heather Stines, told authorities that following a drug-related argument, her incarcerated husband killed Gelzer in September and put his body parts inside the refrigerator, according to the sources.
There was an improvised monument for Gelzer in the building lobby, complete with pictures and candles.
Williams, a renter in the building, described it as “like a terrible thing” on Thursday.
After the head and body parts of an alleged drug dealer were discovered in the apartment freezer, a Brooklyn tenant was charged.
“That was not how he should have died. Nobody should pass away in that manner. The women are inside the building, as you can see, and we are posting images of him and saying things like, “Rest in peace,” and similar things.
After the horrific finding, Stines—who had outstanding warrants for petty theft—was brought into custody and admitted to Brookdale Hospital for mental monitoring.
Stines, 45, and her spouse, 45-year-old Nicholas McGee, are not facing any charges related to Gelzer’s death or disappearance. McGee is incarcerated in Chesapeake, Virginia, on an identity theft case.
Stines was listed as a person of interest in the case by police sources.
Following a tip about a body inside the residence, police arrived to the fourth-floor apartment at 6:15 a.m. on Monday. According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, during a press conference, they discovered the dismembered body inside a refrigerator that had been taped shut.
According to police sources, Stines used photos to identify Gelzer and claimed that a tattoo on the dismembered body matched the career sex offender’s.
As part of their investigation, crime scene investigators piled up around a dozen bags of evidence outside the flat on Wednesday in a graphic scene.
Gelzer’s Brooklyn apartment door was unanswered on Thursday.
