How Did a Two-Time Killer Get Out to Be Charged Again at Age 83?
The person before the parole panel in June 2019 was tall and slim, in far better shape than 81 years of life might have suggested.
Mild and polite, the supplicant seemed nothing like the murderer who had spent decades in prison, first for shooting a girlfriend dead in 1963, and then for stabbing another in 1985, stuffing her corpse into a bag and leaving it in Central Park. “I’m no longer that person,” the inmate told the parole board commissioners.
Despite misgivings, they would rule in favor of release. Two and a half years after leaving Cayuga Correctional Facility, Marceline Harvey was accused again, charged with killing Susan Leyden, 68.
Parts of Ms. Leyden’s body were found in March inside a shopping cart in East New York, stuffed in a bag. In Ms. Harvey’s apartment, investigators found a bloody mop, a tub full of towels and a box for an electric saw.
