Identity of severed HEAD and body parts found in a Brooklyn woman's freezer is ... trends now

Identity of severed HEAD and body parts found in a Brooklyn woman's freezer is ... trends now
Identity of severed HEAD and body parts found in a Brooklyn woman's freezer is ... trends now

Identity of severed HEAD and body parts found in a Brooklyn woman's freezer is ... trends now

A head and body parts found in a drug-addicted woman's freezer are those of a dealer who disappeared last year.

NYPD detectives have identified the remains as belonging to 40-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer, also known as Dave Draper, sources told DailyMail.com.

Heather Stines, 45, was detained on Monday night after cops received a tip about the grisly find and found the body parts in her freezer in Brooklyn.

Stines is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Brookdale Hospital after being interrogated by detectives, who are so far only charging her with concealing a body.

She told police her husband Nicholas McGee killed Gelzer in September in a dispute over drugs, then chopped him up and put the remains in the freezer.

'She has said that, and we believe it to be true,' a source said.

Heather Stines, 45, (pictured) was detained on Monday night after cops received a tip about the grisly find, sources told DailyMail.com

Stines told police her husband Nicholas McGee (left) killed Gelzer in September in a dispute over drugs, then chopped him up and put the remains in the freezer

Stines told police her husband Nicholas McGee (left) killed Gelzer in September in a dispute over drugs, then chopped him up and put the remains in the freezer

McGee has been in a Chesapeake, Virginia, jail since September after he was accused of trying to cash a fraudulent check in a bank.

Gelzer was convicted of first degree sexual abuse, contact by forcible compulsion, that he committed on August 8, 2004, criminal records showed.

NYPD confirmed that they were called to the apartment on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn at 7.10pm. 

Once there, sources said officers saw a suspiciously taped up refrigerator that Stines was adamant they didn't open it as they tried to inspect it.

Stines was arrested when she tried to stop the officers from looking inside.

Officers found the body parts inside black plastic bags inside both the fridge and freezer and removed them from the apartment for DNA testing.

Gelzer was identified from his distinctive gang tattoos that matched arrest records.

The medical examiner is still determining a cause of death, which may take time as they 'have to wait for [parts of] the body to thaw out'. 

NYPD detectives have identified the remains as belonging to 40-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer, also known as Dave Draper

NYPD detectives have identified the remains as belonging to 40-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer, also known as Dave Draper

The NYPD earlier said that officers 'observed an unconscious and unresponsive, unidentified male inside the apartment'. 

'EMS responded and pronounced the aided deceased on the scene,' NYPD said in a statement.

The medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing. 

It's unclear how long the body was in the freezer before police found it, but neighbors told DailyMail.com Stines never let anyone in her kitchen.

Stines's elderly aunt, Amy Stines, expressed her shock and horror at the news when reached on Tuesday by DailyMail.com.

'Oh God, I just can't fathom this,' the 79-year-old from Kentucky said.

She said her niece has had longstanding drug problems and moved from Kentucky six years ago hoping to escape her problems.

According to the aunt, Heather was living with her husband in an apartment in Brooklyn, and was earning some money cleaning apartments.

She said she reached out to her niece on Sunday to see how she was and catch up on things, but got no response.

McGee was due to appear in court on Tuesday morning, his sister-in-law Catherine McGee, 55,

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