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Brooklyn Woman Charged with Concealing Dismembered Body in Refrigerator

Victim Identified as Missing Local Drug Dealer; Woman Claims Husband Responsible for Death

  • Heather Stines, a 45-year-old woman from Brooklyn, has been charged with concealing a human corpse after police found a dismembered body in her refrigerator.
  • The body was identified as Kawsheen Gelzer, a 39-year-old registered sex offender and local drug dealer who had been missing since last year.
  • Stines allegedly told police that the body parts had been in the refrigerator for several months and belonged to a man her husband had killed during a dispute in September.
  • Stines' husband, Nicholas McGee, is currently incarcerated in Virginia on an unrelated identity fraud case.
  • Stines was evaluated at a hospital after being taken into custody and had open warrants related to shoplifting and bail-jumping charges.
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