Grisly security footage shows two unknown suspects transporting the dismembered body in a laundry cart to a Bronx train station, before burning it and dumping it in Yonkers hours later, police and law enforcement sources said.
As NYPD detectives continue to unravel the eerie circumstances surrounding the gruesome murder, footage surfaced of what appears to be a modern-day body snatcher pushing a cart along East 163rd Street in Longwood.
Local authorities said the search began about 2 a.m. Monday when firefighters found a cart on fire and a body lying on the sidewalk near the Oak Street Bridge in Yonkers, near the Mount Vernon border.
Investigators believe two suspects transported the body on a Metro-North train from the Bronx and got off at the Mount Vernon West station in Westchester County, officials said.
Police searched the apartment on Rogers Place near East 163rd Street about 11:30 p.m. Monday and found a severed hand in a pot filled with bleach and other body parts, including at least a leg, in the freezer, officials said.
Surveillance footage from a deli on the building’s first floor shows two unidentified people pushing a cart quickly towards a nearby train station.
Surveillance camera photos also show the cart being pushed along the sidewalk.
One tenant, 20, said he heard a “very angry man” wheeling a cart out of the building late Sunday night into Monday morning.
“I heard him carrying something heavy coming down the stairs, it sounded like a laundry cart but he was carrying something much heavier,” the frightened woman said on Wednesday.
“I heard some crazy voice. I was really scared,” she added. “It was exactly 12 o’clock on a Sunday, maybe a minute or two later. I know because I was about to go to the deli and my mom said, ‘No, it’s 12 o’clock. It’s too dangerous.'”
The victim’s identity has not been released.
According to neighbors, the resident of the apartment where the body was found was a longtime resident and “had a roommate.”
“Yeah, we know him,” one woman said Wednesday. “We always see him smoking on the front steps. He’s friendly and says ‘hello.'”
“I liked this place because it’s always quiet and there are cameras everywhere,” she said, “and you can’t get in without a key. When I heard about it yesterday, I was like, ‘Whoa!’ I was kind of scared.”
Yonkers police have turned the investigation over to the NYPD, who sources say have now identified at least one suspect in the gruesome murder, though no charges have been filed yet.
