Brooklyn woman, 44, is charged with concealing a corpse after severed head and body parts of drug dealing child molester were found in her freezer

Heather Stines was detained Monday after body parts were found in her freezerStines told police her husband Nicholas McGee killed Kawsheen Gelzer Gelzer is on the sex offender registry over molesting a 12-year-old boy in 2005 

A woman who kept the chopped-up body of a drug dealer in her fridge for at least four months has been charged.

Heather Stines, 45, was detained on Monday night after cops got a tip about the grisly secret and spotted a suspiciously taped up refrigerator.

‘They were trying to hole up, I guess, the smell inside,’ NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

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

Stines had a psychiatric evaluation at Brookdale Hospital and was on Thursday charged with concealment of a human corpse.

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

She was held on a $50,000 bond after being arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

The long-term drug addict was also given bail on three outstanding warrants for shoplifting charges she never showed up to court for.

Stines was arrested in 2022 for allegedly stealing Covid test kits and drinks from a pharmacy in nearby Flatbush, and a ‘manscape electronic’ device from Target.

The mother-of-two told police her husband Nicholas McGee killed Gelzer in September in a dispute over drugs, then chopped him up and put the pieces in the freezer and fridge.

Gelzer, according to records, has been on the New York sex offender registry since 2005 after he was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy and has served four years in prison for sexual abuse among several other arrests.

The victim, 40-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer, according to records, has been on the New York sex offender registry since 2005 after he was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy and has served prison time for sexual abuse among several other arrests

Stines’ neighbor Dorothy Williams said residents of the building had their suspicions that she or her husband killed Gelzer.

‘Everybody knew he went in there and never came back out. We all talked about it,’ she told the New York Post.

Despite his reputation, Williams had sympathy for Gelzer and notes that a makeshift memorial has been started in the lobby of the building.

‘It’s like a terrible thing. He didn’t deserve to die like that. Nobody deserves to die like that. You can see the ladies in the building, we’re putting up pictures of him and writing stuff like, you know, ‘rest in peace’ and stuff like that.’

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

Law enforcement sources told DailyMail.com police were still investigating how much involvement Stines had with the crime.

Heather Stines (pictured right), 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, a mother-of-two, told police husband Nicholas McGee (pictured left) killed Gelzer in a dispute over drugs

‘She’s saying it was her husband, but he’s in jail and she’s there with a dead body,’ one said.

Asked if they believed McGee killed Gelzer they said: ‘Could be. I don’t think she would have been able to chop up the body by herself.

‘Maybe they were together… we don’t know how long this guy has been in the fridge.’

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.

NYPD confirmed that they were called to the apartment on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn (pictured) at 7.10pm on Monday

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’.

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.

‘Oh God, I just can’t fathom this,’ the 79-year-old from Kentucky told DailyMail.com.

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, said.

A cop stands guard in the apartment building Tuesday

She told DailyMail.com that the couple are both drug abusers, who’d used heroin and crack, and been arrested multiple times. She said Heather relapsed a ‘year or two’ ago after learning that one of her daughters had died of a drug overdose.

The sister-in-law said she had yet to speak with Nicholas about the police investigation.

‘He’s going to be f**king devastated because he’s coming out of jail and she’s possibly going into jail, for a possible murder,’ she said.

Darrell, who lives across the hall from Stines in the Brooklyn block and sometimes loaned her cash, said he knew she was a drug addict and people tried to break into her apartment at least twice looking for money she owed for drugs.

He said he last saw McGee, who was ‘a cool guy’ in the last week of August.

‘They got into an argument one night and I haven’t seen him since,’ he said.

‘A couple of days later she said ‘my husband got locked up, I don’t have my food stamp card, do you have $10?’ I said sure.

‘A couple of days ago she said detectives were here looking for my husband and I told them he was in jail.

‘She’s cool as hell, I would never expect she’d have a head in her freezer, hell no.’

Another couple who lived in the building said Stines was so addicted to crack and heroin she had sold ‘everything of value’ in her apartment, even her TV.

‘She’s what we call a garbage can addict, she’ll do any drugs,’ they said.

‘Heather is one of the people bringing this building down, nobody would be sad if she went to jail.’

The couple said Stines recently started hanging out with a short black man with dreadlocks, whom she was seen with frequently – as recently as the weekend.

Stines’ aunt Amy said her niece had several children from prior relationships who were taken away from her.

As far as she knew, child protective services took the kids away after finding her to be neglectful.

‘The worst I know of is she lost her children because somebody reported them sleeping on the floor because she didn’t have any beds,’ the aunt said.

‘She said she threw the beds away because of bed bugs. They slept on palettes.’

The old building with ‘Flatbush Court’ engraved above the always-unlocked door was poorly maintained with graffiti on the walls and chips all through the lobby’s plaster. Most of the shops nearby are boarded up and piles of trash bags line both sides of the door

‘My husband said let’s go buy them some beds, and the next thing we knew she didn’t have the kids,’ she added.

‘She went to live with her cousin, then stole her computer. She also stole some money from me and my husband. She just would run off. You couldn’t do anything with her.’

‘Even though she was bad, she was sweet,’ the aunt said. ‘She was nice as can be.’

A few years back, the aunt recalled, ‘Heather said she had to get away from here. And I said you think New York is better than here? I told her there’s more drugs in New York.

‘She said she was going to come back here to Kentucky at some point, and I was going to let her stay with me,’ she continued.

‘But she never did come back. She’d text me over the years at times for money. I’d always ask if she’s in trouble and she’d say, no, just running low.’

The old building with ‘Flatbush Court’ engraved above the always-unlocked door was poorly maintained with graffiti on the walls and chips all through the lobby’s plaster.

Most of the shops nearby are boarded up and piles of trash bags line both sides of the door.