Chilling surveillance video captured two unidentified suspects wheeling a dismembered body to a Bronx train station in a laundry cart — hours before the remains were torched and dumped in Yonkers, according to police and law-enforcement sources.
Footage of the apparent modern-day body snatchers pushing the cart across East 163rd Street in Longwood came as NYPD detectives continued piecing together the macabre circumstances surrounding the grisly slaying.
The trail began around 2 a.m. Monday when firefighters found a cart in flames near the Oak Street Bridge in Yonkers, close to the Mount Vernon border, and a lifeless body on the sidewalk, local authorities said.
Investigators believe two suspects brought the remains from the Bronx on a Metro-North train, getting off at the Mount Vernon West station in Westchester County, sources have said.
Police searched an apartment on Rogers Place near East 163rd Street at around 11:30 p.m. Monday — and discovered severed hands in a crockpot full of bleach and additional body parts in a freezer, including at least one leg, sources said.
The surveillance footage from a deli on the ground floor of the building shows the two unidentified figures quickly pushing a cart toward the nearby train station.
Surveillance photos also show the cart being pushed along the sidewalk.
One 20-year-old tenant recounted hearing the cart being lugged out of the building late Sunday into Monday morning by “a very angry man.”
“I heard him carrying something heavy down the stairs … like a cart with laundry but with something much heavier,” the frightened woman said Wednesday.
“There was a voice like somebody was mad. I was really scared,” she added. “It was exactly 12 o’clock Sunday, maybe a minute or two after. I know because I was going to go to the deli and my mom said, ‘No, it’s 12’clock. It’s too dangerous.’”
The victim has not been publicly identified.
Neighbors described the tenant who lived in the apartment where the remains were found to be a long time resident who “had roommates.”
“Yes we know him,” one woman said on Wednesday. “I see him smoking on the front steps all the time. He is nice, he says, ‘Hi.’
“I liked this place because it was always quiet, and the cameras everywhere,” she said. “And no one can go inside without a key. Yesterday when we heard I said wow, so we are scared a little bit.”
Yonkers police have turned the investigation over to the NYPD, which now has at least one person of interest in the morbid murder case — but no charges filed yet, according to sources.
