A Brooklyn woman has been detained after a severed head and multiple body parts were found in her refrigerator.
Heather Stines, 45, was detained on Monday night after cops received a tip about the grisly find, sources told DailyMail.com.
Stines has not been charged. It’s unclear who the body parts belong to, and DNA testing is under way. It’s understood the body parts have been removed from the apartment.
NYPD confirmed that they were called to the apartment on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn at 7.10pm. Once there, 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 remains ongoing.
It’s unclear how long Stines has lived in the apartment for, but neighbors told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that Stines’ home had been broken into at least twice.
Heather Stines, 45, (pictured) was detained on Monday night after cops received a tip about the grisly find, sources told DailyMail.com
NYPD confirmed that they were called to the apartment on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn (pictured) at 7.10pm on Monday
A cop stands guard in the apartment building Tuesday
Stines’s elderly aunt, Amy Stines, expressed her shock and horror at the news when reached 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 several 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.
Heather’s husband, Nicholas McGee, has been in a Chesapeake, Virginia, jail since September after he was accused of trying to cash a fraudulent check in a bank, a relative of his told DailyMail.com.
McGee was due to appear in court Tuesday morning, his sister-in-law Catherine McGee, 55, said.
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.
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.
Body parts were found in a freezer in Apartment 4C in a 2069 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn
Heather Stines, 45, was detained on Monday night after cops received a tip about a severed head and body parts in the refrigerator in her Brooklyn home
‘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.’
‘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.’