A jailed Brooklyn man allegedly confessed this week to killing a sex offender over drugs and stashing his severed head in his Flatbush apartment for months — telling cops he “just snapped.”
Nicholas McGee, 45 — who is currently in custody in Chesapeake, Virginia, on an identity fraud case — told Kawsheen Gelzer right before the grisly September murder that he was doing it “because you’re a piece of s–t! And I’m sick of you!” law enforcement sources told The Post Friday.
After slicing up Gelzer’s body while sharing a bottle of vodka, McGee and his wife, Heather Stines, 45, allegedly stole drugs out of the dead man’s pockets and smoked them.
All it took for the convicted fraudster to give up the extremely detailed information was a cigarette, sources said.
Cops traveled down to Virginia this week to probe McGee after Stine, who was charged Wednesday with concealment of a corpse, had told cops her husband was responsible for the crime after he and Gelzer, 39, got into a dispute over drugs.
According to McGee, the alleged murder took place on March 22, 2022 — 17 months earlier than cops originally thought and one month after Gelzer was reported missing.
McGee described himself as the victim, who was upset with the dealer for not doling out drugs to him and Stines — even though the couple regularly allowed him to crash on their Nostrand Avenue couch, McGee allegedly said.
He also claimed Gelzer, who has been on the state sex offender registry since he was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy in 2005, was disrespectful to the pair.
“I just snapped,” McGee told cops.
Gelzer had fallen asleep on their couch for the night when McGee allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and lodged it into his back, sparking a bloody struggle that ended after Gezler was stabbed multiple times and hit with a hammer.
Before dying, Gelzer reportedly begged McGee for a reason, to which the alleged killer screamed “because you’re a piece of s–t! And I’m sick of you!”
That’s when McGee allegedly rifled through the dead man’s pockets for the drugs he had been denied moments earlier.
McGee and Stines — who her husband said was home but didn’t participate in the slaying — left the mutilated body in their apartment for several days until it started to show signs of decomposition.
“I got to cut this motherf–ker up,” McGee allegedly recalled.
The couple passed a bottle of vodka back and forth while allegedly using a small saw for the gruesome task, placing most of the body in plastic bags that then went into a suitcase he stuck in their fridge.
They considered tossing the remains, but figured it out to be too complicated with other people in the busy building, police sources said.
“I put it in there and tried to forget about it,” McGee allegedly admitted.
Gelzer’s dismembered body wasn’t discovered until Monday, but neighbors told The Post that “everybody knew” a deadly struggle had occurred in the couple’s unit.
Stines had grown dodgy about letting others into the apartment in recent months, refusing to let visitors near the fridge she had taped up, tenants said.
She tried to stop cops from looking inside when they finally raided the home Monday, finding the head and other body parts on ice.
Stines was charged Wednesday with concealment of a corpse after undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
McGee is expected to be charged with murder in the coming days, law enforcement sources said.
