Two men and two women have been convicted in connection with the ambush murders of a Yonkers couple in a suburb east of New York City, whom they allegedly dismembered before scattering the remains in two parks and a wooded area , before a child’s severed hand stumbles. ,
Four suspects, Jeffrey Mackey, 36, Alexis Nieves, 33, Steven Brown, 44, and Amanda Wallace, 40, were accused of luring Malcolm Brown, 53, and Donna Connelly, 59, to a home in Amityville and stabbing them to death. There is an allegation. Inside on 27 February.
The four allegedly dismembered the victims in the bathroom threw away their remains at Southards Pond Park, Bethpage State Park, and an expanse of forest in West Babylon.
Long Island body parts suspects released again under New York bail rules
Inset, from left, are the four suspects in the gruesome double murder and dismemberment that left body parts scattered across Long Island: Jeffrey Mackey, 38, Alexis Nieves, 33, Amanda Wallace, 40, and Steven Brown, 44. . Background: Suffolk County Police crime scene investigators outside a home on Railroad Avenue in Amityville, New York on March 5, 2024, in connection with body parts discovered in Babylon’s Southards Pond Park, Bethpage State Park and West Babylon. (Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, The Image Direct for Fox News Digital, James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
Prosecutors said investigators who searched the home found blood, two meat cleavers and other large knives throughout the residence.
Family members of the victims told reporters outside the Suffolk County Courthouse in March that the two Browns were cousins. But prosecutors allege he and his friends conspired to kill the couple.
A child soon found a severed hand in a park while walking home from school, and police recovered other pieces of victims at other locations.
Four Long Island body parts suspects were arrested on March 4 and released without bail on lesser charges under New York law, sparking outrage.
Suffolk County Police crime scene investigators outside a home on Railroad Avenue in Amityville, New York on March 5, 2024, in connection with body parts found in Southards Pond Park, Bethpage State Park and West Babylon in Babylon. Prosecutors said Monday that police recovered two meat cleavers and other large knives and found blood in several rooms inside the house. (James Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
under New York’s Bail reform laws passed in 2019 make those charged with merely cutting up and disposing of bodies ineligible for bail, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, who skewered the state’s bail reform laws and sought to change them .
“I want to thank the hard-working men and women of the Suffolk County Police Department and my prosecutors for their tireless work in bringing this investigation to the point where we are able to charge the individuals responsible with murder and seek bail,” he Said. That said Monday, after an indictment on more serious charges was unsealed. “They in law enforcement One should do his work without any fear or favour. Ethically, charges can and should only be made when the facts and evidence are clear. I thank the team for ignoring the distractions and making this happen.”
Steven Brown and Amanda Wallace leave the First District Criminal Court of Suffolk in Central Islip, New York on Monday, March 11, 2024. Brown and Wallace were initially convicted and released without bail in connection with a gruesome discovery of body fragments. (Image direct to Fox News Digital)
Following his arraignment on the new indictment on Monday, a judge ordered Mackey held without bail. The judge set bail for Nieves at $1 million cash or $10 million bond.
they both face each other charged with murder And are due back in court on June 3.
A few days after the initial arrests, police took Wallace back into custody on charges of stealing makeup from a CVS store, and a judge was able to grant bail.
Alexis Nieves (front) and Jeffrey Mackey leave the First District Criminal Court of Suffolk in Central Islip, New York on Friday, March 8, 2024. Mackey and Nieves were initially convicted and released without bail in connection with a gruesome discovery of dismembered body parts. , (Image direct to Fox News Digital)
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He and Brown, who had not yet been booked into the county jail, were due back in court Tuesday.
Other charges against the group include conspiracy, tampering with evidence and hiding a corpse.
The house where the suspects were staying is just 4 miles from the infamous “Amityville Horror” house, where Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his own family inside their antique colonial home in 1974.
