Gruesome crime-scene video was played in Brooklyn court Thursday showing notorious landlord Menachem Stark’s charred, snow-covered body inside a Great Neck dumpster — and even his accused murderer had a hard time watching it.
Slay suspect Kendel Felix hunched forward looking upset as the video played, while members of Stark’s family cried softly, and some had to get up and leave.
Now-retired NYPD Detective Bruce Schurman who filmed the crime scene, also held up a ski mask with its sales tag still attached, and a pair of gloves, saying they were found discarded near the dumpster.
“There was snow, regular items found in dumpsters like cardboard boxes,” Ross noted. “[Stark’s] entire stomach had been eviscerated, and his organs were exposed. You could smell the gasoline’’ from when it had been poured over him and torched.
Prosecutors have said Stark was killed during a kidnapping gone bad, when a group of construction workers he employed decided he was rich enough to rob.
Felix, the only person charged in the slaying, faces 50 years to life in prison if convicted.