Suspect arrested after head and torso discovered in trash outside Brooklyn apartment

"A foul smell coming from the trash outside a New York apartment building led police to a grisly discovery a head and torso wrapped in plastic. Construction workers called police on Friday after noticing a putrid odor coming from the garbage outside an apartment in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. When officers arrived, they discovered a dismembered body stuffed inside a blue trash bin, according to the New York Police Department."

"On Sunday, Christopher Moss, 38, was taken into custody and charged with concealment of a human corpse. Moss's relationship to the victim, who has not been identified, was not immediately clear. But neighbors said the two men were both roommates and a couple, and that they were often heard fighting. The apartment was in the short one's name, and the tall one was always, like, violent with the short one, neighbor Eduardo Lemus told CBS New York."

"But then the fighting abruptly stopped earlier in the week, replaced by the unmistakable stench that filled the hallway of the sixth floor. Last night when we came in he was burning incense, Larrier said. That's the first time I heard there was incense burning in the hallway. As soon as that door opened that whiff would just smack you in the face, another neighbor told ABC7. It definitely was the body."

A foul odor from building trash led construction workers to call police, prompting officers to find a dismembered man's head and torso wrapped in plastic and stuffed inside a blue trash bin outside a Flatbush apartment. Neighbors reported the occupants were two men who lived together as roommates and a couple and who frequently fought, with arguments intensifying the week before the discovery. Residents described a sudden halt to visible fighting and an overpowering stench in the sixth-floor hallway, with one neighbor noting incense burning at the apartment door. Christopher Moss, 38, was arrested and charged with concealment of a human corpse. The victim remains unidentified.

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