Court records: Patchogue man pleads guilty to dismembering woman's body, scattering remains
According to court records, Gary Cowell, 72, confessed to concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence.
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The Patchogue man accused of dismembering a woman’s body and scattering her remains has pleaded guilty.
According to court records, Gary Cowell, 72, confessed to concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence.
Cowell was with Yvette Leonard before she died and used an axe to cut the 56-year-old woman’s body into pieces.
Cowell then scattered her remains along Montauk Highway.
Cowell is expected to be sentenced next month.
