The two people who were brutally murdered before having their remains butchered and scattered in a public park for children to find have been identified.
Police and family identified the victims as Malcolm Craig Brown, 53, and Donna Conneely, 59, on Monday.
The details emerged the same day two of the people charged in their sordid case, Steven Brown, 44, Malcom’s cousin, and Amanda Wallace, 40, appeared in Central Islip Court.
Confused family members attended their bail hearing, with one shouting “how could you?” and another tells the suspects to ‘do the right thing’.
Jeffrey Mackey, 38, and Alexis Nieves, 33, were all also arrested in connection with the case last week.
Mackey and Neives were in court Friday, and the other two suspects were in court Monday. All four have been released back onto the streets thanks to the state’s “no bail” laws.
Suspects facing charges related to mutilation and disposing of murdered bodies are no longer eligible for bail after New York reformed its bail laws in 2019.
Malcolm Craig Brown, 53, and Donna Conneely, 59, were murdered before having their remains butchered and scattered in Babylon park, NY
Steven Brown, 44, and Amanda Wallace, 40, were in court on Monday after being arrested in connection with the dismembered remains of two victims
The victims were brutally murdered before having their remains butchered, have been identified as Malcolm Craig Brown, 53, and Donna Conneely, 59
Seeing the suspects walk from the courthouse left the victims’ families seething as they said it was ‘absurd’ that they could be free again.
Three of Brown’s family members sat in the courtroom visibly distraught over the release of the suspects.
The brown sister, Coreen Bullock, yelled at the suspects, ‘how could you?’ in the courtroom, as his brother shook his head furiously and whispered, “that’s ridiculous.”
When it was Wallace’s turn to walk up to the bench, Bullock sneered at her in disgust.
After the hearing, Williams was heard in the corridor saying loudly ‘do the right thing!’
Bullock cried inconsolably and was comforted by her brother who hugged her as another family member stopped by. Bullock said all he wanted was justice.
‘This whole bail reform bill, something has to change. Two people were murdered. One of them was my brother. My little brother, Malcolm Craig Brown, Bullock said. “There are no words.”
‘It’s absurd that four people can murder two people and just go out like that.’
When Williams was asked what ‘doing the right thing’ meant, he replied: ‘The right thing? Whatever it is for Steven to do. And he knows what to do.
‘We have parents. We have lost a brother. Steven Brown is our cousin. And our parents and his mother, my aunt, they are at home.
‘They are suffering, they are in pain. And he has nothing to say. He has to do something. He has to tell it good or bad or else. He must tell his story so that we can move on.’
They said they don’t know Conneely.
Police later discovered more body parts including two severed heads in the same park, along with nearby Bethpage State Park and West Babylon Woodland
The suspects were arrested on Tuesday after a girl tripped over a heavily tattooed human arm in Babylon Park on her way to school the previous week.
The other suspects Jeffrey Mackey, 38, and Alexis Nieves, 33, were seen walking free from Suffolk County Criminal Court on Friday with big grins on their faces
Williams lives in Southern California and hasn’t seen her brother in about seven years, last speaking to him two years ago.
“Having to come home and deal with this… it’s not good,” he said.
His sister added: ‘He was our little brother. He wasn’t perfect, but no one deserves murder like this. And his cousin has something to do with it’.
Bullock said she did not believe her brother was in a love triangle, which some had speculated was a motive for the murder. She said she has ‘no idea’ who Conneely was.
‘This is such a heinous crime. Our mothers, our families, everyone is upset about this.’
She also said the suspect, Steven Brown, was her cousin.
‘We all grew up together. We are a family. Or at least I thought we were family. We’re just looking for answers,” Bullock said.
When asked if she felt that Brown, her cousin seemed remorseful when she looked at him, Bullock said: ‘No. I just felt like he saw right through me’
An emotional Williams thought he or Brown’s mother when he saw his cousin in court today.
“His mother went through my mind,” Williams said. ‘I love her to death and I’ll probably see her today and give her all the hugs I can. This is family.’
His sister added: ‘This is such a despicable crime.’
Members of the Brown family embrace after a court hearing for Steven Brown and Wallace. Both suspects were released on bond, as were Mackey and Nieves
Members of the Brown family leave after a court hearing. Seeing the suspects walk from the courthouse left the victims’ families seething as they said it was ‘absurd’ that they could just be set free again.
Malcolm Brown’s brother Charles Williams was in court and told the suspects ‘do the right thing’
‘We want some time. And I just don’t want to share anything right now,” Williams said. “I have my mom to think about, the rest of the family. And when I say both sides, I don’t mean to separate it. We’re one family. And I just have to go back and see my mom and she couldn’t make it today.
‘She wasn’t into it. And I know my aunt probably wasn’t into it either. So I’ll see her in a bit.’
Brown and Wallace are due back in court on Tuesday, March 19, and Mackay and Nieves on Monday, March 18.
Bullock said she will be at ‘every single’ court hearing as she cried.
Brown and Wallace’s conditions remain the same as the other two suspects, including GPS ankle monitoring.
Ira Weismann, Brown’s attorney, told DailyMail.com that we are just getting started on the case.
“Steven Brown didn’t kill anybody,” his lawyer said before walking away.
A half-finished meal, empty vodka bottle and open carton of juice sit on a table inside a house in Amityville, New York, that was raided Monday in connection with the discovery of two dismembered bodies
A broken door was visible at the Amityville property raided by police on Monday
The victims’ remains were found after a girl tripped over a heavily tattooed human arm in a Babylon park on her way to school the previous week.
After the initial gruesome discovery, police uncovered several body parts including two severed heads in the same park, along with nearby Bethpage State Park and West Babylon Forest.
Several distinct tattoos on one arm were found at the scene.
Along with the gruesome array of body parts, ‘sharp instruments and other related objects’ were discovered at their home on Railroad Avenue in Amityville, according to the indictment.
The home was described as ‘unlivable’ in court Wednesday as prosecutors claimed the four had broken plumbing by trying to hide the bodies by flushing away body parts, according to the NYPost.
Mackey, Brown and Wallace lived at the home, while Nieves is listed in court documents as homeless.