CREEPY DRACULA MASK FOUND WITH A BAG OF BODY PARTS!

A creepy Dracula vampire mask was found near the body parts prosecutors say were expertly dismembered by a Brooklyn man charged with identity theft.

The ghoulish face with blood-red lips lay on a carpet of leaves where three garbage bags containing the remains of jewelry importer Viktor Alekseyev were dumped in a New Jersey woods.

Federal prosecutors say the slain man was last seen alive with Dmitriy Yakovlev, who is charged with stealing Alekseyev's identity and that of two others - Russian translator Irina Malezhik and former NYPD mechanic Michael Klein. Malezhik and Klein remain missing.

Crime scene investigators photographed the Dracula mask and tested it for Yakovlev's DNA but no link was made.

There was more horrific testimony and evidence in Yakovlev's trial yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court.

After the jury was shown Yakovlev's immigration application indicating he had worked as a surgeon at "City Hospital #21" in Russia from 1995 to 1996, a forensic pathologist took the witness stand to describe how Alekseyev was dismembered.

Dr. Lyla Perez said the victim's head, torso, hands and feet were not recovered.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Hector wheeled out a life-sized skeleton to show the jury how the limbs were "disarticulated" - or removed without cutting through bone.

"Disarticulation is the process of taking apart a limb from the joint ... without hacking or using a saw," Perez said.

"The disarticulation was very clean. I thought the person who does that had anatomic knowledge," she said.

One jury member looked away and closed her eyes when Hector showed an autopsy photo of how Alekseyev's upper leg had been removed at the hip with no visible damage to the joint.

Defense lawyer Michael Gold tried to minimize the suggestion that the butcher is a blood-thirsty monster.

Gold got the pathologist to agree that the legs and arms were removed in a fashion not unlike how a turkey would be carved on Thanksgiving.

Immediately after the victims vanished, Yakovlev allegedly withdrew money from ATM machines and made expensive purchases using credit cards in their names.



SOURCE