--- description: A man beheaded a woman at her apartment in Long Island Tuesday night before jumping in front of a train, police and locals said title: Man Beheads Long Island Woman and Jumps in Front of Train image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Man Beheads Woman in New York Before Jumping in Front of Train by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 29, 2014 1:28 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 29, 2014 1:28 PM CUT A man [beheaded a woman at her apartment](http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/man-possibly-beheaded-woman-jumped-in-front-of-train-cops/ "undefined") in Long Island, N.Y. Tuesday night before jumping in front of a train, police and locals said. The elderly woman was discovered dead outside an apartment building in Farmingdale, Nassau County at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nassau police said, according to the New York _Post_. The man had dragged her into the street and kicked her severed head about 20 feet. “I looked through my window and saw the body down there,” neighbor Nick Gordon told the _Post_. “I saw the lady laying right in front and her head was across the street, close to the corner. I thought ‘holy sh–!’” “There was blood all over the floor,” Gordon continued. “You can see smears going down the stairs… as if somebody were pulling a body.” About 25 minutes later, the man was struck and killed by a Long Island Railroad train, and his body was found about a mile way from the crime scene in Farmingdale. [WNBC](http://www.11alive.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/28/man-beheads-woman-jumps-in-front-of-train/18094607/ "undefined") reported that investigators believe the woman was the man’s mother. \[[_New York Post_](http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/man-possibly-beheaded-woman-jumped-in-front-of-train-cops/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3545608/long-island-beheading/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3545608/long-island-beheading/"},"headline":"Man Beheads Woman in New York Before Jumping in Front of Train","datePublished":"2014-10-29T13:28:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:04:44.839Z","description":"The man's body was found a mile away after he was struck by a train","url":"https://time.com/3545608/long-island-beheading/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3545608/long-island-beheading/","name":"Man Beheads Woman in New York Before Jumping in Front of Train"}}]}] ```