The maniac who allegedly slaughtered an aged Queens couple inside their very own dwelling coldly admitted to the horrifying crime, whereas additionally bizarrely claiming he molested them.
“I’ll admit it. I killed them,” repeat prison Jamel McGriff advised police after his Wednesday arrest, in response to prosecutors.
“I don’t give a f–okay. I killed them. I burnt the n—as. I molested them,” he mentioned.
McGriff’s chilling admission was captured on bodycam footage when he was lastly busted — two days after he allegedly tortured Frank and Maureen Olton inside their Bellerose dwelling and went on a procuring spree on their dime.
Carrying a white painter’s outfit, McGriff, 42, blithely stared forward as prosecutors recounted the “horrifying and stunning” particulars of the sickening crime to a packed Queens courtroom Thursday night time.
Among the many tragic new revelations have been that 77-year-old Maureen Olton was nonetheless alive when McGriff allegedly set fireplace to the couple’s dwelling on Monday.
Neighbors advised The Put up that the older lady was sure to her wheelchair.
Her physique was “unrecognizable” from the burns, Assistant District Lawyer John Esposito advised the court docket, including that she suffered thermal burns, a fractured larynx — a doable signal of strangulation — and “soot in her trachea.”
Frank Olton, 76, had been tied to a pole within the basement earlier than he was stabbed a number of occasions, killing him.
Prosecutors mentioned McGriff set fireplace to the slain man’s chest earlier than igniting an inferno upstairs.
The sadistic killer — who was inside the house for about 5 hours — allegedly then went straight to Macy’s and purchased $500 value of clothes on the couple’s bank card, whereas registering a bonus factors card in his personal title. He additionally pawned off two of their cellphones for money, Esposito mentioned.
McGriff additionally kicked up his toes on the Regal Union Sq. movie show to observe “Mild of the World” — a 2-D animated story of Jesus — on the Oltons’ dime, authorities mentioned.
Cops used surveillance footage from the theater to trace him down in Occasions Sq. and cuff him later that day.
Prosecutors mentioned the brutal homicide was “random” — and that video confirmed the second the alleged killer set his sights on Frank, who had been fiddling in his yard and together with his automotive round 10 a.m. Monday.
McGriff additionally kicked up his toes on the Regal Union Sq. movie show to observe “Mild of the World” — a a 2-D animated story of Jesus — on the Oltons’ dime, authorities mentioned.
Prosecutors mentioned the brutal homicide was “random” — and that video confirmed the second the alleged killer units his sights on Frank, who had been fiddling in his yard and together with his automotive round 10 a.m. Monday.
McGriff had already approached a number of different properties within the space beneath the guise of needing a telephone charger, however had been rejected, authorities mentioned.
Frank, too, rejected McGriff, however the convicted intercourse offender allegedly adopted him by means of the house’s again door and forcibly entered the house.
“Get the f–okay out,” Frank might be heard telling the suspect.
McGriff didn’t emerge from the house once more for one more 5 hours, prosecutors mentioned.
The blood-curdling crime has put the in any other case quiet suburban neighborhood on edge, with residents remembering the Oltons as a welcoming and candy older couple.
“It is a great neighborhood and for everyone right here, it’s simply completely horrific, completely horrific. He’s clearly evil. Evil walks this earth,” Dianne O’Boyle, a neighbor who picked up trash from exterior the Olton’s dwelling Friday, mentioned concerning the suspect.
Dominick Vaccaro, the proprietor of close by Viccaro’s Pizza, was astounded to study that McGriff went to see a non secular flick after allegedly finishing up the heinous crime.
“How can he go watch a Jesus film after what he did? I believed he could be watching ‘The Conjuring.’ That extra matches what he did,” Vaccaro mentioned, referring the horror collection chronicling evil spirit possessions.
As for the $500 of clothes McGriff allegedly spent earlier than his arrest, Vaccaro quipped that he’ll probably by no means get the possibility to sport it: “He’s going to be sporting orange for the remainder of his life.”
The alleged killer has 11 prior convictions, together with 4 for violent felonies, prosecutors mentioned.
McGriff was on parole following his launch from jail in 2023 after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence for armed theft and intercourse crimes.
He was out of jail for greater than a 12 months when the state Division of Corrections and Neighborhood Supervision acquired phrase from the NYPD that the profession prison didn’t register his handle as required on the intercourse offender registry in 2024, a division spokesman mentioned.
However as an alternative of being slapped with a parole violation, he continued to stroll free till he was busted for the stunning double homicide.
McGriff was ordered held with out bail on 18 courts, together with homicide, theft, housebreaking, kidnapping, arson and identification theft associated to the stunning slayings. He isn’t going through any sex-crime associated expenses.
He’s due again in court docket subsequent week.
