The maniac who allegedly slaughtered an elderly Queens couple inside their own home coldly admitted to the horrifying crime, while also bizarrely claiming he molested them.
“I’ll admit it. I killed them,” repeat criminal Jamel McGriff told police after his Wednesday arrest, according to prosecutors.
“I don’t give a f–k. I killed them. I burnt the n—as. I molested them,” he said.
McGriff’s chilling admission was captured on bodycam footage when he was finally busted — two days after he allegedly tortured Frank and Maureen Olton inside their Bellerose home and went on a shopping spree on their dime.
Wearing a white painter’s outfit, McGriff, 42, blithely stared ahead as prosecutors recounted the “horrifying and shocking” details of the sickening crime to a packed Queens courtroom Thursday night.
Among the tragic new revelations were that 77-year-old Maureen Olton was still alive when McGriff allegedly set fire to the couple’s home on Monday.
Neighbors told The Post that the older woman was bound to her wheelchair.
Her body was “unrecognizable” from the burns, Assistant District Attorney John Esposito told the court, adding that she suffered thermal burns, a fractured larynx — a possible sign of strangulation — and “soot in her trachea.”
Frank Olton, 76, had been tied to a pole in the basement before he was stabbed several times, killing him.
Prosecutors said McGriff set fire to the slain man’s chest before igniting an inferno upstairs.
The sadistic killer — who was inside the home for about five hours — allegedly then went straight to Macy’s and bought $500 worth of clothing on the couple’s credit card, while registering a bonus points card in his own name. He also pawned off two of their cellphones for cash, Esposito said.
McGriff also kicked up his feet at the Regal Union Square movie theater to watch “Light of the World” — a 2-D animated story of Jesus — on the Oltons’ dime, authorities said.
Cops used surveillance footage from the theater to track him down in Times Square and cuff him later that day.
Prosecutors said the brutal murder was “random” — and that video showed the moment the alleged killer set his sights on Frank, who had been fiddling in his yard and with his car around 10 a.m. Monday.
McGriff also kicked up his feet at the Regal Union Square movie theater to watch “Light of the World” — a a 2-D animated story of Jesus — on the Oltons’ dime, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the brutal murder was “random” — and that video showed the moment the alleged killer sets his sights on Frank, who had been fiddling in his yard and with his car around 10 a.m. Monday.
McGriff had already approached several other homes in the area under the guise of needing a phone charger, but had been rejected, authorities said.
Frank, too, rejected McGriff, but the convicted sex offender allegedly followed him through the home’s back door and forcibly entered the home.
“Get the f–k out,” Frank could be heard telling the suspect.
McGriff did not emerge from the home again for another five hours, prosecutors said.
The blood-curdling crime has put the otherwise quiet suburban neighborhood on edge, with residents remembering the Oltons as a welcoming and sweet older couple.
“This is a wonderful neighborhood and for everybody here, it’s just absolutely horrific, absolutely horrific. He is clearly evil. Evil walks this earth,” Dianne O’Boyle, a neighbor who picked up trash from outside the Olton’s home Friday, said about the suspect.
Dominick Vaccaro, the owner of nearby Viccaro’s Pizza, was astounded to learn that McGriff went to see a religious flick after allegedly carrying out the heinous crime.
“How can he go watch a Jesus movie after what he did? I thought he would be watching ‘The Conjuring.’ That more fits what he did,” Vaccaro said, referring the horror series chronicling evil spirit possessions.
As for the $500 of clothing McGriff allegedly spent before his arrest, Vaccaro quipped that he’ll likely never get the chance to sport it: “He’s going to be wearing orange for the rest of his life.”
The alleged killer has 11 prior convictions, including four for violent felonies, prosecutors said.
McGriff was on parole following his release from prison in 2023 after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence for armed robbery and sex crimes.
He was out of prison for more than a year when the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision received word from the NYPD that the career criminal failed to register his address as required on the sex offender registry in 2024, a department spokesman said.
But instead of being slapped with a parole violation, he continued to walk free until he was busted for the shocking double murder.
McGriff was ordered held without bail on 18 courts, including murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson and identity theft related to the shocking slayings. He is not facing any sex-crime related charges.
He’s due back in court next week.
