A Florida man who allegedly beat his grandmother to death with a hammer was caught after he asked his housekeeper to clean up the bloody crime scene, according to police.
Anthony Michael Corrado, 34, is accused of attacking the 82-year-old woman — and “severely beating” his grandfather — inside their Naples gated community home Wednesday.
The grandmother had an active order for protection against Corrado — who was released from prison last year — for prior violent history
After allegedly bludgeoning his grandmother, Corrado called a housekeeper around 2:30 p.m. to help him clean a “real mess” inside the Golden Gate Estates home, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Naples Daily News.
A blood-soaked Corrado reportedly led her through the blood-spattered home to a bedroom where his grandmother’s mutilated corpse lay wrapped in a tarp.
She also had a bag wrapped around her head. When the housekeeper tried to remove it, Corrado allegedly stopped her and said it “would get blood everywhere,” the documents state.
The man then allegedly asked her to take the body out of the home.
The housekeeper tried to convince Corrado to call the police, but he reportedly refused, stating “I’ll go back to prison.”
Under the guise of retrieving cleaning supplies from her car, the housekeeper escaped the bloody scene and flagged down a Collier County Sheriffs’ deputy.
During that time, Corrado allegedly unleashed renewed violence on his grandfather, who had returned from a trip to the grocery store.
Police found the brutalized man in another room in the house wrapped in a blanket with severe head injuries. He was flown to a hospital in Fort Myers and is expected to survive.
Deputies found a bloody hammer on the kitchen countertop, and blood was sprayed on the walls and floors of the home.
Corrado was discovered standing outside the home covered in blood from head to toe — the affidavit said splatter was on his “shirt, shorts, boots, both of his shins and his forehead.”
The alleged killer refused to talk with cops.
He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated battery on a person over age 65.
Police have not revealed a motive for the savage crime.
