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Maniac who killed, burned elderly NYC couple inside their home makes chilling admission: ‘I don’t give a f–k’

September 12, 2025
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Maniac who killed, burned elderly NYC couple inside their home makes chilling admission: ‘I don’t give a f–k’
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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.

Frank and Maureen Olton
Frank and Maureen Olton were tortured in their Queens home before they were brutally murdered. Obtained by the NY Post

Wearing a white painter’s outfit, McGriff, 42, blithely stared ahead as the 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.

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 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.

Jamel McGriff, 42, is arraigned at Queens Criminal Court
Jamel McGriff allegedly admitted to the horrifying crime, telling cops he “killed” and “molested” the couple. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post

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.

The scene where a senior citizen couple were allegedly robbed and murdered by an arsonist is seen at 87-86 254 Street in Queens.
McGriff allegedly set fire on the upstairs of the home. Dennis A. Clark

McGriff does not emerge from the home again for another five hours, prosecutors said.

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.

Outside view of the burned home.
Maureen Olton’s body was “unrecognizable” from the burns, cops said. Dennis A. Clark

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 charges, including murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson and identity theft related to the shocking slayings.

He’s due back in court next week.

Additional reporting by Amanda Woods

The post Maniac who killed, burned elderly NYC couple inside their home makes chilling admission: ‘I don’t give a f–k’ appeared first on New York Post.

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