New photo reveals slain Queens couple attacked in brutal home invasion; suspect charged with murder
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A new image obtained by Fox News Digital now reveals Frank and Maureen Olton, the elderly Queens couple police say were brutally tied up, stabbed and set on fire after a man claimed he needed to come inside a home to charge his phone.

The victims, ages 76 and 77, were “simply spending a Monday morning at home” before they were murdered and viciously tortured for hours in their Bellerose home, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release Friday.

Jamel McGriff, 42, a Bronx ex-con with a decades-long rap sheet, has been charged with 14 counts of murder and 37 charges in total, including kidnapping, burglary, robbery, arson, weapons offenses, grand larceny and identity theft, the Queens County District Attorney’s Office said.

“As alleged, in a brazen act of violence, the defendant forced himself into a Bellerose home, stabbed one of the elderly homeowners to death and then deliberately set the house on fire,” District Attorney Katz said in the release. 

A photo of double-homicide suspect Jamal McGriff

Jamal McGriff allegedly tortured and killed an elderly Queens couple on Monday. (NYPD)

Afterward, McGriff allegedly used Frank’s credit cards at Macy’s to make purchases totaling $796.10 and sold the couple’s phones in the Bronx, using his own ID and loyalty card in the transactions, according to the DA’s office.

McGriff was apprehended by the New York Police Department Wednesday evening in Manhattan.

The 42-year-old has a rap sheet spanning three decades, including two armed robberies in Manhattan just weeks before the murders, FOX 5 reported.

Julia Bonavita contributed to this report.

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