A hulking Queens drug addict accused of murdering his parents in separate attacks a year apart claims he was framed by his sister and brother-in-law using tricks they learned watching “CSI” TV shows, court records reveal.
Gregory Cucchiara made up the bizarre allegations last month as he was questioned about the homicides of Giusepina Cucchiara, 66, and Carmelo Cucchiara, 75, prosecutors charge.
During the interrogation at the 114th Precinct station house, he allegedly attacked a police lieutenant and tried to assault a detective.
“I believe my sister and her husband may have something to do with my father’s death,” Cucchiara said. “My sister felt that my father was suffering to the point of sudden death. At the same time, she did not want any of the family assets passed on to me.
“She devised a plan to make it look like I am responsible for my father’s passing.”
“My brother-in-law watches a lot of ‘CSI’ and knows how to make things look as though they may not really be,” Cucchiara said.
The Bayside resident, whose long arrest record includes a 2008 bust for assaulting a cop, struck his his mom in the head and drowned her in the family’s bathtub on May 24, 2011, authorities allege.
He was not initially charged with that killing — but was questioned this year by cops after his dad was found dead on Aug. 21 in Carmelo’s Astoria apartment.
Material found under his father’s fingernails was later tested for DNA — and a match was made to Gregory, according to court records.
“This is a horrifying case of a young man throwing his life away and betraying the trust of his family — first by allegedly drowning his mother and then, a year later, suffocating his father,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said of Cucchiara, who will be arraigned on the murders today.
dan.mangan@nypost.com
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