Queens drug addict busted for killing his mother and father -- one year apart -- as evidence surfaces under the patents' fingernails

Queens drug addict Gregory Cucchiara, a 290-pound behemoth with a long rap sheet and little record of achievement, murdered his mother and father in separate attacks a year apart — murders that were ultimately solved from biological evidence found under the parents’ fingernails, law enforcement authorities said. Cucchiara, 36, will be arraigned Wednesday for beating and drowning his mother, Josephine, 66, in May 2011, and then smothering his father, Carmelo, 75, with a pillow in August. Cucchiara was quietly arrested Nov. 13 and is being held without bail on Rikers Island. He denied any role in his parents’ deaths, sources said — and even attended their wakes. But his DNA was found under the nails of the victims — evidence that they fought back as they were being killed, police sources said.

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