A Queens lady allegedly stabbed her aged mother to loss of life in a Thanksgiving Eve assault on Lengthy Island – and eerily claimed that she “by no means had a mom” after her arrest, in keeping with cops and a report.
Diana Bekatoros, 51, is accused of knifing 84-year-old Josephine Bekatoros simply after 9 p.m. Wednesday contained in the older lady’s house on the tree-lined Carman Courtroom in Dix Hills, Suffolk County Police mentioned.
“I by no means had a mom,” the arrested lady, seen together with her arms shackled, instructed a Newsday photographer exterior the Fourth Precinct stationhouse in Hauppage Thursday when requested her if she had killed her mom.
“Are you my mom?” she bizarrely added, in keeping with the report.
“I don’t even know what you might be speaking about,” Bekatoros reportedly replied when questioned a second time.
Bekatoros was arrested at her house on Middle Boulevard in Lengthy Island Metropolis. She was charged with second-degree homicide and ordered held with out bail throughout her Thanksgiving Day arraignment, in keeping with cops and on-line data.
Neighbor Helene Glodowski, 74, instructed Newsday that the lethal stabbing left her “shocked.”
“I can’t consider it,” added Glodowski, who mentioned she had lived throughout from Josephine Bekatoros and her husband, Dennis Bekatoros, since 1989.
Diana used to dwell together with her mother and father as effectively – and regardless of transferring out about 15 years in the past, appeared to have a “mother-daughter pals” relationship together with her mother, Glodowski mentioned.
Josephine and Dennis had a small canine, and a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter who now dwell in Nassau County, Glodowski instructed the outlet.
Josephine was at all times “meticulously dressed” and “very cautious together with her look,” the neighbor added.
“She was a stunning girl,” Glodowski instructed Newsday. “It appeared like she bought together with everybody.”
Bekatoros’ legal professional, Daniel Russo, didn’t instantly return a name for remark Friday.
