Police launched a massive manhunt Tuesday for a violent sex offender and career criminal sought in the horrific Queens fire that killed the elderly parents of an FDNY paramedic.

Jamel McGriff, 42, an ex-con on probation with a string of career busts, has been identified as a suspect in the vicious deaths of 78-year-old Maureen Olton and her husband, Frank Thomas Olton, 76, who was found bound to a pole in the basement with multiple stab wounds after their Bellerose home was torched Monday, police and law enforcement sources said.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said McGriff is “armed and dangerous.” 3

Tisch said the suspected killer entered the 254th Street home through a backdoor around 10:15 a.m. Monday – and was caught on surveillance footage leaving after terrorizing the elder

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