Rescuers who came to a burning house in Queens found Frank Olton, 76, bound in the basement and his wife, Maureen, 77, dead on the first floor. The police were seeking a man with a lengthy criminal record.
Published Sept. 9, 2025Updated Sept. 10, 2025, 9:14 a.m. ET
Investigators are seeking a man who spent about five hours at a Queens house, beginning around 10 a.m. Monday.Dakota Santiago for The New York Times
The man approached the first house on Monday morning with a request: Could he come inside to charge his phone? Rebuffed, he walked on to the next house, a compact two-story home on a tree-lined street in Bellerose, Queens, belonging to Frank and Maureen Olton.
There, the police said, the man was invited into the yard, and then...