A Queens woman allegedly stabbed her elderly mother to death in a Thanksgiving Eve attack on Long Island — and quietly claimed after her arrest that she “never had a mother,” according to police and a report.
Diana Bekatoros, 51, is accused of stabbing 84-year-old Josephine Bekatoros inside the elderly woman’s home on tree-lined Carmen Court in Dix Hills just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, Suffolk County police said.
“I never had a mother,” said the arrested woman, her hands shackled. told a Newsday photographer Thursday outside the Fourth Precinct stationhouse in Hauppauge when asked if he had killed his mother.
“are you My Mother?” According to the report, he added bizarrely.
“I don’t even know what you’re talking about,” Bekatoros reportedly responded when asked the question a second time.
Bekatoros was arrested at his home on Center Boulevard in Long Island City. He was charged with second-degree murder and ordered held without bail pending a Thanksgiving Day hearing, according to police and online records.
Neighbor Helen Glodowski, 74, told Newsday the fatal stabbing left her “shocked.”
“I can’t believe it,” said Glodowski, who said she had lived near Josephine Bekatoros and her husband, Dennis Bekatoros, since 1989.
Glodowski said Diana also lived with her parents – and despite moving out about 15 years earlier, she had a “mother-daughter friend” relationship with her mother.
Glodowski told the outlet that Josephine and Dennis have a small dog and a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, who now live in Nassau County.
Josephine always “dressed carefully” and was “very careful about her appearance”, the neighbor said.
“She was a lovely lady,” Glodowski told Newsday. “It seemed like he got along with everyone.”
Bekatoros’ attorney, Daniel Russo, did not immediately return a call for comment Friday.
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