Manhattan hotel cleaner Otto Herrarte told cops his alter-ego butchered his wife and son in their Queens home - but he took care of the mess, court documents reveal.
The dad told police that "Roberto," the voice who's been speaking to him since he was a child, slit the throats of his wife Edna, 55, and son Daniel, 14. The bodies were found in a closet at their Corona home on Friday.
"I am Otto, but I have Roberto inside of me who is responsible for everything I did that was bad," Herrarte told a Queens detective, according to a statement.
"Roberto killed Edna and Dan," Herrarte added. "He cut their throats while on their beds."
Herrarte, 48, was held without bail after a Sunday night arraignment and sent for psychological counseling.
"I was very young when I started hearing these things in my head and then Roberto came and he took control of my body," according to the statement.
"He likes to play Otto a lot. Thursday I told him it was his time to go away and he was mad and told me he was going to do this bad thing. When I saw my body with blood of my family he told me what he did and I remember that I want Daniel to be safe."
The victims' relatives say Herrarte never exhibited symptoms of a split personality but has come up with the ruse to dodge a murder rap.
They claim Herrarte was carrying on with a fellow employee at the Helmsley Hotel.
"He told me that he used a knife and that they passed away fast," Herrarte added. "I told my girlfriend to help me with [his other son] David so he can be safe."
David Herrarte, 15, was not at home at the time of the attack.
Cops say after the bloodbath, Herrarte cleaned the knife and put it back in the kitchen."I put my wife and son in the black plastic bags and put them in the closet," Herrarte told cops.
Relatives say they urged Edna Herrarte to break up with her controlling husband but she refused.
Edna Herrarte was suffering from lupus and depended on her husband's health insurance to pay her medical tab, they say.
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