Jerome Isaac confirmed to cops that it was him on surveillance video. (Reuters)
The fire fiend who torched a woman in a Brooklyn elevator boasted to cops that they wouldn’t have caught him if they didn’t have video evidence, according to court papers.
Jerome Isaac, who was arraigned on murder charges in Brooklyn Supreme Court Thursday, stood unmoving and silent, in direct contrast to his chattiness after turning himself in to police in December.
“If the video wasn’t there, you would still be looking for me,” crowed Isaac, despite causing burns to his own face in the horrific attack on 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie, court papers reveal.
Later he identified himself for detectives: “That is me on the video and the picture; I ain’t denying that is me.”
Isaac allegedly sprayed Gillespie with a flammable liquid before setting her ablaze as she exited an elevator in her building in Prospect Heights.
He told police he immolated Gillespie because she owed him money.
Then he went to a nearby rooftop, drank “some type of alcohol and went to sleep,” according to his statements to police.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent DelGiudice ordered Isaac held without bail.
“I think with a crime of this magnitude and considering that the defendant is facing the possibility of life without parole, the incentive to flee the jurisdiction is almost incalculable,” DelGiudice said.
Isaac is scheduled to return to court on April 18.