Clifton police found the two bodies at a home near the corner of 3rd Street and Hadley Avenue on Tuesday, according to Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes.
A 73-year-old woman who had been spending Sunday afternoon working on a craft project was confronted by home invaders who tied her up with duct tape and held her at gunpoint.
The beaten, strangled, and burned remains of a woman that was only known as "the girl with the scorpion tattoo" was found on the east shore of Staten Island in 1991.
The 71-year-old man has been accused of using racial slurs and telling his female neighbor "to go back where you came from" in an August incident, the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office said.