CREEPY: Sergey Mamonov (above) claims all he did was cut up his roommate with these bloodied utensils after the man supposedly fell and died, to hide the remains because he feared cops wouldn’t believe his tale.
ZILBERGLEYT
Went into meat grinder.
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A Brooklyn carpenter on trial for murdering and butchering his roommate testified yesterday that he didn’t actually kill the man — but he did carve him up and drain his corpse of blood using every tool and utensil in his kitchen.
Sergey Mamonov, 51, said he made a conscious decision not to use his power tools to slice and dice Aleksandr Zilbergleyt’s body and instead used knives, wire cutters, a food strainer and even a meat grinder — because he didn’t want to make his neighbors suspicious.
“I had the body, and I had to dispose of it,” he told a rapt Brooklyn Supreme Court jury. “I didn’t want to bother neighbors.”
Mamonov claims Zilbergleyt, 55, died accidentally while trying to attack him during a fight in their Sheepshead Bay apartment. He claims the man lost his balance and fell down, hitting his head on a kitchen counter.
“He was turning the apartment into a pigsty. I didn’t like him,” Mamonov testified.
He chopped up the body, he said, because he feared the police — and thought they took Zilbergleyt’s side every time they responded to the frequent disputes at the house.
“All my experience with policemen, they never helped me. So I had only one choice. I had to get rid of the body myself,” said Mamonov, who has no previous arrests. He said he was so meticulous in covering his tracks, he considered every detail.
“I read detective stories, and I knew identity could be found in the fingertips, so I took them to Sheepshead Bay and threw them in.”
Prosecutors say Mamonov chopped up the body to destroy evidence of murder.
The carpenter — who was born in what is now Uzbekistan — admitted to moving Zilbergleyt’s body into the bathtub and using a meat grinder to mash the dead man’s brain.
He also used a strainer to rinse blood off the flesh.
“You chose to cut his skin and muscles into pieces that would fit into a bleach bottle?” said assistant district attorney Melissa Carvajal.
“Yes,” Mamonov said.
“I didn’t think of Aleks. I had to think of myself. Everything should disappear. I knew everything should disappear.”
A medical examiner testified about receiving Zilbergleyt’s remains in 12 bleach bottles, three bags, and a 5-gallon bucket.
A jury will begin deliberations today.