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‘KILLER’ DAD’S SNEER

A psycho Bronx building super who allegedly admitted strangling his teen daughter for text-messaging a boy was asked by cops where her body was and snidely replied, “That’s your job. Go find out,” relatives said yesterday.

“When the police came [to the home], they said, ‘Where is Ana?’ ” recalled Jessica Aquino, the sister of murder suspect Miguel Matias and aunt of his daughter, Ana Matias, 14.

Aquino said her brother taunted them to “find out.”

Aquino said she first got a phone call from her brother Saturday morning asking her to come quickly to his apartment.

“He didn’t tell me what he did. He just said it was an emergency. He sounded confused and very worried,” she said.

“I got there . . . and then he told me what he did. He started giving me the keys to his car and the computer and [Ana’s brothers],” Aquino said. “I thought he was joking. He said, ‘Oh, you don’t believe me.’ Then he called my uncle Pablo and told him to come. When Pablo came he told us again, and then he called the police and told them to come.”

” ‘I killed my daughter,’ ” Matias told cops, Aquino said. “He called twice. That’s when I believed.”

Police soon found the burning body of young Ana Matias in the boiler of the family’s Walton Avenue apartment building, where Miguel Matias, dumped it after attacking her Friday night, authorities said. He has been charged with her murder.

“I still don’t believe it,” Aquino said, “because I spoke to her the same night. And the three of us – that is, me, Miguel and Ana – were joking around. He was close to Ana. They were like friends.”

Aquino, 25, and other relatives yesterday gathered in her Washington Heights home to mourn Ana’s shocking killing and wonder what caused Miguel to snap.

“The only explanation I have is that the devil got into him,” said family friend Miguelina Contrera.

Matias, 34, several years ago tried to kill himself along with Ana and her two younger brothers by pouring gasoline over his car, said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

dan.mangan@nypost.com