New York Post

Pair’s grisly ‘slay & sup’

- Rebecca Rosenberg

Most people would have lost their lunch — these accused killers ordered it.

After allegedly killing a young Connecticu­t man whose battered and bloody body lay in a bathtub, James Rackover, 27, and co-defendant Larry Dilione, 30, chowed down on organic burgers and chicken bites, according to prosecutor­s.

Rackover, on trial in the barbaric slaying of Joseph Comunale, allegedly ordered $78.82 worth of food from Bareburger at about 4 p.m on Nov. 13, 2016.

“Buffalo chicken bites, beef burger, medium rare, brioche bun, add country bacon,” Assistant Manhattan DA Rachel Ehrhardt read Thursday from a seamless.com invoice.

The sizable dinner included a second burger, french fries, onion rings and sriracha pork belly brussels sprouts, the DA said.

It was eaten while the mangled corpse of Communale, whom the pair allegedly killed that morning and tried in vain to cut up, lay in the tub, the DA said.

After eating, they allegedly put Comunale’s body in Rackover’s Mercedes, drove it to Oceanport, NJ, set it on fire and then dumped it in a shallow grave.

Rackover’s apartment and leased Mercedes were paid for by his alleged lover and adoptive father, celebrity jeweler Jeffrey Rackover.

The alleged murder followed an argument that prosecutor­s suspect was over cocaine.

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