‘CONFESS’

Oddball Staten I. salesman

Trail of bloodshed

A creepy doortodoor salesman from Staten Island confessed yesterday to gunning down three Brooklyn businessmen during a terrifying serialkilling spree, lawenforcement sources said.

Cashstrapped clothing peddler Salvatore Perrone, 63, was charged with three counts of murder for the JulytoNovember rampage after ballistics tests matched his illegal .22caliber rifle to the murder weapon, authorities said.

Perrone spent approximately 24 hours in police custody — and cracked only when he thought he was confessing to a federal agent, a law enforcement source said.

“He says he worked for the FBI and CIA. He was leery talking to the NYPD,” the source said. “He wouldn’t talk to anyone but the CIA or FBI.” So cops played along. “They brought someone in posing as a CIA agent,” the source said, which is when Perrone spilled his guts about the crimes. “The guy is crazy.”

Cops believe that Perrone — initially referred to as “John Doe Duffel Bag” after he was caught on tape carrying the bag near last Friday’s murder scene — knew all of the victims, sources said.

“He’s lucky that the cops got to him before I did,” Moe Gebeli, 33, the son of Perrone’s first alleged victim, Mohamed Gebeli, told The Post. “If I got my hands on him before they did, there would be four dead bodies, not three.”

“We are very happy he was arrested,” added the daughter of the second victim, Isaac Kadare. “It is a relief.”

Cops said they believe would have struck again.

“By arresting him, we have saved lives,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. “We know that he went to other locations and asked questions that indicated . . . that he very well planned to come back.”

One of those locations was a clothing store on Flatbush Avenue, which he cased before the third murder, going twice before getting scared off

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