Aide busted in fatal invasion

Elderly duo’s ordeal an ‘inside job’

A home health aide for the elderly Brooklyn couple targeted in a deadly home invasion this month was arrested on Monday in connection with the heinous crime, police sources said.

Suzette Troutman, 46, allegedly hatched the plot that led to 91-year-old Waldiman Thompson dying before the eyes of his 100-year-old wife, Ethlin, while they were hog-tied by robbers in their Bedford-Stuyvesant home on Oct. 11, according to the sources.

The aide had told her alleged cohorts about the couple and where they kept their money — and even served as the getaway driver for her nephew Dwayne Blackwood, 27, and one other individual after they broke into the Thompsons’ home to rob them, according to the law-enforcement sources.

Blackwood (inset) was arrested on Friday and charged with murder, assault and robbery for the home invasion. A third suspect is still at large.

Troutman was taken from the 81st Precinct station house in Bedford-Stuyvesant Monday after also being arrested on murder, assault and robbery chargers, cops said.

She was arraigned late Monday night at Brooklyn Criminal Court, where she was ordered held without bail.

During the atrocious attack, the suspects allegedly targeted Ethlin Thompson first — creeping up behind her, throwing a blanket over her head and tying her up with a cord — before doing the same to her husband.

After they rummaged through the home, Ethlin somehow managed to free herself and alert authorities, but Waldiman was unable to do so.

He was discovered unresponsive inside the home and was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

It was determined days later that he had died of cardiac arrest during the ordeal.

During a service at Hanson Place Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Fort Greene last week, Waldiman was remembered fondly as a devout family man.

“You can hide from the police for a little while, but you can’t hide from God,” Pastor Bernard Penn said during the service.

Cops believe that the third suspect helped Troutman and Blackwood.

HOME HORROR: Suzette Troutman (left) is walked out of the Bed-Stuy station house Monday night. The home health aide is suspected in a burglary at the home of her employers, Waldiman (near right) and Ethlin Thompson, that left Waldiman, 91, dead of...