Slashed his ma’s throat for cash

A Tribeca man admitted Friday he brutally beat his mother and slashed her throat to get his hands on his inheritance.

Jared Eng (inset), 25, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in Manhattan Supreme Court as part of a plea deal for the grisly murder of Paula Chin, 65, in January 2019. He faces 18 years to life at sentencing Oct. 18.

Eng viciously beat and slashed his mom — whom he claimed had $11 million in the bank — during a fight in an apartment they shared in Tribeca to try to speed up collecting his inheritance.

After the gruesome murder, Eng sanitized the apartment with his girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, prosecutors say. The pair then used Chin’s car to transport her remains to the family home in Morristown, NJ.

Eng’s other lover, Caitlyn O’Rourke, joined the couple in NJ the following Feb. 1, when she helped stuff Chin’s body into a garbage can that was left on the property, prosecutors say.

Eng’s older brother, Brandon, reported their mom missing, and cops found her decomposing remains in the trash bin the next day.

In a series of text messages following the murder, Eng reported, “It’s done,” “I’m free,” and that he “got rid of [his] problem,” according to prosecutors.

He then began changing the passwords on Chin’s bank accounts, searching for inheritance lawyers and researching ways to dispose of his mom’s corpse — including a chilling Google search for “DIY bone meal.”

“[W]hile nothing can undo this tragedy, today’s guilty plea represents an important step towards justice,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said in a statement.

Lopez and O’Rourke face lesser charges, including concealment of a human corpse.