‘American Idol’ Double-Murder Suspect Had Neighbors on Edge Over Erratic Behavior

Raymond Boodarian — the person accused of committing the grisly double murder of “American Idol” music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca in a botched housebreaking — had lengthy alarmed his neighbors with alleged weird and erratic conduct … TMZ has discovered.

We spoke with a number of neighbors who dwell in the identical Los Angeles condominium complicated the place Boodarian resided together with his mom, stepfather, and teenage sister — and the place he was taken into custody on Tuesday.All described disturbing encounters with the 22-year-old, and so they declare he frequently walked across the complicated in a trance-like state.

The neighbors inform TMZ he would wander the property for hours, generally barefoot, simply staring on the floor. The neighbors stated he by no means appeared current, and recalled him at all times being “out of it.”

While Boodarian was by no means recognized to make direct threats to others within the complicated, residents declare he had frequent outbursts — screaming incoherently and clutching his fists within the air for no obvious motive. “He’d just start yelling into the sky. Not words — just screeches,” one neighbor instructed us. The neighbor described the outbursts as terrifying.

Neighbors say he’d typically knock on random doorways within the complicated, asking for individuals who did not even dwell within the unit, lie within the grass seemingly zoned out, and would ceaselessly argue loudly together with his household inside their unit. “There was always yelling coming from their apartment — mostly him screaming at his parents,” one stated. The neighbors described the remainder of his household as at all times well mannered and sort.

After Boodarian’s arrest, his mom and sister left the complicated. His stepdad — who works in building, in accordance with neighbors — has reportedly been seen across the complicated because the arrest. It’s understood amongst neighbors that Raymond did not have a job … he was described as not a normal-acting one that at all times appeared like he is perhaps on substances.

Despite the unsettling conduct, some residents have been blindsided to be taught he is now suspected within the grotesque double murder. “He was definitely strange, but I never imagined this,” stated one neighbor.