Unhinged thief caught torching laundry in bizarre burglary charged as NYC serial slasher: cops

The unhinged man busted in a bizarre Brooklyn burglary where he ended up torching someone’s laundry was accused in an unsettling series of unprovoked slashings, cops said. 

Odyssey Head, 27, was arrested Monday in connection to the string of senseless attacks on strangers that began Saturday morning and ended more than 24 hours later, police said. 

In the first attack around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Head allegedly slashed a 37-year-old man on the left side of his face on board a northbound Q train approaching Cortelyou Road, authorities said. 

Several hours passed before he targeted his next victim – a 53-year-old man who he allegedly cut on the left side of his face at the intersection of Foster Avenue and New York Avenue around 9:40 p.m., police said. 

Then the next morning just before 7 a.m., Head allegedly cut a 56-year-old man on New York Avenue near Newkirk Avenue, causing a similar injury, authorities said.  

Before the series of slashings, Head allegedly began his criminal spree around 5 a.m. Saturday, cops said. 

In that incident, he allegedly barged into a residential building on New York Avenue near Avenue D and damaged the plumbing pipe and electrical wires of a basement washing machine, cops and sources said. 

He lit some clothes of fire in the washer and dryer before fleeing, police said.

No one was home at the time, and Head – who lives in Sheepshead Bay several miles away – has no relationship to that address, the sources said. 

The NYPD also linked Head to a random slashing from around 12:50 p.m. Sept. 14 inside a Burlington Coat Factory on Tilden Avenue near Flatbush Avenue, authorities said. 

In that attack, he allegedly cut a 30-year-old male customer on the back of the neck with an unknown object, police said. 

The victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. 

In addition to attempted murder, Head also faces burglary, arson, assault, menacing, weapon possession, criminal mischief and criminal trespass charges in connection to the string of crimes, police said. 

He has four prior arrests on his rap sheet dating back more than a decade, most recently on a Brooklyn armed robbery bust on Oct. 7, 2014.

His arraignment in the new cases was pending Tuesday.