A man received two life sentences for murdering his girlfriend and her daughter with a hammer because he thought they were witches casting voodoo spells on him.

Carlos Alberto Amarillo, 48, of Queens, New York, was convicted of murder, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child in the deaths of Estrella Castaneda, 56, and Lina Castaneda, 25.

Lina's seven-year-old daughter was at home at the time of the vicious attacks, although she was not physically harmed.

Pictured, Carlos Alberto Amarillo is taken away in an NYPD squad car from the scene of the bloody crime in 2014. He received two life sentences on Thursday for the double murder

Armarillo was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in the Queens Supreme Court on Thursday.

District Attorney Richard Brown said: 'This defendant will rightfully spend the rest of his natural life behind bars.'

Amarillo called 911 himself in January 2014, stating that 'two females are dead, they were assassinated, hurry they are dead. '

He added: 'I killed them because they are witches, I want the police to kill me. I killed them with a hammer.'

When police arrived, Amarillo was holding a Bible and told the officers the women were 'witches and were performing voodoo and casting spells' on him that made him sick, Brown said.

According to trial testimony, Estrella was found 'face up on the bed with a pillow over her face,' Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. 'The rubber grip of a hammer was beside her body on the bed.'

Brown said Lina's body was found in the rear bedroom 'face down with injuries to her head and a hammer was on the floor beside her'.

Lina's seven-year-old daughter was found on the bed in her mother's room. She was unharmed.

'She will, however, be forever impacted by the absence of both her mother and grandmother in her life,' Brown said.

Amarillo bludgeoned his girlfriend and her daughter Lina Castaneda, 25, (above) to death using a claw hammer

Cops found her seven-year-old daughter unharmed at the scene after the brutal attack

Pictured, the home where Amarillo committed his brutal double murder. Neighbors two doors down said they could hear the attacks. Lina's 7-year-old daughter was in the home at the time of the slayings but was uninjured. Above, a police officer carries a child out of the house



Neighbor Camilo Alvarez, who was 23 at the time, heard the brutal murders from two doors down.

'He was swinging the hammer hard,' Alvarez said. 'It was a good minute, two minutes.' But he added that no one called the police because they didn't hear any screaming.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton called the senseless crime an 'extraordinarily sad circumstance where a couple of innocents were killed'.