As the manhunt closed in on the sex offender parolee accused of murdering an elderly Queens couple and setting their home on fire, he bought a ticket to an animated religious children’s movie, using the victims’ stolen credit card, a police source said Thursday.

Jamel McGriff slipped into Manhattan’s Regal Union Square movie theater about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and purchased a ticket for “ Light of the World ,” a feature film about Jesus Christ, according to the source. He was nabbed in Times Square about two hours later.

On Thursday afternoon, McGriff, 42, was hit with a slew of charges, including murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson and identity theft.

While on the run for two days, the NYPD was tracking every credit card purchase the suspect made, a basic investigative step

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