An 85-year-old woman was found dead with multiple stab wounds to the neck and defensive wounds to the arms yesterday in her Bedford-Stuyvesant home, law-enforcement sources and relatives said.

The body of Gloria Cadet (above), who migrated here from the Dominican Republic 52 years ago, was discovered shortly before 8 a.m. by her brother, who had dropped by for a cup of coffee, relatives said.

She was in the living room, a blood-soaked towel around her head, the sources said.

There were no signs of forced entry or missing property, the sources added.