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WOMAN STRANGLED IN SI HOME

An aspiring teacher was found dead in her Staten Island apartment yesterday, strangled with the cord from a hair dryer, police sources said.

The parents of Caroline Wimmer (right), 26, found her body on the bathroom floor in the West Brighton building just before noon after not hearing from her since the weekend.

“My gut told me something was wrong because she would always call back,” said her weeping dad, Ronald. “They choked her with a cord. They beat her. For what?”

Sources said there was no sign of forced entry.

“She wanted to go back to school to be a teacher,” said her mom, Martha.

Investigators want to talk to Wimmer’s boyfriend, sources said.