A month before a Weight Watchers executive was beaten and strangled to death, allegedly by her Ivy League-educated boyfriend, they fought so loudly that two neighbors called 911.
“I was home relaxing in my living room when I heard several noises from the apartment above mine,” said Carly McCloskey, who lived a floor below Danielle Thomas and Jason Bohn in the Astoria apartment building where Thomas was killed.
She was testifying for jurors at Bohn’s murder trial.
Next-door neighbor Sheret Corsey said she could hear loud screams and thumping on the walls.
Thomas, 27 and Bohn, 35, got into a violent fight on May 24, 2012 where McCloskey and next door neighbor, overheard loud screams from Thomas and thumping on the walls and floors.
“It’s what I heard her say that prompted me to call the police,” said McCloskey who described the noises as a “tone of distress.”
“I went to the apartment door and knocked, no one answered,” Corsey said. After she returned to her own apartment, she looked through her peep hole and saw Bohn run after Thomas in the hallway and pull her back inside.
A month later, Thomas, 27, was found dead in the apartment by police on June 26, 2012 laying face up and naked in the bathtub covered with three bags of ice — she was killed two days earlier.
Jurors were shown the surveillance footage of Bohn, 35, — proudly sporting a Columbia University baseball cap and camouflage shorts — as he picked up paper towels and the ice from a Rite Aide Pharmacy on the day of the murder.
“I called the police and I offered to buzz them into the building,” said Corsey, but wasn’t sure if the police ever arrived.
The fight stopped shortly after the calls to 911 were made.
The Danville, Kentucky native hobbled with a crutch to the 114th precinct on June 7, 2012 to report the attack, holding her dog, Schnoozer and a red suitcase, in tow.
“She showed us bruising on her left knee and her back, they were from a week ago…large bruises,” said Officer Evelio Fernandez who also took photos of several text messages Bohn sent Thomas while she was at the precinct filing a assault and harassment complaint for the May incident.
Bohn also sent 11 text messages to Thomas’ Blackberry phone within a 50-minute-time span in between repeatedly calling her phone and sending emails.
The officers charged Bohn with assault, harassment and issued an order of protection in Thomas’ favor. Weeks later the couple was living together again.