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Slain woman’s dying screams heard in pocket-dialed voicemail

Jurors listened in horror Tuesday to the last words of a Queens woman whose screams were captured in a voice message left as she accidentally pocket-dialed her cellphone while being choked to death.

“Help me! I can’t breathe!” Weight Watchers executive Danielle Thomas pleaded, as her boyfriend Jason Bohn strangled her during a blind rage in their Astoria apartment.

“Jason! . . . Help! I didn’t do it. I didn’t. I didn’t. Help me. I’m choking. I love you,” she cried. “Jason, I love you. Owww!”

Bohn, a Columbia-educated lawyer, could be heard demanding Thomas explain why she had dialed a number in the 508 area code. It belonged to a woman she met earlier at a party.

“Danielle why did you call that number?!” Bohn could be heard saying. “You have five seconds and then, and then I’m going to kill you . . . You have five seconds! You need to answer quickly or else you die.”

Witness Suzanne Elio had given Thomas her number because Elio was concerned for her welfare after seeing her fight with Bohn during the gathering at a Midtown bar.

“Danielle, you are so stupid. You think I’m going to stop; I won’t stop!” Bohn fumed, howling and screeching like a wild animal. “One more time and I’m just going to go all out.”

As the tape played in the Queens Supreme Court room, the jury could be seen cringing and squirming in their seats. One juror put her head in her hands.

The sound of Thomas’ dying words were so graphic that her family had to be escorted out of court before the tape played.

While on the witness stand, Elio said she met Thomas for the first time the night of June 23, 2012, at the Café Iguana on West 57th Street.

Bohn and Thomas fought so much at the party, Elio and her friends decided to look after her when he left early.

“She was crying uncontrollably. She was constantly on the phone,” Elio testified. “We went to a diner . . . I couldn’t understand what she was saying.”

Elio said she asked Thomas to call her so she could have her number in order to text her later to see if she was OK.

At around 3:28 a.m., Thomas’s phone pocket-dialed Elio’s number during the fatal attack, apparently because it was the last number she had called.

Elio didn’t listen to the voice message until two days later.

“After the news came around, [of Thomas’ murder] I listened to the whole thing,” Elio said, crying on the stand.

Bohn’s defense team will present its case next week. Bohn has admitted to killing Thomas, but plans to blame his actions on mental illness and being abandoned by his mom.