GOTCHA!Evana Roth yesterday shares damning e-mails from hubby Raymond (inset). (
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Her face says it all.
A furious Long Island woman yesterday blasted her no-account husband for pretending to have drowned off the coast of Long Island to collect insurance money.
“Faking his own death is a horrific thing,” a seething Evana Roth, 43, told reporters at a press conference about her in-the-wind husband, Raymond Roth.
“I just can’t believe he’d do something like that. It’s like a horrible movie,” Evana said about the 47-year-old unemployed communications-company manager who vanished July 28 at Jones Beach.
“This is a terrible nightmare that I want to wake up from.”
As if pretending to be dead weren’t bad enough, Raymond yesterday started sending Evana cryptic and threatening messages — even as cops investigate whether he broke any laws with his sickening stunt.
“The place looks a little crowded. I just drove by. Call me later,” Raymond wrote in a text message time-stamped 9:14 a.m. to Evana that she displayed to reporters.
That message came hours after cops seized two computers belonging to him and his son, Jonathan, from their Massapequa home.
Hours earlier, the hard-boozing Raymond Roth had drunkenly called and claimed he was in a bar in North Carolina, Evana said.
As the police listened in, Raymond told her: “It didn’t work out as I thought it would. I did it for you.”
Later — after hearing Evana was going to hold a press conference about his bizarre vanishing act while swimming off Jones Beach — Roth warned her about betraying him publicly.
“At least tell me why. What is going on?” he texted Evana. “I just heard u have a press conference. Be nice. Almost 15 years together.”
Evana told reporters that the cash-strapped Raymond — who checked into a ritzy Florida resort after disappearing and draining their bank accounts of all but $7 — couldn’t even get their marriage details straight. They’d been together for 12 years.
The wife also said, “I’m afraid he’s going to come after me because I’m the one who found out he was alive.”
She said that she changed the locks of her home — and that she would be seeking an order of protection against him and Jonathan, a former Marine.
“She fears that he is a substantial threat and [she] is in imminent danger,” said Evana’s lawyer, Lenard Leeds.
Evana has told The Post she thought her husband was dead for days after Jonathan, 22, claimed he had vanished while swimming at Jones Beach a week ago.
But on Wednesday, she said, she discovered e-mails on Jonathan’s computer in which Raymond seemed to refer to his plan just a day before going missing.
“I need to get to the bank for cash for the trip,” he allegedly wrote Jonathan.
“DO NOT allow that a–hole to give the house away,” Raymond allegedly wrote in another e-mail, an apparent reference to his wife.
Additional reporting by Jim Hooker