Cops found two dramatic notes at Queens apartment where a 27-year-old woman was brutally beaten to death, in which the alleged killer repeatedly claims the crime was a drunken accident, authorities said today.
“It was an accident, it was an accident, it was an accident,” Jason Bohn, 33, allegedly wrote, according to a statement from Queens DA Richard Brown.
“I had been drinking and I was drunk when I got home. She was already asleep,” the note said. “I woke up and there was fighting between us. When I woke up again she was unconscious. I am sorry.”
In the second note, he allegedly wrote, “Dani, I will love you forever.”
Police found the handwritten notes inside the Astoria apartment Bohn shared with slain Weight Watchers executive Danielle Thomas, 27, with whom he carried on a tumultuous and often violation relationship over the last year.
Bohn is to be arraigned this afternoon in Queens Criminal Court on charges he strangled and beat Thomas to death early Sunday morning.
After six days on the lam, Bohn was finally busted last night in a White Plains restaurant where he was having dinner with his mother and his lawyer. Cops said the arrest was not pre-arranged.
He faces up to 25 years in prison on charges of second-degree murder, aggravated criminal contempt, first-degree criminal contempt and tampering with physical evidence.
In the hours following the early Sunday morning murder, Bohn used Thomas’ cellphone to send her friends several text message pretending to be the dead woman hours after she was already killed, The Post reported exclusively.
He sent a a text to one of victim Danielle Thomas’s contacts early Sunday morning after her friends expressed concern over her well-being, a source said.
“Please trust me,” Bohn, 33, wrote in the text. He said that Thomas was “fine,” and even pretended that she was attending the gay-pride parade down Fifth Avenue on Sunday afternoon.
Sources said that Thomas was already dead when the messages went out and that Bohn kept her body on ice in their Astoria bathtub until cops found it on Tuesday night.
A guilt-ridden Bohn also used Thomas’s phone to confess by voice mail to an ex-girlfriend that he “got drunk” and killed Thomas by pushing her against a wall, another source said.