“Hurry up! My wife is dead!”
Jurors heard the chilling 911 tapes yesterday in the case of the heroin-addled lifetime parolee who’s defending himself against charges he stabbed his Chelsea girlfriend.
“I dragged her into the bathroom!” accused murderer Robert Camarano tells the 911 operator, speaking of Michele Hyams, who prosecutors say he had just murdered in her Eighth Avenue apartment.
“I got her on the floor,” he tells the operator, repeatedly demanding — in a voice alternating between anger and hysteria — that they “Hurry up!” and get there.
“I came home and she was dead,” Camarano, 62, claims of Hyams, 60. “Come on! Come on! Come on!” he shouts as an EMS tech prompts him over the phone on how to administer chest compressions.
By all witness accounts in the three-day-old trial, Hyams had a crowd of loyal friends, a nice studio apartment, a great job as an administrative assistant at Swiss banking giant UBS, and $900,000 in savings.
Camarano, who she met online, was fresh out of prison for armed robbery and had no job, no home, little income and a heroin habit.
Prosecutors say he stabbed and bludgeoned Hyams after she confronted him for stealing and pawning her jewelry to support his smack habit.
Camarano is representing himself against the advice of the trial judge. Yesterday, he demanded a new judge and asked the prosecutor be “gagged” and the jury be sequestered — all requests the judge denied. Testimony continues today.