“I love you, Dani,” the Ivy League lawyer on trial for strangling his girlfriend wrote to her after her death, in a creepy letter from jail that’s now prosecution evidence.
“I don’t remember what happened between us… but I know there has been something terribly wrong with me since childhood,” Jason Bohn wrote, in a self-serving missive to tragic Danielle Thomas that essentially re-states his own official mental health defense.
Bohn has admitted killing the pretty Weight Watchers exec, and is arguing he suffers from “intermittent explosive disorder“ in hopes of dodging murder charges and winning a lesser conviction of manslaughter.
“Since realizing I lost you forever, I have lived a nightmare and died a thousand deaths,” Bohn whined to his slain victim in the bizarre letter, shown to jurors Friday as the trial ended its sixth week.
Then, in an especially irksome post script, the lawyer offered legal advice for Thomas’ family, urging they sue the NYPD for “causing” her death by failing to respond to her 911 call on the June, 2012 night when he admittedly bludgeoned her to death in her Astoria, Queens apartment.
“My attorney recently informed me of the fact that you called 911 when you first got home and I lost my mind,” he wrote.
“Unfortunately, the police never even came to our door, despite us having issues in the past,” he wrote. “They could have saved two lives that night. I hope your family brings a lawsuit against the city.”
Prosecutors have conceded that Thomas’ cell phone did dial 911 shortly before she died. The caller did not speak to an operator, but a recording of the call captured Thomas repeatedly begging, “Can I please just leave?”
Police did not respond to the call from Thomas’ phone or another 911 call placed that night by a neighbor, prosecutors have told jurors. No explanation has ever been given.
Also Friday, jurors saw a videotaped jailhouse interview of Bohn in which he explains to the prosecutor’s psychiatrist why he called an ex-girlfriend after realizing he’d killed Thomas.
Bohn tells the shrink that he called the ex, Jasmine Nieves, because “she knew what was going on, and that something was wrong with me.”
In the chilling video, Bohn admitted that he once tried to choke Nieves as well, but that he only “got probation” and an order of protection.
Asked why he called Nieves after Thomas’ death, Bohn explained on the tape, “She knew what was going on and [that] something was wrong with me.”
Nieves had warned Bohn that if he stayed with Thomas, there would be a bloody end, he added.
“She said I needed to get out of the relationship because it was going to end… she predicted this would happen. She said, her exact words were, ‘I would lose it because I’m bigger and stronger and [Thomas is] smaller.’ Me and Jasmine are closer size than me and Danielle. She’s much smaller.”
The defense is expected to rest Monday, followed by the prosecution case rebutting Bohn’s mental health claims.