The harrowing last pleas of a pretty Weight Watchers exec — who was allegedly beaten and strangled by her lawyer boyfriend — were amazingly captured in a recording when she made a cellphone call during the attack, prosecutors revealed yesterday.
"You have five seconds . . . and then I'm going to kill you," Jason Bohn seethed to Danielle Thomas, 27, in the 3 a.m. blow-up at their Astoria, Queens, apartment on June 24, 2012.
Her cries were left in a lengthy voice mail on a friend's phone — though prosecutors wouldn't say whether she accidentally or purposely dialed the woman for help.
TRAGIC: Danielle Thomas, a Weight Watchers exec, was found beaten and strangled in a bathtub full of ice in her Astoria apartment.
Ellis Kaplan
'YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS . . .' Jason Bohn in a voice mail was apparently heard threatening, beating and choking his girlfriend.
An enraged Bohn demanded to know why Thomas had called a "508" number, and prosecutors say he repeatedly choked her while she tried to fend him off.
"How does it feel?" he's heard asking. "One more time and I'm just going to go all out."
"Jason! I can't breathe," pleaded Thomas, who said "I love you" seven times during the recording.
For a moment, Bohn calmed down.
"OK. OK. You don't know? You don't know? And I believe that. I believe that," he is heard saying.
But seconds later, the Columbia University grad lashed out again and allegedly choked her to death.
In the days after her death, Bohn allegedly e-mailed Thomas' friends, masquerading as her to trick them into believing she was safe.
He called the 114th Precinct in Astoria two days after the slaying.
"I went to a house party with my girlfriend on Sunday. I got home very drunk and fell asleep. My girlfriend woke me up. I got very pissed off and threw her against the wall and she was unconscious," he told cops, according to prosecutors.
"I want someone to check on her to make sure she's all right."
Cops found Thomas' body in a bathtub filled with bags of ice at the 33rd Street apartment.
Investigators found handwritten notes in the apartment.
One note read: "It was an accident, it was an accident, it was an accident . . . I had been drinking and I was drunk when I got home . . . She was already asleep . . . I woke up and there was fighting between us . . . When I woke up again she was unconscious . . . I am sorry."
A second read: "Dani, I will love you forever."
Bohn was arrested June 29, 2012, at a Buffalo Wild Wings eatery in White Plains, where he had dined with his mother and his lawyer, Todd Greenberg.
Prosecutors plan to use the voice mail as smoking-gun evidence in Bohn's upcoming trial.
Greenberg declined to comment on the recording.
Bohn was originally charged with second-degree murder, but it was upgraded to first-degree once the voice mail revealed the alleged torture.
If convicted, he faces life without the possibility of parole.
Weeks before her death, the Danville, Ky., native got an order of protection against Bohn following an assault. Those criminal-contempt and harassment charges were consolidated with the new indictment.
Thomas had a career at Walt Disney World before moving to New York to be with Bohn.
ccarrega@nypost.com
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