Accused murderer talks about girlfriend's death on Facebook
(CBS News) Jason Bohn is currently being held in protective custody at Bellevue Hospital in New York, accused of strangling his girlfriend Danielle Thomas in June.
Even with a first-degree murder charge hanging over him, Bohn chose to discuss the event on Facebook, calling it "an accident," according to WCBS-TV in New York.
The police complaint states that Thomas' body was found on June 26 bruised, lying face up in the bathtub, surrounded with ice in the couple's Astoria apartment.
WCBS reports police also found two handwritten notes in Thomas' apartment. The first note allegedly stated, "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, and when I woke up again she was unconscious. I am sorry."
The second note allegedly read, "Dani, I will love you forever."
Bohn later repeated the claim of it being an accident in a note he dictated to his brother with the instructions to post it on Facebook, WCBS reports.
The Facebook note reads: "I suspected she was a cheater. At the very least, I gradually confirmed she was a compulsive liar, particularly with regard to relations with the opposite sex, both past and present. As a result I grew insecure and abusive. The night in question? In all honesty, it was an accident.
"In short, I was heavily intoxicated, under a great deal of stress, and completely blacked out. I woke up the next morning in complete shock. My knuckles were bruised badly and she was on the floor unconscious.
"Thank you for being my friends! Very heartfelt sorry to all of the people I hurt over the years, especially her and her family/friends. God Bless! Please pray for me."
Bohn's attorney, Todd Greenberg, told WCBS his client has a history of mental issues.
"This may not be a case of 'whodunnit' as much as why it happened," Greeneberg said in July. "At that extent I do think that Mr. Bohn's mental capacity will become an issue in this case."
Bohn has pleaded not guilty to the murder.
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"Dear Lord, please make sure this vicious murderer never has the chance to harm anyone else as long as he lives."
I don't think accusing her of cheating and lying is an excuse: I'd be more inclined to think he's obsessive and jealous based on THAT insinuation and I think he's a jerk for saying it when he had no proof apparently. She was most likely completely innocent of anything he ever accused her of.
So if she was on the floor unconscious why didn't he call 911?
This article quotes HIM or his lawyer without defending HER, and if I was part of her family (which I'm not) I would be enraged by how this article explains the situation.
There's an old 1800's book, I believe it's titled The Brothers Karamazov by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (you can read it at the Gutenberg website for free) and there's a statement in there that describes an angry, deceived man:
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.?
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A friend of mine sent me that paragraph recently and I've been thinking about it alot because there's too much of this kind of crap in our society. And THEN these creeps do something horrid and they try to get off based on mental illness, but I'm not convinced it's mental illness so much as extraordinary SELFISHNESS.
So that's my opinion and my soapbox.