By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — Jurors on Thursday heard the 911 call made by a man accused of murdering his girlfriend in her Chelsea apartment.
"My wife is stabbed! She's dying!" yelled Robert Camarano, a career criminal on trial for allegedly strangling and stabbing Michele Hyams, 60. Prosecutors said the call was part of an apparent cover-up of the killing.
"Who stabbed your wife?" an EMS operator on the phone asked him.
"I don't know," he replied. "I just came home. She's dead. She's laying on the bed."
Camarano, 62, who is representing himself in court, said after he walked in and found Hyams, he moved her body from the bed to the bathroom floor to perform CPR.
He had a different story during his opening statement earlier this week. He said then that his girlfriend, who he called his wife, overdosed on pills despite the bloody murder scene police found at her apartment.
Prosecutors say Camarano was with Hyams that June 2008 night and was the only one who could have killed her.
Video obtained from security cameras at the Eighth Avenue apartment building, and in its elevator, showed Camarano never left the apartment at the time of the murder, and prosecutors said there had been no sign of forced entry.
"I don't want her to die, man!" I can't live without her, man!" he shouted at the dispatcher in the 911 call.
He pleaded for them to come quickly, and was incoherent at times.
Testimony will continue Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
