BY Melissa Grace
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, May 15th 2010, 4:00 AM
An ex-con accused of slaying his live-in girlfriend threatened to break her jaw and kill her a month before her death, prosecutors said Friday.
Michele Hyams kept track of the abuses Robert Camarano, 62, flung at her in notes investigators found on her computer and on a table in the couple's Chelsea apartment.
"She had reason to fear she [would] be killed by him," said Assistant District Attorney Amir Vonsover. "I want to break your f---ing jaw," Vonsover said, quoting one of Hyams' notes. In another, Hyams, 60, wrote, "Bobby, it's over."
Prosecutors asked a judge for permission to use the notes at the murder trial of Camarano - the heroin-addled criminal who is acting as his own lawyer - when testimony begins Monday.
They say the notes show Camarano's deadly rage when he allegedly killed Hyams in June 2008.
Camarano, who haplessly stumbled through jury selection Friday, tried desperately to have the notes excluded, claiming they were planted by Hyams' sister - who is expected to testify against him.
The judge did not immediately rule.
Meanwhile, a friend of Hyams, a successful Wall Street trading desk manager, said Hyams made a fatal mistake when she reconnected with Camarano, who has been in and out of jail over the past 30 years, through the Web site Classmates.com.
Beth Kraimer said Camarano and Hyams knew each other while growing up in Valley Stream, L.I., but didn't get together until the fateful meeting through the Web site.
"It's funny," Kraimer said, "he's trying to defend himself, and he's so guilty."
mgrace@nydailynews.com
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