Now two people believe tragic UBS employee Michele Hyams could have stabbed herself to death in her Chelsea apartment two years ago — heroin-addled pro se murder defendant Robert Camarano and his $200-an-hour forensic expert.
Summations and deliberations are slated for Thursday in the tragic, unwittingly loopy case, in which Camarano is defending himself against murder charges despite all legal advice to the contrary by claiming he’s not the stabber — the victim is.
“Doctor, if someone is suicidal, or just acting out suicide, um — you seen people sit on their legs, like when they’re watching TV, legs curled up?” Camarano asked his paid expert today.
The expert — Dr. Mark Taff, chief medical examiner of Rockland County — wrinkled his brow as Camarano battled his way to the end of his own question.
“You know what I’m trying to describe? Could someone sitting that way just stab themselves to get attention or reach out or show their sadness or their hurt or stuff like that?”
“It wouldn’t take that much effort to stab yourself or mutilate yourself in the thigh,” Taff responded, diplomatically.
Prosecutors say Camarano, 62, severed Hyams’ femoral artery during a knife-swinging fit when she tried to kick him out for stealing and selling her jewelry. Camarano has insisted that he wasn’t there at the time and that the death was a suicide or accident — autopsy and surveillance camera evidence be damned.