LEBANON — On April 7, like any other day, Jeffrey Bornhoeft called his ex-wife at work one more time to try to persuade her to take him back. But she ended up listening to him kill her new husband, James “Jamie” Johnson, while he slept in her bed.

        In a mumbled monotone on Tuesday, Shawn Johnson recalled that deadly phone call for a jury as Mr. Bornhoeft's capital murder trial opened in a Warren County courtroom.

        Her testimony came after an outburst in which she jumped to her feet on the witness stand, called Mr. Bornhoeft profanities and screamed how she would like to kill him.

        “He said, "I want you to listen to something,'” said Mrs. Johnson, who divorced Mr. Bornhoeft in December 1998 but kept secret from him that she had married Mr. Johnson five weeks earlier.

        “I could hear he was walking. I could hear music playing. The music got louder.”

        Then she heard three shots.

        “He said, "Did you hear that? I just shot and killed your boyfriend,'” Mrs. Johnson testified.

        Prosecutors portrayed Mr. Bornhoeft on Monday as a cruel and calculating man who broke into his ex-wife's Lebanon apartment and killed Mr. Johnson because he was obsessed with his ex-wife.

        However, Mr. Bornhoeft's lawyers, who have raised an insanity defense, claim their client is suffering from depression, schizophrenia and paranoia and was not responsible for what he did.

        Mr. Bornhoeft, 31, is being tried on charges of aggravated murder and burglary.The trial is expected to last two weeks in Warren County Common Pleas Court.

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