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Manhattan jurors were given a haunting video tour Thursday of the home where an Upper West Side mom allegedly had her neck snapped by her estranged hubby in 2009.

The 3-minute clip, filmed by Shele Danishefky’s family just two weeks after her death, shows footage of the entire two-bedroom apartment, including the bathroom where she was discovered dead by her 9-year-old daughter.

The banker was found face-down in blood-colored bathwater early New Year’s Eve that year. The tub was spotless, clearly cleaned since the tragic slaying, in the video. The footage also shows a nearby cabinet torn from its hinges.

Prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos says Danishefsky’s philandering husband, Rod Covlin, used a martial-arts hold to break her neck and staged the scene to look like an accidental drowning so he could land her $5.2 million fortune.

His lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, has argued that the estranged wife could have slipped and fallen, cracking her neck when she hit the side of the tub.

The trial continues Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

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