January 30, 200620 yr Linkage Dominatrix Acquitted in Bondage Death 47 minutes ago DEDHAM, Mass. - A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack. ADVERTISEMENT Barbara Asher, a 56-year-old woman who called herself Mistress Lauren M, was also cleared of dismemberment. Prosecutors said that 53-year-old Michael Lord suffered a heart attack in 2000 during a bondage session in a "dungeon" in Asher's condominium and that Asher did nothing to help him for five minutes for fear authorities would find out about her business. Asher had her boyfriend chop up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker, and they dumped it behind a restaurant in Maine, prosecutors said. His remains have never been found. Prosecutors said Asher confessed to police, but the alleged confession was not taped, and investigators testified they did not save their notes. Asher's lawyer, Stephanie Page, said there was nothing to prove Lord was even dead — no body, no blood, no DNA. During his closing argument to the jury, prosecutor Robert Nelson put on a black leather mask with a zippered mouth opening and re-enacted the bondage session. With both hands, he reached back and clutched the top of a blackboard as if strapped to the rack. Then he hung his head as if dead. Asher's lawyer objected, and the judge agreed. "That's enough Mr. Nelson," Judge Charles Grabau said. "Thank you for your demonstration."
January 30, 200620 yr Yeah I was kinda speechless when I saw this. How doesn't she get into trouble for having the body chopped up? That's what I'm wondering about. I don't think the death is her fault though.
January 30, 200620 yr Prosecutors said Asher confessed to police, but the alleged confession was not taped, and investigators testified they did not save their notes. Asher's lawyer, Stephanie Page, said there was nothing to prove Lord was even dead — no body, no blood, no DNA. No confession on record and no dead body. How did it even get to trial?
January 30, 200620 yr Prosecutors said Asher confessed to police, but the alleged confession was not taped, and investigators testified they did not save their notes. Yeah that pretty much says it doesn't it. She's not too attractive either.
January 31, 200620 yr Sounds kind of fishy, non taped confession, lost notes, no body, no blood, no DNA. Hmmmm... Sounds like a case down here in Bama where a Drug dealer and wife were shot 4 times a piece by their neighbor. The police ruled it self defense even though the victims were not armed with anything and there is a fence separating the yards plus the victims were 20 ft away and the wife was running away when she was shot. The police spent a whole 15 mins on the crime scene and as a side note the same neighbors burned down the place a week later. Edited January 31, 200620 yr by BHAMBARONS
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