Posted on 01/30/2006 12:44:16 PM PST by SmithL
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.
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.
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The heart attack is one thing, but to chop him up and dispose of his body is criminal I think.
I don't do pinkie rings.
No, you use the "other" kind.
Only with you, Auntbee, only with you.
ROFL!
Is this a picture from the news story?
Holy COW!!!!
My husband never gets to wear leather masks when he does a jury trial. Of course, he usually represents corporations against other corporations, but still....
When you're with me, you don't need it.
How can anyone find a mask like that even remotely arousing?? That would give me a heart attack too, enabling some sicko to create 274 bite-size Millees! No thank you!
The heart attack notwithstanding,why do some people want to do this kind of stuff?
If I saw someone in that, well, first I'd think they were a psycho, and I'd run.
If I knew the person behind the mask, I'd probably spend the next five minutes playing with the zipper.
Ummm, if there was never a body, how could they possibly know it was a heart attack?
Exactly my question!!!
kinda glad I missed the all-you-can-eat, mixed grill night special at that restaurant.
I wonder if the gerbil survived ARMAGEDDON!?!?!?
...her boyfriend chop up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker (and his little buddy), and they dumped it behind a restaurant
LOLOL!
Exactly my question!!!
Per the article, the prosecutors claim that the dominatrix confessed (presumably telling them about the heart attack). The article didn't seem to mention any evidence that any crime occurred, much less that the dominatrix committed it, other than investigators' recollections of the alleged confession.
If that is true, it would explain why the dominatrix wasn't convicted, though it wouldn't explain why she had to stand trial in the first place. Surely the prosecutor can't have thought the investigators' recollections in and of themselves would be sufficient for conviction!?
LOL!
What the prosecutor did is blatantly unconstitutional. Doesn't the Constitution guarantee the right to face your accuser?
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