Not guilty!
Posted on 09/19/2011 1:07:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Upper Darby police have yet to close their inquiry into last month's odd death of engineer Peter Stelzenmuller.
That is partly due to how and where Stelzenmuller was found: clad in a scuba suit in the corner of his attic.
Investigators are also intrigued by the bizarre history of Stelzenmuller's girlfriend, Edythe Maa, who reported finding his body Aug. 18, Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.
In 2008, Maa was working as a dominatrix when her boyfriend, a New York lawyer, was fatally shot near her Philadelphia apartment by an angry former client. The killer then kidnapped and sexually assaulted Maa before killing himself after a nine-hour standoff with police.
Today, using the name "Jade Vixen," Maa describes herself online as a "fetish model" who likes latex clothing. Chitwood said her website also makes mention of erotic oxygen deprivation.
Chitwood stressed that police "don't have anything to say that this was foul play at this time," and that Stelzenmuller's body showed no bruises or other injuries. Determination of the cause of death is pending toxicology results, he said.
"I think you have to look at all the circumstances," Chitwood said. "When you look at [Maa's] history of sadomasochism, and find some stuff on her website about oxygen deprivation and all that, you need to find out if it's accidental or something else."
Maa could not be reached for comment.
Police were called to the couple's Drexel Hill home about 11:30 p.m. Aug. 18. Stelzenmuller, 49, lay dead in the attic near a cutup scuba suit and a mask with two tubes protruding from it, Chitwood said.
Maa, 29, told police she had just found Stelzenmuller and had cut the suit off him. She said she last had seen him that morning when leaving to go out with a friend from New York.
When she returned at 8 p.m., she said, she assumed Stelzenmuller was still at a concert at the Tower Theater with his brother and friends.
William Stelzenmuller told police he had stopped by the house early that evening. The lights were off and when no one answered the door, he left, Chitwood said.
The brother returned after the concert to ask about his brother, Chitwood said.
"According to her, she thought he was with his brother," Chitwood said. "Then she ran up to the attic, the only place she hadn't looked yet, found him, and screamed down to the brother."
Peter Stelzenmuller's obituary described him as the head of Penn Avionics, a firm that repairs electronics on private planes. It listed Maa, "his close companion," among his survivors.
The obituary gave Stelzenmuller's cause of death as "an accident at home while testing scuba equipment he planned to use on vacation in Mexico."
Chitwood said he was not buying that.
"Looking at the scene, looking at her history, we are leaning toward some kind of autoerotic deal. It doesn't make sense to be geared up in scuba gear in the corner of an attic," Chitwood said.
"It's strange, and we are handling it with caution and concern."
Scuba suit...the AK47 of the bondage/fetish world. Somehow I don’t think the reporter is entirely accurate in his description...er...cuz I, er, heard about stuff like that on the interwebZ ...or something... ;)
TTIWWPs...dems da rulz!
Not guilty!
(The guy in the last picture was an obsessed client of hers, who shot her former boyfriend - the guy in the second picture - and kidnapped her. But of course, that could happen to anyone.)
Pfffft.
They’ve got chintzy costume grade whips.
Mine is Egyptian made, hand-braided and lovingly oiled.
Pikers.
Sissies.
:)
In the words of Ozzy:
I’m black and blue, beat up, but still I take the blows;
‘Cause all I need is blood and sweat and skin and bones!
I’ll take this rage,
Rattle your cage,
Nobody said it’s easy!
It’s do or die,
Only the strong survive!
Get ready for the last stand!
Get ready, I’m your hangman!
Let me hear you scream like you want it! (Want it!)
Let me hear you yell like you mean it! (Mean it!)
If you’re gonna go down:
Go loud!
Go strong!
Go proud!
Go on!
Go hard or go home!
Let me hear you-
(Let me hear you-)
Let me hear you-
(Let me hear you-)
Let me hear you scream!
(scream, scream, scream, scream...)
I’ll pull you up and push you right back in your place!
I’ll take you down and wipe that smile right off your face!
I’ll watch you break,
Your mine to take,
Don’t blink; you just might miss it!
It’s all or nothing,
Nowhere left to run!
Are you ready for the last fight!?
Get ready with the war cry!
Let me hear you scream like you want it! (Want it!)
Let me hear you yell like you mean it! (Mean it!)
If you’re gonna go down:
Go loud!
Go strong!
Go proud!
Go on!
Go hard or go home!
Let me hear you-
(Let me hear you-)
Let me hear you-
(Let me hear you-)
Let me hear you scream!
[or, in the more elegantly succinct words of Alice]
“I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.”
Chitwood said her website also makes mention of erotic oxygen deprivation.
I guess I’m not into trust that much.
It doesn’t make sense to be geared up in scuba gear in the corner of an attic,”
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Really? Ya’ think?
She was working as a dominatrix? Good grief! I didn’t even know that was a job description. There is, I am sure, a lot of perverted stuff I don’t know about. Wish I had never heard of the stuff I have learned of in the last 5 years or so. Makes you want to bleach your brain.
...and not for the first time, I'm guessing.
In New York, a prosecutorix named Alisha Smith (36) who previously had been praised by Andrew Cuomo for her work in strong arming Bank of America was fired because she was a dominatrix on the side under the name of Alisha Spark.
Uh... Hello, Mr. Arrows.
Why? She sounds like a first rate candidate for governor.
Errr...Mrs Lady.
The return of the Zodiac Killer...
Some people just don’t know when to come up for air.
Maa Maa / Just killed a man
put a facemask on his head / with no oxy now he's dead
Well, there’s this little clause that bars prosecutors from getting money from other sources without express permission of da boss.
And as a Dom she was getting money without permission, therefor she got.. er.. canned.
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