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Dominatrix Not Guilty In Dismemberment Case
Woman Charged In Man's Death
POSTED: 4:08 pm EST January 30, 2006
UPDATED: 5:31 pm EST January 30, 2006
BOSTON -- A Massachussetts jury on Monday found a dominatrix not guilty of manslaughter and dismemberment in the death of one of her clients who prosecutors argued had a heart attack during a bondage session.
Barbara Asher, 56, of Quincy, was charged in connection with the July 2000 death of Mike Lord, of North Hampton, N.H. Officials said that Lord died of a heart attack while restrained in the defendant's so-called dungeon as a paying client.
During closing arguments last week, prosecutor Robert Nelson put on a black latex mask and re-enacted Lord's death before the judge ordered him to move on.
Officials claimed that Asher and her boyfriend cut up Lord's body and dumped it in Maine, but Lord's remains were never found.
Asher pleaded not guilty to the charges, but prosecutors alleged that Asher told police what happened to Lord during a taped interview in August 2000. It was while the tape was off that, police said, Asher told officials that Lord died while suspended by his wrists during a bondage session.
Asher's lawyer, Stephanie Page, argued that because Lord's body was never found, there was no evidence that he was dead.
"No body. No blood. No DNA. No evidence. That's how I started this case, and I suggest to you that nothing has changed," Page said.