- Barbara Asher
Barbara Asher (born c. 1950) is a professional dominatrix from
Boston, Massachusetts . Going by the pseudonym Mistress Lauren M, Asher was charged but acquitted ofmanslaughter and dismemberment in Michael Lord's death.According to the police, who lost all notes of a supposed confession and had no
DNA evidence or any other physical evidence, Lord, 53, a retired telephone company worker fromNorth Hampton, New Hampshire , died in 2000 while strapped to a replica of a medieval torture device in Asher'scondominium , according to police. His body was never found, and no proof of his death every appeared.Police said Asher confessed she and her boyfriend chopped up Lord's body in the bathtub and dumped it behind a
Maine restaurant, but DNA testing of her bathtub revealed none of Lord's DNA or any evidence of cleaning agents.She currently lives at the Regency Apartments in Providence, RI 02906.
External links
* [http://archive.seacoastonline.com/news/01182006/south_of/83347.htm Dominatrix on trial for death] (Portsmouth Herald, January 18, 2006)
* [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/31/dominatrix_acquitted_of_manslaughter/ Dominatrix acquitted of manslaughter] (The Boston Globe, January 31, 2006)
* [http://malawyersweekly.com/index.cfm/page/static/content/2006_loty_page Stephanie Page, Asher's public defender, named among "lawyers of the year 2006"] by "Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly"
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