Mistress Lauren M, a.k.a. Barbara Asher, was acquitted of manslaughter charges brought against her after 53-year-old Michael Lord allegedly died on the rack in her condo’s erotic dungeon. (It is questionable whether local developers will continue to include dungeons in residential floorplans.) Sporting a smart leather mask and patriotic tie, theprosecutor argued that Mistress Lauren had confessed to helping her boyfriend dismember and dump Lord’s body.
The defense argued that there was no evidence Lord was dead, and no evidence the defendant had confessed since investigators hadn’t recorded the interview or saved their notes. I was able to obtain a scrap of one of their notes (right) which may offer some insight into their reluctance to produce them for the court.
- Note: Like guns and pit bulls, medieval torture devices are routinely given a bad name through selective reporting by an unabashedly anti-medieval-torture-device press. Due to this bias, positive aspects of medieval implements of torture are often ignored. For example, journalists rarely mention the fact that when properly used, the rack is very useful for procuring false confessions and spontaneous religious conversions.
[tags]dominatrix trial, manslaughter, medieval[/tags]