Barbara Asher

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Barbara Asher (born c. 1950) is a professional dominatrix from Boston, Massachusetts. Going by the pseudonym Mistress Lauren M, Asher was charged but acquitted of manslaughter 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 from North Hampton, New Hampshire, died in 2000 while strapped to a replica of a medieval torture device in Asher's condominium, 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.

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• Dominatrix acquitted of manslaughter (The Boston Globe, January 31, 2006)