Barbara Asher, also known as Mistress Lauren M, is accused of watching a former client have a heart attack and die while tied by his wrists to a rack. Prosecutor Robert Nelson says that Asher called for her boyfriend, Miguel Ferreira, who arrived ten minutes later, to help her as she watched 53-year-old Michael Lord die without doing a thing to help him. Nelson says Asher and Ferreira tried to revive Lord when they finally removed him from the rack, but were unsuccessful. He claims they then put his body in the bathtub and left, not calling the police because of fear the police would find out about Asher’s operation, and returned the following day to dismember Lord’s body with a hacksaw and divide his remains into eight trash bags which were never found.

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