A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval rack.Barbara Asher, a 56-year-old woman who called herself Mistress Lauren M, was also cleared of dismemberment...Michael Lord suffered a heart attack in .... a bondage session.
Asher had her boyfriend chop up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker, and they dumped it behind a restaurant in Maine, prosecutors said. His remains have never been found.
Besides the death of Nelson Rockefeller * , all this reminds me of a Cosmopolitan article from the 1970's. Let me do my best to recreate it:
Ten Fabulous Pointers If You Have An Affair With a Married Man.
6. If He Has a Heart Attack While Having Sex, Call An Ambulance: Don't hesitate to call the ambulance. You will not be able to handle the matter yourself. Some women try to dress their dead lovers and place him on the couch or even get him down to the street. Have you ever tried dressing someone else, let alone a 200 pound corpse? It just won't work and even if you can get his shorts, shirt, trousers, and jacket on, it will not look right. And you still havent fixed his tie.
Eventually law enforcement will figure it out. Then you have to confront the revelation that he died on top of you in an extra-martial affair, and that you are cold and heartless for failing to call the ambulance.
People will call you cold and selfish.
Call the ambulance. Then all you will be called is a 'slut' and that doesn't hurt as much, in fact, it will probably bring you more suitors.
*Rockefeller details:
When he collapsed of a heart attack, Megan Marshak was pinned underneath him. She had to struggle to get out. He was naked. It was not known that he had a mistress. For these reasons, she was reluctant to call the ambulance. Instead, Megan Marshak called her girlfriend, who lived nearby.
The girlfriend walked over, arrived, saw the naked former Vice-President sprawled on the floor, and then she and Megan Marshak had a discussion about what to do about this.
Finally, fully one hour after Nelson Rockefeller had collapsed, the girlfriend called the ambulance. Megan Marshak did not make the call.
When the ambulance arrived, Nelson Rockefeller was still barely alive. However, he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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