Many people have died in the middle of kinky sex, but that doesn’t make kinky sex the cause of death:

A dominatrix was acquitted of manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who prosecutors say suffered a fatal heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval torture device.

The jury in Norfolk Superior Court deliberated for eight hours over two days before finding Barbara Asher, 56, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and dismemberment.

During his closing argument, prosecutor Robert Nelson re-enacted the bondage session that allegedly killed Michael Lord, 53, of North Hampton, N.H., in July 2000.

Donning a leather mask and speaking to the jury through the zippered mouth, he said Lord flailed about and died while strapped to the rack in a makeshift “dungeon” in Asher’s Quincy condominium. Nelson said Asher did nothing to help him for fear authorities would find out about her business.

“She did nothing, nothing for five minutes,” Nelson said, his voice muffled through the mask.

It was an error, right? After all, manslaughter is accidentally causing a death, not misunderstanding when someone needs medical attention. On the other hand:

Then she summoned her boyfriend, who chopped up the body of the 275-pound retired telephone company worker before they dumped it behind a restaurant in Augusta, Maine, Nelson said. Police searched an Augusta landfill, but his remains have never been found.

Why chop up and dump the body if you did nothing wrong?

Read the whole thing here.

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