Barbara Asher is a 56-year-old dominatrix from Boston, Massachusetts. Going by the pseudonym Mistress Lauren M, Asher was charged but aquitted of manslaughter and dismemberment in Michael Lord's death. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Sir Michael Nicholson Lord (born October 17, 1938, Manchester) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Suffolk Central and Ipswich North. ...

Lord, 53, a retired telephone company worker from North Hampton, N.H., 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.

Police said Asher confessed she and her boyfriend chopped up Lord's body in the bathtub and dumped it behind a Maine restaurant.