Dominatrix pleads not guilty in death:
 

Quincy, Mass.

A dominatrix whose client died after she put a hood on his head and strapped him to a rack in a crucifix position pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and cutting up his body to dispose of it. Barbara Asher, 53, was released after her arraignment Friday. Police said Asher told them that after Michael Lord died in July 2000, she panicked. She said her boyfriend, Miguel Ferrer, cut up the body while she went for trashbags and that they later dumped it in a restaaurant trash bin in Augusta, Maine.