Bondage 'master' convicted in plot to kill wife

Source: AP-Excite

By COREY WILLIAMS

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man was convicted Thursday of murder in a plot to kill his wife so he could devote himself to a life of bondage and domination in an upper-class suburb with women who called him "Master Bob."

The salacious trial of Bob Bashara revealed his secret life in Grosse Pointe Park: a former Rotary Club president who used cocaine and hosted men and women at a sex dungeon under a bar called the Hard Luck Lounge.

Jane Bashara was strangled by a handyman in the couple's garage in 2012 before her body was discovered in her Mercedes-Benz in a Detroit alley.

"The system worked. We finally have closure for the death of Jane Bashara," Grosse Pointe Park Police Chief David Hiller said after jurors convicted the 57-year-old of first-degree murder and four other charges. "On behalf of Jane's family and the residents of Grosse Pointe Park, we are finally able to put this to rest."

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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2014 file photo is Robert Bashara in Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit. The former Rotary Club president charged with arranging his wife's murder in 2012 while he was having affairs and exploring bondage and masochism. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates, File)


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