Expertise in High-End Coercive Tactics
A New Hampshire man is not to be found.
Prosecutors say the man suffered a fatal heart attack while strapped to a medieval torture device in the lair of a Massachusetts dominatrix. According to police, the dominatrix confessed to them that her boyfriend dismembered and buried the body after the client gave out under the stress. But the confession was not taped, the police destroyed their notes, and the body parts haven't been found.
The dominatrix is now awaiting a jury's verdict on a manslaughter charge. The sole witness called on her behalf was Berkeley sociologist Richard Ofshe, who opined that people will say all sorts of things when subjected to "high-end psychologically coercive tactics." In the right circumstances, said Ofshe, people will confess to anything you please, whether they're really guilty or not.
We don't doubt it for a minute.
Update 1/31/06: Not guilty, says the jury.
Prosecutors say the man suffered a fatal heart attack while strapped to a medieval torture device in the lair of a Massachusetts dominatrix. According to police, the dominatrix confessed to them that her boyfriend dismembered and buried the body after the client gave out under the stress. But the confession was not taped, the police destroyed their notes, and the body parts haven't been found.
The dominatrix is now awaiting a jury's verdict on a manslaughter charge. The sole witness called on her behalf was Berkeley sociologist Richard Ofshe, who opined that people will say all sorts of things when subjected to "high-end psychologically coercive tactics." In the right circumstances, said Ofshe, people will confess to anything you please, whether they're really guilty or not.
We don't doubt it for a minute.
Update 1/31/06: Not guilty, says the jury.
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