I went bam. Soon master bob himself was confessing to something equally dark. Looking for a hit man to knock off his hit man . What were the other secrets in the suburbs . Here is dennis murphy. Most American Cities have a neighborhood where the houses are bigger, the money a little older. In detroit it is gross point. It is the place that everybody wants to live, the homes are beautiful, the lawns are manicured, and everybody appears to live this perfect life. In this tasteful enclave of good schools, good churches, good families going back generations, jane and bob had made their home and raised their two children. I loved this place. How could you not . Bob, big bob as he is known around gross point with the vanity plates to prove it was active in rotary, past president , and hands on for almost any Community Fundraiser you could name. Jane was equally busy in volunteer organizations, primarily in the high School Mothers group. They had been a couple for nearly 30 years we clicked pretty much right away, and within two years i asked her to marry me and she said yes. Bob says he loved that jane didnt hold anything back. She was out going, a go getter, and get she was very loving and kind and i just was attracted to her right from the beginning because she had a good heart. The children came along, first robert, then jessica. This is where the kids grew up. This is where the kids grew up. If you look in the front yard of their gracious home on middlesex road in the city of gross point park, will you see two towering evergreens, bob can see his children in them. When my son was one i bought a live christmas tree, brought it in, we decorated it, and then undecorated it and took it outside and it did the same for my daughter two and a half, three years later, so we have brother and sister growing next to each other and now theyre about 30 feet. Theyre wonderful. The son of a judge, hes a real estate guy and buys and sells commercial and Residential Properties around detroit and takes in cash flow as a landlord. He bought his First Property as a teenager and never looked back. When you play the game monopoly the person with the most property wins. Jane was a six figure Marketing Executive who retired several years ago but went back to work when the recession took a toll on her husbands property business. To all appearances the lives being lived in the nice house were the grown Christmas Trees out front werent all that much different from what was happening in homes up and down the street in gross point park and out around exclusive lake shore drive. Then came jan 24th, 2012. It was 5 30 in the evening. Jane was driving her black mercedes suv home from her job in detroit. Bob said they spoke on their cells. Sounded perfectly fine. She said i am coming home, i will be home in 20 minutes. As jane drove from downtown, bob says he was tending to outside cleanup chores at one of his properties. When he got home, he thinks about 8 00, there was no jane in sight. Did you see janes car . No, i didnt. Anything in disarray . No, i just assumed that she ran an errand. 8 30, 9 00 came and i starred calling her, and her phone didnt answer. Two more hours went by and still no jane. Bob said he was getting anxious. I called the gross Point Park Police and alerted them that my wife wasnt answering her phone and i said i am concerned. She is not here. The next morning, a wednesday, tow truck operators in the east end of detroit were making early rounds. For their shift they will drive the street and look for stolen cars, abandoned cars, to make a few extra dollars. Mark santea at the time was a top Investigative Reporter on the police beat for nbcs detroit affiliate wdiv tv. Tow truck driver spots a beautiful mercedes suv and stands out in the neighborhood. A shiny vehicle that wouldnt turn a head in gross point was like a flashing neon sign saying something is wrong here in the gritty east end. Just abandoned in this grungy alley. He calls the Detroit Police and sources tell me they walked up on that car and once they poked their head in, they saw a womans body and everything changed. This went from an abandoned vehicle to a homicide real quick. The 56yearold mother found dead on detroits east side. When do you get the call . Police knocked on the door at 9 30 the next morning. I think i fell to my knees. It was absolutely the worst news i could have gotten. At that point i just was grieving. I had to make phone calls. Dreaded phone calls to my children. To tell them about their mother. Jane, a wife, a mother, a daughter, was suddenly violently dead at the age of 56. They had been strangled and severely beaten. Were told it was made to look like it was a robbery scene, her hearse had been dumped out and it looked like she was placed in her own suv and that suv was dumped in an alley on the east side of detroit. Gross Point Park Police took jurisdiction over the case because their working theory was that jane wasnt murdered in detroit, the city that suffered 340 homicides in 2011, but in a place just seven miles away that hadnt had a single murder since 1992. Right away sources were saying they believed she was killed in gross point park. Gross point park where residents like to think their grass is a little greener and murders simply dont happen down the block. If jane was killed in gross point park, who killed her and why . Police soon identify a person of interest and there is a lot of interest in what had been a secret part of his life. People saying i dont know bob ba share aas gross point bob, i know bob as master bob. 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The first time many of us saw bob bashara is ten hours after he learned his wife was dead in a mercedes in detroit. The focus is trying to find out what hpd to her last night thattened in her death. A small City Police Department was now investigating its first homicide in 20 years. The husband was grieving in public. It is just unthinkable this happened to her and what she had to suffer. I am just so upset about it. Unthinkable, would a respected husband like he was going through, the man known affectionately as big bob had no shortage of admirers from fellow row tear ans and Church Members to people all around town that regarded him as a cheerful cando civil booster. You are not talking about somebody that are a prior criminal history. Bob bashara does not have a criminal history. There was no signs of Domestic Violence at the home. Bob was cooperating with the cops, but from the very first even with those arriving officers who broke the news of his wifes death, something about basharas overall responses didnt sit right with the authorities. According to a tv reporter, mark santea. Police sources and people we talked to, they felt it was wrong as soon as they walked into the house. Based on what . Based on his reaction, bobs reaction wasnt the reaction they expected when a husband learns his wifes body was just found in the east side of detroit. Just three days after janes murder the suspicions of the homicide detectives were made explicit by the police chief. He announced that bob bashara was a person of interest in the killing. Whats the reaction of all of these supporters and the chief of police comes out and says we have a person of interest . It is youre kidding me, bob bashara . And thats what we heard time and time again. One person of interest, bob bashara. What happened there . I had no idea. You look at my life. Really look at my life. You can see all the good i have done. Why on earth would i want to change all of that . Why on earth would i want to kill my wife . Bob bashara, the community do gooder was all over the news. And around getter detroit there were people staring at their tv sets and saying i know that guy. Tv viewers who called wviv reporter Hank Winchester and passed on juicy tips about big bob, wild stories, x rated stories about a secret life. Bob bashara was the party man about Grosse Pointe, dinner parties, a Christmas Event and the other side of bob ba share a the real party side happened behind closed doors, and were not just talking about a casino night. The tips led winchester to talk to some of the neighbors near one of the basharas commercial properties. One of the neighbors said i do notice from time to time men and women dressed in leather from head to toe wearing masks, carrying whips, but thats the only thing i notice that could be out of the ordinary. I am like out of the ordinary . Yeah. Winchesters reporting would take him down a grimy flight of exterior stairs, behind the basement door on the right was the storage area for the bar above, the hard luck lounge. The door on the left opened to a musty underground room that people who had been inside according to the reporter called a sex dungeon. Investigators want to talk with people that worked in a bar just above the alleged dungeon where bashara spent some time. Behind the locked door the gossip wind big bob hosted wild parties and had play dates with willing women identifying themselves as his sex slaves. You can imagine once the cat was out of the bag about the two lives of bob ba share a the rotary with a whip, it was a scandalous story and irresistible fodder for the underground bdsm community, bondage, domination, saidism and mass kichl. They were firing off emails with all the lurid details. Bob bashara quickly became the public face of a very camera shy group of fetishes. People saying i know bob bar share a, but i dont know bob bashara as Grosse Pointe bob, i know bob bashara as master bob. Master bob in his world of whips and dog collars the stories went was a dom or dominant, someone who exerted total control over his sex play in a dungeon like this one. Police started to ask if the s m lifestyle might somehow be connected to janes murder. It surfaced that his special sex partner according to police and media sources was a detroit area woman named rachel gillette. Rachel and bob were together at her daughters wedding in 2011. This shot of them dances was posted on the photo companys Facebook Page for all to see. Rachel herself turned out to be a chatty kathy blogger. Her dear diary entry, she claimed, had master bob, mbs okay. Here are sample from her online journal. I love the power you hold over me. I have written about my First Encounter with his belt. Ecstasy. The alternative lifestyle as it is called in s m circles seems so outlandishly removed from solid old mac and cheese mainstream american more rays that you may wonder if it is not just made up but it is quite real and this player that says she knows intimately the other side of bob bashara has come out of the shadows. Definitely. We had a drink and then down to the dungeon. Follow her down the stairs to join master bob and rachel. Coming up, a peek behind closed doors. Next to the bed there was a giant web like looking device. A what . It looked like a giant spiderweb with ropes. Do i want to the media has painted a picture of me as a terrible person and all of these Different Things going on in my life when they didnt know me. Bob bashara, the church going row tear an it turned out had a secret kinky side and like 50 shades of grey, the erotic blockbuster best seller about an s m relationship, this real life 50 shades of Grosse Pointe was a steamy topic. His alleged secret life. And investigators looking into the murder of his wife jane bashara were pursuing the sex dungeon angle, too. This s m business based on power and control with pain thrown in seemed way more than the all too common woman on the side theory of motivation. They wonder could it have something to do with the murder . Fetishes were coming out of the wood work. The day i heard the news i went to the police right off. This woman told detectives about her 2009 romp in the dungeon. She said she had with a man she knew only as master bob. I told them, i said rachel was his slave. She asked we call her lynn. Disguised beneath theatrical makeup she agreed to talk to us about her sexual lifestyle and the person she knows as master bob. Lynn, a single mom with a job made her own journey from the straight life, vanilla as they calls it, and understands the lure of being controlled, dominated. How do you go through that door . It is a scary door, especially for somebody later in life discovering this. The sex life, it was pretty boring. Conventional. Always conventional, vanilla, yeah. I stumbled upon it, and it kind of hit me and i am like well this is what i have been missing. You are a submissive. Yes, submissive means you submit to that dominant, so submissive will do pretty much anything her dominant says. Are we talking about collars. Yes. Whips. Whips, flogs, canes, props. Lynn said dungeon parties can be held just about anywhere in warehouses, rental homes, garages, even suburban rooms and invitations through the web and word of mouth. Youre invited to a dungeon party, how do you know youre not going to john wayne gacy. You dont. With me terribly i talk to people for a while. If there is anything that doesnt sound right, i wouldnt go. She said she heard about the dungeon beneath the bar from bashara himself, and that he found her on an alternative lifestyle website. Master bob, and his saturday night live and the reason i followed through is because i had not experienced a dungeon. Understanding the draw and the excitement, i had to see the dungeon. So one afternoon lynn said she met master bob and his special slave rachel for the first time. She had the three of them spent a few minutes in the bar, chatted about nothing in particular and relaxed with a few stiff drinks and down to the dungeon. This is the actual dungeon she shared wit master bob. It was shot undercover by wdiv tv and the detroit affiliate. The first thing i see in a far corner is a bed. Next to the bed there was a giant web like looking device. What . It looked like a giant spiderweb. With rope. Do i want to know . It was a 360 type web. The spiderweb contraption was in storage when the local camera crew was filming undercover. The grungy windowless dungeon contained the hooks, ropes and other toys lynn remembered. How do you break the ice . Oh, that was quick because she disrobed when i got there and had her collar on and thats what i was ordered to do and can thats what i did. Master bob is telling what you to do. Yes. And you were having a great time. It was really exciting and thats where we initially both had her first flogging. You say that so easily, my first flogging in the dungeon. Yeah. Yet she says she never went back to master bobs dungeon. She liked rachel well enough but master bob. Self absorbed, very, very dominant, you know, when i say he is master bob, i believe he believes that with every fiber of his being. She went to the police, she said, because she believed bobs secret life might be relevant. The whole purpose of this, of my talking with the police, of any of this is justice for janes murder. There is a working Police Theory of the motivation in this case that leads through master bobs dungeon door. A crime with roots in an oldfashioned love triangle but with a kinky twist. The cops speculate bashara was so consumed with this s m lifestyle and the slave he shared it with that his wife jane just didnt fit anymore into the relationship map. So how did he solve the problem of one woman too many . Did he delegate the dilemma to someone else . Possibly his handyman, a big guy, he had touched up the paint on the rental property and when that handyman came to pay police a visit, he would have an unbelievable story to tell. At least the cops seemed to think so. Coming up, the night jane bashara died in the words of the man who says he killed her. I went bam. Took her neck out. Why would he kill her . [ female announcer ] think all pads are the same . Dont. 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