The Sadist, the Hitman and the Murder of Jane Bashara

“Big Bob” Bashara put on a respectable face. To his friends in Detroit’s affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, he was a married father of two, Rotary Club President, church usher and soccer dad who organized charity events with his wife, Jane. To his “slaves,” he was “Master Bob,” cocaine-snorting slumlord who operated a sex dungeon and had a submissive girlfriend to do his bidding.

But Bashara knew he couldn’t rule a household of concubines on his income alone.

He eyed his wife’s sizable retirement account and formulated a murderous plan.