DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) – The state rested its case Wednesday against a Quincy dominatrix accused of manslaughter in the death of a 275-pound New Hampshire man who allegedly died of a heart attack during a bondage session.

The defense lawyer for Barbara Asher renewed her request to dismiss the charges, citing a lack of evidence linking Asher to the July 2000 disappearance of Michael Lord, of North Hampton, N.H.

After lawyers argued for and against dismissal, Judge Charles M. Grabau took it under advisement and sent the jury home for the day.

“There has to be some scintilla of evidence that a crime was committed,” said Asher’s lawyer, Stephanie Page. “We don’t have that here.”

Prosecutors say Lord suffered a fatal heart attack while strapped to a replica of a medieval torture device in a makeshift “dungeon” in Asher’s Quincy condominium.

Police say Asher confessed that she and her boyfriend chopped up Lord’s body in the bathtub and dumped it behind a restaurant in Maine. But the alleged confession was not taped, and detectives testified during the trial that they discarded their notes from the interrogation after filing the police reports.

Lord’s remains also were never found, Page says, and there’s no proof the retired the retired telephone company worker is even dead.

Asher, 56, is accused of failing to call paramedics because she was worried her dominatrix business would be discovered.

The judge has rejected three previous attempts by her lawyer to have the charges dismissed.