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Live Tweets From Bob Bashara Trial Seem Like Porn Film Dialog At Times

October 23, 2014, 3:41 PM by  Alan Stamm

Don't assume a career in journalism is about celebrity interviews, swanky events and exciting trips.

The often-unglamorous assignments of big-city reporters involve municipal finance, education reform, business affairs and, currently in Detroit, lurid trial testimony about cow whips, bondage and "master-slave" relationships.

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Bob Bashara of Grosse Pointe Park is charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 strangling of his wife Jane. (Twitter photo by Amy Lange of Fox 2]

For more than six hours each day since early last week, George Hunter of The Detroit News and Elisha Anderson of the Free Press have live-tweeted from Wayne Circuit Court about topics more suited to adult movies than daily newspapers. They're covering the case of Bob Bashara, accused of first-degree murder in the strangling death of his wife Jane at their Grosse Pointe Park home in January 2012.

Joseph Gentz, a developmentally disabled handyman, is imprisoned for second-degree murder in the case. He said Bashara, 56, paid him to do the killing in the couple's garage and dump the body inside her Mercedes Benz SUV in an east-side Detroit alley.

Jurors and reporters at the downtown trial, in its seventh day Thursday, hear kinky details of unconventional behavior. Vivid testimony is relayed in minute-by-minute tweets from Hunter and Anderson, as well intermittently from Amy Lange of Fox 2 and other broadcasters.

Judge Vonda Evans helps jurors understand unfamiliar terms by asking witnesses to explain references to ED (erectile dysfunction), a strap-on (dildo) and BDSM (bondage, discipline and sado-masochism). 

Daily immersion in exotic erotica can be numbing, Hunter indicates in this Wednesday afternoon tweet:

Here's a sampling of other trial posts this week:

Amid these pulp fiction-like tweets, an occasional lighter moment shines through -- as in this exchange Wednesday afternoon:

A week earlier, Fox 2's reporter tweeted this amusing bit of testimony:



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