The Bashara murder mystery...with a little S&M and bondage

[Lady Cop]

Case of slain Grosse Pointe woman takes new twists and turns
Saturday, February 25, 2012

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In the weeks before Bob Bashara’s alleged mistress walked off the job for good, her work performance grew increasingly poor and her relations with colleagues became disrespectful, according to documents in her personnel file.

Rachel Rene Gillett also added Bashara’s name as an emergency contact person, according to personnel records released by Wayne State University to The Macomb Daily under a Freedom of Information Act request.

The documents also show that police investigating the death of Jane Bashara of Grosse Pointe Park have not sought any of Gillett’s emails or phone records from the university.

Gillett, the reputed girlfriend of Bob Bashara, was fired from her job as a secretary in the development and alumni affairs office at Wayne State.

A copy of her termination letter, written by Michelle Fallscheer, the director for planned gifts in the development and alumni affairs division, stated she had failed to successfully complete a 60-day qualifying period in her job classification.

But the real reason she was fired might be because she left the office on the day Jane Bashara’s body was found in a Detroit alley and never came back.

“I’m not going to discuss that with you,” she said in a brief telephone interview on Friday night. “I have nothing to say about any of that.”

A copy of her electronic time slip released to the newspaper shows she worked for 2.5 hours on Wednesday, Jan. 25 — the day Jane Bashara’s body was discovered — and took the rest of the day off as a personal day.

She never returned.

The 51-year-old Gillett’s name surfaced early on in the investigation into the strangulation of Jane Bashara, a business executive and mother of two children.

The body of Jane Bashara was found in the backseat of her Mercedes Benz SUV on Detroit’s east side, about six miles away from her home. Her husband had reported her missing the night before.

Linked to ‘person of interest’

In the days after the body’s discovery, there were multiple media reports detailing Bob Bashara’s secret double life apart from his wife, tales of a sex dungeon and out-of-state trips with a girlfriend.

Although Bashara told reporters he was only friends with Gillett, there was evidence that he spent a good deal of time with her including traveling to a relative’s wedding out of state on New Year’s Eve. Several photos of the two dancing and socializing have surfaced.

The story took an unseemly turn when Internet posts on a sadomasochism website suggested Bob Bashara was involved in an S&M relationship with Gillett, where he was a dominatrix called “Master Bob.”

The postings indicated the two planned to bring a third woman into the relationship.

Bashara owned an underground sex dungeon in the basement behind a building he owned on Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe Park where witnesses said he took women for various sex games.

Gillett was renting an apartment above the facility.

Grosse Pointe Park police have been tight-lipped about the murder — the first in that community in more than two decades — and no arrests have been made.

Police Chief David Hiller has publicly labeled Bob Bashara as a “person of interest in the murder,” even though another man has allegedly confessed to the crime.

Handyman Joe Gentz, an acquaintance of Bob Bashara, told police Bashara gave him cash and a used Cadillac to kill Jane Bashara.

Gentz, who authorities have described as mentally disabled, was held for several days for questioning before being released.

Early last week, however, police impounded the Cadillac, which had been parked in a St. Clair Shores lot for weeks.

Since Gillett has publicly stated that she has cooperated with the police investigation, The Macomb Daily asked Wayne State for any search warrants submitted by police for her email or phone records. The university responded by stating none existed as the police had not sought the records.

The bizarre story of extra-marital affairs and seedy sex parties seemed to be in conflict with Gillett’s past.


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