On Jan. I don't know if he said 'clean' or 'clear,' Gillette testified. She said he also told her he was worried he would be blamed in his wife's disappearance; her body had not yet been discovered. The day her body was found, Bashara asked Gillette to come to his Grosse Pointe house to be with him, she said.
She refused, but did join a candlelight vigil later in Jane Bashara's honor, Gillette said. Gillette said she'd tried to break off her relationship with Bashara several times, but he always talked her out of it. Eventually, she said, they decided to buy a house together and even picked out one they liked. But plans to move in together were again and again delayed.
It was supposed to be, originally, early December, I think," she said. The final closing date was January 27," — three days after Jane Bashara died. On Wednesday, Gillette testified she met Bashara through an alternative lifestyle website, and as part of their sexual relationship, they had "breath play," where they choked each other for pleasure. The third woman in their relationship, Janet Leehmann, testified that Bashara courted her by sending her one of his T-shirts to wear, and a small gold chain that showed he "owned her.
Webb said Bashara told him at one point in late that he was about to "come into some money" and mentioned at another time he wanted to "get rid of" his wife.
Bob Bashara is charged with hiring handyman Joe Gentz to kill Jane Bashara — who was strangled to death in her garage before her body dumped in her SUV, police believe. Gentz confessed to the crime; Bashara is suspected of then trying to hire a hit man to kill Gentz. Gillette's testimony followed that of the Basharas' daughter Jessica, who spoke at length Wednesday about the problems in her parents' marriage , her discovery of his porn habit, dirty texts she found between her father and his girlfriend.
