Wife pleads guilty to breathplay death of husband

A woman plead guilty to criminal negligence involving death by hanging her husband during kinky sex gone wrong. In an ironic twist, the victim strangled a woman to death in another kinky sexual sesion over 20 years ago, and served 8 years.

Crystal Boarder, 31, pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death. Her husband, Tony Boarder, 46, died of asphyxiation during the hanging in September.

Tony and Crystal Boarder, his partner of about 10 years, engaged in "kinky sex games" of bondage and asphyxiation, the court heard.

They performed acts of suffocation with plastic bags and sheets, drownings in the bathtub and hangings in their barn, assistant Crown attorney Pamela Borghesan told the court.

On Sept. 8, the couple videotaped themselves taking turns hanging each other in the barn next to their house outside Rockwood, Borghesan said, describing the footage.

First, Crystal Boarder was hanged by her husband and let down. Then, Tony Boarder placed the rope around his own neck and she hanged him. He told her to lower him and then quickly lost consciousness. Crystal Boarder slowly brought him to the ground over a period of about 15 minutes. For the next 40 minutes, she checked his pulse and smoked cigarettes.

Later that morning, Crystal Boarder called the police and said she had accidentally killed her husband during a sex game, Borghesan said before Justice David Carr.

Crystal Boarder will be sentenced on July 16. Criminal negligance causing death carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.