Bob Bashara's Lawyer Doesn't Expect Charges against His Client

DETROIT (WJBK) - GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. (WJBK) -- "Anything where Joe Gentz implicated him was untrue. Completely untrue and a fabrication to get back at Bob," said David Griem.

48-year-old Joe Gentz, a handyman at Bob Bashara's rental properties. Gentz told police he was paid to kill Bob's wife, Jane Bashara, whose body was found in her Mercedes abandoned on Detroit's east side last Wednesday.

Bashara told police Gentz might want to harm him or his family because Bob wasn't paying his bills.

"Billing demands that were made on Bob Bashara by Joe, and these discussions got quite heated in the past month," Griem explained.

Griem, Bashara's attorney, said Gentz wanted $2,000 for work he had done. Gentz and Bob Bashara met on Monday. Bashara gave him a check for $452. Griem said maybe that wasn't enough and Gentz went to Bashara's house Tuesday night looking for more.

"What about Joe not being satisfied with the money and arriving at the Bashara home just as Jane's pulls in, an argument ensuing and Jane's body being found where it was found?" Griem suggested.

But what about Bob? Where was he during all of this?

"We can't account for every minute of his time that night, but we can account for significant portions of his time during what I'm told is the relevant time period," Griem told us.

Griem said he had Bashara take another privately administered polygraph after he failed his first one at the police department. These were the results.

"Bob did not kill his wife," Griem explained. "Bob did not have anything to do with his wife's death, and that's Bob's response also."

However, Bashara remains a person of interest in his wife's strangulation. Griem said he doesn't know if there was an insurance policy, doesn't know if Bashara was in financial trouble. He would not address reports that Bashara had a long time girlfriend, a gambling habit and a sex dungeon except to say he was concerned people would judge his client based on those reports.

"I don't believe he killed his wife," Griem said.

Bob Bashara is not in custody or charged with anything and neither is Joe Gentz. Griem said he does not expect charges to be filed against his client.