Torture tapes debench a judge

"This would disturb any human being who heard it," [district attorney] Bebb said.

A Tennessee judge resigned after an audio recording of his torture fantasies reached the press.

The tape was briefly examined by Chattanooga police and the FBI in late 2005 after a secretary who had just been fired by Hagler turned it over, authorities said. She told them she found the recording of the judge's voice on a tape that also contained legal dictation.
"It sounded like someone being tortured," Chattanooga police Sgt. Alan Franks testified Wednesday, offering the first details of what is on the tape....
"The content was so shocking. I have been a police officer for 24 years," Franks said before his testimony was cut off by an objection.

The contents' details are still a mystery, unless Smoking Gun or Memory Hole gets them.  But the context is even more unsettling.  For example, think of these fantasies in the judge's mind when reading this:

During those two years, the judge remained on the bench, hearing mostly family court cases like divorces and child custody.