DC Madam possibly commits suicide in Tarpon Springs

Source: MyFox Tampa Bay

TARPON SPRINGS - Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's mother on Thursday to investigate a suicide.

Police would not confirm that the dead person is Palfrey - only that it is a white woman in her 50's. Palfrey is 52.

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Hmmm ...

somebody suicided her!!!

right now!

It may not sound all that tin-foilish to Du.

Was there a gun involved? And was anybody ever able to verify that Mr. Cheney was a frequent customer and often took advantage of his Executive Discount plan? :P

In any case, my sympathy to her friends and family--if it's her, that is.

:wow:

she hung herself http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/dc.madam/index.htmlD.C. Madam' found hanged.:think:

:wow:

Commentator said she was found in a shed on her mother's property. Shed? Hmmm.

and guess who they think the culprit is?

I would imagine that she knew there would be worse to come.

:wow: another victim of the bfee?

toilet bowl.

Not too subtle, not too overt... Just right!

when he was convicted.

Pity.

"At least Jeff Gannon is safe. Whew." - Commander AWOL

Rrepublicon Diaper Sex Pinup Boy, Sen. David Vitter (R):

details at the above referenced link.

Very interesting. RIP Ms. Madam.

-JB

Momma Paultrey, you'd better have a fantastic security system!

much.

He said the whole thing would be made public before the election... He thought that this would be the best time...

Do you have a link? If this is true, who is the person, or persons, he would out?
McCain? Bill Clinton? This is getting juicy.

:eyes:

I seriously doubt it was suicide. I'll have to keep my eye on this one.

This doesn't breath very well: :tinfoilhat:

Perhaps he'll decide to publish them if he hasn't been bought off already.

do anything to protect them. It isn't always greed.

From the OP's link:

"She was convicted on Tuesday of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, but she had not yet been sentenced.

There has been much speculation in the media about who was on Palfrey's client list, but few details came out during the trial."

k&r

it smells to me like she was probably silenced as well.

like Ken Lay she had the foresight to file an appeal, then her conviction will be overturned.

RIP Ms. Palfrey. Too bad there will never be an appeal.

I will guess she was found with one slashed wrist in a bathtub and arms heavily bruised. Better known as a Raymond Lemme, former Florida IG inspector.

Another "dangerous" American suicided by the Politicos.

Or is the equation DC + dangerous secrets + Florida (or Texas) + death = b(ush) = c (cheney) = r (republicans)?

I have no knowledge of the DC Madam affair, so I'm just postulating formulaic probabilities.

Their headline says.

"DC Madam commits suicide in Tarpon Springs"

Yet the police just started investigating?

:tinfoilhat:

Nothing surprises me anymore...

:wow: :nuke:

Guess she had the wrong names in her little black book.:sarcasm:

Alex Jones has a recording of her saying during a radio interview that she would not commit suicide.

She said: "No, I'm not planning to commit suicide. I plan on exposing the government in ways I don't think they want..."

Unfortunately she knew too much and had to be dealt with.

"I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made of."

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/2821044/

One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.

Last year, Palfrey said she, too, was humiliated by her prostitution charges, but said: "I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made of."

Why would this tough madam kill herself after being convicted? I don't believe it. This is way too convenient. And it reminds me of the Enron employee who committed suicide right before he was supposed to give a deposition. Rotten, rotten, rotten.

when all of you making snide remarks about things you don't know about yet, it makes you look foolish and just like the other nuts out there.

Let this unfold and then make your comments.

Lastly, let's not forget, this was a person who was most likely victimized throughout her life and paid for it while the Vitters of the world walk free.

I strongly suspect that she was murdered.

My point is all the DUers jumping on the "murdered" bandwagon this early look just like the Vince Foster "murdered" wagon...especially when not having one iota of information.

What evidence do you ever expect to surface? The local authorities will declare it suicide, she'll be cremated, and that will be the end of it. No media attention.

It's idle gossip and rumormongering and it makes a bunch of intelligent people look foolish and like those they profess not to be like.

Not only that, I thought liberals were supposed to be compassionate? Where is any of that compassion regarding this poor woman?

I wonder why. And since when does concern that somebody might have been murdered to keep them quiet equate to "no compassion?"

I'm trying to get people who are screaming "murder" to see how foolish they look at this point in the investigation. The time for judgment will come when more information is needed.

As for "compassion" - look at some of the posts here and it's obvious where it is not found. Which is pretty disappointing when so many DUers at one point really liked this woman when it meant she was taking down hypocritical conservatives.

When I review the long list of lies that the media has knowingly perpetrated over the past seven years alone, I feel no confidence that inconvenient facts will ever emerge about this case. Perhaps the only people who will ever pay attention will be conspiracy theorists screaming on an internet board.

She seemed genuinely shocked when she got convicted.
Facing 50 years in prison would send anyone into a downward spiral.
It was already pretty evident she wasn't going to reveal any names or she would have done so before being convicted.
It wouldn't have helped her any to reveal them after being convicted.
So how is she really a danger to anyone?
Of course, someone might have perceived her as a danger anyway, so it's possible she was murdered, but it seems unlikely to me.

THAT extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

a woman who had declared publicly that she would NOT commit suicide and that she had dirt on powerful people then went and committed suicide.

would you like a picture with that frame?

"No, I'm not planning to commit suicide. I plan on exposing the government in ways I don't think they want..."

Nah, no possible conspiracy to it at all :sarcasm:

(By the way, the sort of conspiracy we're discussing is an actual crime called 'conspiracy to commit murder' hand-in-hand with 'murder in the first degree'. If you think that sort of conspiracy has never occurred, please, I beg of you, go read a newspaper. We have conspiracy laws regarding such things for very good reason. This honestly does come across, on first blush, given this woman and what she undoubtedly knew, as a textbook case of such a crime.

Cue the "Law & Order" DUN-DUN. It's really that fraking obvious.)

to these events that would reflect better on Dems.

All anyone can do is speculate and signal that it is speculation by acknowledging that it is too early then phrasing words in a more cautionary way.

If anybody felt a hot, smelly gust out of the east, it was just half of DC breathing a sigh of relief.

What're the odds on that?

That's certainly one for Ripley.

"Suicide notes were found near the body in a small storage shed next to a mobile home, police said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/dc.madam/

for people who commit suicide to leave more than one note. Often times people will right numerous notes - to parents, children, friends.

Also, it is even more common for people NOT to leave suicide notes.

(Known from professional experience.)

:tinfoilhat:

a LOT of time in prison. I believe she was facing close to 20 years (the federal system does not have parole so she would have served close to 17 years) which would mean she would likely die there. In her place, I'd have seriously considered suicide myself.

Certainly it should be investigated, but my goodness, just about every response to this news is alleging that she was murdered.

and a society that jails people who provide sex services then gives medals and accolades to those who murder hundreds of thousands for corporadoe coffers and glory. It leaves one with a question: Is sex for money worse than murder???

A society that chews its nails to the nub over an embryos future and remains mum about millions of children starving due to its capitalist wars for resources is one fucked up society. This fucking society (The US) is so goddamn warped in its values it makes me puke on a regular basis. Its a big exercise in hypocrisy on every level.

What a fucking MESS!!

It goes on and on and on with no remedy, no remorse, nothing but a fucking cathode ray shithouse full of phony images of idiotic sit-coms interspersed with erectile dysfuntion and pantie commercials.

Fuck! Palfrey was a hero. How many people with erectile dysfunction were cured by her?

All I want to see now is Blowback. That would be justice served!

nt

she made money turning girls into whores so she could collect the money from politicians who sold out the middle class to lobbyists for multinational corporations

if she was murdered, she was likely blackmailing some of the most evil and dangerous people in the country for her own power game - not the safest hobby

:wtf:



I have a feeling I'm not in Kansas anymore.... Or am I?

Sort of reminds me of "The Firm."

There are valid arguments for both possibilities.

If the crime scene photos happened to leak out, that might solve it. Coroner's reports can be falsified.

She didn't seem like the type to give in, even to suicide. And she didn't seem depressed. She was
so self righteous that my first thoughts were that she was offed.

I don't believe this at all. Vitter has blood on his hands.

like Cheney, perhaps? Or McCain?

she has some pretty interesting proclivities.

and his "receptionist", a male mind you, responded with "he has repented for his sins" when I asked for his resignation for being a whore monger, I wonder if he still held a grudge against the Madam? Or if his wifey did, you know, the one in the revealing dress.

But then, anything's possible.

I wouldn't read too much into this document. It was prepared by her lawyers prior to sentencing, so it's going to contain all sorts of emotional appeals to try to get leniency.

After all, if she was that distraught over that charge and the possible consequences in 1991, why would she then go and set up an even bigger prostitution ring in DC?

Think about it for a second. If you committed a small crime and the thought of being punished for it made you think about killing yourself, would you then go out and commit an even bigger crime? That doesn't make any sense at all.

crime? If she indeed contemplate suicide over going to prison, then it would not be surprising if she actually killed herself now.

That's all I can say.

And I'm sure that Larry Flynt will be all over this. He's not afraid of anyone.

Thanks :)

wish I could prove it.

But goddammit....they did it.

I am serious. The woman had no cause to be committing suicide.

This woman was in no position to kill herself, not right now, not before she had her day in court. People can speculate all they want, but in the end, someone murdered her because she had too much scandalous knowledge and must be destroyed!

She was convicted and was awaiting sentencing.

I just saw this on the Dutch news here - yeah a little behind here I know lol) and i said out loud, there isn't a chance in hell this was an accident!

She was tomb stoned!

GOD I hope there are many copies of damning evidence out there!!!

However I imagine this was done well after her evidence was thoroughly destroyed :(

damn it all to the lowest pits of hell and Tartarus!

in secure places with instructions for the info to be revealed if the victim meets any untimely death?? And let it be KNOWN that they've done that -- at least the thugs would have to think twice before offing them, and the operation would be a little more complicated.

she did not have any insurance set up for an "incase something happens to me" type thing that would send a list of all her clients to the newspapers.