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TARPON SPRINGS – Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother on Thursday to investigate an apparent suicide. Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey, 52. Palfrey was dubbed “The DC Madam” by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an upscale call girl ring in the nation’s capitol. |
She was convicted on Tuesday of money laundering and 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. She had appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and said that her service — Pamela Martin and Associates — had a client list that included some 10 to 15 thousand names.
Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, was linked to the service, and while Randall L. Tobias resigned as a deputy secretary of state after acknowledging to ABC News that he used Palfrey’s service for massages, no other big names emerged. Police say Palfrey’s body was in a small storage shed on the west side of her mother’s mobile phome. There were handwritten notes at the scene indicating that Palfrey intended to take her own life, and no foul play is susected. 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.”
You will have to excuse me for being a bit suspicious. She predicted in 1991 she would be “suicided”.
Update FYI: The information about her being “suicided” on Wikipedia has been removed since I posted this story this morning. In fact, much of the Wikipedia entry has been revised.
Like a vigra induced red tie affair set up by dead drops, light signals and cut-outs with oneway mirror glass on limousines. All of the stiff dicks on her client list; which, includes all of her and underlings associates phone records would be a suspect. After all wouldn’t such a topic be rendered a pasture for national security???
Suicided.
And my IQ is so high that I’m smart enough not to enumerate it.
#22–Li==What factors lead you to that conclusion?
Gee we only have 15 thousand suspects.I think Cheny did it.
#16 – #15. Um…Why would it have to be an “elaborate conspiracy”?
I don’t know… but it always is.
Did you ever think she just didn’t want to go to jail?
Have you also considered this possibility? http://tinyurl.com/57ygxj
no need to investigate…not like any influential people had any reason to kill her so it must have been suicide. nice.
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#23 – Probably Occam’s Razor.
Say… You don’t imagine there might be some cleverly ironic reason Li chose to use the “word” suicided… do you?
It amazes me that anyone would believe that she would be “Suicided” after all potential harm such an action could prevent had been done. If you actually believe that, do the human race a favor and take yourself and any progeny you may have and dive into the nearest convenient method of instant death. The gene pool will not miss you.
Let’s do a little role playing:
Influential person #1 who wants to kill her: “This chick can really screw us. We should take her out.”
Influential person #2: “But she predicted we’d do that. We’ll never get away with it.”
Influential person #1: “I’ve got it! We’ll wait until *after* she makes her phone records public and goes to trial, thereby doing maximum potential damage to us before we make our move.”
Influential person #2: “Sheer genius. We’ll get rid of her after she’d done all the damage to us that she can possibly do.
Ifluential person #1: “Consider it done.”
Just a reminder — The X-files is *fiction*. Agent Scully and Agent Mulder don’t really exist. There is no massive cover-up of an impending alien invasion. There is no magic carburator that has been suppressed by the oil industry which can get 200 miles per gallon of gas. Sometimes people commit suicide even after claiming they would never do such a thing when faced with the reality of the alternative.
needle shaky on the fishy meter
Wait until the overnight mail shows up tomorrow at all of the news agencies! Bwahahahaha
What’s hillarial, and more than a little bit scary, is that even though this whole thing may reek to high heaven, and very few people that hear the story may believe it, the fact is, more than likely, if this was not a suicide, we just won’t know for years, and there is nothing that any of us can do about it except come onto some random Blog (with apologies to John and the entire UD crew) and scream conspiracy theories until they’re blue in the face.
Transparancy is no longer a hallmark of this government, not that it ever was to begin with, but there are certain things that just go without saying, and one of those things is that if you become a potential threat to too many people in power, those in power will make sure they use that power to take steps to make sure that they don’t lose that power. And that is to the exclusion of nothing.
So, whether it’s true or not that she committed suicide, there will always be doubters from now on, regardless of whether they’re right or not.
Isn’t that what one of the founding fathers called “a healthy distrust of the government by it’s subjects”?
30,
Revenge is enough motive. The Mossad killed all the guys who planned Munich after the damage was done as well.
If the black book has been published there would have been hundreds of suspects had the death been called murder. (I don’t follow the “news”, is there a link to it or to an annoucement by a news organization that they have it?) In the media feeding frenzy in the early days, activity of a nefarious nature would have a high chance of being caught in flagrante delicto.
Someone mentioned Occam’s razor. Which is the cleanest scenario, one where a woman of uncertain mood commits suicide after commenting that she would be forced to do so by powerful and upset men? Or that one of those same (with a number that large statistics come to bear) powerful upset men had her killed?
Occam’s razor is a lazy armchair theory when there is no proof or evidence favoring a specific theory? It is useful for initial considerations only.
Here there is evidence and a coroner and others will be reviewing it and publishing it.
Is Palfrey’s mother reporting any black van’s in the area?
LOL. The “cleanest scenario” is obviously the one where she was killed by that mysterious shot from the grassy knoll.
Even Freud knew that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
You really believe that revenge after the fact is a better motive than silencing her before any damage could be done? I suppose they also forced her to write suicide notes, then either murdered her or made her commit suicide without it looking suspicious even though they knew she predicted someone would kill her and make it look like suicide.
Now balance that against the fact that she was just convicted, knew she would be going to jail for a long time, and had only a short time of freedom left.
Doesn’t seem too difficult to me to figure out which is the cleaner scenario.
#35 – Here there is evidence and a coroner and others will be reviewing it and publishing it.
And no matter what they find, there are plenty of nutters who will not trust it and keep the tin foil hat theories alive.
#37. “And no matter what they find, there are plenty of nutters who will not trust it and keep the tin foil hat theories alive.”
“Nuts comprise a lot of people… both brilliant and mad.”
OhForTheLoveOf.
#37. “tin foil hat” blah blah “hitler” blah blah blah “nutter” blah blah “loonbat” etc…..dismissed.
Now on CNN:
“She had said in interviews that she would kill herself before going to prison.”
“I’m looking at 55 years in a federal penitentiary, and at my age, that is virtually a life sentence,” Palfrey told CNN Radio’s Ninette Sosa in March. “Realistically, we estimate between eight and 15 years. I’m also looking at the complete forfeiture of my entire life savings and work.”
Police earlier said “handwritten notes were found on scene that describes the victim’s intention to take her life, and foul play does not appear to be involved.”