D.C. Madam’ commits suicide, police say

D.C. Madam’ commits suicide, police say
Palfrey had been convicted of running $2 million prostitution ring

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Deborah Palfrey had denied her escort service engaged in prostitution, saying that if any of the women engaged in sex acts for money, they did so without her knowledge.
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TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - The woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged a senator killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after she was convicted on charges she vowed not to go to prison for.

The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, was found in a shed near her mother's manufactured home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said she left at least two suicide notes and other writings to her family in a notebook, but they did not disclose their contents. The mother found Palfrey, who had apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed's ceiling.

A man who answered a phone listed for Palfrey's mother declined to comment. But defense attorney Preston Burton, who represented Palfrey in her criminal trial that ended last month, said: "This is a tragic news and my heart goes out to her mother."

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Palfrey's 76-year-old mother immediately called 911.

"Obviously the mother's very distraught, discovering your child in that state," said Capt. Jeffrey Young of the Tarpon Springs Police Department. Young added that Blanche Palfrey had no indication her daughter was depressed to the point of being suicidal. There's no early indication that alcohol or drugs were involved in the death, he said.

Authorities said Blanche last spoke to her daughter earlier that morning, telling Deborah Palfrey she planned to take a quick nap.

Young said the FBI was notified about the death, "due to the ongoing cases we knew Ms. Palfrey had in the Washington area," but they are not investigating.

'This is a real bad tragedy'
Erwin Matthews, 73, who lives five houses down from Palfrey's mother in a community of mostly retirees, said he and his girlfriend heard Blanche Palfrey screaming around 10:30 a.m.

"She said: 'My daughter's hanging there by herself,'" Matthews recalled. "That's when everybody went running over there. This is a real bad tragedy."

Palfrey was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington's political elite, including Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican. She had denied her escort service engaged in prostitution, saying that if any of the women engaged in sex acts for money, they did so without her knowledge.

She was convicted of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering.

But the trial concluded without revealing many new details about the service or its clients. Vitter was among possible witnesses, but he did not take the stand.

Channing Phillips, the spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia, said that under sentencing guidelines, Palfrey faced 57 to 71 months in prison. She was free pending her sentencing July 24.

"I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. "Not for a second. I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary."

Prosecutors said Palfrey operated the prostitution service for 13 years.

Vitter: 'Very serious sin'
Vitter, a first-term senator who is married and has four children, has acknowledged being involved with Palfrey's escort service and has apologized for what he called a "very serious sin." But he avoided commenting further.

Besides Vitter, the trial also concluded without the testimony of military strategist Harlan Ullman or Randall Tobias, a former senior State Department official. Both men had been named among possible witnesses.

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."

Graycap23 said:

Murder made to look like suicide.

SexGod said:

I don't believe she killed herself. John McCain was probably in her book....

Oh hell to the fuck naw!!! Even if she were suicidal, which btw, I don't believe one bit! But just for the sake of argument, if she were, I don't believe there's any way in hell, she'd have done it anywhere near her 76 year old mother!

Come on now!!!

On top of that she was just convicted April 15th and her sentencing wasn't until July! She had plenty of time to make some people's lives real uncomfortable! Why on earth would she hang herself BEFORE she'd played her ace?

Of course, I'm a Liberal! I'm an American, damn it!

This country was founded on the premise of Liberty and Justice for ALL...remember?

My wallet is STILL on hiatus!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

SexGod said:

Murder made to look like suicide.

that's the first thing i thought.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Oh hell to the fuck naw!!! Even if she were suicidal, which btw, I don't believe one bit! But just for the sake of argument, if she were, I don't believe there's any way in hell, she'd have done it anywhere near her 76 year old mother!

Come on now!!!

On top of that she was just convicted April 15th and her sentencing wasn't until July! She had plenty of time to make some people's lives real uncomfortable! Why on earth would she hang herself BEFORE she'd played her ace?

I bet the Clinton's and the Media did it!!!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Oh hell to the fuck naw!!! Even if she were suicidal, which btw, I don't believe one bit! But just for the sake of argument, if she were, I don't believe there's any way in hell, she'd have done it anywhere near her 76 year old mother!

Come on now!!!

On top of that she was just convicted April 15th and her sentencing wasn't until July! She had plenty of time to make some people's lives real uncomfortable! Why on earth would she hang herself BEFORE she'd played her ace?

That trump card is exactly why she was killed. Must have been some big time hitters on that list. Poor woman.

Graycap23 said:

Graycap23 said:

SexGod said:

i say good riddance whore.i love humans but i have no respect for someone who has sex for money.

2Jay said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

2Jay said:

i say good riddance whore.i love humans but i have no respect for someone who has sex for money.

Meanwhile whores were your saviors main constituent! NWO, revoke his membership NOW!

2Jay said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Meanwhile whores were your saviors main constituent! NWO, revoke his membership NOW!

Yes Jesus certainly depended on prostitutes. Since it breaks one of the ten commandments. "Thou shall not commit adultery."

evenstar3 said:

2Jay said:

Yes Jesus certainly depended on prostitutes. Since it breaks one of the ten commandments. "Thou shall not commit adultery."

um, have you ever read the bible? mary magdalene? the story in John about Jesus' dealings with a woman accused of adultery?

2Jay said:

evenstar3 said:

um, have you ever read the bible? mary magdalene? the story in John about Jesus' dealings with a woman accused of adultery?

yes and he healed her sins...

evenstar3 said:

2Jay said:

yes and he healed her sins...

and what would he say to someone who says 'good riddance whore'? possibly 'he who is without sin', etc?

2Jay said:

evenstar3 said:

and what would he say to someone who says 'good riddance whore'? possibly 'he who is without sin', etc?

Hey I'm not without sin! nobody is! but if you believe in God and Jesus, He will forgive your sins.

2Jay said:

evenstar3 said:

and what would he say to someone who says 'good riddance whore'? possibly 'he who is without sin', etc?

Hey I'm not without sin! nobody is! but if you believe in God and Jesus, He will forgive your sins.

evenstar3 said:

2Jay said:

2Jay said:

SexGod said:

evenstar3 said:

2Jay said:

evenstar3 said:

there's nothing forgiving about saying 'good riddance whore'. it's a deplorable attitude to have towards someone you never met and never interacted with, and smacks of the worst kind of judgmental attitude. i hope with time you learn compassion towards others.

so you support prostitution? Nice to know who's who on the org.
[Edited 5/3/08 9:27am]

2Jay said:

noimageatall said:

2Jay said:

i say good riddance whore.i love humans but i have no respect for someone who has sex for money.

Well, then how should one feel about the many politicians who paid her for sex? And her murderers?




http://www.prisonplanet.c...idence.htm

Overwhelming Evidence Points To Murder Of DC Madam

"She insinuated that there is a contract out for her and I fully believe they succeeded," says Condo manager

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Saturday, May 3, 2008
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Evidence is stacking up to suggest that the alleged "suicide" of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey was in fact a calculated murder, as the manager of Palfrey's Florida Condo reveals that Palfrey was not suicidal when he spoke to her Monday and told him of her fears about a contact being out on her life.

The new testimony is backed up by at least four other recorded public statements on behalf of Palfrey attesting to the fact that she would never commit suicide and if she was found dead to immediately suspect murder.

Despite these on-the-record statements, the majority of the corporate media has ignored each one and instead given credence to the unverified claim of a professional conspiracy debunker who has been caught fabricating statements in the past.

The building manager of Park Lake Towers in Orlando, where Palfrey owned a condo, told WESH 2 news channel that he spoke to Palfrey on Monday as she was packing to leave for her mother's house and she did not seem upset or suicidal.


"Jean Palfrey was a class act. She wore very good clothes. She was well educated. Her way out of this world certainly would not have been in an aluminum shed attached to a mobile home in Tarpon Springs, Florida," said the manager, who did not want to be named.

The manager said that Palfrey had told him of her fears that a contract hit was out on her life.

"She insinuated that there is a contract out for her and I fully believe they succeeded," he stated.

According to the manger, Palfrey left for her mother's house with some suitcases and a box.

"She had one white paper file box that she told me had some important paper with her and then she just kind of raised her eyebrows like you're supposed to think oh yeah, that's all the information that she had on her business in Washington," her building manager said.

If Palfrey was planning to commit suicide just three days later then why did she leave with several suitcases and a box of files?

According to an AP report, "Blanche Palfrey (her mother) had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said," .

On at least four previous occasions, both in the past and more recently, Palfrey publicly stated that she would never commit suicide.

Twice on The Alex Jones Show, the most recent example being less than two months ago, Palfrey made clear her intention never to kill herself (Click here for MP3).

"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said.

"Not to be concerned, I have no intention of letting anyone buy me off or make any kind of a deal with me....and I'm not planning to commit suicide either," said Palfrey on a separate occasion.

Alex Jones also talked directly to Palfrey during show breaks and she re-stated her intention never to commit suicide and made it clear that if she was found dead to consider it murder. GCN Live radio board operators are also witnesses to these statements.

Though never confirmed directly, Palfrey strongly insinuated that both Dick Cheney and John McCain were possibly involved in the DC Madam scandal, and this could have been one of the primary reasons why she was murdered.

During a May 2007 interview with Carol Joynt, host of the Q&A Cafe interview series, during a discussion about the alleged suicide of Palfrey's former call girl Brandy Britton, Palfrey stated, "I don't want to be like her. I don't want to end up like her."

During another appearance on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey said she thought it was possible that Britton's "suicide" was actually murder because none of Britton's loved ones considered her to be suicidal.


Palfrey is on record as warning that any "suicide" would just be a cover-story for murder as far back as 1991.

"If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized," she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to trial, "Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me," said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.

Despite these four separate examples of Palfrey stating - on the record - that she would not commit suicide - the corporate media, within hours of the announcement of her death, immediately afforded credence to the claim of a "friend," investigative journalist Dan Moldea, who said Palfrey had told him of her intention to commit suicide.

Palfrey has no tape, he has no other eyewitnesses, and he has been caught fabricating statements in the past, and yet the media took his words as gospel. In addition, if Moldea was aware of Palfrey's intention to kill herself then why, if he was her "friend" as he claims, didn't he try to stop her from doing so?

The numerous examples of Palfrey stating that she would never commit suicide in addition to her condo manager and her own mother stating that she was not suicidal clearly provide justification for an exhaustive police and FBI investigation to be undertaken. Despite these glaring factors, the police who discovered Palfrey's body immediately ruled that no foul play was involved and closed the book.

The knowledge that Palfrey had about members of Washington's elite being involved in and using her escort service for the purposes of hiring prostitutes would have been enough to end scores of careers and wreck the lives of countless influential power brokers. This alone, allied with Palfrey's on the record statements, demand an immediate and thorough investigation in an attempt to bring to justice the murderers of Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

[Edited 5/3/08 12:19pm]

Of course, I'm a Liberal! I'm an American, damn it!

This country was founded on the premise of Liberty and Justice for ALL...remember?

My wallet is STILL on hiatus!