Posted on 05/02/2008 7:39:28 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
What legitimate journalistic purpose did this serve?
In a segment narrated by Pete Williams on the apparent suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called DC Madam, this morning's Today played the tape of the 911 phone call made by Pelfrey's 76-year old mother, who had discovered her daughter's body.
Of all the 911 calls I've heard, this was the most anguished and heart-rending.
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If she was going to blackmail someone, she would have done that before being convicted of several felonies, wouldn’t she?
In any case, the call isn't the news, and generally, they make lousy entertainment -- sound quality is usually so bad, the TV has to run subtitles. But they can do it, and it's been done -- talk about the herd of independent minds!
From what I've read numerous times over the years, women typically don't choose violent or potentially disfiguring methods of suicide. They favor poison or the ever popular alcohol-and-pills. Everything about this is just begging for further investigation.
As you say the means -- that is the form of the death -- is suspect. And it is clear that while she did have motive for suicide, others also had motive for her murder. So that leaves opportunity -- have the investigators pursued that?
Probably not.
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