Posted on 05/11/2008 10:46:33 AM PDT by bannie
Notorious D.C. Madam Debra Palfrey, whose long list of powerful prostitution clients kept the nation's lawmakers quaking, was murdered!
That's the buzz rocking the Internet and filtering through political circles after she was found hanging by a nylon rope in a shed next to her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Fla., earlier this month.
Just weeks before her death, Palfrey, 52, had been found guilty of running a call-girl service that catered to Washington's power brokers.
She faced four to six years in prison and was stated to be sentenced on July 24 but was appealing the vereict.
So far, police are treating Palfrey's death as a suicide--but suspicions run rampant that she was killed to prevent her from naming clients.
"This was a woman who was still appealing," wrote an Internet poster. "Why would she kill herself if she was trying to clear her name? She had big-name clients. Any one of them could have easily had her killed. It happens."
Hustler magazine pulbisher Larry Flynt, who was one of Palfrey's strongest supporters, believes she was murdered and says the medis "should be very cautious in treating this as a suicide."
Louisiana senator and father of four David Vitter has already admitted being a client of Palfrey's escort service.
Sources say she was in a position to being several other Washington bigwigs to heel.
National security expert and journalist Wayne Madsen claims Vice President Dick Cheney is among the heavy-weights on Palfrey's list.
"This case smells," a Beltway insider tells GLOBE.
"It's just too convenient. She knew she could ruin a number of D.C.'s biggest players--and they knew it too!"
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Why didn’t she just do the expose and be done with it? Why did she wait? Did she not know what could have happened???? Amazing that anyone would believe that SHE would take her own life. Now all the creeps that visited her are home free ... UNLESS she was smart enough to give that list to someone else. Ya never know. This could get very interesting.
Needlepoint or crocheting?
But can he make a silk purse from a sow’s ear??
Did’nt she move in w/her mom and thats where she living at...her mom’s house? I question her ‘suicide’ when her (elderly...if she was 52 mom is around 70ish) mom could be the one to find her. Just my thoughts...and I am not a ‘tinfoiler.’
Also...would she leave her body for her own mother to find?
(I don’t know...I’m askin’.)
—this may have something to do with the disappearance of Heidi Fleiss—
-—http://www.lvrj.com/news/18572449.html
It seems strange that she would commit suicide.
First of all women do not usually hang themselves. To have TWO women associated with this call girl ring hang themselves is more than strange.
I am wondering if the first murder/suicide wasn’t a warning to Palfrey to keep her mouth shut.
It wouldn’t be the first time a woman involved with a politician in D.C. gets killed.
I hope she left lots of copies of her black book around. Even if she did people might be too afraid to speak out.
I have NO inside knowledge of the case. I’m just saying it’s an unusual suicide for a woman, in my experience. Getting hung seriously sucks. I’ve seen a couple of hung people. To me, her normal MO for a suicide would be to go get a hotel room, get a massive supply of pills, and OD, leaving the note on the bedside. Of course, suicide usually isn’t a rational act, so anything’s possible.
Maybe this is one of the times that a tabloid is partially correct.
The thing about tabloids is...since they don't have ANY scruples, they can print stuff before it's been proven. This gives them a jump on the few stories that turn out to be true. The other stories just remain “gossip,” but the “news” is out there first (although not always fully accurate!!!)
Well...he was the president of Halli-button.
Very plausible. I hope it’s very, very thoroughly investigated. It really doesn’t make sense that she’d commit suicide at this point. The appeal process would likely have kept her out of prison for at least another two years. And I can’t imagine her having any money problems during that time, given the number of wealthy people with plenty of incentive to funnel money to her to keep their names out of it (and others to cause their enemies names to be brought into it).
Women always go into a toolshed to hang themselves.
The NE also broke important stories related to Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson a few years back. Stories that then ran the next day in outlets like the NY Times and Washington Post as “the National Enquirer reported yesterday that . . . “. The NE has a certain advantage over “legitimate” media outlets in that it’s perfectly willing to shell out cash for information. The slimy associates of slimy public figures see no reason to yammer to a “legitimate” media outlet for free when they can get paid to yammer to the NE.
Heck of a lot of circumstantial evidence in this case, however.
The very fact that there ISN'T ONE SHRED of evidence is IN AND OF ITSELF very chilling evidence of a conspiracy......
Amen. And why is that? When both people committed a crime. It’s not like the prostitute has sex by herself! It’s Bullshi*! Why is it when sex is so freely given does a man seek out a woman and pay for it. Secrecy! More than likely there is betrayal going on against a wife or girlfriend. The idea that this prostitute was killed clearly could have been a possibility because of the Washington big-wigs involved and this being an election year! She should have made sure if something happened to her that the list would be published!!
My thoughts are along the same lines...and I can’t fathom any adult child wanting their elderly mother to find them. Maybe more info will trickle out.
Remember Vince Foster? If you believe that he committed suicide, there's a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
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