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Thanks for the info, guys. Wonder what the loud popping noises were. I noticed in the WaPo article that one of her coemployees was expecting her in the office even though the neighbors said she was taking an early flight. Lobbyist Ashley Turton found dead at home

.........The incident apparently occurred as Turton was leaving home earlier than usual for work, anticipating a busy day in her downtown office. Her employer, Progress Energy, and another North Carolina utilities giant, Duke Energy, announced Monday that Duke is buying Progress for $13 billion in stock.

"We were getting ready to deal with a lot of merger communications issues," said fellow Progress lobbyist Michael Sewell, with whom Turton shared a three-person office at 801 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. "I was in the office very early, too." .....

I would love to talk to Mr Sewell,found this on the net I am not a big fan of the sight so understand its source.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6821.shtml

meat of the story:

DeLauro said she last saw Ashley Turton at her and Greenberg’s Christmas Party. DeLauro last communicated with Ashley Turton on January 5, the day the new Congress was sworn in. Ashley Turton was at a political event in Arizona where featured speakers included Democratic pollster and lobbyist James Carville, Greenberg’s business partner, and Karl Rove, the chief political adviser to President George W. Bush. Ashley Turton indicated to DeLauro that while she would probably attend Carville’s session, she probably would not bother with Rove’s.

Ashley Turton’s friends described in Turton a person who had an appetite for possible gossip. In some cases, while discussing a juicy bit of political rumor, Ashley Turton would tell her friends, usually over a glass of wine, that “this conversation needs to go out on the porch.” Ashley Turton confided in a close friend that she wanted to leave Washington and return to North Carolina to raise her family

-That article you linked is nearly 30 days old now and states more than once she was being taken in for an autopsy. Was the reporter assuming that or were they told that? If that was not a guess then someone said hold off on the autopsy.