Either this was actually a suicide, or they had her killed to keep her silent:

[dave123williams]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90D02281&show_article=1

"TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A woman police believe to be convicted Washington escort service operator Deborah Jeane Palfrey committed suicide, officials said Thursday.

A body police believe to be that of Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother's home Thursday morning in Tarpon Springs, about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. There was a suicide note, but police did not disclose its contents or how she killed herself. "



What a co-inky-dink. One beat after the conviction:

Usually after a conviction, prosecutors will exchange leniency in sentencing for help with upcoming prosecutions.

Shocker. She winds up dead.

I wonder who else was on her list, other than that moron Vitter?

[sharp_stick]

1. I know I should probably put my tinfoil hat on

but damn, didn't one of her hookers (Brandi somebody?) kill herself last year too. It probably is a coincidence and she probably did off herself but if I was a detective looking at it, I'd look at it pretty hard.

[bananas]

20. Brandy Britton

mentioned in several threads
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3231973
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3232050&mesg_id=3232050

I just learned of her myself: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3232114&mesg_id=3232960

[Rageneau]

2. Over on Free Republic, they're blaming this death on Hill and Bill.

They have no reason to, except Clinton hatred, but that's all some people need.

And that's why I actually expect to see posts on DU making the same charges the Freepers are making.

Because all wingnuts, apparently, aren't right-wing ones anymore.

[lpbk2713]

7. The usual finger pointing.

Just like Saddam was supposed to be responsible for the WTC attacks.

[dave123williams]

11. Or, we could take your approach and pretend like everything's fine.

[gateley]

21. Why on earth would they tie this to the Clintons? That's absurd. nt

[unpossibles]

47. didn't you get the memo? The Clintons were apparently behind every bad thing in the 20th Century

Or that's what they push over there. It cracks me up (sometimes) just how far they will reach to blame a Clinton (or a Kennedy), yet nothing which happens under Bush's watch - even if directly tied to him like Plamegate or the WMD farce or Iraq - is ever Bush's fault.

Normally I'd call it mental gymnastics, but I'm not sure that mentally there's much going on over there. My assumption is that repeatedly sticking their heads up their own butts has caused irreversible oxygen deprivation damage.

[and-justice-for-all]

33. FeepRethuglic is a cesspool of dumbfuckary...nt

[defendandprotect]

34. Great use of language . . .

"dumbfuckary" --- LOVE IT!!!

:)

[and-justice-for-all]

44. Thanks!! LOL

[jmowreader]

51. Over on Free Republic, they blame the Heartbreak of Psoriasis on Hill & Bill

They also blamed Ruby Ridge, which happened during the reign of King George the 41st, on Clinton. They'll blame anything on Clinton.

[unpossibles]

3. I'm not one to wear tinfoil very often BUT

who kills themselves in a SHED? Seriously?

[magellan]

46. Guy right in back of us did in January

He lived in a mobile home too. But this was a guy, first of all, not a woman. He also had a terminal disease, and was drunk and had a bad fight with his wife right before he went out and did it.

The police treated it like a crime scene for a day -- tape up, interviewing family and neighbors, autopsy -- before deciding it was indeed a suicide.

It stinks to high heaven that this happened to Palfrey in FL, where BFEE sympathies run high.

[jody]

4. This will join the Marilyn Monroe suicide myth and become legendary. n/t

[elocs]

5. I hope she left an "in event of my untimely death" folder with her lawyer.

Wouldn't that be a major bummer for some people?

[cayuga]

6. It would be a bummer for her lawyer....

The lawyer would be suicided.

[dave123williams]

9. You leave it with three lawyers, and put the docs in saftey deposit boxes. Three of them.

[defendandprotect]

35. Always wondered what John Dean did . . . he was one of the right-wing

bastards proposing the idea of using government to get their enemies ...

how has he stayed alive ---

but interesting to hear him now, though he never seems to relate very much --

especially that he was part of the gang ---

[EOTE]

17. Ain't that the truth.

Welcome to DU. :beer:

[Blue Belle]

23. or "Accidented"...

like in a small plane or car wreck.

[orleans]

8. a shed? wtf???

"Police said the body was found in a shed near Palfrey's mother's home Thursday morning. There was a suicide note, but police did not disclose its contents or how she killed herself.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90D02281&show_article=1

a shed?

who the fuck would kill themselves in a SHED?? AND leave suicide noteS?

[dave123williams]

10. I know - let's pay close attention to the autopsy, or if they even do one.

[defendandprotect]

36. Look for other injuries ...

possibly torture to force her to say where her evidence was ---

Seems to be a lot of house burning and looting going on everywhere these days --- !!!

[Elidor]

12. Presumably for privacy

I don't find any of hard to understand. She was facing 55 years of federal time, which was effectively a life sentence.

[yardwork]

16. In return for providing evidence, she might have gotten that sentence reduced.

Maybe somebody didn't want her to give that evidence to the judge.

[superkia]

26. I would have at least put out the names or maybe sell them so I...

could leave my mother some money to live somewhere other than a trailer before I killed myself in her shed?

[BigDaddy44]

15. To not leave a mess

Its a common courtesy. Death is a messy thing. Would you rather mess up a shed or someone's living room?

[dave123williams]

18. That assumes that suicide isn't a selfish act. It is.

You're going to be dead; who'd give a shit at that point what kind of mess is left behind.

[defendandprotect]

38. That comment deserves a thread of its own sometime . . .

However, I think there are times when actual suicides are simply a way to escape great pain ---

I doubt you would ever dream of standing across the street from someone trying to jump out of

a burning building and shout ... "don't jump" --- "or don't be selfish" --- "or don't be a coward!"


And I do think that a daughter would worry about her Mother finding her body and the shock of it!!!

It would be quite unusual not to understand that --!!!


Meanwhile, I doubt that this was a sucide.

[Sequoia]

28. No, no, I just don't believe it.

Man, if I killed myself I do it an place where I couldn't mess up my mother or father's place. Just jumping off a cliff into water seems clean to me. And to hang yourself..a woman...no, I can't buy it. I bet someone was waiting for her, maybe waited till the mom went to town then made a noise in the shed, and she goes in...BAM!

[dave123williams]

31. Evidently, you've never been through a suicide. They're messy, and selfishly so.

[defendandprotect]

39. I think you need to rethink that --- see my reply above . . .

[Ahpook]

42. I won't act like like i know what happened here..

Anything is possible in this fucking country, but suicides aren't very clean.

Someone close to me did this and the whole thing was extremely ugly.

Nightmares

[plcdude]

13. Didn't the author of the Real McCain

intimate that McCain frequented prostitutes. Perhaps this is the straw that broke her back.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3186482

[defendandprotect]

40. Interesting thought---!! If McCain were named by her it would have been messy---!!!

Notice that the corporate-media turned the other McCain affair into something positive for him .. !!! . . . while burying the lobbying bribery angle --- !!!

Disappeared . . . all gone . .. don't look!

[screembloodymurder]

14. She was level headed and showed no signs of depression.

She had threatened to expose some very powerful people. This was no suicide.

[dave123williams]

19. Agreed. Here's the takeaway quote from the article:

"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."

She had no intention of committing suicide.

[Binka]

27. They Were Both Found Hanged

No no no....this is stranger than fiction.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. Thank you for using the proper past tense.

It's hanged, not hung, if it's a person.

--one of the Spelling and Grammar Nazis of DU.

[DaDooRonRon]

22. It has been mentioned that Cheney was on her client list

If anyone believes this was suicide please buy my bridge.

[Mike Daniels]

50. By whom? I think Flynt and Palfrey both nullified that theory by not mentioning him.

Flynt would have considered Cheney a family values politician and would have outed him in an instant. There's no value in holding Cheney's name as his stock is so low among non-Republicans he wouldn't be a factor in the election anyway.


When asked by reports about the high-value prospect of her list Palfrey even said there weren't really any names that would be known by the general public which pretty much discounts Cheney as well.

There were more Dems on the list than Republicans so why don't we consider who may have had incentive to do her in from that side as well.

[Freddie Stubbs]

24. She has stated that she was thinking about suicide prior to the last time she went to prison:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0501081palfrey1.html

[nichomachus]

25. That was what her lawyer said

while trying to get her leniency. Take that with a grain of salt.

Also, if she was so spooked the first time, why did she go to DC and set up an even bigger operation? That doesn't make any sense.

[dave123williams]

30. Yes. She went to DC. She knew where whores are. Apparently, they need prostitutes, too.

[Ichingcarpenter]

37. Same spin on every post from 17 years ago

You don't think people read?

[and-justice-for-all]

32. I am going with "They" had her killed...nt

[Catherine Vincent]

41. They should put Fitzgerald on the case. nt

[tyedyeto]

43. My 1st reaction when I saw this at work on False News.......

was... who actually killed her.

I guess I'm a confirmed :tinfoilhat:

[Ichingcarpenter]

45. Flight 93, you know that hole the plane gouged in the earth?

It was already there in 1993 according to USGS maps.

[defendandprotect]

48. Yikes --- !!!

I don't think we're going to hear about that on the 6 o'clock "news" either ---!!!

9/11 --- inside job!

:nuke:

[Mike Daniels]

49. According to Flynt, there wasn't anyone else who had a "family values" image

and since that would have been the only scandalous element, he's not planning on releasing any more names. And, Palfrey told a reporter from Mother Jones that there really weren't any high-profile (as in, the general public would know who they were) clients.

As far as being suicided, since there were more Dems on Palfrey's list than Republicans (according to Flynt) perhaps you need to look at your side of the politic spectrum for possible candidates as well.

Information/quotes regarding "high profile or family values individuals" and Dem/Rep presence on the "list" was taken from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353876,00.html