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Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
After the tragic "suicide" of Deborah Palfrey , the Senate Ethics Committee declines to investigate Senator Vitter. The Senate Ethics Committee declined Thursday to investigate Sen. David Vitter, who was linked to an escort service whose owner was convicted in federal court and subsequently committed suicide. The committee said it declined to pursue the case because Vitter's conduct preceded...
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Make me Heal (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Deborah Palfrey, the mastermind behind a sweeping prostitution ring in Washington DC, hanged herself at her mother’s home last week rather than face a jail sentence. But did the “DC Madam” leave the planet with body parts newer than her 52 years of living? Make Me Heal thinks so. Although a lack of available before pictures [...]
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Blacknell.net (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The news of Deborah Palfrey's suicide struck me as terribly sad, last week. I couldn't quite describe why, but a recent article by Susannah Breslin captures it well. From one of the women she interviewed for the story: “The first thing I thought about was the incredible isolation that both of them probably felt,” she said. [...]
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The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman dubbed the D.C. Madam, has committed suicide, or so it appears, and police have released the suicide notes....
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Page 1 of 2 | | | advertisement Palfrey left notes before suicideBy Mitch StacyMay 5, 2008 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The woman known as the "D.C. Madam" apologized to her mother and sister in suicide notes, saying she couldn't bear going to prison and saw killing herself as the only "exit strategy."Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted last month of running an elite Washington prostitution...
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10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine) (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
The last year of Deborah Palfrey. By Destiny
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Bumpshack (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
D.C. Madam: Deborah Palfrey Convicted D.C. Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey has committed suicide and taken her life . Her body was found in Tarpon Spings, Florida, inside of her mother’s home. . A suicide note was found with Palfrey's intention to take her life. “It was her, and she’s deceased,” Frank Ruggiero, a public information officer with the Tarpon Springs Police...
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The Hill's Pundit Blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Deborah Palfrey, better known as the D.C. Madam, according to reports hanged herself in a storage shed behind her mother's mobile home in the small Gulf Coast city of Tarpon Springs, Fla. Who can ever forget the fear and rumblings in our fair city of Washington, D.C, when after Palfrey's indictment she gave volumes of [...]
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam" who was convicted in April of charges related to her famous prostitution ring, died today in an apparent suicide at her mother's house in Florida. She was 52....
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
So, the trial of Deborah Palfrey ends with , the public outing and humiliation of a number of the women who worked for her, and her company's list of (male) clients almost entirely suppressed. If you missed it at the time, go back and read on the trial from last month, entitled, appropriately, “The D.C. Madam Case, All Sordid Out.”
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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Naturally conspiracy theorists will be preparing a verdict of "suicided" before she splt the beans won't be quiet after this news. Authorities were called to the Sun Valley Estates Mobile Home Park in Tarpon Springs, Fla., by 76-year-old Blanche Palfrey, who found her daughter's body hanging by a nylon rope shortly before 11 a.m., Tarpon Springs police Capt. Jeffrey P. Young said at a news
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Bumpshack (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
D.C. Madam: Deborah Palfrey D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey who had been charged with running a Washington, D.C., prostitution ring was found guilty on Tuesday for money laundering, racketeering, and using the mail for illegal purposes according to Fox News. She was convicted on all counts she faced: Money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and [...]
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The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Deborah Palfrey - the "DC madam" at the centre of a high-profile money laundering case - has committed suicide. You may remember this case: it is the one where prostitutes working for Palrey were forced to testify and had their...
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Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Broadcast Company. My favorite short blurb at CrimeNe.ws was about the suicide of D.C. Madam Deborah Palfrey and the conspiracies that follow. To put a damper on Mother's Day over at News of Doom was a story about a mother from Germany who is alleged to have killed three of her newborns and stored them in the freezer . A couple of weeks ago you may remember the story I posted at MyCrimeSpace...
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The Smoking Gun (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
In suicide notes left for her relatives, Deborah Palfrey, the convicted "D.C. Madam," wrote that she could not "live the next 6-8 years behind bars" and that "there was no way out, i.e. 'exit strategy' for me other than the one I have chosen."
