WAS D.C. MADAM MURDERED?
It was murder! Those are the
shocking whispers of politicians
and others familiar with the case
of the "D.C. Madam," who was
recently found dead at her mother's
home.
Police say the hanging death of
Deborah Jeane Palfrey was suicide.
But others say she was
likely murdered by a
powerful client whose
life would be ruined if
she exposed him.
Palfrey made more
than $2 million from
her Washington, D.C.,
call girl ring - but
days before she was
found hanged, she was
so broke she couldn't
afford to pay a $5 bill.
And she was terrified of going back
to prison without the protection of
one of America's most notorious
killers, who watched her back last
time she was behind bars.
Based on Palfrey's sudden poverty
and gnawing fears, police concluded
the 52-year-old former madam
hanged herself.
But in the power corridors of
Washington, D.C. - where a U.S.
senator, a deputy secretary of
state, military bigwigs and wealthy
businessmen were caught using
her hookers - the word they're whispering
isn't suicide... but murder.
"There were undoubtedly men
involved with Palfrey's call girls
whose names didn't
come out in her 'little
black book,'" former
D.C. homicide detective
Rod Wheeler told
The ENQUIRER.
"And the fact that
Palfrey had recently
been convicted suddenly
made her more
dangerous - she had
nothing to lose by singing
out those names.
"She could have been thinking,
'If I'm going down, I'm taking some
guys with me.'"
Palfrey could have been forced to
write a suicide note that was found.
She was convicted April 15 of
money laundering and racketeering.
With sentencing set for July
24, she faced a maximum 55
years in prison.
Crushed by the conviction, she
shut herself away in her mother's
home at a quiet retirement trailer
park in Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Then on May 1, Palfrey's 76-year-old
mother Blanche found her hanging
from a nylon rope tied to a metal
beam in an outside shed.
A Palfrey pal, novelist James
Grady, author of "Six Days of the
Condor," told The ENQUIRER how
badly his friend had suffered during
her final days.
"She was a proud woman and she
was totally humiliated that she no
longer had any money."
Pick up The ENQUIRER for more details!
Published on: 05/07/2008
