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.”
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