I’m sure there’s nothing behind this story. Nope, nothing to see here, move along. Because I trust my government and I know it’s above reproach:
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - The woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged a senator killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after she was convicted on charges she vowed not to go to prison for.
The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, was found in a shed near her mother’s manufactured home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said she left at least two suicide notes and other writings to her family in a notebook, but they did not disclose their contents. The mother found Palfrey, who had apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed’s ceiling.
I’m sure there’s nothing behind this story. Nope, nothing to see here, move along. Because I trust my government and I know it’s above reproach
does anyone else see the above sarcastic bit as incredibly ironic, coming right under a post where susie calls people who believe the well-documented voters suppression tactics of WVWV in NC a bunch of “conspiracy nuts”?
Did anyone else read the story last week about the French family that hired detectives to come to California to investigate their son’s death? He had been drinking, and called a friend to make plans for the next evening, and then was found dead with several gashes around his throat and chest.
The local police ruled it a suicide because the doors were locked, even though the back door had one of those locks you can lock and pull closed behind you. They hadn’t even interviewed the neighbors.
So, no. I don’t find it odd that someone should call for a little bit more of an investigation. We’re in the land of politics. No impropriety, not even a hint of impropriety.
I know, I’m an idealist.
Did you see Michael Clayton?
Umm, Susie, don’t you think you’re being a wee bit paranoid?
What evidence do you have to suggest she was killed? Also, the woman herself said she would not go to prison. Killing herself accomplished that.
Rather than spreading wonky conspiracy theories, we should focus on how needless vice laws ruin people’s lives.
Snuzy, what’s your point here? It sounds to me like if you think she’s wrong about one thing, then you believe she must be wrong about everything, but I know your logic is better than that. So I’m left to think that it was just mean-spirited. But that also doesn’t sound much like you. So what gives?
Because it’s not like there aren’t both bogus and non-bogus conspiracies.
er, rather I meant that there aren’t bogus and non-bogus conspiracy theories.
Snuzy, what’s your point here? It sounds to me like if you think she’s wrong about one thing, then you believe she must be wrong about everything, but I know your logic is better than that. So I’m left to think that it was just mean-spirited. But that also doesn’t sound much like you. So what gives?
i’m not saying she’s wrong about anything, i just thought it was ironic reading them right next to each other like that. i guess susie doesn’t believe the WVWV thing, so the people who do are “nuts” whereas it seems that she does believe there might be a conspiracy here. presumably, that would make her look like a “nut” in the eyes of someone who doesn’t agree with her.
it’s ironic and i guess it goes to show that conspiracies all look nutty if you’re looking in from the outside.
Blanton’s and Ashton’s (link from Shakesville).
Too fishy. Too many rough edges. Too much like something from a Lethal Weapon movie. (Of course that makes it “inconceivable.”)
It’s unusual for a woman to hang herself. Women usually take pills, cut their wrists, or shoot themselves in the chest.
One can only hope she mailed something in advance, to the one person with the guts to use it: Larry Flynt.
Susie writes: “It’s unusual for a woman to hang herself. Women usually take pills, cut their wrists, or shoot themselves in the chest.”
So I looked it up. http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html#2005
According to this resource, in 2005 22.7% of male suicides were by hanging, while 20.2% of female suicides were by hanging. The big difference between the two seems to be that men are much morelikely than women to shoot themselves, while women are more likely to poison themselves.
But hanging? That’s equal opportunity. When I first saw this story my immediate reaction was “Hmmm…I wonder which intelligence agency head she had dirt on!” But that’s because I’ve seen too many movies. Nothing seems amiss here.
I second Snuzy’s appreciation of the irony though.
this story sounds all too familiar…
Since most posters seem unfamiliar with mil usages, I will inform you that the SEALS, Rangers, LRRPs and others have made extensive use of ’suicide’ methods to eliminate targets. Foreign services have the same options. To assume a woman with no protection with knowledge of Diapers Vitter would kill herself is rather naive.
In addition to the salient points about a) Cause of Death & b) SOP “disposal” methods, I’d point out these excerpts from the cited article as well:
“I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I’m shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever,” Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. “Not for a second. I’ll bring every last one of them in if necessary.”
Note a threat of exposing key players (to avoid prison), as opposed to “I don’t know WHAT I’ll do if I have to do time…”
‘One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.’
Palfrey’s workers weren’t your average $20 street tramps. These were highly educated women trading in both flesh and information. The fact that a professor offed her self, rather than testify, smacks of shadowy dealings. I encourage people to dig around for any recent statements or speculation about Palfrey’s plans to carry through her earlier threats, as part of her upcoming sentencing process.