May 1, 2008 12:27 PM
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Police say a woman believed to be the one convicted of running a high-end prostitution ring in Washington, D.C. has been found dead of an apparent suicide in a Florida Gulf Coast town.
Tarpon Springs police said a body they believed to be 52-year-old Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother’s mobile home Thursday morning. There was a suicide note, police said, but they would not disclose its contents.
Palfrey was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington’s political elite, including U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana.
Palfrey denied her escort service promoted prostitution, saying that if any of the women engaged in sex acts for money, they did so without her knowledge.
ARKANCIDE....
Tarpon Springs police said a body they believed to be 52-year-old Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother’s mobile home Thursday morning. There was a suicide note, police said, but they would not disclose its contents.
A shed???
Well right there - a SHED is no place for a woman to commit suicide.
Do we have statistics on method & location when women commit suicide? i.e. overdose & pass away quietly in your bed?