D.C. Madam’s Suicide Notes Reveal Desperate Fear of Jail Led to Hanging

The notes left by “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jean Palfrey to her mother and sister indicate that she committed suicide to avoid six years in jail.

Palfrey hung herself by a nylon rope in a shed next to her mother’s house. Blanche Palfrey, 76, discovered her daughter hanging from a metal beam inside the shed.

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