Suicide?

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, facing a likely prison term of four to six years for running a Washington area call-girl ring, was found hung in a storage shed behind her mother's mobile home in Tarpon springs, Fla.

Deborah was dubbed "the D.C. Madam" after a grand jury in Washington indicted her 14 months ago on prostitution-related racketeering charges. She had stated that she had 10,000 to 15,000 phone numbers of clients, causing several clients' lawyers to contact Palfrey to see whether accommodations could be made to keep their identities private. She said she would release all those names before she spent another day in jail.

Her mother, Blance Palfrey, when entering her back yard shed, discovered her daughter, Deborah, hung by a nylon rope over a metal beam on the ceiling of the shed, supposedly having used a child's tricycle as a stepladder.

Capt. Jeffrey P. Young of the Tarpon Springs police said they found "approximately two" suicide notes in the mobile home, along with "some type of notebooks that had just notes to the family and so forth."

Well, hell yes, it's tough to figure the exact amount of anything when there are two of them.

Keep in mind she had threatened to release all her recorded names of those Washington big shots... and women don't hardly ever hang themselves... they take poison.

Suicide? Don't conclude that for a second.