Wife of White House Adviser Found Dead in Burning Car

[AndreaGail]

WASHINGTON -- Homicide investigators were called to the scene Monday of a burning car that contained the body of the wife of a White House adviser.

Ashley Turton, a Washington lobbyist who was a former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and the wife of White House congressional liaison Dan Turton, was found inside the car located in southeast Washington. Property records show the Turtons lived at the southeast Washington home where D.C. firefighters found the body. They have three children.

D.C. Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Pete Piringer said EMS received a call around 5 a.m. regarding a fire in a garage. Officials determined that the car ignited in the garage and damage was confined to that area. One victim was found deceased in the car, but Piringer would not provide details of the victim to Fox News.

Progress Energy, where Ashley Turton worked since 2007, issued a statement that she had died.

"Ashley was a valued employee whose insight and hard work had been critical on so many of our legislative and regulatory issues. She was also a dear friend to many of us and this news is very hard to take. I know we all will keep her husband, children and parents in our thoughts and prayers. ... Ashley's tragic death reminds us all to keep perspective in all things," reads the statement by Bill Johnson, president and CEO of Progress Energy.

Hugh Halpern, Republican staff director of the House Rules Committee, also issued condolences. Dan Turton had been Halpern's Democratic counterpart on the panel before leaving for the White House.

"Dan and Ashley were not just part of the Capitol Hill staff family, but our tight-knit Rules Committee family as well. The loss of Ashley is one we will all feel for a long time to come. We're keeping Dan and his family in our thoughts and prayers," Halpern said.

Piringer said that initially residents at the complex where the fire occurred said everyone was accounted for, and only after the fire was put out did firefighters discover that a body was in the vehicle.

D.C. Fire/EMS is working with the Metro Police Department major crash unit on the incident. Piringer said the leading theory for the fire is that the car crashed crashed into the garage and ignited.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/10/wife-white-house-adviser-dead-burning-car/#ixzz1AfCfgzD0

[midnight rambler]

Isn't DeLauro Monsanto's wicked witch of the House?

http://images.politico.com/global/click/090916_delauro_reuters_392_regular.jpg

[SilverMagnet]

Between this and Gabrielle Gifford's shooting, I am reminded of the Clif High predictions in regard to assasinations and attempts against TPTB.

[Cebu_4_2]

DeLauros husband works for Monsanto, she was behind HR875(?) The food modernization act.

Ashley Turton lobbied for some energy company that merged with another and that formed the biggest utility in the US.

Sorry, info is kinda scattered so to link it would be like 15 different sites and my memory sucks.

[keehah]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-emanuel_feb24,0,6696332.story

WASHINGTON— White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's Washington lodging arrangements, a rent-free basement room in a Capitol Hill home owned by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/paul-duggan/-the-wife-of-a.html

Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three....

A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle." He said the vehicle was heavily damaged by fire, but said he could not discuss the condition of the body.

Most of the smoke and fire damage was contained to the garage, according to Piringer, who said an adult male and several children in the house were unharmed. He said no 911 call came from the house and it is possible that the man and children were unaware of what had happened until firefighters arrived

[Low Pan]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-emanuel_feb24,0,6696332.story

WASHINGTON— White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's Washington lodging arrangements, a rent-free basement room in a Capitol Hill home owned by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/paul-duggan/-the-wife-of-a.html

Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three....

A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle." He said the vehicle was heavily damaged by fire, but said he could not discuss the condition of the body.

Most of the smoke and fire damage was contained to the garage, according to Piringer, who said an adult male and several children in the house were unharmed. He said no 911 call came from the house and it is possible that the man and children were unaware of what had happened until firefighters arrived




...how could they not hear a car crash in their garage??