Wife of WH Adviser Found Dead in Car

Written by FrumForum News on Monday January 10, 2011

The Washington Post reports:

A Washington lobbyist who was the wife of a White House adviser has been found dead inside a burning car in southeast Washington.

Progress Energy said in a statement Monday that Ashley Turton had died. Property records show she and her husband, Dan Turton, lived at a southeast Washington home where D.C. firefighters found a body in a burning car.

D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer says firefighters were called to a rowhouse and found a car engulfed in flames.

Turton was a lobbyist for Progress Energy Inc.

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