Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

Houston police: Accused madame handled elite clientele | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "A Houston couple accused of running one of the city’s largest prostitution rings conducted background checks on prospective customers — including checking their employment records and income levels — before allowing them to join the operation’s long list of clients, a police investigator says.

The brothel that Deborah L. Turbiville and her husband, Charles Fletcher Turbiville, are accused of operating catered to an elite clientele and used the Internet to do a lot of its business, said Houston police Sgt. Mark Kilty.

“You had to be brought into what she called ‘her family,’” Kilty said. “These weren’t johns off the street. These were suit-and-tie businessmen. She had the upper scale.”"