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Who can blame this woman? Why such grisly photos need to be released in the first place, we don’t know.

The mother of the so-called “D.C. Madam” wants to stop the release of police photos taken after her daughter’s suicide in Pinellas County, Fla.

In May, 52-year-old Deborah Palfrey hanged herself with a nylon rope in a shed outside her mother’s mobile home in Tarpon Springs. Her 76-year-old mom, Blanche Palfrey, discovered the body.

The St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday that Blanche Palfrey’s attorney Serbo Simeoni filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that releasing the pictures would be “inappropriate, unacceptable and personally harmful” to his client.

As if it wasn’t obvious that Oliver Thomas Bernsdorff, who went on a killing spree last December, was a mentally ill psycho, the note police have discovered may clinch it.

A Pinellas County teacher who fatally shot his ex-wife, their two children, another woman and himself in December left behind a letter that indicated the killings would cleanse the world of “sociopathic” and “unethical” tendencies, according to newly released documents.

“Though this act may be viewed as depraved and evil, it does, in fact, leave the world a better place,” authorities said Oliver Thomas Bernsdorff wrote in a letter found on his computer after the slayings.

Ballistics tests confirm Bernsdorff used the same gun in all the killings and to take his own life when state troopers tried to pull him over for driving erratically, Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Daly-Watts wrote in a statement.