Palmer, 39, was elected to lead the Windsor County Sheriff’s Department in 2022. The first woman told detectives that she had long known Palmer and sought his help in a professional capacity in fall 2024. The woman told police that Palmer paid her to watch him repeatedly from there and once gave her $150 to have sex with him. Two months later, the woman read news reports about the state police probe into the Windsor County Sheriff’s Department’s finances. Concerned that a financial audit might expose her encounters with Palmer, the woman contacted an attorney, whom she told Palmer about.