Posted on 11/07/2006 9:34:09 AM PST by Froufrou
A construction worker was arrested Monday and charged with murdering an actress who was found hanging from a shower rod in an apartment she was having renovated. Police charged Diego Pillco with second-degree murder in the slaying of Adrienne Shelly, Detective Kevin Czartoryski said.
Pillco, 19, was picked up early Monday and was questioned for several hours until "he made statements," said Czartoryski, who would not say what they were.
Shelly, who appeared in the movie "Factotum" last year, was renovating the Greenwich Village apartment she used as her residence and office. Pillco, one of the workers, was one of the last people seen going into her apartment, police said. Shelly, whose birth name was Adrienne Levine, was found Wednesday at about 6 p.m. hanging over her bathtub. Police were hesitant to label the case a suicide, observing that no note was found and that sneaker prints that did not match Shelly's shoes were recovered from the bathtub. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, Ellen Borakove, said late Monday that her agency had not determined the cause of Shelly's death, whether by strangulation or other means, or whether it was a homicide. Shelly, who was born in Queens and grew up on Long Island, was raising a 3-year-old daughter, Sophie, with her husband, Andy Ostroy. Shelly, 40, was best known for her roles in the films "The Unbelievable Truth," in which she played Audry Hugo in 1989, and "Trust," in which she starred as Maria Coughlin in 1990. She also appeared as Jerry in "Factotum" with Matt Dillon. She worked steadily during her career in film, theater and television but later turned to writing and directing, making her directorial debut with "Sudden Manhattan" in 1996. She recently wrote and directed the film "Waitress," starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion.
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He was doing contracting work on the apartment below the victim's.
She went downstairs to yell at him for continuing to use heavy equipemnt after she asked him not to - she was angry because he woke up her three year old who was napping upstairs.
According to the murderer, he was angry at her for yelling so he punched her in the face and hit her so hard she slammed to the floor.
After he couldn't revive her, he tied a sheet around her neck and hung her from a shower rod to fake a suicide.
He left sneaker marks on the toilet seat as he hung her and the police found the same sneaker marks where he was working and found the shoes matching them on his feet.
He is an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who cannot speak English.
I haven't seen it but thanks for the report. I don't know how she could expect the guy to not make noise during a renovation.
"He is an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who cannot speak English."
We're getting too much trash from Mexico and South America.
this story will be buried, since he is an illegal.
and now my tax dollars will have to pay to host him in a comfortable prison for the rest of his life.
Another Illegal Alien Murderer
oh he's illegal.....its okay....they don't have to follow our laws.....
Yeah, what a bitch. s/
One of two illegal alien murders that I noticed in a short glance at the NY Daily News this morning.
Uh, sure.... It will be buried, aside from being on FOX's front page, Yahoo's front page, AOL's front page, etc....
Do you just never pay attention to where these articles originate?
The story was on the cover of the New York Daily News. However, the fact that he was illegal was buried quite a ways down.
"He is an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who cannot speak English."
Well, no effin' kidding! He's just killing the actresses Americans refuse to murder/extreme sarcasm off
Buried?
It's front page news on at least five papers this morning and a lead-in story on at least three local news programs - and these are all media outlets serving a population of approximately 25 million people. That's 1 out of every 12 people in America.
Hardly buried.
BTW, I doubt he will get life.
He will get 7-15 most likely, and then will be scheduled for deportation to Ecuador upon release.
i'll tune into local NYC news tonight, let's see if they mention he is an illegal.
A 20-year NYPD Homicide detective once told me that the police's best weapon against criminals is that the average criminal is dumb.
When I worked as a doorman in NYC, there were strict rules about what kind of equipment contractors could use and what hours they could be used.
She was probably deciding to give him a tongue-lashing before taking the next step of calling the police.
Which she was well within her rights to do.
Also, in my experience, decent people ask their neighbors what hours are good for them.
I will say it again.....
Depending on where you live, your chances of being a victim of a violent crime by an illegal alien are higher than your chances of being killed by an Islamic terrorist.
Death by a thousand cuts.
I wonder if the renovation was being done under a contractor? If he knew Pillco was illegal [strange name for an Ecuadorian...]
there was that case in westchester a while back - a woman raped and killed in her own home by an illegal power washing her deck. there was supposed to be a lawsuit against the contractor who hired him, but the story dissappeared.
One told me that being a good detective often requires you to ask yourself: "What would I do if I were stupid, lazy and possibly high?"
Most intelligent people would not mug a purse, of course - but if they did they wouldn't walk into the nearest deli (equipped with a surveillance camera, naturally) put the purse on the counter and rifle through it to find a credit card to try to buy a carton of cigarettes with.
A lot of police investigations get off track by assuming cleverness on the part of the criminal.
NYC needs a Hazleton-type law where the authorities arrest and fine the contractors who hire the illegal scum.
Story vanished. I saw only one tiny piece about Resendez-Ramirez killing two more people after his last catch and release before they finally put him away. I forget how many he murdered.
There may not even be a valid permit - a lot of times people will apply for a permit, get it, and then photocopy the original permit for subsequent jobs.
People are always getting busted for that.
"Pilco" will be a Hispanicized Quechua surname, I'd guess. Or he might be a zambo.
Doing the "work" that Americans cannot or will not do. Sigh.
after that westchester killing - everyone said how this was going to cause "crackdowns in the ability of contractors to hire day laborers". yeah, right.
we have a pervasive attitude in this country - "if it makes someone money, it must be OK". from the hiring of illegals, to financial malfeasance in the corporate world.
Holy crap. I always liked her but she never got much of a career. Too quirky, I guess.
We just watched another Hal Hartley movie last night (Henry Fool, not as good) Trust is one of my favorite movies, but it's never come out on DVD in the US for some reason. You have to get an Australian copy and an all-regions DVD player, or find it on an old VHS. Have you seen The Unbelievable Truth--that's the one before Trust and is almost as good.
Put up a fence on border and be done with it.
AOL never mentioned that the murderer is an illegal in any of their first page stories. AOL's take is always to hide or spin such "unimportant" details.
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