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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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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