Matt White
11-07-2006, 08:32 AM
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/articles/_a/man-charged-in-actress-death/20061106175809990001
By SAMUEL MAULL
AP
NEW YORK (Nov. 7) - 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.
http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/0c/01/20061103070709990012Police are questioning an individual in the death of indie movie actress Adrienne Shelly, who was found hanged in her apartment last week.
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 the statements were.
Pillco, of New York, was expected to be arraigned Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
There was no home telephone listing for Pillco.
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 .
WOW....that's sad
I kinda wondered how a 40 year old just "drops dead".............
By SAMUEL MAULL
AP
NEW YORK (Nov. 7) - 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.
http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/0c/01/20061103070709990012Police are questioning an individual in the death of indie movie actress Adrienne Shelly, who was found hanged in her apartment last week.
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 the statements were.
Pillco, of New York, was expected to be arraigned Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
There was no home telephone listing for Pillco.
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 .
WOW....that's sad
I kinda wondered how a 40 year old just "drops dead".............