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Adrienne Shelly was murdered.
posted by squidfartz (29 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
... and someone's responsible!
posted by mazola at 9:48 PM on November 8, 2006


I was shocked to find this out yesterday. She was a great indie staple. Horrifying.
posted by generic230 at 9:55 PM on November 8, 2006


Well, the contextual ads are in very bad taste. It's all "Tickets to Annie" or "Join the police force and prevent crimes with an odd off-broadway reference". But still, NBOTW
posted by boo_radley at 9:57 PM on November 8, 2006


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posted by muckster at 9:58 PM on November 8, 2006


Shocking and just - I dunno - a complete waste. The guy lashed out because he didn't want to get deported. Idiot.

Poor Adrienne.
posted by dydecker at 10:12 PM on November 8, 2006


"The guy lashed out because he didn't want to get deported."

While it's a possibility that the murderer is an illegal immigrant, the article doesn't mention that fact. Perhaps we should avoid jumping to that conclusion at this point.
posted by drstein at 10:17 PM on November 8, 2006


Poor woman. I have no idea who she is, but I'm sorry for her.
posted by Pollomacho at 10:23 PM on November 8, 2006


New York Daily news is reporting that the murderer was in fact an illegal immigrant.
posted by spaltavian at 10:25 PM on November 8, 2006


some newspapers are reporting that he was illegal. is this just right wing lies?
posted by dydecker at 10:25 PM on November 8, 2006


NY Post reports:

A native of the city of Cuenca, Pillco arrived in the United States in the summer of 2005 after paying smugglers $12,000 to sneak him over the Mexican border, law-enforcement sources said.

Fearing he had killed her, and that he would be deported, he wrapped a bed sheet around her neck and dragged her body into the bathroom, where he attached one end of the sheet to a shower-curtain rod, sources said.

So there's the motivation to resort to violence. Panic because the cops would have come. No doubt mixed in with anger because she talked back to him. Some people, like goldfish, can only think two seconds ahead.

Idiot.
posted by dydecker at 12:38 AM on November 9, 2006


can we just have a

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for a great actress before this thread gets pulled for NBOTWness?
posted by imperium at 1:26 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by dhartung at 1:32 AM on November 9, 2006


oh jesus christ I didn't know this, I thought she had committed suicide

this is appalling
posted by matteo at 3:28 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by flippant at 3:57 AM on November 9, 2006


"He's a good kid," neighbor Chris Pannhorse said.

Maybe not.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:25 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by huskerdont at 5:05 AM on November 9, 2006


This is shocking and horrible. The Unbelievable Truth and Trust are two of my favorite films. She will live on through all of the great movies she's been a part of.

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posted by gwint at 6:21 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by moonbird at 6:30 AM on November 9, 2006


Too bad.
posted by dead_ at 6:52 AM on November 9, 2006


I hate how these kinds of stories always end with a neighbor or friend saying the murderer is "a good kid," "a nice guy," or "wonderful person."

Obviously not.
posted by agregoli at 7:01 AM on November 9, 2006


"He's a good kid," neighbor Chris Pannhorse said.

Yeah, how do they always manage to find some idiot to provide the requisite quote? "Say, do you know that guy who strangled the actress the other day?" "Oh yeah, him? He's a good kid!"

And why is it so important to get that quote, anyway? Maybe the first time someone volunteered it (back in the 18th century?) it had that man-bites-dog frisson, but now it's just like typing -30- at the end: it's just what we do.
posted by languagehat at 7:26 AM on November 9, 2006


Note that the cops found the guy via a single footprint in a bathroom that had been trampled through by numerous people after the death -- which was assumed a suicide by everyone but her family.

Would make a boring CSI episode, but pretty amazing.
posted by turducken at 8:45 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by LeeJay at 9:11 AM on November 9, 2006


STOP DOING THIS TO METAFILTER.
posted by nathancaswell at 9:12 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by cows of industry at 9:33 AM on November 9, 2006


<sarcasm>Dammit! If only the Border Wall had been in place, none of this would have happened!</sarcasm>

Seriously: if the threat of facing deportation hadn't been so horrific, perhaps he wouldn't have lashed out so forcefully against an unarmed, 5'2" 110lb (that's a guess to make a point, but she was always quite thin) person...and then taken the extreme "precaution" of stringing her up and faking a suicide...

Really, isn't it time something was done about immigration laws/enforcement?

nathancaswell: what do you mean?
posted by I, Credulous at 10:22 AM on November 9, 2006


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posted by hellbient at 12:10 PM on November 9, 2006


I hope someone knifes him in jail.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 4:09 PM on November 9, 2006


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posted by etoile at 4:12 PM on November 9, 2006


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