A confissão do homem que matou Adrienne Shelly

Podia ser o argumento de mais um episódio de uma série televisiva, subjacente à temática "CSI", mas trata-se de um caso real. A actriz e realizadora Adrienne Shelly foi assassinada a 1 de Novembro de 2006 por um emigrante ilegal equatoriano que, após ter contado uma primeira versão do que aconteceu, revelou agora, em tribunal, o verdadeiro motivo do crime e a forma como procedeu.

In Guilty Plea, Actress’s Killer Changes Story to Robbery
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: February 15, 2008

His original confession had the ring of truth: He was an illegal immigrant working on a renovation job in a Greenwich Village building when the imperious woman upstairs confronted him over construction noise.
They argued. She scratched him. Panicked that she would call the police and that he would be deported, he punched her and pushed her to the floor. Mistakenly thinking he had killed her, he hanged her from the shower rod of her bathroom, in a staged suicide.
But in a courtroom on Thursday, the construction worker, Diego Pillco, 20, told a very different story of how he killed the woman, Adrienne Shelly, a filmmaker, on Nov. 1, 2006. Ms. Shelly, who was 40 and the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, had just finished a film, “Waitress,” which opened to warm reviews after her death.

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