Adrienne Shelley was murdered. Police have obtained confession

[featherman]

Adrienne Shelley, the radiant indie movie actress and wife of progressive blogger Andrew Ostroy, is now determined to have been murdered. What a tragedy. Our heart goes out to Andrew and his family.

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/11/06/nypd_adrienne_s.php

[Westegg]

1. It's such an awful story...

I've been following it closely, because she was so great in those first two Hal Hartley features, was a dedicated, talented film writer and director (and someone's wife, mother and daughter), and her office was just a few blocks away from me. She was killed by an obviously disturbed, violent man.

I keep thinking how, if the tenant whose apartment was below Shelley's office hadn't died of a heart attack last summer, his apartment wouldn't have been vacant and being renovated, so the workman who killed her wouldn't have been there in the first place-- and she'd still be alive. By which I mean, fate is a weird thing, and we never really know what the future has in store for us. What's that worth? Exactly nothing, I realize. But I keep pondering it. And she'll be missed.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Some of the comments on Gothamist are really disgusting.

Christ, what the fuck is wrong with people!

RIP, Adrienne.