Adrienne Shelly Sentencing

Diego Pillco was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to first degree manslaughter for the killing of director and actress Adrienne Shelly. Pillco was a 20 year old construction worker doing renovations in the building that Shelly had an office. He admitted to strangling the actress and hanging her to make it look like a suicide. Shelly's husband, Andy Ostroy, called Pillco "nothing more than a cold-blooded killer" and "murderous beast".

Fast Facts:

1. Shelly was an actress who appeared in Factotum with Matt Dillon
2. Her directorial debut was Sudden Manhatten in 1996
3. She wrote, directed, and starred in Waitress (Film)
4. Waitress screened at the Sundance Film Festival just after Shelly's death
5. Shelly died on November 1, 2006
6. Diego Pillco is an immigrant from Ecuador
7. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison

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