But her story continues in Adrienne , a moving documentary portrait of the late writer, director and actor crafted by her husband, Andy Ostroy. Premiering on HBO on Dec. Adrienne 's approach makes its subject still feel present nearly two decades after her death. According to Ostroy, that's a reflection of how Shelly exists for him. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment, the widower says that he's never sought the kind of closure that some try to achieve after a devastating loss.
I aspire to that, but I cannot even conceptualize that. I don't understand the concept of closure or the five stages of grief, I've always wondered what happens when you're done with stage five. Does that mean, 'OK, I've moved on? Adrienne is representative of how Ostroy has navigated his own way through grief over the past fifteen years, and how he's sought to keep Shelly's memory alive for their daughter, Sophie, who was only two years old when her mother died.
That's where making this documentary came from — trying to use her death in a way that has redeeming value. Otherwise, it's just a horrible death. Ostroy confronts the disturbing details of his wife's murder head-on in the climax of the documentary when he sits down opposite Diego Pillco, the man who took her life. Pillco was 19 at the time of his fatal encounter with Shelly, and had recently arrived in New York from Ecuador, picking up odd jobs as a construction worker — and stealing money from the places where he worked — as he sought to pay off his debts.
As he recounts to Ostroy in the film, he was in the process of robbing Shelly's office when she discovered him and threatened to call the police.
I was choking her with my hand at the same time I was covering her mouth so she wouldn't make noise. I took my hand off Pillco then hung Shelly's body in the office bathroom, where Ostroy discovered her hours later. Police investigators initially treated her death as a suicide case, but Ostory's repeated objections spurred a closer examination of the crime scene and ultimately put them on the path to Pillco's apartment door in Queens.
Pilco pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter at his trial and received a year prison sentence that will end in Ostroy was in the courtroom when Pillco received his sentence in and remarks in the documentary that, at that point, 25 years seemed like a long time. But now — with only a little over a decade left until Pillco's release — he felt compelled to have his first face-to-face conversation with his wife's killer.
As I say in the movie, there's only one person alive who knows what happened and that was him. I was there on a mission and I achieved that mission and put it in its proper time and place. Premiering on HBO on Dec.
Adrienne 's approach makes its subject still feel present nearly two decades after her death. According to Ostroy, that's a reflection of how Shelly exists for him. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment, the widower says that he's never sought the kind of closure that some try to achieve after a devastating loss. I aspire to that, but I cannot even conceptualize that. I don't understand the concept of closure or the five stages of grief, I've always wondered what happens when you're done with stage five.
Does that mean, 'OK, I've moved on? Adrienne is representative of how Ostroy has navigated his own way through grief over the past fifteen years, and how he's sought to keep Shelly's memory alive for their daughter, Sophie, who was only two years old when her mother died. That's where making this documentary came from — trying to use her death in a way that has redeeming value. Otherwise, it's just a horrible death. Ostroy confronts the disturbing details of his wife's murder head-on in the climax of the documentary when he sits down opposite Diego Pillco, the man who took her life.
Pillco was 19 at the time of his fatal encounter with Shelly, and had recently arrived in New York from Ecuador, picking up odd jobs as a construction worker — and stealing money from the places where he worked — as he sought to pay off his debts. As he recounts to Ostroy in the film, he was in the process of robbing Shelly's office when she discovered him and threatened to call the police.
I was choking her with my hand at the same time I was covering her mouth so she wouldn't make noise. I took my hand off Pillco then hung Shelly's body in the office bathroom, where Ostroy discovered her hours later. Police investigators initially treated her death as a suicide case, but Ostory's repeated objections spurred a closer examination of the crime scene and ultimately put them on the path to Pillco's apartment door in Queens.
Pilco pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter at his trial and received a year prison sentence that will end in Ostroy was in the courtroom when Pillco received his sentence in and remarks in the documentary that, at that point, 25 years seemed like a long time.
But now — with only a little over a decade left until Pillco's release — he felt compelled to have his first face-to-face conversation with his wife's killer. And some investigators were skeptical, too.
Yesterday, the police charged a year-old construction worker with murder, saying her death was the horrific result of a chain of events set off by a complaint common to New York City residents: construction noise. The police said that after Ms. Shelly argued with the worker about the noise on Wednesday, he struck her in the face. Then, suspecting that the blow was fatal, he hanged her from the shower curtain rod in an attempt to make her death look like a suicide, investigators said.
It was unclear whether Ms. Shelly died from the blow or from being hanged. Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, said an autopsy had been conducted but the manner and cause of death had not been determined. The construction worker, Diego Pillco of Prospect Avenue in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, was charged yesterday with second-degree murder, the police said.
A native of Ecuador who arrived in the city in July, Mr. Pillco had been working in a third-floor apartment directly beneath the one Ms. Shelly used as her office at 15 Abingdon Square, in Greenwich Village, the authorities said. Shelly, 40, lived not far away on Varick Street with her husband, Andy Ostroy, and her daughter, Sophie. She used the Abingdon Square apartment as the base of a career that included leading or featured roles in two dozen Off Broadway plays as well as movies and television shows.
Shelly, born Adrienne Levine, was a Queens native who started performing as a child in arts camps on Long Island and upstate. She dropped out of Boston University after her junior year and moved to Manhattan.
Several investigators said Mr. Pillco admitted to Ms. At the time, the police said, they found few signs of trauma or struggle. Detectives from the Sixth Precinct in Greenwich Village were particularly troubled by an unexplained footprint found in the bathroom.
They examined the shoes of everyone who had entered the apartment, including police officers and emergency workers, but found no match for the print.
They canvassed the building, and found that renovation work was under way in some apartments. The detectives matched the footprint from Ms. Pillco, the authorities said. Pillco was picked up Sunday night and taken to the Sixth Precinct station house, where he made his admissions early yesterday, investigators said. He was escorted from the station to a waiting police car last night wearing a Yankees cap low over his forehead, partly obscuring his face from photographers and television crews.
Neighbors at Mr. He lived in a basement apartment with his cousin and held a variety of odd jobs, they said. He never bothered me or anyone else near here. He seemed like a good kid. Because that is what he is to me, just a kid.
The arrest came after a memorial service for Ms. Shelly on Sunday that drew hundreds of mourners. Ostroy spoke at the service, repeating his insistence that his wife would not have committed suicide.
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