We watched a cute little film last night, Waitress (2006), starring Keri Russell and written, directed and co-starring Adrienne Shelly.
At the end of the film the credits scrolled to an memorial page for Adrienne Shelly and like a fool I picked up the tablet and googled her name. And it ruined the film and the evening for me. It really did.

I discovered that in-between finishing the film and it’s release she was murdered in her NYC apartment by an illegal alien working construction in her building. Initially her death was thought a suicide since her killer had strung her up by her neck and hung her from a bathroom shower rod, that is how her husband found her. Fortunately, someone did their job and uncovered the evidence that connected the Ecuadorian illegal immigrant responsible. Being NYC, he was allowed to plead guilty to Manslaughter and was sentenced to a maximum of 25 years, he’s 19 so he’ll be out before he’s forty. And that was the nail in the coffin with my mellow mood in it that night. Maybe with luck he will be out in time to rape and murder the actresses little girl when she grows up. Amnesty anyone?

Fuck this sick world we have created in place of the country I still remember.

Oh, one more thing, the widower, Andrew Ostroy, filed a lawsuit against the construction company that hired and placed the illegal worker in her building. The New York judge dismissed the lawsuit saying that the husband “had no standing to bring the action“.

Words fail me.

The children

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