Guilty Plea in Killing of Adrienne Shelly
Samuel Maull - Associated Press
Feb 14, 2008
NEW YORK -- An illegal immigrant construction worker from Ecuador accused of strangling actress Adrienne Shelly has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Diego Pillco admitted Thursday he killed the actress in her Greenwich Village apartment in November 2006.
Prosecutors say he killed her while trying to rob her and then hanged her to make the death look like a suicide.
Pillco will receive 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 6.
He says Shelly had threatened to call police after she caught him stealing money from her purse.
Shelly appeared in the movies "The Unbelievable Truth" in 1989 and "Trust" in 1990. She wrote, directed and co-starred in "Waitress," which also featured Keri Russell.
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