November 07, 2006
NY Actress Murdered by Illegal
Of course, he said she started it:
"I was having a bad day," illegal immigrant Diego Pillco, 19, allegedly told cops. "I didn't mean to kill her. But I did kill her."
Pillco told detectives that he punched Shelly, 40, last Wednesday afternoon outside the Abingdon Square apartment she was using as an office after she yelled at him about the noise he was making while working in a vacant apartment below.
Pillco, who is from Ecuador and speaks only Spanish, also claimed that Shelly slapped him first.
He was having a bad day? I'd say Shelly's day was worse, followed closely by her husband, who found her hanging that evening.
According to the NY Post article, Pillco, thinking Shelly was dead, dragged her to her own apartment and hung her from the shower curtain rod in the bathroom in order to make it look like a suicide.
Watch for those who feel sorry for illegals ("they're just here trying to make an honest living") to jump all over this case like John Kerry on a needleful of Botox. They'll claim he was railroaded and forced into a confession because of his lack of knowledge of English (hey, another good reason to learn the language of the country you come to!) despite forensic evidence matching his sneakers to the scene of the crime.
Pillco's boss is in denial:
The suspect's stunned boss, contractor Louis Hernandez, called his employee "a good kid."
"I don't know what happened. I don't think he did it," he said.
Uh huh. Of course, being illegal, there's no way Hernandez could have done a background check on him (not that he necessarily has a criminal background). Still, the quest for cheap labor has cost Shelly's family more than Hernandez could ever repay.
Victim of an illegal alien
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