“You tied her up and hung her the way you strung up pigs back home in Ecuador. What kind of animal are you?”
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3671 in 2006. Pillco was working “under the table” in a building where Shelly kept an office when she found him stealing out of her purse. After throttling her he hung Adrienne’s corpse from a shower fixture to make it look like she had killed herself.
He later attempted to invoke “white guilt” by claiming Adrienne had “argued” with Pillco, despite the fact that he doesn’t speak English, then “slapped” him. In the ensuing struggle Pillco said that she died accidentally. He claimed to have hanged the body of Adrienne, a wife and mother with a promising career ahead of her, only because he was afraid of “la migra” immigration officers and deportation. Investigators suspected that Adrienne died after http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2521 her.
At sentencing Pillco kept up his attempts at victim status. “I have suffered because I know what I have done,” he sniffed. In February Pillco pleaded guilty to one charge of first degree manslaughter, avoiding faced 25 years to life in prison. He faces deportation when he has completed his sentence.
Victims were allowed to address the court at the sentencing hearing. Pillco is “nothing more than a cold-blooded killer, a murderous beast” who killed a “beautiful, loving woman,” said Adrienne’s widower, Andy Ostroy. “You tied her up and hung her the way you strung up pigs back home in Ecuador. What kind of animal are you?”