Apparent suicide of NY heiress’ daughter brings a family tragedy full circle
By APWednesday, September 30, 2009
Apparent NY suicide brings a tragedy full circle
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — The former prosecutor who handled the New York slaying of newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas says her daughter’s apparent suicide 15 years later is the result of a “ripple effect.”
Jeanine Pirro (PEER’-oh) says the death last week of Anne Morell Petrillo was essentially the attack’s third fatality.
She says it might have been an eerie re-enactment of the suicide of her stepfather, who killed her mother.
A body believed to be Petrillo’s was found Sunday in the Hudson River beneath the Tappan Zee (TAP’-ehn zee) Bridge north of New York City. Her BMW was found on the bridge Thursday with a suicide note inside.
Pirro notes that Petrillo and her stepfather were 38, jumped from nearly the same spot and both left BMWs on the bridge.
