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[Johnny C]

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Ramones-Manager-Found-Bludgeoned

Elton John reported to The New York Times that he is "absolutely shocked and upset," while friend (and co-manager) Danny Fields said, "I don’t have a lot of friends in their 60s who are hit on the head in their chic apartments. It makes no sense."

Wow.

[Misereatur]

Yeah, holy shit.

[Tehz]

My God.

[Ocarina654]

That is TERRIBLE.

No signs of break-in or forced entry?  Extremely strange.

I wonder if anything was taken, as in murder-robbery or was it just plain murder.  Not that tacking robbery on would make it better, but it might be a motivating factor.  As of now it sounds like we've got nothing else to go on (which admittedly doesn't mean that they police don't have more evidence, suspects, etc).

[MusicScribbles]

I wonder what reason someone might have to murder her. I wish I could empathize, but sadly I haven't had a famous friend who has garnered attention for what she has done for a music scene recently murdered in her apartment. Instead, I'm speechless. At least, from here.

[Ballard]

What the fuck?

[KvP]

Since there was no sign of forced entry, at this point they're looking at one of her assistants, who she had recently been arguing with.

It's Adrienne Shelly all over again

[Felix_]

Unfortunate. 

[Johnny C]

Case closed?

...Lowery confessed to cops, describing how her four months of employment as Stein's go-fer came to a bloody end.

She said on the morning of Oct. 30 she got into an argument with the brash Stein, who co-managed the Ramones before she began selling penthouses to the rich and famous.

Stein, 62, who was battling cancer, started blowing pot smoke in her face and berating her as she worked on the computer, Lowery told cops.

"Get the f---ing e-mails! How can you be so f---ing slow!" Stein supposedly bellowed, a police source said.

Stein, who had private yoga sessions in her $2.5 million pad, was waving a 4-pound strength-building yoga stick at Lowery as she yelled, the assistant told cops.

After Lowery retrieved the e-mails, Stein offered to buy her lunch as a peace offering.

"I've got my own money. I don't need you to buy me lunch," the assistant said indignantly.

"Black people don't have any money," Stein retorted, according to Lowery. "Save your money and I'll buy you lunch."

An enraged Lowery grabbed the yoga stick from Stein and hit her with it a half-dozen times until she was face-down in a pool of blood, police said.

They're also saying she waived her Miranda rights and a bunch of shit like that.

I dunno how much I trust this, actually.

[KharBevNor]

Shush Jonnie, black people do all murders, it is a well known factoid

I don't know who the hell this linda whatever person is nor anything she ever did, but I guess it sucks that someonde did perform the murder act upon her.

[Johnny C]

She was the wife of Seymour Stein and instrumental in the signing of The Ramones and Talking Heads, among others, to Sire Records.

[KharBevNor]

I'm still not that enlightened. To wikipedia I guess.

[Clobbersaurus]

death by yoga stick :\

this story's been a bitch to follow. it's been over a week since Lowery's arrest and no new developments have popped up since. i guess i'm just being impatient.
(and a few articles have reported that Lowery had a previous criminal record that was either overlooked or unknown by her employers).
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/11/09/2007-11-09_personal_assistant_arrested_in_linda_ste.html

with race floating around in the pot, who knows where this story will go.