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Title: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Johnny C on 05 Nov 2007, 12:19
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Ramones-Manager-Found-Bludgeoned

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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.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Misereatur on 05 Nov 2007, 12:56
Yeah, holy shit.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Tehz on 05 Nov 2007, 14:32
My God.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Ocarina654 on 05 Nov 2007, 15:37
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).
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: MusicScribbles on 06 Nov 2007, 18:02
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.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Ballard on 06 Nov 2007, 18:22
What the fuck?
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: KvP on 06 Nov 2007, 18:32
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 :(
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Felix_ on 16 Nov 2007, 00:00
Unfortunate.  :-(
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Johnny C on 16 Nov 2007, 10:30
Case closed? (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/11/10/2007-11-10_aide_confesses_she_beat_linda_stein_to_d.html)

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...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.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: KharBevNor on 16 Nov 2007, 19:51
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.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Johnny C on 16 Nov 2007, 23:45
She was the wife of Seymour Stein and instrumental in the signing of The Ramones and Talking Heads, among others, to Sire Records.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: KharBevNor on 17 Nov 2007, 07:29
I'm still not that enlightened. To wikipedia I guess.
Title: Re: Linda Stein murdered
Post by: Clobbersaurus on 19 Nov 2007, 03:18
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.