Rose Gilbert, who lived in Tucson, Arizona, had a lifelong dream of becoming a theater star, hopefully on Broadway. Sure, she gained valuable experience in her hometown, but nothing could dim her hope of making it big in New York. She was 56 years old, and time was running out. So keenly did she feel this that she started looking for an apartment in New York and soon found a suitable one.
However, her vocal coach, Anna Schoff, had a foreboding feeling of dread regarding her student’s plan to move to The Big Apple. While directing the last play Gilbert acted in back in Tucson, Schoff got a really bad feeling that something terrible would happen to Gilbert if she carried out her plan to move.
Telling Rose Gilbert about her premonition only succeeded in turning the woman against her, and she accused Schoff of jealousy. Gilbert became even more determined to go to New York after this and ended up doing exactly that and living with two roommates, John Dalton and an unnamed woman.
On the evening of June 21, 2005, the female roommate returned to the apartment after work only to walk into a scene of horror. Rose Gilbert’s lifeless body was lying on the kitchen floor with multiple wounds visible on her body. She had been stabbed to death. When the police arrived they stumbled across another horrific scene in one of the bedrooms. John Dalton was lying face-down on his bed, not wearing anything but a towel. The blood spatter on the walls indicated that he had been hit over the head with extreme force. It seemed that the bad feeling Anna Schoff had turned into a terrible reality.
