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Although Ms. Rottman said Ms. Petrillo had lived “a privileged life,” there were signs of difficulties as well. Neighbors said that Ms. Petrillo was divorced from her husband — though one police official said the divorce might not have been finalized — and that her son, Michael, 13, lived with his father. The two-story house she had occupied since roughly 2003 was attached and not particularly grand. That may be because the estate Anne Scripps Douglas left behind for her three daughters — the youngest sister, a daughter with Mr. Douglas, is named Victoria — was not strikingly large. It was $1.3 million.

Friends and neighbors said Ms. Petrillo had been going through a difficult period, though she seemed to sustain a veneer of good humor. Ms. Rottman said when she had lunched with Ms. Petrillo two weeks ago in Manhattan she seemed cheerful.

“Although she was going through hard times, I never laughed so hard in my life,” Ms. Rottman said. “She was the life of the party.”

At another point, she said, “considering her tortured life, Annie’s laugh was infectious — she lit up a town with it.”

Ms. Petrillo’s mother was the great-great-granddaughter of James E. Scripps, who founded The Detroit News in 1873 and whose brother E. W. Scripps founded E. W. Scripps Co., which owns newspapers, television stations and the Scripps Howard News Service. Anne Scripps Douglas, a small woman whose dark hair was swept back in a bun, struck her friends as someone who was overly trusting and needed their protection.

After schooling at an upstate convent and a two-year Catholic college, she endured a failed marriage to a Rye stockbroker — the father of Ms. Petrillo and her sister Alexandra — then married a charming, handsome 6-footer, Scott Douglas. He was a house painter, and they met when she hired him to work on her house. Friends were concerned about the wide disparity in social status, but Ms. Douglas seemed to be in love.