The daughter of a prominent Oscar award-winning director and her husband have been found dead in a vehicle parked on the side of a busy highway. <\/p>\n
Judith \u2018Judy\u2019 Wyler Sheldon, 84, and Wylie Sheldon, 86, were discovered unresponsive at 5:46pm on June 15 inside their running vehicle on Interstate 5 near Redding, California. <\/p>\n
Judy was the daughter of American film director William Wyler, who worked on classic movies such as Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck\u2019s Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur and Wuthering Heights. <\/p>\n
While a cause of death has not been released, California Highway Patrol confirmed they made the grim discovery when they came across a Jeep Compass parked on the shoulder of the highway. <\/p>\n
Emergency responders were called to the scene, where they were both pronounced dead despite their best efforts to revive the pair. <\/p>\n
According to authorities, Judy was found behind the wheel while her husband was seated in the passenger seat. <\/p>\n
On the day of the discovery, an extreme heat warning was issued to the area of Northern California, though it\u2019s unclear whether the heat played a part. <\/p>\n
Throughout his stellar career, William Wyler was awarded three Academy Awards. His daughter also carved her own path in the film industry, particularly in the area of silent films. <\/p>\n
Artistic director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Anita Monga, issued a statement about the passing of her dear friend and avid supporter. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are reeling from this news,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cJudy and Wylie were very dear to us, supportive and a positive presence at all our events.\u201d<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol\u2019s Northern Division Investigative Services Unit has now reportedly taken over the investigation to determine what may have contributed to their deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The daughter of a prominent Oscar award-winning director and her husband have been found dead in a vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-482996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}