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Jealousy may have been the motive behind Monday’s murder-suicide of a Louisiana woman who was featured along with her family in the 2012 reality TV show Bayou Billionaires, the victim’s daughter confirms to People.

Around 4 p.m. that day, Valerie Dowden Wells, 47, was shot multiple times by Robert Gaddy, 46, as she sat in her car near a McDonald’s parking lot in Shreveport, Louisiana, police Sgt. Rod Johnson tells People.

Gaddy then turned the gun on himself, Johnson says. Gaddy and Wells were both taken to a local hospital, where Wells was pronounced dead immediately and Gaddy later died,...

Fantasia's Short Film Highlights [caption id="attachment_10049" align="alignnone" width="190" caption="The Astronomer`s Dream"]/caption] Just at this year's Fantasia Film Fest sees its features splaying out far from the realm of hardcore genre flicks into other realms, its local shorts, presented in two different categories (Courts Métrages Québécois and Courts Métrages Québécois Diy) display a wide range of genre, approach, form and subject matter, fromt he mundane to the, well, fantastic. Here's a sampling of what's on offer this year... Among the highlights of the first group (itself subdivided into five screenings) are two very different animated pieces. Malcolm Sutherland's The Astronaut's Dream (11 m.), a whimsical, if slightly bent, look at the imaginings of a would-be spacefarer. Sutherland's humor and style reflect a Japanese sensibility, so fans of Miyazaki's more out-there moments should take heed, though Sutherland's visuals are considerably busier. Meanwhile, Alain Fournier's Öko (12 m.) is a seemingly post-apocalyptic puppet mini-epic, a piece so desolate and cryptic that it...