Wendy Bott

Wendy Bott was a writer/producer for over a decade, beginning with work for National Lampoon magazine, moving on to Nickelodeon and VH-1. In New York, she was one of two staff writers for Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater (1989), and she was a segment director for the Sci-Fi Channel's _"Anti-Gravity Room, The" (1996)_. In LA, she worked for ABC, FX, Noggin and Nickelodeon as a writer, producer and director before forming Bodo Films and collaborating with Tom Dorfmeister on the feature Robbie's Brother (2001). On June 12, 2001, she was reported missing when she failed to show up at a Hollywood restaurant for a friend's birthday celebration. Her car, with her cell phone and purse inside, was found two days later in Culver City, less than a mile from where her body was later discovered (June 21) by a man walking his dog in a vacant, overgrown field near Venice's Marina Peninsula neighborhood. Over a period of several years, she had taken the prescribed antidepressant Paxil, believed to be a factor in her death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.