Sally JoAnne Menke (December 17, 1953 – September 27, 2010) was an American film editor, who worked in cinema and television.
Menke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds.
She also received three British Academy Film Award nominations for her work on Tarantino's Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds.
[9] Menke's final editing credit was on the film Peacock, a thriller released in 2010, directed by Michael Lander.
[10] On September 28, 2010, Menke's body was discovered at the bottom of a ravine near the 5600 block of Green Oak Drive.
[2][10][11][12] The coroner later determined that Menke's death was heat-related, as temperatures had reached 113 °F (45 °C) in downtown Los Angeles on the day she died.
She has two additional credits for editing television documentaries: Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy (1980) and The Congress (1988).