2023-04-25 19:27:00
Sheila Keen-Warren, The woman accused of disguising herself as a clown and shooting another woman in 1990 at the door of her second home in Florida (USA), pleaded guilty this Tuesday to the murder charge and might be released in less than a year, reported a local media.
Judge Scott Suskauer accepted Warren’s guilty plea in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence, with credit for the 3,039 days he has spent in jail since his arrest, so he might be released in regarding 10 months, The newspaper reported on Tuesday. Palm Beach Post.
Sheila Keen-Warren was charged with first degree murder in the death of Marlene Warren on May 26, 1990, in what is known as the “killer clown case.”
That day, a clown with balloons and flowers came to the Warrens’ home in Wellington, Palm Beach County, and shot Marlene in the face, who died two days later at a hospital, calmly approaching the vehicle in which he had arrived.
By then there were rumors that Michael Warrenwho was the husband of the victim and later the husband of the defendant, had an affair with Sheila, who at that time had the last name Keen.
Sheila eventually married Michael Warren in 2002 and moved to Tennessee, where the couple operated a restaurant.
After 27 years of research, a palm beach grand jury100 kilometers north of Miami, analyzed the evidence and ruled in August 2016 in favor of filing criminal charges once morest Sheila, now 58, which led to her arrest a year later in Virginia.
The murder remained as a “cold case” until la detective Paige McCann of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office took over in 2013.
McCann discovered a 6-inch fiber at the crime scene that Assistant State’s Attorney Reid Scott said linked Keen-Warren to the murder of his lover’s wife.
The integrity of that fiber and other key evidence in the case came under intense scrutiny by defense attorneys for Keen Warren.
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