Sheila Keen Warren, left. Marlene Warren, right.
Keen Warren, after being arrested.
Posted on 09/29/2017 6:10:23 AM PDT by simpson96
Marlene Warren was finishing breakfast with her son and his friends on May 26, 1990, when a white Chrysler LeBaron pulled into the driveway of her home outside West Palm Beach, Florida.
Someone dressed as a clown emerged from the car carrying two balloons and a flower arrangement, authorities said.
When Warren answered the door, the clown handed her the gifts, according to detective Paige McCann of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. "Warren said something like, 'How nice,'" McCann said.
The clown then pulled out a gun, shot Warren in the face, walked back to the car and calmly drove away.
Warren died two days later in a hospital.
At the time, investigators said they had identified a suspect but didn't have enough evidence for a conviction. No arrests had been made in the brazen killing -- until Tuesday.
Sheila Keen, who married the slain woman's husband 12 years after the killing, was taken into custody in Abingdon, Virginia, a mountain town more than 800 miles from the site of the slaying.
Sheila Keen
Sheila Keen
Keen, 54, has been charged with first-degree murder in Warren's killing 27 years ago. No plea has been entered yet.
She waived extradition back to Florida, and prosecutors will announce whether they will seek the death penalty once she returns to the state, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg.
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Sheila Keen Warren, left. Marlene Warren, right.
Keen Warren, after being arrested.
I believe Sheila Keen Warren could use a paper bag for that mug shot. Crazy ass woman.
A real “cold case”.
27 years later!
DNA was critical, it seems. Sad case.
I’m going to be that the “alleged” murderer will take a plea when she realizes that the D.A. has given a lighter sentence/freebie pass to the husband. She kills the woman married to the man she is having an affair with? They marry later and are currently married? There is a slam dunk plea deal for exchange of testimony IMHO.
Sounds like they knew it was her all along but didn’t have the hard evidence. Now maybe they do. Going to be hard to prosecute after so many years unless they have hard evidence that does not rely on witnesses.
So the woman who violently murdered this poor woman became a step mother to her victim’s children??!! Was the husband in on it??!!
Death penalty for the woman.
Slam dunk.
Wow! Is she grinning in that mug shot?
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