Should have shot her out of a cannon.
(cue the Ringling Brothers music)
Posted on 04/29/2023 6:23:22 PM PDT by simpson96
Three decades after a woman in Florida was fatally shot by a person dressed as a clown, the longtime suspect – who went on to marry the victim’s widower – has pleaded guilty even as her lawyers maintain she is innocent.
Sheila Keen-Warren, 59, withdrew her earlier plea of not guilty and entered a guilty plea on Tuesday as part of a plea deal with prosecutors just weeks before the case was set to go to trial.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the May 1990 killing of Marlene Warren, who was shot and killed at her home near West Palm Beach, Florida, as her son and his friends were eating breakfast inside.
On the morning of the killing, Warren answered her door to find someone dressed as clown and clutching two balloons and a flower arrangement. The costumed person handed Warren the gifts and then pulled out a gun and shot her in the face, authorities said.
Twenty-seven years after the killing, Keen-Warren, who had since married Marlene Warren’s widowed husband, was arrested and charged with the crime in 2017.
As part of her plea deal, Warren will be sentenced to 12 years in prison, with credit for the time she has been serving since her arrest.
The victim’s son approved the plea terms, prosecutor Reid Scott said in court.
“After years of professing her innocence, Sheila Keen Warren has finally been forced to admit that she was the one who dressed as a clown and took the life of an innocent victim,” State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg said in statement.
Keen-Warren’s attorney, however, told CNN that she maintains her innocence but is happy with the plea terms.
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Should have shot her out of a cannon.
(cue the Ringling Brothers music)
Women do not confess to negative things they actually do, for petes sake.
They certainly don’t confess to negative things they didn’t do.
The winter home for the Ringling Brothers Circus staff used to be Sarasota, Florida, which still has a lavish art museum and several donated cultural places from that era when circuses were the big entertainment source.
Everybody loves a clown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibZpSsZHI1k
Why isn’t Michael Warren in prison? He didn’t recognize his mistress in her clown costume, although you can see her face pretty well? She must be unbelievably gullible to kill and go to prison for someone like him.
Probably the scariest, creepiest clown I have ever seen, next to John Wayne Gacy.
Why was the mother dressed up like a clown?
I believe that the women who shot the mother, who then later married her widowed husband, was the one dressed up as a clown.
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