Florida's killer clown case finally ends with plea deal

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Florida’s killer clown case finally ends with plea deal

By TERRY SPENCER
April 25, 2023

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A clown came to Marlene Warren’s door on a May morning in 1990, handed her carnations and balloons and then shot her dead in front of her son. On Tuesday, her husband’s second wife finally pleaded guilty to being the killer, closing a case that is strange even by Florida standards.

Sheila Keen-Warren, 59, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that will likely see her released from prison in no more than two years. Long suspected of being the shooter, Keen-Warren has been jailed awaiting trial for first-degree murder since 2017, when Palm Beach County sheriff’s investigators said improvements in DNA technology proved that a hair found in the clown’s getaway car came from her. Keen-Warren has insisted, however, that she is not the killer.

Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement that the plea deal “obtained a measure of justice” for Marlene Warren and her son. No public notice was given for Tuesday’s plea hearing in West Palm Beach, which otherwise would have drawn a throng of reporters and spectators. Instead, it was handled quietly during Circuit Judge Scott Suskauer’s lunch break from another murder trial.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/killer-clown-florida-cold-case-fdc1d20f1385cb2ba351718e5522d83f

[mercuryblues]

1. 2 years for cold blooded murder

In front of her child.

[Phoenix61]

2. She's been in jail since 2017 and will serve no more than 2 more years.

Still not long enough but more than 2 years.