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“Murder by Clown” is an episode of 48 Hours that may air on ID on Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 10 p.m. ET. It will comply with the homicide of Marlene Warren by a Killer Clown and the investigation that adopted.

Marlene Warren was shot to loss of life on May 26, 1990, by a clown. The clown confirmed up at her entrance door with a basket of flowers and two balloons. She was having breakfast along with her son Joe Ahrens and his associates that morning. Suddenly, the Killer Clown got here to the door, and Marlene went to reply it. The clown took out a gun and shot her. Ahrens was 21 on the time and was staying at dwelling, recovering from a damaged leg, CBS News reported.

Ahren and the opposite witnesses informed authorities that the clown arrived in a white Chrysler LeBaron just a little earlier than 11 a.m. Emergency companies had been contacted, and Marlene Warren was rushed to the hospital, the place she died two days later. An elaborate investigation and a seek for a Killer Clown who left the flowers and balloons behind ensued.

The police tracked down the shops the place the flowers, balloons, and the clown costume utilized by the Killer Clown had been purchased. An worker at one retailer informed authorities {that a} girl got here to buy the clown costume, wig, and different equipment. The police discovered an deserted Chrysler LeBaron in a car parking zone a number of days later. They discovered synthetic hair from the wig contained in the automobile. Authorities additionally discovered brown human hair within the automotive. However, DNA testing wasn’t as superior at the moment. The hair wasn’t useful in figuring out a suspect, as per a report by ABC News.

Was Michael Warren a suspect within the homicide case?

Although Marlene wasn’t apparently identified to have any enemies, investigators deduced that the killing was supposed and never a random act of violence. Her husband, Michael Warren, ran a rental automotive company and a used automotive lot. Marlene was a mom of two and a small enterprise proprietor. Ahren was 3 when Marlene married Michael. The police questioned Michael Warren, who had a stable alibi that he was in a automotive along with his associates, headed in direction of a racetrack in Miami on the time when the Killer Clown shot Marlene Warren.

Authorities questioned family and friends of the Warrens and discovered that Michael Warren is likely to be having an affair along with his worker, Sheila Keen. However, each Michael Warren and Sheila Keen denied the allegation. Major progress within the case was thought to be made when a girl on the costume retailer recognized Sheila Keen. She claimed that Sheila was the client who purchased the Killer Clown costume. However, no clues had been discovered when Keen’s dwelling was searched. That left the case to go chilly for a very long time to come.

In 2002, Michael Warren married Sheila Keen and settled in Virginia. The couple reportedly ran a restaurant very shut to the Tennesse border, as per a report by AP News. Joe Ahrens informed CBS News that Marlene Warren expressed the opportunity of Michael hurting her. She reportedly informed him that if something occurred to her, it might seemingly be attributable to her husband. She allegedly shared the identical inhibitions along with her mom, Shirley Twing. This made her mom suspect Warren to be the Killer Clown.

Who was the Killer Clown convicted of Marlene Warren’s homicide?

NBC News reported that Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Sheila Keen in 2017. This was after developments in DNA expertise allowed them to match the hair discovered within the Killer Clown’s Chrysler LeBaron to Keen. Although she initially maintained her innocence, Sheila Keen-Warren pleaded responsible to the second-degree homicide of Marlene Warren. She agreed to a plea deal.

After she was arrested in 2017, Sheila Keen-Warren awaited trial by remaining in jail for almost six years till she pleaded responsible in 2023 on the age of 56. She admitted to dressing up because the Killer Clown and taking pictures Marlene Warren. According to The Guardian, Sheila Keen would have obtained a life sentence for the killing of Marlene Warren if not for the plea deal. As she already served six years awaiting trial, she is going to seemingly be launched in a most of two years after her sentencing. She is at the moment serving her sentence on the Gadsden Correctional Facility in Quincy, Florida, in accordance to state data.

Until Sheila Keen was convicted in 2023, Michael Warren was suspected by authorities and associates of Marlene Warren. When he was convicted of grand theft, odometer tampering, and racketeering in 1994, Michael Warren was reportedly made to spend 4 years in jail, which his legal professionals claimed was an unfair sentence. They stated that the heavy sentence was a consequence of suspicions that he killed his spouse beneath the guise of the Killer Clown.

A 48 Hours episode titled “Murder by Clown” will air on ID on Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 10 p.m. ET. It revolves across the homicide of Marlene Warren by a Killer Clown and likewise the DNA proof that bought her assassin convicted over three a long time after the crime.