Sheila Eager-Warren admitted in court docket that she was the “killer clown” who fatally shot Marlene Warren greater than 30 years in the past in Wellington, Florida.
Sheila pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide in Palm Seaside County court docket on Tuesday following years of trial delays and was sentenced to 12 years in jail, with credit score for the two,000-plus days she’s already spent behind bars.
Sheila killed Marlene on Could 26, 1990, and was arrested on Sept. 26, 2017.
Through the sentencing, Marlene’s son, Joseph Ahrens, learn a sufferer affect assertion and stated that he “did not see any regret” from Sheila, in response to Courtroom TV.
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Marlene Warren was shot and killed within the entryway of her Wellington, Florida, residence within the notorious “Killer Clown” case of 1990. (Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Ahrens, who was 22 on the time of his mother’s homicide, completed breakfast together with his mother that morning when a automotive pulled up their driveway, and clown received out holding a floral association.
“The individual dressed because the clown was carrying a flower association and two balloons,” the Palm Seaside Seaside County Sheriff’s Workplace stated. One balloon reportedly bore an image of Snow White, the opposite was emblazoned with the phrases, “You are the Best!”
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“Marlene answered the entrance door and because the clown supplied the gadgets to her, witnesses heard a gunshot and Marlene fell to the bottom,” police stated. “The individual dressed as a clown calmly walked again to the LeBaron and drove away.”
Warren suffered a gunshot wound to the face and was rushed to an area hospital, the place she died two days later.
Sheila Eager-Warren seems in court docket for a pre-trial listening to on Nov. 13, 2017. (Lannis Waters/Palm Seaside Publish/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Pictures)
The 1990 case went chilly for twenty-four years.
In 2014, investigators realized that Sheila married Marlene’s widower in 2002 and had labored for him on the time of the homicide.
DNA reportedly linked Sheila to the crime scene, and she or he was arrested in 2017.
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A collection of postponements, most notably the COVID-19 pandemic, stalled the trial for six years.
Jury choice was scheduled to begin in Could.
