27 years later, arrest is made in killer-clown case

 

September 29, 2017



WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — On a May morning in 1990, Marlene Warren answered her front door in an upscale Florida suburb to find a clown in an orange wig, red nose and white face paint handing her carnations and foil balloons.

"How pretty!" she exclaimed.

The clown then pulled a gun, shot Warren in the face and drove away. She died two days later.

Now, almost three decades later, authorities say they have arrested the clown: a woman who was said to be having an affair with Warren's husband and, years after the killing, married him.

Detectives said advances in DNA technology, combined with ev...



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