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Document: Witness harassed before recanting murder story

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — a private investigator was ed her 1992 trial testimony Court records and police Cady’s “recent change in
The sole witness to a brutal even following her children about seeing Sanborn fa- reports show Cady claimed testimony ... is the product
1989 killing on a Portland at school, WGME-TV report- tally stab Jessica Briggs. Sanborn’s defense attorney of pressure and harassment
waterfront changed her ed. The stunning revelation led and a private investigator over the course of several
testimony about witnessing Sanborn’s defense lawyer to Sanborn being freed were following her, texting years, and in multiple states
the crime because she was denies the claim. on bail after being locked her and going to her house and locations,” prosecutors
being hounded relentlessly “Nobody has threatened away for 27 years. repeatedly. said in a document filed in
by a private investigator or coerced any witnesses in The case is getting a new “I feel like I’m backed in a Superior Court in Portland.
and defense lawyer over this case on this side of the look because of Cady’s corner,” Sanborn told po- Fairfield wrote that evi-
a period of years, prosecu- fence. testimony and questions lice. dence that she harassed
tors said. All we are looking for are about the conduct of po- Prosecutors say she’s been witnesses is “irrelevant and
Court documents reveal the facts to be presented lice and prosecutors in the subjected to harassment a waste of time.” She said,
Hope Cady told police she and for the truth to prevail,” case. for years, and that she fi- “Nobody threatened her;
felt threatened and ha- Amy Fairfield said. Justice Joyce Wheeler is nally changed her testimo- nobody harassed her; no-
rassed by Tony Sanborn’s Cady stunned a courtroom convening a hearing next ny just to get her harassers body did anything of the
defense team, and that in April when she recant- week. to stop. sort.”q
Husband listens on phone as wife is killed in home invasion

and went to a trailer on the the daughter’s friend were
property in response to a staying at the time.
text for help from the cou- As he listened to his wife
ple’s 18-year-old daughter. confront the intruder, “I fi-
Collins said his wife called nally realized that she had
him before she went to the someone at gunpoint,”
trailer and that he was able Collins said.
to hear much of what hap- He immediately called a
pened during the fatal en- neighbor in Concho and
counter in Concho, a rural asked her to send her hus-
community about 160 miles band to the Collins’ prop-
(257 kilometers) northeast erty. The neighbor said he
of Phoenix. should call 911 instead.
Trooper Kameron Lee, an When Collins did that, he
Arizona Department of was told deputies were
Public Safety spokesman, already dispatched and
provided the victim’s iden- he believed his wife had
tity but told the AP that in- called 911 before heading
vestigators did not want to for the trailer.
release additional informa- Collins said he then got
tion on the circumstances back on the call from his
of the incident, including wife and heard her speak
how TerriLynne Collins was with the intruder, whom
killed. he thinks was wearing a ski
This undated photo released by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows 14-year-old Josh- Collins, an attorney in mask and was armed with
ua Cade Richardson, a suspect in the killing of TerriLynne Collins early Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in the Mesa, was distraught at a knife.
rural community of Concho, northeast of Phoenix. times during a phone inter- “I heard my wife telling him
(Arizona DPS via AP) view with the AP. ‘you’re just a kid, you’re just
PAUL DAVENPORT an intruder at the family’s him. He said he didn’t imme- a stupid kid and you’re go-
Associated Press get-away and future retire- Ernest Collins Jr. told The As- diately understand what ing to ruin your life,’” Collins
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix- ment home in eastern Ari- sociated Press that his wife, was going on when his wife said.
area lawyer said Wednes- zona. 54-year-old TerriLynne Col- called him after midnight The conversation went
day he was on the phone State police named a lins, was killed early Tuesday and woke him from a deep back and forth, with the
with his wife when she was 14-year-old boy as a sus- morning while struggling sleep. She was appar- suspect telling Collins’ wife
killed during a middle-of- pect in the killing, and au- with the intruder. She had ently walking to the trailer to shoot him in the head,
the night encounter with thorities were searching for been in the couple’s home where their daughter and the husband said.q
Florida to seek death penalty against killer clown suspect

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. a Wednesday court hear- them what they needed the killing, said she replied, Warren were having an af-
(AP) — Florida prosecu- ing. She was extradited to make an arrest.Michael “How pretty!” The clown fair, though both denied
tors are seeking the death Tuesday from Abingdon, Warren, 65, has not been then pulled a handgun, it. Costume shop employ-
penalty against a woman Virginia, where she lived charged, but detectives shot her in the face and ees identified Keen as the
accused of dressing up with her husband Michael and prosecutors have re- drove away. Marlene War- woman who had bought a
like a clown in 1990 and fa- Warren for years. fused to rule him out as ren died two days later.De- clown costume a few days
tally shooting the wife of a Defense attorney Richard a suspect. He has not re- tectives publicly identified earlier.And one of the two
man she later married.Palm Lubin told reporters Sheila sponded to phone mes- Sheila Keen, who worked balloons — a silver one that
Beach County State Attor- Warren “vehemently de- sages left at his home. He for Michael Warren, as their read, “You’re the Great-
ney Dave Aronberg issued nies” killing Marleen War- and Sheila Warren married primary suspect shortly af- est” — was sold at only one
a statement Wednesday ren and will plead not in 2002.Marlene Warren ter the killing but say they store, a Publix supermarket
saying the death penalty guilty. She was arrested last was killed in May 1990 by lacked sufficient evidence near her home. Employees
is the appropriate punish- week after a grand jury is- person dressed as a clown to assure conviction with- told detectives a woman
ment for 54-year-old Sheila sued a first-degree murder who handed her carna- out the DNA test.Witnesses who looked like Keen had
Keen Warren, who was or- indictment. Investigators tions and two foil balloons. told investigators in 1990 bought the balloons an
dered held without bail at say new DNA testing gave Her son, who witnessed that Keen and Michael hour before the shooting. q