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U.S. NEWS Friday 29 September 2017

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

By TERRY SPENCER say, costume shop em-
Associated Press ployees identified Sheila
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Warren as the woman who
(AP) — On a May morning had bought a clown cos-
in 1990, Marlene Warren tume a few days earlier.
answered her front door And one of the two bal-
in an upscale Florida sub- loons — a silver one that
urb to find a clown in an read, “You’re the Great-
orange wig, red nose and est” — was sold at only
white face paint handing one store, a Publix super-
her carnations and foil bal- market near her home.
loons. Employees told detectives
“How pretty!” she ex- a woman who looked like
claimed.The clown then Warren had bought the
pulled a gun, shot War- balloons an hour before
ren in the face and drove the shooting.The presumed
away. She died two days getaway car was found
later.Now, almost three abandoned with orange,
decades later, authorities hair-like fibers inside. The
say they have arrested white Chrysler convertible
the clown: a woman who, had been reported sto-
years after the killing, mar- len from Michael Warren’s
ried Warren’s husband. car lot a month before the
Detectives said advances Flanked by Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, left, and Palm Beach County State Attorney shooting. Sheila Warren
Dave Aronberg, PBSO detective Paige McCann speaks to reporters during a news conference at
in DNA technology, com- the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. and her then-husband re-
bined with evidence gath- (Andres Leiva/Palm Beach Post via AP) possessed cars for him.Rel-
ered decades ago, show atives told The Palm Beach
Sheila Keen Warren, now da on first-degree murder 1990 gave them what they sheriff’s Detective Paige Post in 2000 that Marlene
54, was the killer. charges.Michael Warren, needed to arrest Sheila McCann. “Sometimes pa- Warren, who was 40 when
At the time of the shoot- 65, has not been charged, Warren, who had been the tience is the best.” she died, suspected her
ing, she was an employee but detectives refused to primary suspect all along. She and Sheriff Ric Brad- husband was having an
of Marlene Warren’s hus- rule him out as a suspect Without it, there might not shaw would not give any affair and wanted to leave
band, Michael, at his used and said he was inter- have been enough evi- details on the genetic ma- him. But the car lot and
car lot. Since 2002, she viewed again Wednesday. dence to convince a jury, terial or where it was found. other properties were in
has been his wife.She was He did not immediately they said.“You basically Witnesses had told inves- her name, and she feared
arrested Tuesday at the return a call to his home get one shot and if you tigators in 1990 that Sheila what might happen if she
home she shared with him Thursday.Palm Beach roll the dice and take that Warren and Michael War- did.She allegedly told her
in Abingdon, Virginia, and County authorities said chance and she is found ren were having an affair, mother, “If anything hap-
was jailed without bail to Thursday the new exami- not guilty, you never get though both denied it. pens to me, Mike done
await extradition to Flori- nation of DNA collected in that chance again,” said Over the years, detectives it.”q
Professor, Oxford employee plead not guilty to stabbing

By DON BABWIN Andrew Warren, 56, stood Unlike a previous court “calculated and premedi- After Lathem’s hearing, his
Associated Press quietly in separate Chica- hearing, when prosecu- tated manner.” attorneys Barry and Adam
CHICAGO (AP) — A former go court hearings as their tors gave often chilling The men are accused of at- Sheppard said they would
Northwestern University pro- attorneys entered pleas details of the July 27 stab- tacking Cornell-Duranleau be fling a motion to have
fessor and an Oxford Uni- on their behalf. Both men bing death of 26-year-old while he slept in Lathem’s the two men tried sepa-
versity employee pleaded spoke little during the hear- Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, Chicago apartment, stab- rately, explaining that they
not guilty Thursday to first- ings, only briefly answering Walowski simply laid out bing him dozens of times. do not want the jury to
degree murder charges in when Cook County Judge the charges. However, she Prosecutors are seeking a hear statements Warren
the stabbing death of the Ursula Walowski asked if referred to the crime as sentence of 20 years to life made to police after he
professor’s boyfriend. they understood the charg- “exceptionally brutal” and in state prison, Walowski surrendered days later in
Wyndham Lathem, 46, and es. said it was carried out in a said. San Francisco.q