FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On May 26, 1990, a killer dressed as a clown stood at Marlene Warren’s doorstep in Wellington and shot the 40-year-old woman in the face. Flowers and two balloons — a heart-shaped one that said “You’re the Greatest” and one with a picture of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves — were left behind.
A decades-long saga to bring the killer to justice ensued, and 32 years later, the accused killer, Sheila Keen Warren, is still awaiting trial. The case went cold until she was arrested in 2017 in Virginia, where she had made a new life under a new name with her husband and Warren’s former husband, Michael Warren.
People told police during their investigation that Keen Warren had been seen in clown garb before. But right after Warren’s murder, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office got dozens of tips from people who said they’d seen a clown, and all were placed in a “clown sighting file,” court records say.
