June 20, 2024 • 28 mins
Listen to this SOLVED 1990 murder case of Marlene Warren. On May 26th, of 1990, Marlene Warren was at her Wellington Florida Home when she was shot and killed by someone dressed as a clown. 27 years later, detectives made an arrest, bringing justice to Marlene and her family. Join Max and Aria as they uncover this chilling case!
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Welcome to mysteries and mimosas and thank you for listening.
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My name is Max and with me is your favorite co-host Aria.
Hi everyone.
Hi Aria.
Thanks for helping me out with today's episode.
You're going to nail this one.
I hope so.
Today's episode is a little bit different.
We typically cover unsolved cases and missing persons, but today we're going to give you
the solved case or a solved case from the year 1990.
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As usual, we like to kick off our Thursday episode with trivia from the year of the crime.
The idea behind trivia is to mentally bring you back to the year of 1990 by running Aria
through a few trivia questions.
Are you ready for this?
I'm ready as ready as I'll ever be.
You're always ready.
Yeah, well, I mean, I say that, but then I never do very well.
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Well, I believe in you as usual.
The hope behind this segment is to make you think about where you were and what you were
doing as we go through the trivia questions if you happen to be alive in 1990, which you
were.
Yes.
Okay.
First question.
This is a good one.
In 1990, which fast food chain began to cook French fries in vegetable oil?
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McDonald's.
Where's my bell?
I need my bell.
That's the right answer.
That's the right answer.
Yeah.
Yay.
Yeah.
I'm going to plug a bell sound in there somehow.
Yes, you could.
I could.
Yeah.
Okay.
Second question.
You're one for one.
In 1990, paleontologist Sue Hendrickson discovered the remains of which prehistoric dinosaur
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in South Dakota?
In 1990, the paleontologist Sue Hendrickson unearthed a dinosaur.
Was it?
Not a live one.
Wow.
A fossil.
Thanks for clarifying.
You're welcome.
Was it a stegosaurus?
Man, it was not a stegosaurus, but if this dinosaur was alive right now, it couldn't
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hug you.
Oh, it was a T-Rex?
It was a T-Rex.
Really?
Oh, that's cool.
It could kind of hug you, but not a full wraparound hug.
Yeah.
Well, one for two.
That's not bad.
One for two is not bad.
50% so far.
Yeah, 50-50.
In 1990, which animated television show premiered on Fox Television Network?
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The Simpsons?
The Simpsons is correct.
Wow, you're doing really good.
It's not 100% like I was hoping, but you're doing good.
In 1990, what was the average cost of a dozen eggs?
89 cents.
Stop it.
Was it for real?
It's 89 cents.
No.
Did you cheat?
No, I didn't.
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I don't know how you got that.
That's like when you got the stamp question or whatever.
I had no idea.
I know about stamps.
That was just a...
It was really a guess.
89 cents is right.
I was like, 99 cents?
No, probably 89.
Wow.
I'm impressed.
Okay.
Well, then I should...
I mean, that should, I don't know, clear up all my losses from the past.
Maybe.
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Let's see if you get this one.
Okay.
On February 11th of 1990, during the Grammy Awards, which musical group drew controversy
and later had their awards stripped due to this controversy?
The lip syncing controversy?
That's the controversy.
Who was the...
Vanilla Ice.
Oh, man.
Don't talk about my boy that way.
That's who it was though, right?
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It's not Vanilla Ice.
Or, wait, wait, who is it then?
Millie Vanilli.
Millie Vanilli.
Oh.
I was thinking Vanilla.
Vanilla, Millie, Vanilli.
I do remember the big controversy.
Well, I don't remember it.
I wasn't old enough to remember it then, but I've heard about it later on.
That's fair.
Yeah.
You're close.
I mean, I do.
It's the lip syncing controversy.
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I'm going to say you...
Well, you did win.
You did win trivia, but you did not get 100%.
So you will be in the hot seat next week again until you get 100%.
And then I will take over.
Or, you will take over.
Yes.
And I will be on the hot seat.
Okay.
Well, thank you for participating in that.
That was pretty awesome.
I'm impressed with the 89 cent eggs.
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Me too.
Which brings me to the mimosa recipe for today.
Let's hear it.
It doesn't include eggs.
Today's mimosa recipe is just as easy as last week's.
I enjoyed the summer shandy mimosa so much we returned to the grocery store to try out
another mixer from that same brand, Stirrings.
We're not sponsoring or we're not sponsored by Stirrings.
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We don't have anything to do with them, but we have to give them a shout out because their
mixers are a home run.
100%.
This mixer we got for today's mimosa is called the Simple Paloma.
So it's meant for a Paloma cocktail.
It's a blend of grapefruit juice and key lime concentrate.
If you mix this with your favorite champagne, you will not be disappointed.
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I promise it's delicious.
I feel like we've gotten a little bit lazy with our mimosa or just buying pre packaged
mixers.
There's only so much you can do.
I think next week's mimosa recipe might just be orange juice.
Wow.
Just for a dish.
Maybe.
Yeah, with a lemon slice or something.
I don't know.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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I'm not lazy with it.
I just actually really like this mixer so much that it's going to find its way into
all my champagne.
I'm just saying.
Maybe we can get a sponsorship deal with Stirrings.
I don't know.
Maybe.
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Okay, so I promised our listeners that you're going to present today's case and you better
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do a good job.
Geez.
That's a little demanding.
I am their voice right now.
There's a lot of pressure.
If you're in the car, roll up your windows, turn down the heater and listen to the voice
of an angel, Aria, presenting today's case.
Thank you.
So, today's case is about a lady by the name of Marlene Warren.
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On May 26th, 1990, Marlene Warren was at her Wellington, Florida home with her son, Joe,
and a few of Joe's friends when she received a knock at her door.
When Marlene answered her door, she was face to face with someone dressed in a clown costume.
The clown was standing in her doorway with a painted face, wearing a striped clown costume,
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an orange wig, and a red clown nose.
The clown handed Marlene some balloons and a basket of red and white carnation flowers
before pointing a.357 revolver at Marlene.
The clown pulled the trigger, shooting Marlene in the face.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
I mean, first of all, that's creepy.
Right?
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I don't like clowns.
You know this.
A lot of people don't like clowns.
They're creepy, right?
I mean, if you like clowns, I apologize if that's offensive, but I think I find them
creepy.
And I don't even know if I would answer the door if there was a clown standing outside.
You know what's funny is when I was a kid, we used to watch, or I used to, not we, I
used to watch Bozo the Clown.
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Yes.
And he always had the birthday shout outs across the bottom.
And I just had this unrealistic expectation on my birthday that he would tell me happy
birthday even though I know that nobody called it in.
Right.
I just kind of thought, oh, maybe they know it's my birthday.
I just remember that as a kid.
That's actually so cute.
Is it cute?
It's cute.
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So innocent.
Not to get off topic, but I mean, they're creepy.
For a clown to just be standing at your door, I don't think I would answer it.
No.
Well, you know, I don't know.
I don't know if I would answer it or not.
I mean, now we have ring doorbell cameras so we'd be able to see.
And if there's a creepy clown and I wasn't expecting him, I mean, why would I be expecting
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a clown?
Right.
I don't think anyone would expect a clown.
This is kind of strange.
Okay.
When Joe heard the gunshot, he ran to the front door to see what happened, only to find
his mom lying in the doorway to his house in a pool of blood.
As Joe looked out the front door, he saw the clown calmly walking away.
The clown turned and looked at Joe before getting into a white convertible Chrysler
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LeBaron.
Okay.
That's even creepier.
They didn't even try to run away.
They just calmly walked away?
Yeah.
It wasn't like they ran across the yard.
They walked and not only walked, but turned and looked.
Yeah, that's super creepy.
Really creepy.
Huh.
Yeah.
Okay.
So as the clown sped away, Joe gave chase, but was unable to catch up to the clown.
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So we didn't mention this, but Joe was actually at his mom's recovering from a...
He had a broken leg.
He had just been in a car crash recently.
So he's trying his best to run out, get into a car, and then chase this clown down with
his broken leg.
And unfortunately, he wasn't able to catch up to the clown or the car.
Well good for Joe for trying.
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Yeah.
So while Joe was gone trying to catch the clown, his friends called 911 and a neighbor
who happened to be a doctor heard the gunshot and went over and rendered aid in an attempt
to save Marlene's life.
I love good Samaritans.
Me too.
Okay.
When Joe returned home, paramedics were already on scene doing everything they could to save
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Marlene before transporting her to a nearby hospital.
Marlene was in critical condition and survived for two days before she was taken off of life
support.
That's so sad.
It is.
You know, you hear of sometimes people surviving gunshot wounds to the face or to the head
or something.
And, you know, not to turn this into a morbid conversation, but I've actually responded
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to suicides where people have attempted to shoot themselves and then they just permanently
disfigure themselves because they don't do it right.
Not every gunshot wound to the face or the head is going to end in death.
Yeah.
And so I'm sure, you know, Joe was very hopeful that that was the case for his mom.
For sure.
Because how horrible, right?
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He's there hanging out with his mom.
She goes to answer the door.
I believe he quoted her last words as saying something like, oh, how pretty when she saw
the flowers.
And then he heard a gunshot.
I mean, that is traumatic.
That is traumatic.
And he runs out.
His mom is laying in a puddle of blood and then a creepy clown is walking slowly across
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the yards looking at him.
Like that poor guy.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
That probably has a very significant effect on his mental health throughout his whole
life.
I'm sure.
I've heard this and it's just, it has to be just so surreal.
Like this couldn't have just happened.
Yeah.
This is like what you see in the movies.
Exactly.
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Would never, I don't think in your wildest imagination, imagine that that is going to
be something that happens in your, the doorway of your home.
In your, in your city or your neighborhood, much less your own home.
Exactly.
So when police questioned Joe, the only description Joe was able to give police was the color
of the clown's eyes.
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Joe remembered the clown had dark brown eyes and told police he watched the clown again,
calmly walk away.
I mean, of course he's not going to be able to really give a description, right?
It's someone in a clown costume with a painted face and a wig.
So you're kind of limited on what you're able to tell.
I mean, maybe, maybe like weight and height and then eye color.
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I mean, maybe, maybe color if you have their hands are visible.
Yeah.
I mean, probably not even wait.
I mean, you see those clown costumes, they're very loosely fitting, but maybe a height.
I mean, and then who knows what kind of shoe wear.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, yeah, I mean, it's the, the description is going to be super limited and I just try
to put myself in the responding police officer or detective's shoes.
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Could you imagine going to a homicide or a, you know, a shooting and the only description
you have as a clown?
Right.
I mean, it's almost like unbelievable.
Yeah, exactly.
So to give a little backstory, in 1972, Marlene married her husband, Mike Warren.
At the time of their marriage, Marlene's son, Joe, was only three years old.
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Because of his young age, Mike was the only dad Joe ever knew growing up.
Mike and Marlene were very successful business owners.
They owned several rental properties together, race horses, an airplane, and an auto dealership
by the name of Bargain Motors.
Sometime in the 1980s, Mike and Marlene built a new home in a neighborhood called the Aero
Club.
The Aero Club is an upscale gated community with fancy homes and a private runway in the
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middle of the neighborhood.
The car dealership Marlene and Mike owned, Bargain Motors, was the type of car dealership
that would offer financing to people who had less than favorable credit.
So as you can imagine, Mike would often repossess cars when his customers were unable to make
their payments.
So in order to repossess the cars, Mike hired a woman by the name of Sheila Keen and her
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husband who apparently were very good at repossessing cars.
As time went on, people became suspicious of Mike and Sheila, suspecting they were having
an affair.
In fact, even Marlene thought Mike was being unfaithful.
Apparently she had told her parents in the weeks prior to her murder that she was suspicious
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of Mike and was looking to leave him.
Oh, wow.
At one point, Marlene told Joe that if anything ever happened to her, Mike did it.
So obviously police turned their attention to Mike, but at the time of the shooting,
Mike had an airtight alibi.
Mike was in a car with a bunch of friends when Joe called him to tell him his mom had
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been shot.
Okay, so they ruled him out as the clown pretty quickly.
Yes.
So immediately after Marlene was gunned down in the doorway of her home, police began interviewing
witnesses in an attempt to find any sort of clue to lead them to identify Marlene's killer.
They started looking into local businesses to find out if anyone purchased a clown costume.
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Because Marlene's killer left the balloons and flowers behind at the crime scene, police
were actually able to track the purchase of the balloons and flowers to a local grocery
store.
It was there that police were able to interview a store clerk who sold the balloons and flowers,
but unfortunately the only description the clerk was able to provide was that of a woman
with long brown hair who happened to match the description of Sheila Keene.
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Not only that, but police found a witness in a costume store who remembered selling
a clown costume to include a red clown nose and an orange wig to a woman with long brown
hair also matching the description of Sheila Keene.
The witness also reported the woman made the clown costume purchase with cash just days
before the shooting.
Okay, so that's weird.
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So now police are looking into a woman.
Yes.
And they're zeroing in on Sheila Keene.
Exactly.
So four days after the shooting, police recovered that white Chrysler LeBaron in a Windexey
parking lot approximately eight miles from the crime scene.
The car had been reported as stolen by a rental car company called Payless Rent-A-Car.
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Payless was a competitor of Mike Warren's and was in the same vicinity as Bargain Motors.
The interesting thing about the car is the couple who had rented it called who they thought
was the Payless rental company to see where they could leave the car as they needed to
turn it in earlier than anticipated.
The individual they spoke with told them to go ahead and leave it parked on the street
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outside the gate at Payless Rent-A-Car with the keys up in the visor.
The couple was uncomfortable leaving the car like this but did as they were instructed.
The next day the car was reported stolen as it had not been returned to the rental company.
When questioned, it turned out the couple found the phone number for the rental car
company on an advertisement in the Yellow Pages phone book.
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But the number they had actually dialed was the number for Bargain Motors.
You see the advertisement had the word Payless in bold letters so the couple mistook this
to be the car rental company by the same name.
Payless Rent-A-Car had actually sued Mike Warren for this very ad claiming he was purposely
confusing customers by using this wording.
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I think he probably was.
Yeah, oh absolutely.
Isn't that crazy though?
It is crazy.
Yeah.
So they just, man it's almost like just a crime of opportunity.
Right.
This is a weird coincidence.
I mean as far as the car portion, that's just weird.
So inside that car police found orange fibers which they say resembled the same fibers found
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in the orange wig.
But that's not all.
Police also found a strand of brown hair.
And Sheila Kane has brown hair.
Got it.
So obviously based on the matching descriptions from two separate store clerks, police knew
they were looking for a woman with long brown hair.
Because Mike had an alibi but he was suspected of having an affair with Sheila, police obtained
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a search warrant for Sheila's apartment.
Inside Sheila's apartment police found orange fibers on some of her clothing.
When police interviewed Sheila, she denied having any involvement in Marlene's murder.
However, it was common knowledge that Sheila was known to carry a gun when she repossessed
cars for Mike.
And when police questioned her about the gun, Sheila claimed to have lost it.
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That's coincidental.
Yeah.
She just happened to lose the gun at the same time that Marlene was shot.
So she loses the gun when Marlene is shot.
There's orange clown hair or orange fibers.
I shouldn't say clown hair but orange fibers inside her apartment when they execute the
search warrant.
There's orange fibers found inside the car along with a brown hair.
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She has brown hair.
But this is 1990.
So there's not super great technology for testing these things back in the night, in
early 90s.
Exactly.
So at this point police are narrowing in on Sheila like you said as their prime suspect.
But they don't have any physical evidence to link Sheila to the crime.
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At this point their evidence is circumstantial.
She has the means, the motive, and the weapon.
Well, yeah.
She has all those things.
She has a weapon.
Not anymore.
She lost it.
Who knows when she said she lost it.
But at one point she had a weapon.
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I wonder if anybody knew it to be a.357 revolver.
That's curious.
But you're right.
She does have the motive because if she's having an affair with Mike and this is a very
wealthy couple, the motive would be to take Mike and everything that Marlene has.
Right.
Well, I mean, I think that if Mike's involved in this whole thing, at a minimum Sheila is
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involved possibly thinking, hey, I'm having an affair with this man.
If he goes through this divorce, it could get ugly.
He could lose half of everything that he has.
So we can take care of this issue in this way.
So they both have a motive.
Right.
And then they can continue on with everything, not having to split assets or anything like
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that.
So I think.
Yeah.
They both have a motive.
Yes.
Okay.
Although police were unable to build a strong murder case against Mike and Sheila, Mike
was convicted in 1994 of racketeering, grand theft, and odometer tampering charges.
Mike was sentenced to four years in prison.
Wow.
So what a great guy.
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Taking advantage of his customers, obviously.
I mean, it was connected to bargain motors.
Right.
I mean, I'm assuming if he has odometer tampering charges and grand theft and racketeering.
Yeah, it's not the kind of guy I want to buy a car from.
Not at all.
Sounds shady.
Indeed.
So because the murder case was only built on circumstantial evidence, police didn't
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have enough physical evidence or information to successfully prosecute Sheila and the case
went cold.
That is just crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, it is built on circumstantial evidence.
And a lot of times when you have a case built solely on circumstantial evidence and there's
no physical evidence to tie someone to a crime.
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Although we're talking about 1990 and the testing of fibers and hair and everything
in DNA is not where it is today.
I think it'd be a different story today because you'd probably be able to identify that these
fibers in the car were manufactured in the same place as the fibers found in the search
warrant of the apartment.
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But with that, it is super difficult to build a case, a prosecutable case where you prove
it beyond a reasonable doubt with only circumstantial evidence.
And so I'm guessing the reason why they didn't bring charges against Mike and Sheila then
was because they didn't think they had a very good likelihood of a conviction.
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Exactly.
In 2013, the cold case unit reopened the case.
And as you can imagine, and you spoke about DNA technology was much more advanced by this
time.
For sure.
During their investigation, police learned that Mike and Sheila actually got married
in 2002.
It was discovered Mike and Sheila moved to Abingdon, Virginia to open a fast food restaurant
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called the Purple Cow just over the border in Kingsport, Tennessee.
The other interesting thing about their marriage and relocation is that Sheila changed her
first name to Debbie.
Okay, so I don't think it takes a world class detective to figure out.
I'm pretty sure they were having an affair when they were suspected of it.
Right.
Okay.
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Exactly.
And so then he goes away to prison, comes back out, they get together and get married
and move away.
Then she changes her name to hide her identity probably because she doesn't want law enforcement
saying, oh, look, Mike married Sheila.
No, when they look on the surface, Mike married Debbie.
Exactly.
So after processing that hair that was found inside the white LeBaron, police learned the
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hair did match that of Sheila Keen.
In September of 2017, Sheila was arrested for the murder of Marlene Warren and extradited
back to the Palm Beach County jail where she spent nearly six years waiting for a trial.
I think it was so lengthy because it kept getting postponed because of COVID and all
of that as well.
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Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
Sure.
Finally, in April of 2023, Sheila pled guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced
to 12 years in prison.
Because Sheila spent so much time in jail awaiting trial, she was given credit for the
time she served and because she has the potential to be given credit for good behavior, Sheila
is now expected to be released in 2025 if not sooner.
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That is the craziest thing I've ever heard.
It is.
So it's almost like she just got away with it really.
That's a super light sentence for donning a clown costume and terrifying somebody and
shooting them in the face.
Killing someone in cold blood.
That's going to their house, knocking on their door and shooting them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Because the case was so old and the evidence wasn't in the best condition, prosecutors
believed Sheila had a good chance at winning a trial, so they discussed the second degree
murder plea with Joe, who agreed to the plea deal in an attempt to have some sort of justice
for his mom.
Even though Sheila pled to second degree murder, both Sheila and Mike maintain their innocence
to this day.
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And you know, Mike's never been charged in this or anything.
And charges have never been brought against him in this murder.
And you know, she was getting ready to get out here pretty soon.
So I'm going to guess that even if he ever had any kind of ties to it, we'll never know.
She's not going to say anything.
I mean, we can assume.
My opinion is it seems like he has everything to do with it.
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I think it's interesting that, you know, you go to prison, you get back out and then you
marry the woman who is the prime suspect in the murder of your former wife.
I mean, exactly.
Yeah.
That doesn't happen.
No.
Not not with reasonable people anyway.
Here, I'm going to just I'm going to say it out loud so that everybody knows if you ever,
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if anything tragic ever happens to you and there's a suspect that's a woman, I promise
you I will not marry that woman.
Thank you.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
OK.
Yeah, I mean, that seems like that seems like a normal thing that would happen.
But and you could take this to the bank if I do.
It's my fault.
OK.
Yeah.
All right.
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I mean, I've found that if that happens and you marry a man that kills me, that it's your
fault.
OK.
Got it.
I don't know about, you know, Sheila and Mike, I mean, or Debbie and Mike or whatever you
want to call her.
Yeah.
I'm going to say it's their fault.
Anyway, yeah, that's that's just a super interesting case to me.
And so I had heard about this case years before they had arrested Sheila.
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And so, you know, kind of following it through the years.
And then, you know, she was just recently convicted last year, I believe, was when yeah,
was April of twenty three.
So it's been very recent.
It's been a long time coming.
Yeah.
You figure how long is that?
Thirty three years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It took thirty three years from the time she was murdered to find just even this little
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bit of justice for her.
Yeah.
Thirty three years to spend a fraction of her life in prison for murdering somebody
in cold blood, and she can maintain her innocence all she wants.
But the fact of the matter is she took a plea to second degree murder for for killing Marlene.
She'll always be a convicted murderer.
Yeah, she will be.
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And, you know, hopefully that small sentence and that little bit of justice helps Joe move
forward in his life and gives him some sort of relief.
I hope so.
I mean, I feel absolutely terrible for Joe, because not only did he have this happen to
his mom, he was there when it happened.
He heard everything, you know, had to see that.
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It's it's it's awful.
Well thank you for presenting today's episode of this crazy killer clown, Sheila Keen.
This is this is an interesting case.
And if you like cases like this, our plan is to add solved cases to a Patreon where
you get, I don't know, maybe one, no, definitely one, maybe two extra episodes every month,
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as well as getting early access to the episodes we do release.
We haven't really figured out those details yet.
It's not ready to roll.
I don't really know what it looks like, but it's in the works.
And what are your thoughts?
What do you want to do?
No, I think I send out a sticker.
Yeah.
With your face on it?
No, no, not with my face on it.
OK, just a sticker.
Yeah, with maybe mysteries and mimosas on it.
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Yeah, mysteries and mimosas would be good.
OK, well, there you have it.
This is the case of Sheila Keen murdering Marlene Warren in 1990.
So thank you.
You did a great job.
You did an excellent job.
Thank you.
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So thank you for that.
Yes, thank you very much.
And in the meantime, I would like to propose a toast to the life of Marlene Warren and
her son Joe.
Cheers.
I got this cup for you before the full show started and is made for 10 adults.
Welcome to mysteries and mimosas and thank you for listening.
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My name is Max and with me is your favorite co-host Aria.
Hi everyone.
Hi Aria.
Thanks for helping me out with today's episode.
You're going to nail this one.
I hope so.
Today's episode is a little bit different.
We typically cover unsolved cases and missing persons, but today we're going to give you
the solved case or a solved case from the year 1990.
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As usual, we like to kick off our Thursday episode with trivia from the year of the crime.
The idea behind trivia is to mentally bring you back to the year of 1990 by running Aria
through a few trivia questions.
Are you ready for this?
I'm ready as ready as I'll ever be.
You're always ready.
Yeah, well, I mean, I say that, but then I never do very well.
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Well, I believe in you as usual.
The hope behind this segment is to make you think about where you were and what you were
doing as we go through the trivia questions if you happen to be alive in 1990, which you
were.
Yes.
Okay.
First question.
This is a good one.
In 1990, which fast food chain began to cook French fries in vegetable oil?
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McDonald's.
Where's my bell?
I need my bell.
That's the right answer.
That's the right answer.
Yeah.
Yay.
Yeah.
I'm going to plug a bell sound in there somehow.
Yes, you could.
I could.
Yeah.
Okay.
Second question.
You're one for one.
In 1990, paleontologist Sue Hendrickson discovered the remains of which prehistoric dinosaur
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in South Dakota?
In 1990, the paleontologist Sue Hendrickson unearthed a dinosaur.
Was it?
Not a live one.
Wow.
A fossil.
Thanks for clarifying.
You're welcome.
Was it a stegosaurus?
Man, it was not a stegosaurus, but if this dinosaur was alive right now, it couldn't
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hug you.
Oh, it was a T-Rex?
It was a T-Rex.
Really?
Oh, that's cool.
It could kind of hug you, but not a full wraparound hug.
Yeah.
Well, one for two.
That's not bad.
One for two is not bad.
50% so far.
Yeah, 50-50.
In 1990, which animated television show premiered on Fox Television Network?
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The Simpsons?
The Simpsons is correct.
Wow, you're doing really good.
It's not 100% like I was hoping, but you're doing good.
In 1990, what was the average cost of a dozen eggs?
89 cents.
Stop it.
Was it for real?
It's 89 cents.
No.
Did you cheat?
No, I didn't.
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I don't know how you got that.
That's like when you got the stamp question or whatever.
I had no idea.
I know about stamps.
That was just a...
It was really a guess.
89 cents is right.
I was like, 99 cents?
No, probably 89.
Wow.
I'm impressed.
Okay.
Well, then I should...
I mean, that should, I don't know, clear up all my losses from the past.
Maybe.
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Let's see if you get this one.
Okay.
On February 11th of 1990, during the Grammy Awards, which musical group drew controversy
and later had their awards stripped due to this controversy?
The lip syncing controversy?
That's the controversy.
Who was the...
Vanilla Ice.
Oh, man.
Don't talk about my boy that way.
That's who it was though, right?
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It's not Vanilla Ice.
Or, wait, wait, who is it then?
Millie Vanilli.
Millie Vanilli.
Oh.
I was thinking Vanilla.
Vanilla, Millie, Vanilli.
I do remember the big controversy.
Well, I don't remember it.
I wasn't old enough to remember it then, but I've heard about it later on.
That's fair.
Yeah.
You're close.
I mean, I do.
It's the lip syncing controversy.
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I'm going to say you...
Well, you did win.
You did win trivia, but you did not get 100%.
So you will be in the hot seat next week again until you get 100%.
And then I will take over.
Or, you will take over.
Yes.
And I will be on the hot seat.
Okay.
Well, thank you for participating in that.
That was pretty awesome.
I'm impressed with the 89 cent eggs.
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So it's meant for a Paloma cocktail.
It's a blend of grapefruit juice and key lime concentrate.
If you mix this with your favorite champagne, you will not be disappointed.
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I promise it's delicious.
I feel like we've gotten a little bit lazy with our mimosa or just buying pre packaged
mixers.
There's only so much you can do.
I think next week's mimosa recipe might just be orange juice.
Wow.
Just for a dish.
Maybe.
Yeah, with a lemon slice or something.
I don't know.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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I'm not lazy with it.
I just actually really like this mixer so much that it's going to find its way into
all my champagne.
I'm just saying.
Maybe we can get a sponsorship deal with Stirrings.
I don't know.
Maybe.
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Okay, so I promised our listeners that you're going to present today's case and you better
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do a good job.
Geez.
That's a little demanding.
I am their voice right now.
There's a lot of pressure.
If you're in the car, roll up your windows, turn down the heater and listen to the voice
of an angel, Aria, presenting today's case.
Thank you.
So, today's case is about a lady by the name of Marlene Warren.
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On May 26th, 1990, Marlene Warren was at her Wellington, Florida home with her son, Joe,
and a few of Joe's friends when she received a knock at her door.
When Marlene answered her door, she was face to face with someone dressed in a clown costume.
The clown was standing in her doorway with a painted face, wearing a striped clown costume,
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an orange wig, and a red clown nose.
The clown handed Marlene some balloons and a basket of red and white carnation flowers
before pointing a.357 revolver at Marlene.
The clown pulled the trigger, shooting Marlene in the face.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
I mean, first of all, that's creepy.
Right?
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I don't like clowns.
You know this.
A lot of people don't like clowns.
They're creepy, right?
I mean, if you like clowns, I apologize if that's offensive, but I think I find them
creepy.
And I don't even know if I would answer the door if there was a clown standing outside.
You know what's funny is when I was a kid, we used to watch, or I used to, not we, I
used to watch Bozo the Clown.
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Yes.
And he always had the birthday shout outs across the bottom.
And I just had this unrealistic expectation on my birthday that he would tell me happy
birthday even though I know that nobody called it in.
Right.
I just kind of thought, oh, maybe they know it's my birthday.
I just remember that as a kid.
That's actually so cute.
Is it cute?
It's cute.
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So innocent.
Not to get off topic, but I mean, they're creepy.
For a clown to just be standing at your door, I don't think I would answer it.
No.
Well, you know, I don't know.
I don't know if I would answer it or not.
I mean, now we have ring doorbell cameras so we'd be able to see.
And if there's a creepy clown and I wasn't expecting him, I mean, why would I be expecting
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a clown?
Right.
I don't think anyone would expect a clown.
This is kind of strange.
Okay.
When Joe heard the gunshot, he ran to the front door to see what happened, only to find
his mom lying in the doorway to his house in a pool of blood.
As Joe looked out the front door, he saw the clown calmly walking away.
The clown turned and looked at Joe before getting into a white convertible Chrysler
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LeBaron.
Okay.
That's even creepier.
They didn't even try to run away.
They just calmly walked away?
Yeah.
It wasn't like they ran across the yard.
They walked and not only walked, but turned and looked.
Yeah, that's super creepy.
Really creepy.
Huh.
Yeah.
Okay.
So as the clown sped away, Joe gave chase, but was unable to catch up to the clown.
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So we didn't mention this, but Joe was actually at his mom's recovering from a...
He had a broken leg.
He had just been in a car crash recently.
So he's trying his best to run out, get into a car, and then chase this clown down with
his broken leg.
And unfortunately, he wasn't able to catch up to the clown or the car.
Well good for Joe for trying.
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Yeah.
So while Joe was gone trying to catch the clown, his friends called 911 and a neighbor
who happened to be a doctor heard the gunshot and went over and rendered aid in an attempt
to save Marlene's life.
I love good Samaritans.
Me too.
Okay.
When Joe returned home, paramedics were already on scene doing everything they could to save
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Marlene before transporting her to a nearby hospital.
Marlene was in critical condition and survived for two days before she was taken off of life
support.
That's so sad.
It is.
You know, you hear of sometimes people surviving gunshot wounds to the face or to the head
or something.
And, you know, not to turn this into a morbid conversation, but I've actually responded
(10:09):
to suicides where people have attempted to shoot themselves and then they just permanently
disfigure themselves because they don't do it right.
Not every gunshot wound to the face or the head is going to end in death.
Yeah.
And so I'm sure, you know, Joe was very hopeful that that was the case for his mom.
For sure.
Because how horrible, right?
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He's there hanging out with his mom.
She goes to answer the door.
I believe he quoted her last words as saying something like, oh, how pretty when she saw
the flowers.
And then he heard a gunshot.
I mean, that is traumatic.
That is traumatic.
And he runs out.
His mom is laying in a puddle of blood and then a creepy clown is walking slowly across
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the yards looking at him.
Like that poor guy.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
That probably has a very significant effect on his mental health throughout his whole
life.
I'm sure.
I've heard this and it's just, it has to be just so surreal.
Like this couldn't have just happened.
Yeah.
This is like what you see in the movies.
Exactly.
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Would never, I don't think in your wildest imagination, imagine that that is going to
be something that happens in your, the doorway of your home.
In your, in your city or your neighborhood, much less your own home.
Exactly.
So when police questioned Joe, the only description Joe was able to give police was the color
of the clown's eyes.
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Joe remembered the clown had dark brown eyes and told police he watched the clown again,
calmly walk away.
I mean, of course he's not going to be able to really give a description, right?
It's someone in a clown costume with a painted face and a wig.
So you're kind of limited on what you're able to tell.
I mean, maybe, maybe like weight and height and then eye color.
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I mean, maybe, maybe color if you have their hands are visible.
Yeah.
I mean, probably not even wait.
I mean, you see those clown costumes, they're very loosely fitting, but maybe a height.
I mean, and then who knows what kind of shoe wear.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, yeah, I mean, it's the, the description is going to be super limited and I just try
to put myself in the responding police officer or detective's shoes.
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Could you imagine going to a homicide or a, you know, a shooting and the only description
you have as a clown?
Right.
I mean, it's almost like unbelievable.
Yeah, exactly.
So to give a little backstory, in 1972, Marlene married her husband, Mike Warren.
At the time of their marriage, Marlene's son, Joe, was only three years old.
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Because of his young age, Mike was the only dad Joe ever knew growing up.
Mike and Marlene were very successful business owners.
They owned several rental properties together, race horses, an airplane, and an auto dealership
by the name of Bargain Motors.
Sometime in the 1980s, Mike and Marlene built a new home in a neighborhood called the Aero
Club.
The Aero Club is an upscale gated community with fancy homes and a private runway in the
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middle of the neighborhood.
The car dealership Marlene and Mike owned, Bargain Motors, was the type of car dealership
that would offer financing to people who had less than favorable credit.
So as you can imagine, Mike would often repossess cars when his customers were unable to make
their payments.
So in order to repossess the cars, Mike hired a woman by the name of Sheila Keen and her
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husband who apparently were very good at repossessing cars.
As time went on, people became suspicious of Mike and Sheila, suspecting they were having
an affair.
In fact, even Marlene thought Mike was being unfaithful.
Apparently she had told her parents in the weeks prior to her murder that she was suspicious
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of Mike and was looking to leave him.
Oh, wow.
At one point, Marlene told Joe that if anything ever happened to her, Mike did it.
So obviously police turned their attention to Mike, but at the time of the shooting,
Mike had an airtight alibi.
Mike was in a car with a bunch of friends when Joe called him to tell him his mom had
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been shot.
Okay, so they ruled him out as the clown pretty quickly.
Yes.
So immediately after Marlene was gunned down in the doorway of her home, police began interviewing
witnesses in an attempt to find any sort of clue to lead them to identify Marlene's killer.
They started looking into local businesses to find out if anyone purchased a clown costume.
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Because Marlene's killer left the balloons and flowers behind at the crime scene, police
were actually able to track the purchase of the balloons and flowers to a local grocery
store.
It was there that police were able to interview a store clerk who sold the balloons and flowers,
but unfortunately the only description the clerk was able to provide was that of a woman
with long brown hair who happened to match the description of Sheila Keene.
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Not only that, but police found a witness in a costume store who remembered selling
a clown costume to include a red clown nose and an orange wig to a woman with long brown
hair also matching the description of Sheila Keene.
The witness also reported the woman made the clown costume purchase with cash just days
before the shooting.
Okay, so that's weird.
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So now police are looking into a woman.
Yes.
And they're zeroing in on Sheila Keene.
Exactly.
So four days after the shooting, police recovered that white Chrysler LeBaron in a Windexey
parking lot approximately eight miles from the crime scene.
The car had been reported as stolen by a rental car company called Payless Rent-A-Car.
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Payless was a competitor of Mike Warren's and was in the same vicinity as Bargain Motors.
The interesting thing about the car is the couple who had rented it called who they thought
was the Payless rental company to see where they could leave the car as they needed to
turn it in earlier than anticipated.
The individual they spoke with told them to go ahead and leave it parked on the street
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outside the gate at Payless Rent-A-Car with the keys up in the visor.
The couple was uncomfortable leaving the car like this but did as they were instructed.
The next day the car was reported stolen as it had not been returned to the rental company.
When questioned, it turned out the couple found the phone number for the rental car
company on an advertisement in the Yellow Pages phone book.
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But the number they had actually dialed was the number for Bargain Motors.
You see the advertisement had the word Payless in bold letters so the couple mistook this
to be the car rental company by the same name.
Payless Rent-A-Car had actually sued Mike Warren for this very ad claiming he was purposely
confusing customers by using this wording.
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I think he probably was.
Yeah, oh absolutely.
Isn't that crazy though?
It is crazy.
Yeah.
So they just, man it's almost like just a crime of opportunity.
Right.
This is a weird coincidence.
I mean as far as the car portion, that's just weird.
So inside that car police found orange fibers which they say resembled the same fibers found
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in the orange wig.
But that's not all.
Police also found a strand of brown hair.
And Sheila Kane has brown hair.
Got it.
So obviously based on the matching descriptions from two separate store clerks, police knew
they were looking for a woman with long brown hair.
Because Mike had an alibi but he was suspected of having an affair with Sheila, police obtained
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a search warrant for Sheila's apartment.
Inside Sheila's apartment police found orange fibers on some of her clothing.
When police interviewed Sheila, she denied having any involvement in Marlene's murder.
However, it was common knowledge that Sheila was known to carry a gun when she repossessed
cars for Mike.
And when police questioned her about the gun, Sheila claimed to have lost it.
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That's coincidental.
Yeah.
She just happened to lose the gun at the same time that Marlene was shot.
So she loses the gun when Marlene is shot.
There's orange clown hair or orange fibers.
I shouldn't say clown hair but orange fibers inside her apartment when they execute the
search warrant.
There's orange fibers found inside the car along with a brown hair.
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She has brown hair.
But this is 1990.
So there's not super great technology for testing these things back in the night, in
early 90s.
Exactly.
So at this point police are narrowing in on Sheila like you said as their prime suspect.
But they don't have any physical evidence to link Sheila to the crime.
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At this point their evidence is circumstantial.
She has the means, the motive, and the weapon.
Well, yeah.
She has all those things.
She has a weapon.
Not anymore.
She lost it.
Who knows when she said she lost it.
But at one point she had a weapon.
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I wonder if anybody knew it to be a.357 revolver.
That's curious.
But you're right.
She does have the motive because if she's having an affair with Mike and this is a very
wealthy couple, the motive would be to take Mike and everything that Marlene has.
Right.
Well, I mean, I think that if Mike's involved in this whole thing, at a minimum Sheila is
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involved possibly thinking, hey, I'm having an affair with this man.
If he goes through this divorce, it could get ugly.
He could lose half of everything that he has.
So we can take care of this issue in this way.
So they both have a motive.
Right.
And then they can continue on with everything, not having to split assets or anything like
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that.
So I think.
Yeah.
They both have a motive.
Yes.
Okay.
Although police were unable to build a strong murder case against Mike and Sheila, Mike
was convicted in 1994 of racketeering, grand theft, and odometer tampering charges.
Mike was sentenced to four years in prison.
Wow.
So what a great guy.
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Taking advantage of his customers, obviously.
I mean, it was connected to bargain motors.
Right.
I mean, I'm assuming if he has odometer tampering charges and grand theft and racketeering.
Yeah, it's not the kind of guy I want to buy a car from.
Not at all.
Sounds shady.
Indeed.
So because the murder case was only built on circumstantial evidence, police didn't
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have enough physical evidence or information to successfully prosecute Sheila and the case
went cold.
That is just crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, it is built on circumstantial evidence.
And a lot of times when you have a case built solely on circumstantial evidence and there's
no physical evidence to tie someone to a crime.
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Although we're talking about 1990 and the testing of fibers and hair and everything
in DNA is not where it is today.
I think it'd be a different story today because you'd probably be able to identify that these
fibers in the car were manufactured in the same place as the fibers found in the search
warrant of the apartment.
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But with that, it is super difficult to build a case, a prosecutable case where you prove
it beyond a reasonable doubt with only circumstantial evidence.
And so I'm guessing the reason why they didn't bring charges against Mike and Sheila then
was because they didn't think they had a very good likelihood of a conviction.
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Exactly.
In 2013, the cold case unit reopened the case.
And as you can imagine, and you spoke about DNA technology was much more advanced by this
time.
For sure.
During their investigation, police learned that Mike and Sheila actually got married
in 2002.
It was discovered Mike and Sheila moved to Abingdon, Virginia to open a fast food restaurant
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called the Purple Cow just over the border in Kingsport, Tennessee.
The other interesting thing about their marriage and relocation is that Sheila changed her
first name to Debbie.
Okay, so I don't think it takes a world class detective to figure out.
I'm pretty sure they were having an affair when they were suspected of it.
Right.
Okay.
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Exactly.
And so then he goes away to prison, comes back out, they get together and get married
and move away.
Then she changes her name to hide her identity probably because she doesn't want law enforcement
saying, oh, look, Mike married Sheila.
No, when they look on the surface, Mike married Debbie.
Exactly.
So after processing that hair that was found inside the white LeBaron, police learned the
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hair did match that of Sheila Keen.
In September of 2017, Sheila was arrested for the murder of Marlene Warren and extradited
back to the Palm Beach County jail where she spent nearly six years waiting for a trial.
I think it was so lengthy because it kept getting postponed because of COVID and all
of that as well.
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Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
Sure.
Finally, in April of 2023, Sheila pled guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced
to 12 years in prison.
Because Sheila spent so much time in jail awaiting trial, she was given credit for the
time she served and because she has the potential to be given credit for good behavior, Sheila
is now expected to be released in 2025 if not sooner.
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That is the craziest thing I've ever heard.
It is.
So it's almost like she just got away with it really.
That's a super light sentence for donning a clown costume and terrifying somebody and
shooting them in the face.
Killing someone in cold blood.
That's going to their house, knocking on their door and shooting them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Because the case was so old and the evidence wasn't in the best condition, prosecutors
believed Sheila had a good chance at winning a trial, so they discussed the second degree
murder plea with Joe, who agreed to the plea deal in an attempt to have some sort of justice
for his mom.
Even though Sheila pled to second degree murder, both Sheila and Mike maintain their innocence
to this day.
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And you know, Mike's never been charged in this or anything.
And charges have never been brought against him in this murder.
And you know, she was getting ready to get out here pretty soon.
So I'm going to guess that even if he ever had any kind of ties to it, we'll never know.
She's not going to say anything.
I mean, we can assume.
My opinion is it seems like he has everything to do with it.
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I think it's interesting that, you know, you go to prison, you get back out and then you
marry the woman who is the prime suspect in the murder of your former wife.
I mean, exactly.
Yeah.
That doesn't happen.
No.
Not not with reasonable people anyway.
Here, I'm going to just I'm going to say it out loud so that everybody knows if you ever,
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if anything tragic ever happens to you and there's a suspect that's a woman, I promise
you I will not marry that woman.
Thank you.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
OK.
Yeah, I mean, that seems like that seems like a normal thing that would happen.
But and you could take this to the bank if I do.
It's my fault.
OK.
Yeah.
All right.
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I mean, I've found that if that happens and you marry a man that kills me, that it's your
fault.
OK.
Got it.
I don't know about, you know, Sheila and Mike, I mean, or Debbie and Mike or whatever you
want to call her.
Yeah.
I'm going to say it's their fault.
Anyway, yeah, that's that's just a super interesting case to me.
And so I had heard about this case years before they had arrested Sheila.
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And so, you know, kind of following it through the years.
And then, you know, she was just recently convicted last year, I believe, was when yeah,
was April of twenty three.
So it's been very recent.
It's been a long time coming.
Yeah.
You figure how long is that?
Thirty three years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It took thirty three years from the time she was murdered to find just even this little
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bit of justice for her.
Yeah.
Thirty three years to spend a fraction of her life in prison for murdering somebody
in cold blood, and she can maintain her innocence all she wants.
But the fact of the matter is she took a plea to second degree murder for for killing Marlene.
She'll always be a convicted murderer.
Yeah, she will be.
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And, you know, hopefully that small sentence and that little bit of justice helps Joe move
forward in his life and gives him some sort of relief.
I hope so.
I mean, I feel absolutely terrible for Joe, because not only did he have this happen to
his mom, he was there when it happened.
He heard everything, you know, had to see that.
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It's it's it's awful.
Well thank you for presenting today's episode of this crazy killer clown, Sheila Keen.
This is this is an interesting case.
And if you like cases like this, our plan is to add solved cases to a Patreon where
you get, I don't know, maybe one, no, definitely one, maybe two extra episodes every month,
(27:01):
as well as getting early access to the episodes we do release.
We haven't really figured out those details yet.
It's not ready to roll.
I don't really know what it looks like, but it's in the works.
And what are your thoughts?
What do you want to do?
No, I think I send out a sticker.
Yeah.
With your face on it?
No, no, not with my face on it.
OK, just a sticker.
Yeah, with maybe mysteries and mimosas on it.
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Yeah, mysteries and mimosas would be good.
OK, well, there you have it.
This is the case of Sheila Keen murdering Marlene Warren in 1990.
So thank you.
You did a great job.
You did an excellent job.
Thank you.
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And in the meantime, I would like to propose a toast to the life of Marlene Warren and
her son Joe.
Cheers.
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