REAL LIFE IT?! The Case Of Marlene Warren

well hello guys I look so stupid happy Halloween what up freaks welcome back to freak week clearly I'm still feeling the Halloween spirit if you haven't noticed I've been really trying to dress up for these peanuts but you know I it's funny I love Halloween but I never get my [ __ ] together for a costume literally every year I have no costume and I probably won't dress up this year because I'm boring like that in the comments I want to know what are you guys gonna be for Halloween you guys should tell me if your dressing up cuz clearly I am not so you know let me live vicariously through you tweet me pictures or Instagram me or tag me in pictures of your home in costume after Halloween okay because I'm totally not doing it and think it did want to remind you guys that the Freak week shirts are available only until Halloween I think I'm actually gonna extend it like a day or two after Halloween so if you're interested check it out they'll be a link in the description box so I don't watch scary movies but I know that the movie it has been really popular this year um and then the year before that we had the weird thing with clowns just coming up everywhere whatever happened with that one of my friends brought up that maybe it's a conspiracy that it put all the clowns out there to advertise for their movie a year in advance but I know a lot of people are really into that kind of stuff now I didn't see it but I know that clowns are really kind of like the thing that's in right now so I wanted to talk about something do with Clem so I found a real life killer clown true crime case that is fascinating and has recently resurfaced now this is an old case it's been over 27 years and no one has been officially held accountable for the murder of this woman her name is Marlene Warren and this story takes place in Palm Beach County Florida in a really wealthy and nice neighborhood this is a luxurious neighborhood actually called the arrow Club and very wealthy people lived in this neighborhood a hidden jewel in the crown area synonymous with power and money the 35th President played here at the oceanside Kennedy compound the 45th wines and dines at the legendary mar-a-lago 126 rooms 20 acres so marlene warren and michael warren lived there with her son joseph and on may 26 of 1990 someone pulled up to the home of marlene warren or she was with her son that day at 11:00 a.m. someone pulls in the driveway and a Chrysler LeBaron and this person is dressed as a clown and Marlene answers the door at 11:00 a.m. shows in this really safe neighborhood and his clown had complete face paint like you could literally only see their eyes and a wig the whole nine and they're carrying flowers and a balloon and the balloon said you're the greatest the Marlena opened the door thinking this is some type of like greeting thing like who sent this to me and she goes to get it and remember this is a lemon and so you know if the clown comes your door at night and it's not Halloween probably don't answer that door no matter what but this is the middle of the day and as Marlene is taking these gifts from the cloud and admiring them the clown pulls out a gun and shoots her point-blank in the mouth after this the clown calmly got back into their car and left and then one leaves jumps in the car and goes and takes off that's it never to be seen again luckily Joseph's her son was quick enough to be able to get out there and see the car he was the one who knew that it was a white Chrysler LeBaron and his other friends were there too and they went running outside now there was a neighbor that witnessed the sound of it their neighbor Bill Kramer was out walking his dog that day and he heard the bullets sounded to me like a nail gun I'm very excited young people came running out saying something on the order of they've shot Joey's mother my wife said stay there I'll call 9-1-1 Marlene was taken to the hospital but unfortunately two days later she died due to her injuries Marlene's that family was absolutely shocked they couldn't think of anyone who would want to hurt her she was a hard-working businesswoman she was outgoing loving friendly was good person people really liked Marlene and it was odd that this would happen to someone like her and the whole clown thing is really weird because it turns out that Marlene's family has always had a thing for clown eerily mom Shirley tells us the family always liked clowns in fact here's their circus room in their home yeah I kind of look at this one right here and say hey things it'll turn out alright they feel while he said because Marlene would kill headaches after I Adam even before picture here is painting of a clown Marlene painted it when she was a teenager and I think it's quite a coincidence you know keep her forever that is for sure what are the chances of that especially the one that she painted so is it a coincidence or is this someone that knew that this family had this clown obsession and decided to kill her specifically because of that I mean whoever did this must have known that about her and the costume makes sense because like when you commit a murder obviously you want to like protect yourself as much as you can like cover up as much as you can the best way to do that it's like a ski mask or something but if you're wandering around in a ski mask like that is so much more obvious but if you're a clown you know and it's the middle of the day people think oh there's a clown going to a birthday party or something like no one's going to same thing and you're completely disguised because that paint is all over your face and you have this giant wig and you know fake nose like it really changes your identity and so it makes sense that someone would want to use a clown costume to kill someone in but just [ __ ] creepy I honestly think that's what scares people most about clowns is that they're just unknown and secretive it almost feels like you don't know what their intentions are even though there's a lot of sweet people that dress up as clowns I've always been kind of creeped out by them so obviously people go to the husband first so people naturally questioned Michael Warren Michael had an excuse that day he had an alibi who was actually on a racetrack thing with friends so he had an alibi he was not there so they know that it wasn't him but could he have asked someone else to do this possibly Marlene's parents claimed that at one point their daughter told them that she was having marital problems with Michael and in fact actually said if anything happens to me Michael did it so that's I mean as a parent I would just trust my child that they were scared enough to say something like that question is if you aren't happy in marriage why don't you just leave right that's what most of us would do but divorce court is crazy and a lot of people don't want to go through divorce court and if Michael and Marlene got divorced it would have been a huge divorce because they owned all these different properties together most of them are in her name so it would have been a huge messy divorce and Marlene had even been telling people that she suspected that Michael was having some type of affair so Michael Warren actually owned a used-car lot four days after the shooting happened the police found a white Chrysler LeBaron and this car had actually been reported stolen and it was from a used-car lot but not just any used-car lot it was from Michael Warren's used-car lot in the back of the car there was a brown paper bag from Publix and in the bag there were some fibers from the clown wig which was an orange wig there were a couple little fibers in there so during the investigation they completely went through Michael Warren's life didn't trust anything that he said they looked through everything that he did all of his transactions and his business and after some investigation there were rumors that they found out about that Michael was having affair with a woman named Sheila Keene Sheila Keene actually ran a business to repossess cars if you don't know what repossess is if you're younger if you get something or buy anything that has you know a monthly payment like a car or a motorcycle or boat whatever and you stopped paying for a repossession company will just come take the item from you tow your car or whatever so that's what she did so Sheila would do work for Michael repossess cars for him that people weren't making payments on the police really pressed them thinking that they had an affair and they would deny it they said they were just friends but they often were seen getting lunch together so it wasn't just business they even traveled together but they said it was all for business the Sheila was actually married to a guy who was twenty four years older than her and was in the KKK snow excellent choices but she wanted to have this glamorous life and have a lot of money and Mike Lauren made a lot of money and huge red flag he was even paying for an apartment for Sheila and neighbors saw him there so often that they literally thought they were married and you know Marlene wasn't dumb she knew that this was happening she said she suspected that he was having an affair I think she saw that her marriage was Dee railing and so did he did he take the easy way out to avoid a giant divorce and financial ruin like my family went through a divorce and it literally crushed my whole family financially for everybody so I understand that it's a lot of money not that that means you should kill someone but it's definitely a motive for people there's tons of people who have opted out of having to go through a divorce by killing people not only that but he would benefit from Marlene being dead he would get full control of all of their properties and their businesses would get a life insurance settlement and he would get ownership of their home and all of these things together would equal about a seven-figure payout so Michael would get a lot more money if she was dead than if she was alive now of course Michael probably was thinking well if I had kill my wife I'm gonna be the first suspect so I need to make sure I have an alibi a proof that I was somewhere else and I need to convince someone else to do this now of course these are just their you know every innocent until proven guilty in a court of law no interestingly enough they track time a store that the clown costume was bought from and they went to the owner and listen to her recount of what happened that night there wasn't you know internet shopping like there is today even catalogs so you had a knock at the door and then what she said I need to buy a costume and I said can you come back tomorrow we're closed and now I really need to get a costume tonight the urgency understandable if it was Halloween but it's May a Ruby's clown costume an afro clown wig Bob Kelly clown makeup and sponge nose I'd say probably around 5/8 brown eyes long chocolate hair and jeans I think the sale was like either 79 or $89 I sort of almost can see the sales receipt when they saw the picture of Sheila Keene they said that it looked exactly like the woman who bought the costume that night I said could I ask him please what this is in reference to and he said well you're probably gonna read about it all over the papers tomorrow morning but a woman we shot at her front door by a person dressed in a clown costume wearing flowers and balloons and he shot her in the face same woman was also seen at Publix Publix employees which is like the grocery store in Florida he recognized her from buying flowers and a balloon it was pretty damn obvious that Mike and Sheila were having some type of affair but they weren't able to ever prove it there was no proof of them having an affair he was all you know speculation there was no way to hold either of them accountable for the murder of Marlene there just wasn't enough evidence Michael however while they were going through all of his stuff they realized that he had been doing some very sketchy things in his car business he was changing the mileage to lower so that people would think the cars had less use that they were in better condition than they actually were which is completely illegal I know he's got to be careful with those you know car dealerships that are just like you know you don't even need credit here we'll just give you this car he was guilty of racketeering and 21 counts of a dominator fraud 11 counts of grand theft and 10 counts of petty theft and he faced up to 237 years in prison now clearly that not a fair sentence for someone who did that the prosecution was just really going after him because they couldn't tie him to Marlene's murder but they were pretty sure that he was involved in this was their way of getting back at him and a judge shut it down because that really can't be how it works cuz if he is innocent you're like oh well let's get you for another crime and we'll just make this punishment way worse it's just that's just not fair and a grand scale for everybody and the judge was so mad that the defense and the judge was so mad that the prosecution tried to do this that he only gave him 20 years of probation but the prosecution appealed this and in 1994 he was sentenced to nine years in I only served three years and was released on parole in 1997 so some time passed and they were never able to prove that Sheila and Mike had a relationship until recently recently this case was opened up again by a local reporter who was looking into things and they did some digging and they found out Sheila divorced her husband Richard in 2000 and she got married to Michael Warren in Las Vegas and a quiet little wedding so if that doesn't seal the deal then I don't know what does and this clue they're keeping their relationship on the DL for this reason but they waited and 12 years after Marlene was murdered in her house they decided to get married and they moved to Abingdon Virginia and they actually owned a restaurant and Tennessee in Kingsport called the Purple Cow if any of you ever been there let me know in the comments they're known locally up until recently Blevins told me the Warren spent six days a week at the small drive-through restaurant they once owned in nearby Kingsport Tennessee it's called the Purple Cow they were known as Debbie and Mike Sheila dyed her hair and they were living completely new lives and everyone around them all their neighbors had never known that they lived in Florida and didn't know any of this past well I'm here on the Main Street of Abington it's a historic quaint town where this story of one of their own charged with a heinous crime from decades ago continues to be front-page news in Palm Beach County she's called Sheila Keene Warren but here she's Debbie and in her neighborhood 15 minutes away from here people are talking but they don't really know what to say put a full neighborhood nice friendly people all around I just felt so welcome in their home and them in ours too this is the community where the couple has been living it's a secluded upscale neighborhood nestled in the mountains you can see the house is right down here where there's just a picturesque view of rolling hills and a lake in the back Palm Beach County detectives open this back up in 2014 so luckily the Palm Beach County police excellent job of preserving evidence for this case because they didn't have technology back in the 90s that they do now they were able to test those orange clown wig fibers from that brown bag and determined that Sheila's DNA is on the detectives during the initial investigation detective bill Williams and the rest of his team did a phenomenal job documenting the entire case as well as collecting and preserving the crime evidence from the crime scene I mean Kohl cases we kind of we have a big puzzle and some of the pieces already filled in and a lot of it was already filled in by the thorough investigation done by the initial detectives we just needed a few of those little pieces of the puzzle and we were able to do that with Dino the new technologies in DNA and we were able to complete the puzzle and I think that's what led to the indictment remember the days when we had the cell phones or about this wide like a brick and now we got smartphones that you can do everything on that's the difference between the technology back when this happened and today it's exponentially so much better to assist us in making sure that we have the right person which goes back to the question of you know what about the evidence at that point in time there's one thing to think somebody did something there's another thing to know that they did it and be able to prove it in court we want to make sure we got the right person because if we don't have the right person number one we don't want to put it in as a person in jail but number two the real perpetrator is still out there now it's pretty incredible all these years later they can do that and so that's all they needed to finally connect them together once they were able to see that they were married like what are the chances you just happened to marry this woman that was also a suspect in your wife's murder case just gone dude like they honestly never should have gotten married that was so stupid but I'm glad that they did because on September 27th of this year Sheila Keene was arrested and she is being charged with the first-degree murder of Marlene Warren and the prosecution is going to be seeking the penalty's breaking news in the clown cold case murder the state will seek the death penalty against Sheila Keene Warren she is accused of murdering Marlene Morin 27 years ago Warren was extradited back to Palm Beach County and booked late last night Mike Warren and Sheila Keene Warren both say they are innocent completely that they had nothing to do with the murder of Marlene my client will plead not guilty she vehemently denies her guilt she had a bond hearing on October 4th good morning your honor Richard Louboutin be on behalf of not miss miss Warren ma'am you're charged by way of indictment by the State Attorney's Office with first-degree murder with a firearm this is your first appearance and we're here to address your bond state the state is seeking no bond Your Honor at this time the state is filing its notice of intent to seek the death penalty and ma'am I am setting your bond at no bond based upon the serious nature of the charges the state is requesting a no contact order with a Joseph Aaron's all right thank you and how does mr. Arens that she is not allowed that is the victims son he was the one in the home at the time the victim was murdered so she's currently awaiting trial so might be an interesting one to keep up with if you don't follow me on twitter follow me because I normally like keep up with cases I've covered and tried to you know just to give you guys additional information on stuff comes out but pretty interesting case I mean I definitely think Sheila did this and I am so sorry for Marlene that the last moment of her life she was happy and smiling and looking at these beautiful flowers and I guess maybe in a way that was nice the fact that someone had the nerve to kill someone in a moment like that is just shocking and very sad and it's possible that Mike Warren could get charged for something as well as they dig into this case and try to learn more about his involvement there's still a lot of questions about Michael Warren the victim's husband and now the suspects husband will he face charges in this case well I can't speak specifically to Michael Warren or any of the specific facts of this case I can just say generally whenever you're dealing with any homicide case that we're going to investigate anyone who may be culpable and will make a decision on prosecutions as appropriate I hope both of them are punished for this you know Marlene's family and her soul and her son can get some peace and the truth is gonna come out I just feel it so I definitely will be following this case you should as well but that's it for me today guys be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you're enjoying freak week definitely tell me what you guys think about this case that's it for me today guys I will see unit [Music]

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Length: 19min 47sec (1187 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 28 2017