Sheila Keen Warren, the shooter in Palm Beach County’s infamous 1990 “killer clown” case , was released from prison Saturday after spending about 17 months in a prison near Tallahassee.
Keen Warren, 61, pleaded guilty in April 2023 to being the person who dressed up in a head-to-toe clown costume on the morning of May 26, 1990, and shot Marlene Warren, a Wellington mother and wife, in the face. Since her arrest in 2017 , Keen Warren consistently contended she was innocent and continued to do so even after pleading guilty.
The killing in broad daylight and in front of multiple witnesses at Marlene Warren’s home was a “crime of passion,” State Attorney Dave Aronberg previously told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Marlene Warren was married to Michael Warren at the time of the murder — a man Keen Warren worked for and was rumored to be having an affair with in 1990. Both Michael Warren and Keen Warren denied the rumors. They got married in 2002 and started a new life together in Virginia .