The trial for a Florida lady accused within the state’s notorious “Killer Clown” case from 1990 has been delayed but once more as protection attorneys efficiently sought time to look at newly found information about different clown sightings from that point, courtroom papers present.
Jury choice within the trial for the decades-old case involving accused killer Sheila Keen Warren was scheduled to begin this week after beforehand being postponed a half-dozen occasions. However, the trial was delayed but once more after prosecutors produced a “clown sighting file,” which protection attorneys had lengthy been looking for, based on courtroom paperwork cited by The Associated Press.
Keen Warren was accused of carrying white face paint, a crimson nostril and an orange wig, and touring to the South Florida dwelling of Marlene Warren in 1990. She allegedly handed the girl balloons and flowers earlier than capturing her within the face and killing her.
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Sheila Keen Warren, proper, seems in courtroom for a pre-trial listening to Monday morning, Nov. 13, 2017. Keen Warren is going through fees within the loss of life of Marlene Warren in 1990.
(Lannis Waters/Palm Beach Post/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
In the years earlier than she was caught, Keen Warren married the sufferer’s husband, who was her boss on the time of the murder. She was arrested 27 years later in 2017 and pleaded not responsible to first-degree murder.
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Paramedics take Marlene Warren to an ambulance on May 26, 1990, after she was shot in entrance of her dwelling in Wellington, Florida.
(Mark Randall/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
On Wednesday, prosecutors revealed that they’d positioned the “clown sighting file” regardless of their earlier claims that they’d no such paperwork, based on the report.
The 25-page file comprises information associated to different reviews of clown sightings within the space on the time of Warren’s slaying, based on the report. It reportedly contains the names and phone information associated for “roughly 40 credible” clown-sighting leads.
Sheila Keen Warren was accused of dressing up as a clown and murdering her future husband’s then-wife 27 years in the past.
(Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)
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“Needless to say this will take the defense considerable time and resources to investigate,” the protection argued, based on the report.