(NBC) - Almost 2 decades later, an arrest has been made in the 1990 killer clown case. Sheila Keen Warren was arrested without incident in Washington County, Virginia, on a charge of first-degree murder with use of a firearm in the killing of Marlene Warren - her current husband's previous wife, officials say. What might be a nightmare to some, was a reality for Marlene.
Warren's son heard the gunshot and found his mother bleeding to death in the doorway. While trying to help his mother, he watched as the clown "calmly" walked back to a white Chrysler LeBaron and drove away, according to reports. Two days later, Marlene Warren died at a Loxahatchee hospital. "This is the strangest thing I've seen in all my nineteen years in law enforcement," Ferrell said the day after the murder. Initially, police suspected Michael Warren, the victim's husband, as family and friends said the couple were having problems in their marriage. Police initially focused on Warren's husband, Michael Warren, as the orchestrator in his wife's killing and suspected that Keen-Warren may have played a role in the murder. At the time of the killing, Keen-Warren worked at Michael Warren's used car dealership, the Sun-Sentinel reported in 1992. Detectives suspected the two were having an affair, but Keen-Warren denied the allegation. She reported that was repossessing cars the day Warren was shot. Costume store employees recalled a woman matching Keen-Warren's description bought a clown outfit hours before Warren's death. Orange fibers matching the clown wig were also found in Keen-Warren's home, detectives said. No arrests or charges were made until dusting off the cold case in 2014. Deputies re-interviewed witnesses and conducted DNA analysis. They also learned that Warren was now married to his mistress from the time of the crime. Warren married Shelia Keen after re-emerging in 2002 after disappearing in 1997 following his release from prison. He served 3 years for 43 counts of odometer tampering, grand theft and racketeering. Keen-Warren had been a suspect in the murder almost from the beginning. However, prosecutors never had enough evidence to charge her until new technology allowed them to retest the DNA. Detectives said they were told as early as four months after the murder that the two had been having an affair and that Warren had paid rent for Keen's apartment.
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Source: CNN(CNN) - Elle Snow, a human trafficking survivor, is devoting her life to ending 'the game'. Thinking she was in a committed relationship, Snow was unknowingly being deceived into human trafficking. After multiple failed attempts, she was able to escape with the help of a friend. With her second chance at life, Snow has pledged to fight back. "What happened to me was called 'the game'. This monstrous beast that is this world of sex trafficking." Today, she spends much of her time monitoring sex ads on online classified sites. There, she looks for trends and potential victims.
"If you're putting posters everywhere and everybody's talking about it and they're saying, 'Hey, I know what a pimp is. I know those books.' Then all of a sudden the traffickers don't feel comfortable anymore," Snow says. Hoping to protect others from the suffering she went through, Snow founded the anti-trafficking non-profit Game Over. "I met my trafficker the same way a lot of us do," says Snow. She hopes her story will educate potential victims, making them aware of how easy it is to get enslaved into trafficking. She thought she was in an exciting, new relationship. Snow made the trip to Sacramento from northern California to stay with her boyfriend. However, the whirlwind of a fresh romance soon ended.
Confused, Snow thought he was joking. "I told him 'I'm on vacation, what are you talking about?' And he's telling me, 'you're not you anymore. This is not your name. Your name is now Angel,'" Snow recalls.
She wanted to leave, but the trafficker threatened to hurt her 14-year old sister. Before she knows it, Snow is being taken to a brothel. She was trafficked through the San Francisco Bay Area for eight months. She tried to escape multiple times, but her trafficker would laugh at her. Snow says one time she tried to leave, but her trafficker became so physical that she feared for her life. "I punched him and knocked his tooth out and he got up; I ran into the bathroom. And then for the next few hours I was beat bloody," Snow recounts. "I was strangled. He was dragging my body to a car when I woke up. My throat was so swollen and black and blue." Snow still has busted capillaries from the beating. Snow gives her days by going to war with 'the game' so that others hopefully don't have to endure the same misery she lives to tell about. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/world/elle-snow-trafficking/index.html |
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