[female narrator] a middle-aged housewife
Becomes the victim of a nightmarish murder.
[david] the clown pulls out a gun
And shoots her, one bullet right in the face.
It was so out of the ordinary.
You know, something as benign as a clown would knock on the door.
Just was such a tragic twist.
This was something personal.
[narrator] the investigation uncovers dark secrets
And deadly desires.
You've got sex and you've got violence.
[aleathea] they were having an affair
And it had been going on for some time.
[narrator] but as the case grows stagnant,
A killer lurks close to home.
[joe] she said, "if anything ever happens to me,
Know that he had something to do with it."
[dave] this is the act of a sociopath.
This is the act of a cold-blooded killer
Who thinks they can deceive everyone for the next 27 years.
[joe] there was no doubt.
I saw the eyes of the killer that did it.
[theme music]
[narrator] may 26, 1990.
It's a sunny Saturday in wellington, florida,
An affluent village located just a few miles
From west palm beach.
[joe] wellington is a place like no one else lives.
It was a paradise, you know. It was peaceful.
It was a slice of heaven.
[david] this was a neighborhood with big houses, big yards,
And it got its name, aero club,
Because it had a private airstrip,
And all the houses out back had hangars.
[narrator] in one of the area's largest homes,
40-year-old marlene warren is enjoying the morning
With her 21-year-old son, joe ahrens, and his friend.
The night before, we ran into some friends
That I haven't seen in a while.
My mom said, "hey, well, why don't you come out
To the house and stay?"
We woke up, 8:00, 9:00, something like that.
[narrator] as they all gather in the living room,
Something strange happens.
Around mid-morning, a car pulls into their
Circular driveway, and what steps out of the car?
A clown. Full suit,
Orange curly wig, red bold nose,
And carrying a couple of balloons
And a bouquet of flowers.
And the clown just walks up to the front door,
Rings the doorbell.
[doorbell rings]
[narrator] since joe recently broke his leg,
Marlene assumes the clown is a messenger
Bringing a get well gift, and opens the door.
[joe] I hear, "how pretty, how nice,"
And then we heard bang.
The clown pulls out a gun and shoots her.
One bullet right in the face. Her son, who was on the couch,
He's in a cast, gets up, rushes over to her,
Where she's laying in the doorway.
And she's bleeding from the mouth pretty extensively,
But he doesn't really yet understand what's happening.
We didn't see the gun. It just didn't register
Until I saw my mother's teeth gone and her gasping for air,
And then it sunk in.
I felt a rip in my body, like a spirit, or my soul,
Or my heart, or all of the above.
I looked at the clown, watching him walk to the car.
I was trying to find any detail to see who this person is.
They looked back at me. I will never forget those eyes.
You know, and, and, those are the eyes of the killer.
[narrator] as the gunman drives away, joe quickly calls 911
And alerts first responders that his mother needs aid.
Fearing that the perpetrator will escape the scene,
Joe quickly gives chase.
[joe] they tried to keep me on the phone.
I dropped it.
I grabbed my mom's purse. I grabbed her keys.
I just jumped in the car and floored it.
I ran through red lights.
The only thought I had in my mind was to run into this car.
It's all I could think.
But I couldn't catch up to the car.
So I had to turn around. I raced home.
[narrator] when joe arrives back home, he sees first responders.
[aleathea] when law enforcement first arrived,
They discovered marlene warren,
Who was laying in the entryway to the home.
She had suffered a single gunshot wound to the mouth,
And was transported to the emergency room
To attempt to be saved.
The big question was, who'd want to do this to this woman?
And why?
Marlene was well loved, well liked by everybody.
She had no enemies.
[joe] you would think that somebody coming to your door
Like that are not gonna do you harm.
You know, you don't even expect it.
It was so heinous.
[narrator] marlene mckinnon was the last person
Anyone would expect to die in such a terrifying way.
She was born in 1950 to a middle-class family in michigan.
Marlene was a midwestern girl raised in a small town
Outside of detroit.
Lived for a long time on her grandfather's farm.
She had a couple of sisters.
And she lived, you know, sort of a happy, simple life there.
By the time she was 18 years old, she was married,
And she had two young boys.
[joe] my mother met my father,
John ahrens, when they were young.
They were in the age of 14 to 16, you know.
I remember my grandmother telling me stories that
He would try to impress her.
Then my brother,
John arthur ahrens, was born in 1966.
I was born in 1968.
[narrator] soon after their son joe was born,
Marlene's husband, john, was drafted into service
And deployed to vietnam.
Marlene was left to raise the boys by herself.
[joe] she was a very good person.
She was open-minded, and she distilled good things in us.
I can remember times that we had to clean the house
On the weekends, you know, and of course,
Kids don't wanna do that.
She'd put the radio on and have the feather duster,
And you know, "hey, come on," you know,
"if we get it done, we can go do fun things."
[narrator] but when john returned home in 1970,
Things were never the same.
[joe] when he came back, he drank,
And he just couldn't handle it. He was just out of control.
And I didn't understand it then, but I do now.
He couldn't be a family man anymore.
And my mom knew it, you know, she had to protect us
From the negative things that he was doing.
[narrator] marlene decided to end the marriage,
But within a year, she got a chance for a new start.
[david] so, now she's a single mom of two boys
And she meets michael warren.
He was 18 years old, and marlene was 20.
And they fell in love really quickly,
And within a couple of years they were married.
Mike came into the picture when I was around
Four or five years old.
I think what drew my mother, marlene, and mike
Together was
How inspiring he was.
He was full of energy, you know, he was just a go-getter.
[david] michael, even though he was young,
Took on the role of father figure, basically,
To marlene's two kids, john and joe.
[joe] my mom seemed real happy. She, she was energized.
They worked together well.
And everything seemed to have a flow.
[david] they took the family to florida
And started their new life here.
Michael started his car lot business, bargain motors.
It was taking off.
[narrator] with their newfound wealth came new opportunities.
They started buying rental properties as investments.
[joe] she would manage those.
And mike would do the car business.
My family at that time was a very happy, growing family.
[david] they were able to buy the property in the aero club,
Which was brand new at the time.
Very affluent, upscale community.
At the time, mike had probably the nicest house there.
[joe] we had a, a single-engine airplane,
And we had the jacuzzi, and the hangar,
And the two-car garage, you know.
[narrator] for the warren family,
Life couldn't have been better, until tragedy struck in 1988.
I was around 18, 19, when my brother, john ahrens,
Was picking up a car from the auction
That he's never been to.
The people that go there knew that there was not a stop sign
In a place there should be one. And he did not know,
And drove right out into traffic and got killed.
A really pivotal moment in marlene's life was the death
Of her oldest son, john.
[joe] it hit her hard,
And she knew she had to be strong for me.
She would look in my eyes and say,
"hey, I know you're hurt. I know you're lost,
But we have to stick together, and we will get through this."
[narrator] the family did their best to move on.
[joe] my mom was trying to pull it all together,
But mike, instead of getting closer,
Got further apart. His business absorbed him.
My mother would deal with things with love
And positive affirmation, and she was trying everything,
'cause she was a woman of, there is a solution for every problem.
[narrator] but only two years after the death of a son,
The family faces another tragedy.
A bizarre shooting has left marlene warren clinging to life.
[aleathea] it was so out of the ordinary.
You know, something as benign as a clown would knock on the door.
Just was such a tragic twist.
[music]
[joe] the cops, the detectives, and everything were there
In every room in my house and, like,
Searching through things. And I was just like,
"what's going on, you know?"
But they explained to me that they were securing the scene,
And I would have to go downtown and talk to them.
[narrator] investigators collect any evidence
That might help them catch the gunman.
[aleathea] forensically, there wasn't much left
At the scene in terms of fingerprints or dna,
Or any physical evidence such as that.
The basket with the flowers and the balloon were collected
And saved. But other than that, nothing else had been touched.
[dave] for investigators, it was important that
Nothing was stolen. This was not a robbery.
This was an out of the way residential community.
You had to know where you were going.
You had to have a purpose.
So that led police to think that this was something personal.
Clearly, this is somebody that had a vengeance
For marlene warren.
[narrator] coming up.
As marlene clings to life,
Investigators uncover a potential motive.
Everyone in the company would see them
Showing public displays of affection.
[narrator] and a suspect emerges.
There was a lot more to the story.
[music]
[narrator] at a west palm beach hospital,
Doctors are fighting to save the life
Of 40-year-old marlene warren
After she was shot by a gunman dressed as a clown.
[david] the bullet went into her face
Through the back of her mouth
And lodged in the back of her neck, in her vertebrae.
Marlene's injuries were so severe that she had to be placed
On life support.
I called mike that day when he was on the way to the racetrack
And I told him,
"mom just got shot, and you need to come home."
And uh, he said he was on his way.
[narrator] when she comes out of surgery,
Her family is by her side.
I remember talking to a doctor, and she told me that
They had my mom stable, but she was not breathing on her own.
It was a pretty serious situation.
They were able to recover the projectile from her neck area,
But she never regained consciousness.
I knew she wasn't coming back, you know.
Um, my grandmother had to make that decision.
They gave her all the information.
They weren't telling me anything.
My grandmother said, "hey, they're not getting
Any responses, any pulse, anything.
We're gonna have to let her go."
[david] marlene's family made the decision
To take her off life support. And she died that day at age 40.
[joe] and that was the hardest day of my life.
Hardest day of my life.
[narrator] marlene's loved ones are devastated,
But they're also determined to help police
Catch whoever killed her.
Her son, joe, and his friend, who witnessed the attack,
Are the first to speak with investigators.
[aleathea] each of the young people were interviewed
With regard to what the clown looked like, male or female,
Height, weight, the color of the costume itself,
Whether there was a wig, or a mask,
Or paint for the face.
I was looking at every detail that I could look at.
The car was all white. It was a lebaron.
It had a maroon or reddish interior for the carpet.
It stuck out like a sore thumb.
It would be hard to say how tall the clown was
Because of the hair.
That put another six inches on the person, so,
With that said, probably about 5'9.
The face looked like a mask because it was so smooth.
It looked like a china doll.
The gloves, it seemed like the hand was big.
That's all I could see.
Their first impression was that it was a male
Because of the height.
They were wearing combat boots instead of clown shoes.
It looked like the person
Intended to make a quick getaway.
That's why this person was not wearing the floppy clown shoes.
So this took planning.
[narrator] detectives immediately issue an alert
For the white lebaron.
They then ask marlene's husband, michael,
To accompany them to the station for questioning.
[dave] law enforcement's going to immediately look
At the spouse, especially when nothing was taken,
When there was no robbery.
And so, naturally, they would look at michael warren.
Michael had an air-tight alibi.
He was in a car with his friends on the way to a racetrack
When he got the call that his wife had been shot in the head.
[aleathea] the people he was in the car with confirmed
That he was with them at the time of the shooting.
Michael warren volunteered that they had some rental properties
That marlene would largely be responsible for
Collecting the rents.
[aleathea] they were respectful, but they made notes
About his behavior, and they did note that he was grieving,
And that discussion ended.
[narrator] when detectives speak with marlene's son, joe,
He shares a different perspective
On her work-client relationships.
[joe] I remember when she would go collect rent,
And I'd go with her.
If they didn't pay, she would work with them.
She was never rude to any one of them,
Even though they were rude to her.
She was always understanding.
You can just rule that out that some angry tenant
Would have had the motivation to commit murder in her own home
Dressed up as a clown. It, it didn't make any sense.
[narrator] before wrapping up joe's interview,
Detectives wonder if anything in michael's life
Could have led to this.
[joe] when the detective started questioning me,
I was subconsciously protecting mike.
He was my father, and I didn't know for sure
That he had anything to do with it.
But I wouldn't say anything bad about the man.
I told them michael warren's business was to
Sell and rent cars.
And he was, uh, getting really good at it.
He could influence people in ways that no one could.
Michael warren had a shady past.
He would display misleading advertisements to try to confuse
His rental car company with the more established brand.
[aleathea] it'd been documented that he was
Rolling back odometers to get a higher price for a car
That had higher mileage than what he was proclaiming.
That was an ongoing investigation.
[david] so investigators wondered if maybe there was,
Uh, a bad business deal or, uh, or a client of his
Who may have had a grudge against him.
[narrator] detectives find out michael's business practices
Weren't the only dishonest things taking place
At the car lot.
[joe] he's always had an excuse.
One or two o'clock in the morning, he would say,
"oh, I have to repossess these cars."
[don] you know, when your husband don't
Come home until 3:00, 4:00 in the morning,
You throw up a red flag.
And she's told other people that she thought
Mike was having an affair.
[joe] after my brother died, I noticed he was living
Two different lives.
A week or two before, my mom approached me.
She said, "me and your father are arguing,"
And she was very upset, and I'd never seen her that way.
"joey, I've come to the conclusion that your dad
Doesn't love me anymore."
She said, "if anything ever happens to me,
Know that he had something to do with it."
[music]
[narrator] after learning about michael warren's
Unscrupulous behavior, investigators pay a visit
To his car lot to find out if any of it played a part
In his wife's murder.
[dave] he wasn't the person who pulled the trigger.
But was he involved in some way?
That's what police wanted to know.
[narrator] when police reinterview michael's co-workers
They confirm a potential motive at play.
I was around mike for a long, long time, every day,
Day and night.
And I knew that mike was having an affair.
The employees at bargain motors, to a person, they all said
That it was well known that michael warren
And one of the employees, sheila keen,
Were having an affair.
And it had been going on for some time.
The employees at a bargain motor
All described sheila keen as a tomboy.
She would often wear combat boots
And would dress in a manly fashion.
Not too many people at the business spoke fondly of her.
[narrator] given the multiple reports of sheila
And michael's entanglement,
Police must look into who sheila keen really is.
Twenty six-year-old sheila was from a small town on the shore
Of lake okeechobee, in southern florida.
It's a farming community right on the edge of the everglades.
She was pretty, tall, long shiny brown hair.
And she was also really tough.
Rambunctious, always full of energy.
She had married a man named richard keen
Sometime in the late '80s. He went by the nickname spud.
And he was a repo man.
And sheila, being the fearless woman that she was,
Started doing repo work with him.
That's how she got connected to michael.
Richard keen was doing work for michael repossessing cars
And one day brought his wife, sheila, along.
She jumps out of his tow truck and onto the car lot,
And right into michael's life.
Eventually her husband stops working with michael,
Moves on to other things, but sheila stays on board.
And she starts doing more repo work for michael.
And other people who worked on the lot
Really started to notice that she and michael were spending
More and more time together.
They began a open and obvious affair.
I mean, they really didn't take great pains to conceal it.
Everyone in the company would see them
Showing public displays of affection.
It was no secret that he was-- he was a player.
They'd leave the doors wide open.
There was no hiding it.
[narrator] according to his employees,
Michael seemed to be in it for the sex,
But sheila wanted something more.
[aleathea] they described that sheila's behavior
Had begun escalating in terms of
Her possessiveness of michael.
[don] I think it started off as fun, having sex and stuff.
And then she realized,
"oh, I can make a good life here if I can get her--
Get marlene out of the picture and have him to myself."
[dave] she and her husband, richard, eventually,
They got divorced.
Sheila would openly say that life would be better
If marlene warren wasn't alive.
[narrator] when detectives confront michael
About the affair, he claims it was a misunderstanding.
He admitted that others had thought
They were having an affair, but he denied it.
[dave] michael told law enforcement that
His relationship with his wife of 20 years was strong.
There was no problems. Nothing was awry.
[narrator] compared to witness testimonies,
Police find michael's version of events unlikely.
Their suspicions are really strong that
There was this affair going on.
So they question sheila.
[aleathea] in following up with that, they, obviously,
Also asked her where had she been the day before
At the time of the homicide.
[david] she didn't have a really strong alibi for that day.
She said that the morning of the shooting,
She was out repossessing cars.
But she didn't really have any proof of that.
[narrator] the description of the shooter given by
Marlene's son indicated it was a man,
But looking at sheila,
Detectives wonder if he was mistaken.
[narrator] sheila agrees to provide a hair sample
Should any evidence surface to rule her out,
But her cooperation stops there.
At this point. There wasn't enough to make an arrest.
There was nothing to forensically be able to say that
Sheila keen is the person that
Went to the door dressed as a clown.
[narrator] detectives hope the unique items
Left at the crime scene
Might provide the connection they're looking for.
[dave] there were flowers in a basket and a balloon.
It was important to trace those items back
To the store where they were purchased.
And that could lead them to the killer.
[aleathea] they ultimately discovered that a local
Nearby publix sold that exact style of basket and balloons,
And flowers.
[david] a couple of employees there told police,
"yeah, we sold a woman that same memorial day bouquet of flowers
And two foil balloons."
[narrator] unfortunately, the store doesn't have
Surveillance cameras and the woman paid in cash.
But investigators are undeterred.
[aleathea] the sheriff's department
Went to all of the local businesses that may have
Offered such a costume for sale or rent.
They find a clown shop on south dixie highway
In west palm beach.
And the owner of the costume shop told officers that,
A few days earlier, a woman had called the shop
And asked, "do you sell clown suits?"
And they did. So, the woman said,
"well, I wanna buy one. Can I come in?"
She needed the colorful jumpsuit.
She needed the orange wig.
She needed plenty of face makeup to completely conceal the face.
But she did not need the clown shoes.
They said it was a woman with long hair, dark eyes,
And manly features,
The same description that joe gave to law enforcement.
Law enforcement brought the photo lineup
To the costume store employees.
They showed it to three employees.
Two of them specifically identified sheila keen
As the individual who bought the clown costume.
[narrator] coming up.
Mounting evidence points to a killer driven by jealousy.
Police found fibers from a wig, a clown wig.
And they also found human hair.
[narrator] but will it be enough to bring the killer to justice?
He said, "I don't care if it takes 25 years.
We're gonna find out who killed your mother."
[music]
[narrator] less than a week into their investigation,
Police in wellington, florida
Have a suspect for the murder of marlene warren.
They've potentially connected 26-year-old sheila keen
To the clown costume worn by the gunman.
And on may 30th, another piece of evidence emerges.
All of the witnesses described a white chrysler lebaron
That the clown arrived and left in.
[aleathea] four days after the homicide happened,
A white chrysler lebaron was located abandoned
In a nearby winn-dixie parking lot.
[narrator] when investigators run the vin number on the car,
They discover it's been reported stolen.
Payless car rental agency indicated that
That car had been rented by this husband and wife
From up north and not been returned to them.
It was learned that the wife looked in the yellow pages,
Thought she was calling payless,
Where they had rented the car from,
But she fell for a deceptive ad, and she called a bargain motors.
There was an ongoing dispute between a bargain motors
And payless, where cars would get returned
To a bargain motors in error and they would keep them.
So as a result of that deceptive advertising,
A bargain motors was able to siphon off business
From payless.
[narrator] the couple reported that they last saw the vehicle
When they thought they dropped it off with payless.
But bargain motors told 'em to
Leave the vehicle outside our gate.
[narrator] now, with the car recovered,
Police have a direct link between marlene's murder
And bargain motors, sheila's workplace.
Within that car was some important evidence.
Police found fibers from a wig, a clown wig.
And they also found human hair.
[narrator] unfortunately, police are unable to verify
The hair belongs to sheila.
[dave] at the time, there was no dna testing.
And so, they couldn't be conclusive.
Prosecutors decided there was not enough evidence
To pick her up for the charge.
[david] investigators have no new leads to go on.
The investigation into marlene's murder has gone cold.
[narrator] but police aren't ready to give up just yet.
Law enforcement had already been looking at michael warren's
Business practices with the bargain motors.
[david] four months after marlene died,
Investigators moved on michael's car lot,
And they raided it.
They looked through all the files and all the boxes.
[narrator] the raid doesn't turn up any new evidence
Related to marlene's murder,
But it does prove michael had been committing fraud.
In 1992, he was formally charged with the evidence
That they gathered from that raid.
In 1994, michael warren was sentenced to eight years
In prison for the racketeering and the odometer fraud.
[david] he's released from jail in 1997.
And he's no longer considered a suspect in the murder.
So this story sort of drops out of the media.
When he got out, I talked to him one time on the phone,
And it was out of nowhere.
I guess he just got released.
That was the last time I talked to him for over three decades.
[narrator] after serving his sentence,
Michael moves to virginia to make a fresh start.
And sources tell investigators he has a new wife named debbie.
[aleathea] they were living together in a beautiful
Big house in virginia.
Because michael warren was not charged with
Marlene warren's death, he was able to be the beneficiary
Of the $53,000 life insurance policy.
[joe] he left me like a bag of trash after all this.
I had abandonment issues, post-traumatic stress disorder.
I had depression.
After a few years, um, I figured that they're not
Gonna find this person overnight.
I started practicing on becoming a, a builder.
You know, after, after this thing happened,
I didn't know what I was gonna do.
And I had to do it one thing at a time.
[narrator] in florida, marlene's loved ones
Spend the next 17 years clinging to hopes
That her killer will eventually be brought to justice.
I was waiting for closure.
I would call every year to the detective's office,
And detective williams, he said,
"joe, I'm gonna tell you something."
He said, "I don't care if it takes 25 years,
We're gonna find out who killed your mother. I promise you."
And you know what? They did.
[music]
[david] in 2014, a grant comes in related
To cold case investigations.
And palm beach county uses some of that money to take a new look
At the murder of marlene warren.
They start reexamining some of the evidence,
Including the balloons that the clown delivered,
And find a long brown hair on one of the ribbons
That hadn't been discovered in the original examination.
Detective paige mccann sent off a lot of the trace evidence,
Including hairs, fibers,
To the fbi for mitochondrial dna testing.
With the new science, they had the opportunity
To open up a brand-new lead in the case.
They had samples from sheila that they could compare
With samples that were found in the lebaron
And on the balloon ribbons.
[narrator] while awaiting results of the dna analysis,
Investigators discover sheila has also remarried.
When investigators looked up the marriage license,
They realize that the person michael was married to
Who supposedly was named debbie was not debbie.
It was sheila keen-warren.
Sheila keen had bleached her hair blonde
And was now going by the name debbie.
[joe] I found out they were married,
And that just put the puzzle together for me.
[dave] I believe sheila keen murdered marlene warren
Because she wanted marlene warren's life.
This is the act of a sociopath.
This is the act of a cold-blooded killer
Who thinks they can take away someone's life,
And not look back, and just move away.
And try to deceive everyone for the next 27 years.
[music]
[narrator] nearly three decades after the murder of
Marlene warren, investigators have discovered evidence
That could breathe new life into a case
That left a quiet florida community in shock.
This case has received a lot of attention
Because it combined a lot of different things.
You've got evil clown that you would only see in the movies.
You've got sex and you've got violence.
So you can see why people are so interested in this.
[gunshot]
[narrator] advances in dna technology
Allow forensic specialists to conduct a more thorough
Analysis of the hair found in the getaway vehicle.
And what they find is chilling.
[aleathea] it was able to be forensically determined
That hair was sheila keen's.
So now you've tied sheila keen-warren
To the chrysler lebaron.
You have tied her to the clown costume.
You've tied her to the balloons and the flowers.
So you have means, motive and opportunity.
And now you have dna.
[narrator] it's enough for detectives to finally
Obtain a warrant for sheila's arrest.
We were contacted by the west palm beach,
Florida sheriff's office in regards to the possibility
Of a lady that was residing in our county by the name of,
Uh, sheila keen-warren.
When we were ready to effect the arrest,
Which I believe was, was on September 27, 2017,
She and her husband, michael, were out of town.
We were able to ascertain information that they were
Somewhere around the roanoke area.
They pulled her over and they put her
In the back of a cruiser,
And she doesn't ask why she's arrested.
It's like she knew.
[narrator] since there is no evidence
Of michael's involvement, he is free to go.
But sheila is immediately taken in for further questioning.
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[narrator] with sheila behind bars,
Prosecutors must now build out their case.
Science can be very tricky and it's not always 100%.
Cold cases are hard enough to prosecute as is.
Because memories fade. Evidence spoils.
A lot of it is, it's not just that dna is found,
You've got to tie it together.
Are the witnesses still alive? Can they testify on the stand?
[narrator] sheila is extradited back to florida to stand trial.
But by 2020, a series of covid-related delays
Take a toll on the state's case against her.
Law enforcement officers who we depended on to introduce
The evidence at trial, one by one, they became unavailable.
[narrator] amid mounting concerns,
Prosecutors decide to forgo the trial
And offer sheila a plea deal in 2023.
[aleathea] the agreement that was reached was that
Sheila would admit to having killed marlene warren,
And in exchange, she would be sentenced
To 12 years in the department of corrections.
[narrator] sheila accepts the deal,
But neither side is happy with the outcome.
[greg] sheila keen-warren did not plead to this crime
Because she committed this crime.
The state offered her this sweetheart deal
Because the state knew that nobody in their right mind
Would turn it down.
[dave] it's one of the most frustrating things
As a prosecutor, to know that someone committed
The most heinous crime of all and one day will walk free.
But the fact that we're able to get some measure of justice
For joseph and for his mother, marlene warren, is a victory.
[joe] a few years later, when I came out of my shock,
I looked at a bunch of pictures of her.
The eyes. They were, they were--
There was no doubt after that picture, none.
I saw the eyes of the killer that did it.
[narrator] for marlene's loved ones,
Life will never be the same.
It impacted everybody in our family and still does.
Some are still shut down like I was,
And I try to help 'em, and it's a process, you know?
It's a slow process.
My mom is going to be remembered in this world because of
What I do and how I do it. Love one another, you know,
Care about one another. If I can do it...
From what I've been through, I believe everybody can do it.
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