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Shelia Keen Warren The Killer Clown Love Triangle

The bizarre story of Shelia Keen Warren and the Killer Clown love triangle will leave you shaking your head as this story is way out there. Way back in 1990 Shelia Keen Warren was in love with Michael Warren but unfortunately for Shelia he was married to a woman named Marlene Warren. Now Shelia Keen Warren decided the best way to get rid of Marlene was to dress up as a clown, knock on the Warren’s front door and when Marlene answered the door she was fatally shot.

The murder would go unsolved for decades as the police believed from almost the beginning that Shelia Keen Warren was responsible for the murder of Marlene Warren however they could not prove it. Thankfully the DNA tests would greatly approve over the years and eventually police were able to gain enough evidence for Shelia Keen Warren to be placed under arrest and charged with murder in Florida.

Now in case you have not noticed Shelia Keen would become Shelia Keen Warren in 2002 when she would marry Michael Warren. They may have been married sooner but Michael Warren spent four years in prison on fraud charges.

Shelia Keen Warren has been in custody in Florida since 2017 as COVID has messed up the court system and her trial has been postponed yet again until 2022. There is talk that Shelia Keen Warren is facing the death penalty but I somehow doubt she will receive it

April 2023 – Shelia Keen-Warren Pleads Guilty To 2nd Degree murder

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Twenty-seven years after a clown carrying flowers and two balloons shot a woman to death at her front door, Florida authorities announced an arrest in one of the more bizarre cold case investigations in a state known for bizarre crimes.

Sheila Keen Warren, 54, 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, 40 — her current husband’s previous wife — in 1990, officials said Tuesday.

“Any murder’s horrific. It doesn’t matter whether you’re wearing a clown costume or not,” Palm Beach County sheriff’s Sgt. Richard McAfee said at a news conference Tuesday.

“Taking another person’s life is a horrific incident,” McAfee said. “It just took us 27 years to bring closure to the victim’s family. Murder cases never go away.”

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Warren was arrested in Abingdon, Virginia, about 5 miles from the Tennessee state line.

Warren was arraigned Wednesday morning in Washington County General District Court and waived extradition, officials said. She was set to be moved to Florida from the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail.

Warren had been a suspect in the murder almost from the beginning, but prosecutors never had enough evidence to charge her until new technology allowed them to retest DNA evidence after the cold case was reopened in 2014.

Marlene Warren was shot in the face when she answered the front door of her home in Wellington, near West Palm Beach, and was confronted by a brown-eyed woman carrying balloons and wearing a clown costume and an orange clown wig on May 26, 1990, authorities said.

One of the balloons said “You’re the greatest!” and the other had Snow White painted on it, according to news coverage at the time.

“This is the strangest thing I’ve seen in all my 19 years in law enforcement,” Bob Ferrell, then a spokesman for the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office, told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel newspaper the day after the murder.

“She went to the door, and there was somebody wearing a clown suit and a clown mask,” Ferrell said. “As she went to take the flowers and balloons, the clown shot her. As far as I know, nothing was said.”

Initially, suspicion quickly focused on Michael Warren, the victim’s husband, as friends and family said the couple was having marital problems.

Then the murder investigation led police to unrelated evidence of wrongdoing at Michael Warren’s car rental agency, and in 1992 he was sentenced to prison on 43 counts of odometer tampering, grand theft and racketeering, The Palm Beach Post reported at the time.

Michael Warren served three years in prison, and, in 1997, he vanished. But he re-emerged in 2002, marrying Sheila Keen — the same Sheila Keen Warren who’s now charged with his ex-wife’s murder. Sheila had worked for Michael repossessing cars.

Washington County Sheriff Fred Newman said Michael Warren was present when his wife was arrested, but he would give no further details.

“Thousands of man-hours have been put in in the last 27 years,” Newman said. “We’re more than glad to be able to help to bring this to a successful conclusion.”

Detectives said they were told as early as four months after the murder that Michael and Sheila had been having an affair and that Warren had paid rent for Keen’s apartment after she separated from her first husband.

Little information about the couple’s recent lives was immediately available, but the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Michael and Sheila Warren were running a restaurant in Tennessee when authorities arrived to arrest her.

No restaurant could be found in either Warren’s name in Virginia or Tennessee business registries

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/killer-clown-cold-case-leads-arrest-woman-center-florida-love-n805016

Christopher Belter Teen Rapist Gets No Jail Time

Christopher Belter is a teen rapist from New York State who had pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sex charges however what happened the day of his sentencing has caught many off guard. When the judge was sentencing Christopher Belter for the crimes of attempted first-degree sexual abuse, third-degree rape and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse involving four teenage girls aged 15 to 16.

Christopher Belter received not a single day in jail instead was sentenced to eight years of probation and must register as a sex offender. Of course the internet is in rage as this rapist pretty much got a way with a slap on the wrist. The judge who sentenced him thankfully is retiring very soon as he just sent a horrible message. Thankfully any future employer who researches Christopher Belter online is going to see the monster behind the mask.

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One of the victims of a New York man who pleaded guilty to raping and sexually abusing four teenage girls and was sentenced to just eight years of probation has a warning: “He will offend again.”

Christopher Belter, 20, was facing up to eight years in jail after pleading guilty to third-degree rape, attempted sexual abuse and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse, but Niagara County Judge Matthew Murphy sentenced him to eight years of probation because he thought “incarceration isn’t appropriate.”

“I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case because there was great pain. There was great harm. There were multiple crimes committed in the case,” Murphy said, according to WKBW. “It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn’t appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation.”

Belter must also register as a sex offender.

One of the victims – identified as MM in court filings – ran out of the courtroom and threw up after hearing the sentence.

“I completely broke down. It was as if I was being victimized all over again,” she told CBS News.

She said probation was an invitation for Belter to rape again.

“It’s just going to make him more comfortable doing this in the future,” MM said. “This is a pattern. He will offend again.”

She was 16 years old when Belter, 17 at the time, assaulted her and three other teenage girls during parties at his home in an upscale neighborhood of Lewiston, New York.

Belter’s home was allegedly dubbed the “party house” because of the liberal use of marijuana, alcohol, and Adderall, according to the Washington Post and New York Times.

The assaults took place over a 19-month period between February 2017 and August 2018, according to authorities.

MM also dismissed claims by Belter’s attorneys that he was remorseful.

“I don’t believe it for one second,” she told CBS News. “He was saying whatever it takes for him to get his best outcome and it worked. … I will have to live with this for the rest of my life, knowing that he’s walking the streets and that another girl can be a victim of his any day now. It’s terrifying.”

She told the station that she still has nightmares about what happened and will need extensive therapy.

“I don’t think any of the victims or myself will find that closure until we know that he’s locked up, and the judge failed us there. He victimized us all over again. He is putting us through hell.”

She said the sentencing could discourage other victims of sexual assault from coming forward and testifying.

“If I were to be someone viewing this right now, looking at this case as a victim of rape or sexual assault – I mean, I would think what’s the point in coming forward?” she said. “Why put yourself through the painful experience if testifying when there’s not going to be a good outcome?”

Belter is due back in court on Dec. 3, for a hearing on his sex offender classification status.

Murphy plans to retire next month when he turns 70, the mandatory retirement age for judges in New York. But he is now facing calls to resign immediately.

John Bellocchio, part of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) filed a complaint against Murphy, according to WKBW.

“I think the judge could restore some faith in the justice system if he chose today as his last day,” Bellocchio said, according to the station. “The purpose of our court system is to be equitable and fair, and to make sure the punishment fits the crime.”

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/victim-disgusted-that-christopher-belter-was-sentenced-to-probation

Jay Neubaum Teen Killer And Sexual Predator

Jay Neubaum was a seventeen year old from Iowa who would fatally shoot another teenager. According to court documents Jay Neubaum and the victim plus two others were working on a car in a garage when an argument broke out. Jay Neubaum would fatally shoot the victim in the head with a shotgun causing his death. This teen killer would ultimately be arrested, convicted and sentenced to fifty years in prison however Jay Neubaum is now going on trial for ten counts of sexual abuse that resulted from the sexual assault of six girls.

Jay Neubaum 2023 Information

Name	Jay Lee Lane Neubaum
Offender Number	6790088
Sex	M
Birth Date	12/21/2002
Location	Anamosa State Penitentiary
Offense	MURDER – 2ND DEGREE, 85%
TDD/SDD *	01/25/2044
Commitment Date	08/25/2021
Recall Date	08/25/2022
Mandatory Minimum (if applicable)

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An Onawa teen was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison for the shooting death of another teen in a Mapleton, Iowa, garage.

District Judge Duane Hoffmeyer waived any mandatory minimum sentence that Jay Lee Neubaum must serve before he’s eligible for parole, according to court documents.

Neubaum must also pay $150,000 to the estate of Joseph Hopkins.

A Monona County District Court jury in May found Neubaum, 18, guilty of second-degree murder for the Jan. 31, 2020, shooting death of 16-year-old Hopkins.

Typically, a defendant found guilty of second-degree murder would face a mandatory minimum of 35 years in prison on the 50-year sentence. But Neubaum was 17 at the time of the shooting, and Iowa law says that if a person was under age 18 at the time an offense, other than a Class A felony, was committed, a judge may suspend all or part of the prison sentence, including any mandatory minimum sentence

Neubaum had been charged with first-degree murder, which is a Class A felony, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge.

Hopkins, of Mapleton, was shot once in the forehead with a 12-gauge shotgun while he, Neubaum and two other teenage boys were working on a demolition derby car in a garage at the home of Neubaum’s grandmother, with whom he was living at the time.

Prosecutors said Neubaum shot Hopkins after becoming angry with him because he would not stop playing with an unloaded 20-gauge shotgun. The defense said the shooting was an accident.

Neubaum still faces prosecution in Monona County for 10 counts of third-degree sexual abuse for the alleged rape of six teenage girls and forced sexual contact with a seventh in 2019 and 2020. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is scheduled to stand trial in December.

https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/onawa-teen-sentenced-to-prison-for-shooting-death/article_83578948-f65a-5f0b-954a-c026a227d409.html

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Jay Neubaum Sexual Assault Trial

Jay Lee Neubaum’s trial wrapped up Thursday without his defense attorney calling any witnesses, as a judge will now decide whether the Mapleton teen is guilty of sexually abusing seven teenage girls.

During the three-day trial, each of the girls, who ranged in age from 13 to 16, described how Neubaum forced himself on them at various locations in Mapleton, pop. 1,165, between August 2019 and March 2020.

Neubaum, 18, has denied the allegations.

In her closing arguments, defense attorney Theresa Rachel contended prosecutors had failed to prove their case. She pointed to what she described as conflicting or inconsistent testimony from the girls and other witnesses.

“The evidence that was presented either shows consent or that it didn’t even rise to the level of a sex act,” Rachel told the court.

Rachel also focused on one of the girls, a then-15-year-old who testified Neubaum sexually abused her in the bedroom of his home in March 2020, ejaculating on her underwear and jeans. A state criminalist testified Thursday that seminal fluid found on the crotch of her jeans matched Neubaum’s DNA.

The defense attorney suggested the girl may have persuaded the other six girls to concoct stories of their own.

“There is also a lot of evidence that shows that there might have been some collusion between these girls of how to say this and what to say to law enforcement,” Rachel told the court.

n his rebuttal, Monona County Attorney Ian A. McConaughey said the girl would have had to have been an “amazing, amazing manipulator” to fabricate a false claim of sexual abuse not only for herself, but also six other girls, for over 1 1/2 years, and then testify, under oath, and “make that false claim of sexual abuse all over again.”

“But that’s not what the evidence has shown — that (the girl) is some sort of grand master behind this,” McConaughey told the court.

In their testimony, the girls told consistent stories, McConaughey said in his closing arguments. In each instance, Neubaum got the victims alone, started kissing them against their will, pushed them down, forcibly removed their pants and underwear, and sexually assaulted them, the prosecutor said.

“This defendant used the same playbook over and over because he knew that’s what worked,” he said.

Neubaum forced himself on the girls, despite their repeated pleas asking him to stop, he said.

“He simply would not accept no for an answer,” McConaughey said.

Responding to the defense bringing up the extended period between when the cases allegedly occurred and when the victims came forward to authorities, McConaughey said many of the victims were long fearful of saying anything

“A lot of the victims worried what other people would think of them,” he said. “They were worried nobody would believe them.”

Neubaum “made these girls feel it was not safe to tell and that worked for a long time,” he said.

Some victims were in denial, a state of shock or ashamed of what happened, said the prosecutor, who mentioned one of the girls twice tried unsuccessfully to kill herself.

Before the prosecution rested its case Thursday, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School Principal Dan Dougherty testified that Neubaum attended special units addressing sexual consent as an MVAO student in 2018 and 2019.

“It was mandatory for all of our students to watch a video, listening to a speaker, as well as take part in a discussion with school mentors, related to the rules of sexual consent,” Dougherty said.

Neubaum is charged with 10 counts of third-degree sexual abuse for the alleged assault of six girls, and forced sexual contact with a seventh. Each sex abuse count carries a 10-year prison sentence.

Because Neubaum waived his right to a jury trial, District Judge Zachary Hindman will decide the case in a written ruling. Hindman said he intends to reach a decision as soon as possible. Once that happens, he will schedule a hearing to announce the verdict.

In May, a Monona County jury found Jay Neubaum guilty of second-degree murder in the Jan. 31, 2020, shooting death of 16-year-old Joseph Hopkins in Mapleton. Neubaum is currently serving a 50-year prison term on that offense.

Hindman on Thursday granted Neubaum’s request not to return to Monona County for the verdict in the sex abuse trial. Court officials will make arrangements for him to watch the proceedings through a Zoom call.

https://siouxcityjournal.com/judge-will-now-decide-whether-mapleton-teen-is-guilty-of-sexually-abusing-seven-teenage-girls/article_c52e0853-02ed-5721-a344-3a3f1032995a.html

Johnny Black Oklahoma Execution

Johnny Black was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of a man and the attempted murder of another. According to court documents Johnny Black and four other men would fatally beat Bill Pogue and injured his son-in-law Richard Lewis in 1998. Many believe the murder was a case of mistaken identity. Johnny Black would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Johnny Black would be executed by lethal injection on December 17 2013

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Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a 48-year-old man convicted of the 1998 stabbing death of a horse trainer from Ringling.https://9295d6fb9eaecdadaefc512f23b0e17a.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

Johnny Dale Black was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was the second inmate executed by the state in the past two weeks and the sixth put to death in Oklahoma this year.

Black was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing Bill Pogue, 54, during a roadside attack near the southern Oklahoma town that left Pogue with 11 stab wounds, broken ribs and punctured lungs. Pogue’s son-in-law, Rick Lewis, was also attacked. Lewis suffered more than a dozen wounds but later recovered.

At a hearing before the state Pardon and Parole Board last month, Black begged forgiveness for his actions. But he insisted that he was merely trying to defend his brother, Jimmy Black, from Pogue. The brothers had approached Pogue and Lewis after mistaking their car for that of someone else they had been searching for.

“I deserve to be punished for what I did, but not for defending my family,” Johnny Black told the board in November.

About 15 minutes before the execution, fellow death row inmates began banging the doors of their cells in a tribute to the condemned man.

Witnesses to the execution included Black’s mother, his attorney and a spiritual adviser. Four members of the victim’s family also attended.

Before the lethal drugs were administered, Black, who was lying on a gurney with needles attached to both arms, made eye contact with his mother, and both shook their heads affirmatively.

“This isn’t accomplishing anything,” Black said. “It’s just another death, another family destroyed.” Black did not apologize to the victim’s family or acknowledge the crime he was convicted of.

Looking at his mother, Johnny Black said, “I love everybody. I love you. You can count on that, Momma.”

As the lethal drugs were administered, Black took several deep breaths as his mother wept.

The victim’s family did not make a statement after the execution. But Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Black was sentenced to death by a jury of his peers “for the murder of an innocent grandfather and upstanding member of the community.”

Pogue’s relatives and friends had petitioned the board last month to carry out the execution instead of commuting Black’s death sentence to life in prison without parole.

“What will bring justice in this tragic case? How can atonement be made for this hideous murder?” wrote Pogue’s widow, Lonnetta. “No mercy was shown to Bill on that fateful night. He got no second chances at life.

“I ask you, board members, to let justice be done,” she wrote.

Lewis related the mental anguish and survivor’s guilt he’s experienced since 1998.

“Tell me how, as the only surviving victim, that I can explain the feeling of being the one that survived,” Lewis said. “Tell me how to explain to my son – who was 18 days old when this happened – how his daddy couldn’t save his granddad.”

Pogue’s son, Charles Pogue, told the board how the family has battled through bouts of depression and “extreme anger” since Pogue was killed.

“Dad got to be a grandfather for 18 days before his life was taken,” Charles Pogue said. “Unfortunately, my two daughters never got to meet their pops.

“I also haven’t had the heart to tell them what happened that evening. It’s hard to figure out how to tell a 12 and 5-year-old about how evil a person can be,” he said.

Randy Bauman, Black’s attorney, declined last week to comment on the case.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/johnny-dale-black-killer-convicted-in-1998-stabbing-death-executed-in-oklahoma/

Allen Nicklasson Missouri Execution

Allen Nicklasson was executed by the State of Missouri for the murder of a man that stopped to help. According to court documents Allen Nicklasson, Dennis Skillicorn and Tim DeGraffenreid decided to drive to Kansas City to buy drugs and along the way there car broke down. The three men robbed a house and stole guns and money. When the victim saw their car pulled over to the side of the road he stopped to help however he was taken hostage by the group and forced to drive to a secluded area where he was fatally shot.

Allen Nicklasson and Dennis Skillicom would take the vehicle and would later shoot and kill a couple who again made the mistake of trying to help. Allen Nicklasson and Dennis Skillicom would be convicted and sentenced to death. Tim DeGraffenreid would be sentenced to life without parole. Dennis SKillicom was executed in 2009. Allen Nicklasson would be executed by lethal injection on December 12, 2013

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Allen Nicklasson once recalled the “euphoria” he felt after fatally shooting a kind businessman who stopped to help when he saw Nicklasson’s car stalled on Interstate 70 near Kingdom City, Mo., in 1994.

Late Wednesday night, Nicklasson was put to death for Richard Drummond’s killing – nearly 23 hours after he was originally scheduled to die.

It was the second execution in Missouri in three weeks after a nearly three-year hiatus. Racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Nov. 20.

The executions also were the first since Missouri switched from a three-drug protocol to use of a single drug, pentobarbital.

Nicklasson, 41, was pronounced dead at 10:52 p.m. Wednesday, eight minutes after the process began. His eyes remained closed throughout and he showed little reaction to the drug, briefly breathing heavily about 2 minutes into the process. He offered no final words.

Missouri Department of Public Safety spokesman Mike O’Connell said Nicklasson prayed briefly with the prison chaplain about 20 minutes before the execution. No one from his family or the victim’s family attended.

The execution was the end of a life troubled almost from the start. Nicklasson grew up in Kansas City, Mo., in a fatherless home. His mother was a mentally ill stripper who brought home an assortment of men, many of whom abused her son. Nicklasson died bearing the scar from where one of the men burned him.

Nicklasson declined interviews in the days leading up to his execution. But in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press, he recalled the trauma of his childhood – eating Alpo dog food for dinner, watching his mother shoot up heroin. She once made him fight a Doberman for money, he recalled. Then, there was the constant torrent of abuse from his mother’s male friends.

Nicklasson suffered from bipolar disorder and lived on and off in boys’ homes for his petty crimes and institutions for his mental illness.

By his 20s, Nicklasson was homeless and a drug addict. While in rehab in 1994, he crossed paths with Dennis Skillicorn, who had been recently released from prison following a second-degree murder conviction for killing a man during a robbery.

The two and a third man, Tim DeGraffenreid, decided in August 1994 to make the trip from Kansas City across I-70 to St. Louis to buy drugs. On the way back, their rundown 1983 Chevrolet Caprice started sputtering. It broke down near Kingdom City, about 100 miles west of St. Louis, and they took it to the shop.

They used the down time to burglarize a home, stealing money and guns. Though warned the car was unfixable, the men got back on the road.

The car soon broke down again. Drummond, a 47-year-old Excelsior Springs, Mo., man who was a technical support supervisor for AT&T, saw the three men and their stranded car and stopped to help.

The men loaded their stolen goods in the trunk of Drummond’s Dodge Intrepid. Then Nicklasson put a gun to his head and told him to drive west.

Along the way, there was some debate between Nicklasson and Skillicorn about what to do with Drummond. Ultimately, they ordered him off the highway and to a secluded area in Lafayette County in western Missouri.

In the 2009 interview, Nicklasson recalled how he left the other two behind and walked Drummond to a wooded area. He said he had intended to tie him up to buy time for the trio to get away.

He changed his mind, ordering Drummond to kneel and cross his legs. Then he shot him twice in the head.

“I’m laughing, pacing,” Nicklasson said, recalling the moment. “I started losing it. I wouldn’t want this out, but I felt a euphoria. I finally got back for all the beatings I took” as a child.

Nicklasson and Skillicorn stole Drummond’s car and drove to Arizona. When the vehicle broke down in the desert, they approached the home of Joseph and Charlene Babcock. Nicklasson killed Joseph Babcock after the man drove them back to their vehicle. Charlene Babcock was killed at the couple’s home.

Both Nicklasson and Skillicorn were sentenced to life in prison for the Arizona killings and also sentenced to death in Missouri for Drummond’s death. Skillicorn was executed in 2009 even though Nicklasson took sole responsibility for killing Drummond.

DeGraffenreid pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and did not receive a death sentence.

Nicklasson’s execution was originally scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. But an appeals court panel granted a stay of execution Monday, citing concerns about his counsel at trial and sentencing in 1996.

When the full appeals court refused to take up the case Tuesday, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It did not return its 5-4 decision to vacate the stay until 10:07 p.m. Wednesday, with Justices Ruth Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissenting. Gov. Jay Nixon refused to grant clemency.

Missouri previously used a three-drug method for executions but changed protocols after drugmakers stopped selling the lethal drugs to prisons and corrections departments. The pentobarbital used in Missouri executions comes from an undisclosed compounding pharmacy – the Missouri Department of Corrections declines to say who makes the drug, or where.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-state-executes-man-in-1994-good-samaritan-killing/