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🗓️ 28 March 2024
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advice. |
0:10.0 | This is a minute murder. |
0:21.6 | On the morning, |
0:23.6 | On the morning of May 26th, 1990, 21-year-old Joe Arons was eating breakfast with a few of his friends and his mother, Marlene Warren, when somebody approached the front door. |
0:49.2 | Through a window, Joe could see that it was somebody wearing a clown costume. |
0:54.0 | The clown was just over six feet tall |
0:56.4 | with a skinny build and wearing a curly orange wig, a red prosthetic nose, and face paint. |
1:05.2 | At first, Joe didn't think anything of it. He had recently broken his leg and he assumed |
1:10.3 | one of his loved ones or friends |
1:12.2 | was dressed as a clown and showed up to brighten his day. The clown knocked on the front door |
1:17.6 | of the house and Marlene went to open it. There was a loud bang and Marlene crumpled to the ground. |
1:25.0 | The clown shot her. Joe and his friends panicked, running to call 911. |
1:30.3 | Marlene was still alive, but it was clear that she was having difficulty breathing, |
1:35.3 | and she couldn't get back onto her feet. Meanwhile, the clown turned and silently walked away, |
1:41.3 | leaving the bunch of flowers and two balloons sitting outside |
1:45.4 | the front door. The clown climbed into the driver's seats of a white car parked outside, |
1:50.7 | and very calmly drove away. Joe left his friends at the house waiting for the first responders |
1:57.3 | to arrive while he got into his own car and tried to chase the clown down. However, |
2:03.1 | he'd been slowed down by his broken leg and he lost sight of the other vehicle. Back at the house, |
2:09.1 | Marlene was in trouble. She was in critical condition, and once she was transported to the |
2:14.5 | intensive care unit of the hospital, her condition showed no sign of |
2:18.5 | improving. For two days, Joe sat by his mother's bedside. Quote, I kept telling her I love her, |
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