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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Case of the Killer Clown

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A story that even by Florida standards, is strange…
A clown holding flowers and balloons knocked on Marlene Warren’s front door - and when she opened the door, the clown fatally shot her.

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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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