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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

Folly in love is one of the most exciting and life affirming things a person can experience.

But love is often complicated, and requited love is a pain like no other, as is lost love.

I guess what I'm saying is that love comes with intense highs as well as devastating lows.

In this month's series, I'll be covering cases where one or more people fall in love,

but find themselves involved in a love triangle and in competition for their person's love and attention.

In this episode, two people in committed relationships become infatuated with one another.

When one of their spouses is murdered, investigators quickly zero in on the Star-crossed lovers.

However, they will find it challenging to prove who killed Marlene Warren due to the baffling

description of the attacker.

This is the first episode in the series Love Triangles,

the case of the killer clown. You're going to be. It was a crime that would shock the upscale village of Wellington, Florida.

Wellington set itself apart from other communities in Palm Beach County when residents

succeeded in establishing it as an independent municipality in 1995.

Known as the Winter Equestrian Capital of the World, Wellington is home to many notable people,

including actors Glenn Close and Tommy Lee Jones, broadcaster Joan Lendon, and recording artists

Madonna and Vanilla Ice.

But on Saturday morning, May 26, 1990, the Peace and Safety Wellington residents found

behind the doors of their palatial homes on the country club greens and in the equestrian fields was shattered when a shot rang out in the Arrow Park neighborhood. 40-year-old Marlene Warren was home with her 22-year-old son Joey making breakfast for him and his friends. Her husband of 18 years Michael

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