I'm going deep into my wife's family history, digging up the cold case of her murdered

great-grandmother.

And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family

patriarch?

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The evil clowns you see in the movies, well, it came to life in this case.

When your mom was growing up, was she fascinated with clowns?

She was.

She even painted pictures of them.

My mother Marlene Warren was a beautiful person.

She was loving, caring, kind.

On May 26, 1990, a woman answered her door in front of her 21-year-old son and saw a clown

at the door, handing her balloons and flowers.

How's the worst day of my life?

The reading breakfast.

We saw the colors, the reflections through the glass.

It looked like a clown costume.

My mother opened the door and I heard how pretty.

And I heard bang.

I saw her fall and I ran toward her as the clown was walking away and I saw that she'd

been shot in the face.

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