On this day, Jan. 15, in 1989, a Scarsdale, N.Y., wife was pistol-whipped and shot nine times by her husband’s lover in a case dubbed “The Fatal Attraction Murder.”
Carolyn Warmus, 24, was an elementary school teacher when she began an affair with colleague Paul Solomon. She became friends with his family and a mentor to his daughter.
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Twenty-one years ago today, police said, Warmus killed Beatty Jeanne Solomon and then met Paul Solomon for drinks and sex in a parked car.
Police first suspected the husband. But Warmus became the focus after she followed Solomon and his new lover to Puerto Rico. Police discovered that shortly before Mrs. Solomon’s murder, Warmus bought a handgun and ammunition using a co-worker’s stolen driver’s license.
The first murder trail ended in a hung jury, but in a second trial Warmus was found guilty after prosecutors retrieved a lost piece of evidence, a bloody black glove found at the crime scene.
Warmus was sentenced to 25 years to life and remains behind bars.
– Scott McCabe
