Killer in ‘Fatal Attraction’ Case Given Maximum Sentence
A former teacher convicted of killing her lover’s wife in a crime compared to the movie “Fatal Attraction” was sentenced Friday to the maximum term of 25 years to life.
Carolyn Warmus, pale and disheveled, stared straight ahead as the judge imposed the sentence. Minutes earlier, she had sobbed while telling the judge in a barely audible voice: “I’m innocent.”
She also was sentenced to a concurrent term of five to 15 years for weapons possession. She will not be eligible for parole until 2017.
Warmus, 28, has been jailed since her May 27 conviction. Her first trial ended with a hung jury in April, 1991.
“Those who are teachers, who are role models, must not escape the consequences of their wrongdoing,” Westchester County Judge John Carey said in sentencing her.
Warmus, daughter of a Michigan millionaire, was convicted of shooting Betty Jeanne Solomon nine times at the victim’s Greenburgh apartment on Jan. 15, 1989, before going to meet the victim’s husband, Paul Solomon, for drinks and sex.
The prosecutor called Warmus an obsessed “bad side of a love triangle,” saying she shot Solomon to eliminate her rival for her lover’s attention.
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