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After spending the last 27 years in prison, a 55-year-old former schoolteacher convicted of the 1989 killing of her lover’s wife — inspiring comparisons toGlenn Close‘s character in the 1987Michael DouglasthrillerFatal Attraction— has been released on parole.
PEOPLE confirmsCarolyn Warmuswas released from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York State on Monday.
Warmus was 26 when she murdered Betty Jean Solomon, the wife of her colleague and lover, Paul Solomon.
The victim was found slain inside the wedded couple’s home in Greenburgh, New York, on the night of Jan. 15, 1989.
Warmus has long maintained her innocence. But jurors convicted her in 1992, siding with the prosecution, which suggested her romantic obsession with Solomon led her to kill his wife half an hour before she met her lover for an evening of drinks and sex.
Warmus, the heiress to an insurance fortune, was arrested less than a month later.
She had been sentenced to 25 years to life.
A statement from New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision spokesperson Thomas Mailey says Warmus will be released “to Community Supervision and will be supervised in New York County.”
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The statement adds that, “for safety and security reasons, the Department does not issue specific residential information for individuals on Community Supervision” before noting Warmus “is on parole for life.”
PEOPLE reached out to Warmus’ attorney Tuesday, but had not gotten a response at press time.
Warmus’ trial was a media spectacle, with several tabloids dubbing it the “The Fatal Attraction” case.
source: people.com
