CRIME HUNTER: Rich girl Carolyn Warmus chased 'unattainable men'
· Toronto Sun
Rich girl turned school teacher Carolyn Warmus wasn’t great at sharing.
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And she would be damned if her married lover’s wife was going to prevail.
The New York tabloids called it the “Fatal Attraction Murder” after the 1987 blockbuster erotic thriller that made Glenn Close a star.
The movie also starred heartthrob Michael Douglas and detailed the lurid obsession of a woman scorned stalking and twisting the knife into her very married playmate.
Two years later, the scenario played out in real life in the leafy New York City suburbs.
Warmus was born rich
Born in 1964 in Detroit’s lily-white bedroom communities, it would be hard to imagine growing up richer than Carolyn Warmus , who resembled the late-1980s school teacher from central casting. Her father was a gazillionaire insurance executive who owned a fleet of eight jets, two yachts, 15 cars and multiple homes scattered around the world.
Following high school, Carolyn Warmus attended the University of Michigan, earning her bachelors in psychology. After that, a Master’s degree in teaching from Columbia University in New York.
Friends described Warmus as a “nice” and “normal” person who didn’t stand out. No one would describe the sensible appearing blond as a sex-crazed vixen or obsessive.
“She was the kind of girl you’d take home to mom,” one neighbour told The New York Times , adding Warmus was “a quiet person, very pleasant. This was not a wild person in any way.”
But she had a difficult relationship with her distant father, was hyper-competitive with a sister, and tellingly, man troubles were frequent. One of them being that they were married and “unattainable.”
‘You can start worrying’
While her romantic woes may have begun in high school, most accounts suggest her struggles of the heart kicked off in her sophomore year of university in Ann Arbor. There was the sexual relationship with the teaching assistant named Paul Laven. He ditched her and became engaged to another co-ed.
Warmus was out of her mind with jealousy, leaving hundreds of phone messages and stalking the pair. Cops had to remove her after she broke into the newsome twosome’s apartment.
And she left a note: ”I really hope you enjoyed this past week of not being bothered by me, because now that I’m back from vacation you can start worrying all over again.”
Eventually, they obtained a permanent injunction.
After moving to the Big Apple, she dated a married bartender and hired a private eye to obtain compromising photos to obliterate his marriage. The detective later testified the teaching temptress wanted to create fakes to send to the bartender’s wife.
But in 1987, she began a new gig teaching at Greenville Elementary School in Greenburgh, north of New York City and the birthplace of luminaries like wrestling icon Classy Freddie Blassie, Cab Calloway and Dodgers great Roy Campanella. There, she met fellow teacher Paul Solomon.
Sex on the menu
He was married but that didn’t squelch the flames and sex was on the menu.
Paul’s wife, Betty Jeanne Solomon, 40, had thought about kicking her sleazeball hubby to the curb but there was their 15-year-old daughter Kristan to consider.
An account executive, she was well-liked but changed after meeting her future husband at university. Old friends described him as “controlling.”
Then, on Jan. 15, 1989, someone parked nine bullets in Betty Jeanne’s back at their Westchester home. Cops immediately looked at Paul but he was bowling with friends, so no soap there.
Despite his alibi, detectives kept an eye on him and noticed a young blond following him around.
While Paul did go bowling with pals, he then met his mistress at a Holiday Inn in nearby Yonkers. Drinks at the bar, then sex in the car, the New York Post reported. At home, his wife dead.
Pretended to be a cop
Five months after her murder, slimebucket Paul Solomon dumped Warmus and jetted off to sun and fun in Puerto Rico with his new girlfriend.
Warmus followed them and went so far as to contact the new gal pal’s family, pretending to be a cop. The “officer” encouraged the family to tell the daughter to ditch dirty Paul.
Warmus was arrested on Feb. 2, 1990, and charged with second-degree murder.
The young teacher was torpedoed almost from the beginning despite her protestations of innocence. Warmus had no alibi, an explosive romantic history, and there was the gun and silencer she purchased from the private detective. Tests determined it was the murder weapon.
‘I did not kill Betty Jeane’
The first trial ended in the spring of 1991 with a hung jury. Then on May 27, 1992, she was convicted of second-degree murder.
“I did not kill Betty Jeanne Solomon. I don’t want to spend time in jail for something I didn’t do. If I’m guilty of anything at all it was simply being foolish enough to believe the lies and promises that Paul Solomon made to me,” Warmus cried at her sentencing.
She was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the murder of Betty Jeanne.
‘I’m so ashamed’
After 27 years in the slammer, Warmus was released on parole in July 2019. She maintains her innocence.
“I sort of feel like he took advantage of the situation when he sort of pursued me, date(d) me and stuff. I didn’t realize he was married initially but … I’m so ashamed that I did not end the relationship once I found out that he was married,” she said.
“I really wish that I could change all of that.”