As always, thank you for hanging out and remembering Betty Jeanne Torrey Solomon with me today.

In January 1989, 40-year-old Betty Jeanne Solomon was found shot to death in her home in Greenburgh, New York. Her husband was initially questioned, but investigators soon uncovered a hidden affair, between Betty Jeanne’s husband and a young elementary school teacher named Carolyn Warmus.

Prosecutors argued that Warmus, jealous and obsessed, carried out a calculated plan to eliminate the wife of the man she was having an affair with. Evidence showed she had purchased a gun shortly before the killing, and investigators linked that weapon to the murder.

Her first trial in 1991 ended in a hung jury, but a second trial a year later found her guilty of second-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm. Warmus was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison and became widely known as the woman behind what the media called “the Fatal Attraction murder.”

After serving 27 years, Carolyn Warmus was paroled in 2019.

This case became one of the most sensational love-triangle murders of the late 1980s, a story of obsession, jealousy, and a deadly desire to replace someone at any cost.