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THE WEEK, Page 29SOCIETYDeadly Triangles
Fate -- and the law -- catches up with three real-life Medeas
The love triangle turned lethal has been a favored subject of
writers from Euripides to the creators of All My Children. But
last week the deadly drama of scorned women and the men they
can't have played offstage in three different real-world
courtrooms.
Femme fatale No. 1: Carolyn Warmus, a former schoolteacher
with a taste for high fashion and a penchant for liking the
wrong guy. On May 27, a jury in White Plains, N.Y., convicted
the Columbia graduate of murdering the wife of her onetime
paramour and co-worker Paul Solomon. This wasn't the first time
a rapt audience had heard the steamy details of Warmus' affair
with the sixth-grade teacher. The "fatal attraction" case went
to trial last year but ended in a hung jury. Now the
28-year-old killer could face life in prison.
On the same day that Warmus learned her fate, an appellate
court in Wisconsin upheld the murder conviction of a former
beauty queen who is already serving a life sentence for killing
her ex-boyfriend's fiance. Lori Esker, erstwhile Marathon
County Dairy Princess, became wildly jealous when she discovered
that her prince, a local farmer, had decided to take up
permanent residence with on-again, off-again girlfriend Lisa
Cihaski. Esker strangled Cihaski in September 1989, leaving her
body to be found in a parked car.
As the curtain came down for Warmus and Esker, the legal
theater was just beginning for a Merrick, N.Y., teen indicted
for attempting to murder -- you guessed it -- her lover's wife.
Last week grand jury deliberations wrapped up in the case of the
girl the press called Long Island's Lolita. Playing Humbert
Humbert was Joseph Buttafuoco, a 38-year-old auto mechanic who
had an affair with the young woman. Their relationship
apparently soured, and the teenager became "obsessed with
revenge," said Daniel Severin, a Nassau County police detective.