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- <title>
- June 08, 1992: Deadly Triangles
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 08, 1992 The Balkans
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 29
- SOCIETY
- Deadly Triangles
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- <p>Fate -- and the law -- catches up with three real-life Medeas
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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