‘Fatal Attraction:' Former seasonal resident set to be paroled
Courtesy photos (New York Dept. of Corrections)
Former Bellaire-area seasonal resident Carolyn Warmus is shown during her first trial for murder in 1991, and as she appears now. Warmus has been granted parole and could be released as early as June 10.
BELLAIRE – A former Bellaire-area seasonal resident convicted of murder in a sensational trial that spawned books and made-for-TV movies will be paroled soon after serving 26 years in a New York prison.
Carolyn Warmus, 55, could be released from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in upstate New York as early as June 10 after a three-member panel of the state parole board recently granted her release.
In 1992, Warmus was convicted of killing a fellow school teacher's wife in a nationally publicized murder dubbed the “Fatal Attraction" case after a popular 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
The daughter of former multi-millionaire insurance business owner Thomas A. Warmus, Carolyn Warmus grew up in Michigan, spending much of her teen and college years in the Bellaire area, where the family had a sumptuous home near Shanty Creek Resorts known as the "Eagle's Nest."
Warmus had many friends in the Shanty Creek area, as did her father and step-mother, and was well-known for the parties she hosted at the "Eagle's Nest."
After graduation from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology, Warmus moved to New York City, where she earned a master's degree in elementary education from the Teachers College of Columbia University and took a job as a teacher in 1987 at Greenville Elementary School in Scarsdale, New York.
There, she met Paul Solomon, a fifth-grade teacher, and the two soon began an affair.
On Jan. 15, 1989, police received an emergency phone call from Solomon, who said he had found his wife's body in the couple's condominium. An autopsy later showed that Betty Jean Solomon, 40, had been pistol-whipped and shot nine different times.
Suspicion in the investigation focused on Warmus when she began to relentlessly stalk Solomon and the woman he began seeing a short time after his wife's death.
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