On a warm summer night in August 2009, an intruder shot Camile Hamilton in the face inside a suburban Florida home. A staggering 14 hours after the attacker fled, Camile wakes up — barely alive and with a bullet still inside her neck. Three others, including Camile’s teenage daughter, are dead. The crime scene is brutal and complicated, and neighbors didn't see anything. The search is on for a killer.

In the conclusion of The Encino Murders, Camile Hamilton confronts Kevin Pratt after an in-person lineup — and the encounter is explosive. Kevin insists he didn’t kill anybody, but when the DNA evidence gets stronger he faces the death penalty. As the years go on, problems with
the investigation are uncovered — and suddenly, the case against Kevin isn’t as strong as once thought.

The text comes into Paul Edwards’ cell phone from his girlfriend, Lisa Spence: “Just wait till I got better,” it said. But it isn’t so much what the text says, but that it had been sent at all. A month earlier, in October 2009, Lisa had vanished after a night shift at a beauty supply store and hadn’t been seen again. When other friends and family start getting texts from Lisa, police wonder if Lisa was really the one sending them, or if this is more than simply a missing persons case.

Police looking into the disappearance of Lisa are convinced there's foul play involved. With nothing else to go on, they devise an unusual plan to crack the case. Within days, the text from the grave pays off — it leads them to a gruesome discovery in an empty field near Miami and to the man they say brutally murdered Lisa Spence.

When Marlene Warren answers a morning knock on her front door on Memorial Day weekend in 1990, a clown delivering flowers and balloons is smiling back at her. But her delight instantly turns to horror when the clown pulls a gun and puts a bullet in her face. Police jump on the trail of the killer clown almost immediately and the investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the Sunshine State — from loansharking and drug smuggling to prostitution and seedy affairs. But as a mountain of circumstantial evidence piles up and two possible suspects emerge, the case goes ice cold.

The early days of the search for the killer clown focuses on Marlene Warren's husband, Michael, and the repo woman who worked on his used car lot, Sheila Keen. There appears to be a motive: An insurance payout, investment properties, a lavish home and an affair. But there's little or no hard evidence. As Michael goes to prison for illegal activities on his lot, the investigation into his wife's murder stalls. Until 27 years later, when the secret lives of a married Virginia couple are exposed, and the alleged killer clown is finally unmasked.

It's a case with an ending almost as stunning as the scene where it all began — 33 years ago in the doorway of a home in a gated community of Wellington, Florida. A killer dressed as a clown fired a single bullet into the face of Marlene Warren, a soft-spoken mom from the midwest. For three decades, the case sat as one of Florida's most notorious unsolved murders. But after the face behind the white paint is finally revealed, hopes begin to falter that Marlene's murder would ever be truly solved. The story Felonious Florida brought you in Season 2 comes to an end.