“Fatal Attraction” killer Carolyn Warmus didn’t express any sympathy for her victim’s husband during the state parole hearing that led to her being sprung from prison after 27 years — instead blaming him for the 1989 murder she was convicted of.
The former Westchester County school teacher and insurance heiress was asked during her April 30 hearing what she would say to Betty Jean Solomon — the wife of ex-lover Paul Solomon — if the woman were alive. Warmus was convicted of fatally shooting Betty Jean the evening of Jan. 15, 1989, according to a transcript obtained by The Post.
“Well, in my — in the few times that I’ve met her, I mean the impression is that she was a very nice person,” the 55-year-old convicted killer said. “I know at trial, the husband — her husband and her daughter testified and they did not express any love or concern towards the victim or the fact that she’s dead.
“I mean I lost my parents and I lost loved ones and it’s heart-wrenching, and I honestly can’t imagine what the victim’s parents and siblings are going through,” Warmus continued. “Nobody should have to go through something this tragic, and my heart just goes out to them.”
Warmus, who has long maintained her innocence in the slaying, was asked if she had a sense of who may have done the evil deed.
“Well, the husband, you know really benefited from her death,” she replied. “I mean I found out — I didn’t know at the time that you know, he had military training, that he had guns in his apartment I didn’t know any of this.”
The ex-first-grade instructor claimed that Paul Solomon — a fifth-grade teacher assigned to be her mentor at Scarsdale’s Greenville Elementary School in the late 1980s — pursued her and that she had no idea he was married when she met him when she was 23 and he was near 40.
“I sort of feel like he took advantage of the situation when he sort of pursued me, date[d] me and stuff,” she said. “I didn’t realize he was married initially but … I’m so ashamed that I did not end the relationship once I found out that he was married. I really wish that I could change all of that.
“I didn’t realize he was having other affairs,” Warmus told the three-officer parole panel.
“I found out at trial that he had already had large life insurance policies in place and benefited financially from her, from [Betty Jean’s] death,” Warmus claimed.
But Warmus reportedly did know about Solomon’s full love life — eight months after the killing she allegedly followed her lover and his new girlfriend to Puerto Rico, where they were vacationing, according to an Associated Press report from the time of her arrest.
A phone number tied to Solomon, now in his 70s, was disconnected. He declined to comment to the Rockland/Westchester Journal News on Wednesday.
Warmus — who was sentenced in 1992 to 25 years to life in prison for shooting Betty Jean nine times in the back — was freed from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility last month.
The convicted teacher was denied parole after her initial board appearance in 2017, but the panel granted her release following the April interview.
Warmus’ lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, did not respond to a request for comment.