Live Breaking News & Updates on Day mister marshall
Stay updated with breaking news from Day mister marshall. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
has insisted that the story she told then and now we're absolutely and positively true. william marshals alibi remained rock solid. meanwhile, 2500 miles away, high in the mountains, detectives pulled up to william marshals house. not knowing what to expect. >> for whatever reason, he was comfortable enough with us to let us in. >> things unfolded slowly. marshall was cooperated and even keeled, and enfold now it's all guilt whatsoever. then, detective walsh tried a different approach. they are talking about shoes. why that distinctive where patter -- pattern on the shoes please seized from marshall after he was first arrested after the murder the kfc? >> he did explain to us that his pattern of shoe rare was such that he typically wore out
circumstantial case, but a good case. >> going in? >> going out? >> i felt like we had been kicked. nobody showed any interest, complete rejection on prosecution. >> two circumstantial said the da. and no incriminating evidence. even on those items seized from marshals car. >> marshall was released from jail. his girlfriend yvonne picked him up. once again, detective lancaster had to deliver the news to the hoynes family. the only suspect that he had was back on the streets. >> and his life goes forward and robins is snuffed out and she never gets to meet her potential. because of what he did. >> they all suffered. all the hoynes. perhaps mr. horn's most of all. >> our dad felt like he had not done what he was supposed to do. as a father, because he did not
they had two situations reported to the torrance police department concerning cash that from the safe. to thefts on the very same safeway robin had left the money. and though they could not exactly prove that he did it, marshall was a suspect. he had the opportunity, he failed the polygraph when questioned about those previous robberies. and at the time, he knew the combination of the safe. so the night that robin was killed, did marshal it had to rob the safe again? >> he knew the previous combinations. i don't know if he was aware that they had changed them, because it had happened days earlier. >> detectives brought william marshall in for questioning. he was friendly, cooperative. said that he was home entire evening and that he could prove it. all police had to do was go ask his girlfriend. yvonne hargrove. without telling them why he were talking to her, they did ask. >> i told him that william was with me that night. and what did we do?
to stay in prison for the rest of his life and never get out. >> the trial finally began 2007. 23 years after robbyn's murder. william marshall is now 46. he arrived in court each day carrying a bible. it is troubled youth, early drug addiction, rap sheet for decades behind him, this was a man who looked capable of cold blooded murder. he said nothing. just watch prosecutor john lewin make the case against him. >> william marshall knew before he walked into the restaurant that night, he knew robbyn knew him. so, he knew that if he was going to give this crime, he was going to kill her. so, this was just a heartless, her rift big, unconscionable crime. >> the motive? drug money. then, eliminate the witness. said prosecutor john the one. marshall had been arrested before robin's murder for possession of pcp. a man who need to cash, who knew, who thought, where to get
well, it was, perhaps, a long shot. deputy da figure that the allied that martial council girlfriend, you vaughan, was a little shaky. so, he had an idea. what if detectives interviewed both yvonne and marshall on the very same day? would they trip themselves up with divergent stories? >> two teams went out. the day mister marshall was contacted, one team contacted him and a second team went to ohio and contacted her. >> yvonne was living in cleveland by then. >> and they say, we need to talk to you about something that happened 20 years ago. my brain when it's like this. i'm like, okay. they tell me that they are reopening the one about william and the kfc. they asked me, was he with you? i said, yes, the whole night. >> all those years later, ivan
scene, wouldn't that exclude marshall as a suspect? the detective protested that the ballots had been stored in a plastic and hear all those years. to the scientists, all she could say that those two but the phone did not share the same a chemical signature. >> to hear her say that, one has valid someone doesn't, someone has to explain this. >> i have to tell you, it was devastating. >> not your best day. >> not the best. it really was the piece that we needed. something more than we had from 1984. without the connection to that boot, i don't think we relate a case. >> coming up, investigators make one last-ditch effort to talk to the suspect. they track him down here, leading a surprising life. when dateline continues.
>> going back a second time, he had gotten rid of all the shoes. the closet was completely clean. all of those keys were missing. now, interestingly, on the back porch, he left one pair of shoes though. the one pair he didn't get rid of. they had the same pattern of. where i did click those, as well. we use those to demonstrate that the marshall was one of the people who would wear his shoe this lie. >> more circumstantial evidence. nothing definitively connecting william marshall to the crime. that afterthought from even had been interesting, but might have meant nothing. then, back in cleveland, after the visit from the cops, even got to do a bit of soul searching. coming up, i know with that thing was on the campaign. what was it? at long last, did she tell the place? when dateline continues. uhh, i mean the whole turning people to stone thing was a bit of a buzz kill, right? so she ordered sunglasses with prime, one day delivery.
2000. >> the fire captain with the california department of forestry. according to hutchinson, he was responsible for the station. by the year 2003, marshall had been near 15 years here. lived quietly in this rustic community. in this mountain center. people called him bill, respected him, trust him to keep -- them safe. >> he lived right there at the house behind me. >> he made friends with martial soon after he moved. and >> he was really good person. he was very well respected. he fit in real well here on the mountains. >> back in torrents, the case that detectives had provided was not beginning to fit so well. they had stacked back pieces of evidence to -- but the lab wouldn't be definitively backing it up. without some break, the case would stall, again. what to do?
and with that, the interview was over. interesting, sure. usable evidence? well, none, really. back in cleveland, it hadn't gone so well either. the cops were wrapping up their meeting with marshall's former girlfriend, ivan. then, just before they left, almost as an afterthought ... she offered something, a strange story about william. about something he said when she picked him up for the police station when she was versus a spotting robins murder. >> he was crying say, how am i going to get to heaven? how my going to get to heaven? how my gonna get to heaven? he kept seeing this over and over over. >> that is as far as she would offer. it sounds like that this is a statement made by somebody who feared because he had done something. >> intriguing, but not exactly incriminating. the cops needed more. so, wallace returned to the fire captain's house. this time with a search warrant.
kharkiv. this as zelenskyy accused russia's military flying and cowardly nuts over their planes that didn't hit any civilian targets. -- counseled -- shut sightings that staffing shortages. airlines saw over 300 cancellations saturday and at least two on sunday. now, back to dateline. eline. welcome back to dateline, i'm natalie morales. investigators have a person of interest in the murder of 21-year-old robin moines. william marshall, marshall has an alibi. there isn't enough evidence to bring charges against him. a break in the case would come. but not for another 20 years. here, again, keith morrison with the night before halloween. >> october 1985, another halloween. once the moines house would've been festive, not anymore.