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Forestry. according to dale hutchinson, he was responsible for this station. by the year 2003, marshall had been here almost 15 years, lived quietly in this rustic community known as mountain center. people called him bill, respected him, trusted him to keep them safe. >> he lived right there at the house right behind you. >> terry quinn made friends with marshall soon after he moved in. >> he was a very good person. he was very well respected. he fit in real well up here on the mountains. >> back in torrance, the case detectives had revived after almost 20 years was not fitting together so we...

Wallace rushed down to the evidence storage room and searched for the box with william marshall's boots inside and, amazingly after two decades, they were still there in a plastic container intact. >> and, sure enough, when i pulled them out, one of the boots had the brown leather casing for that part of the boot that was so worn that the foam was missing from the casing. >> come on. >> when i was sitting there looking at that shoe, i've got to tell you, there was a tingle up the back of my neck. >> wallace thought he had hit the jackpot. the foam from the kfc appeared to match the remaining f...

Enforcement people who interviewed him. >> finally, lewin asked a question that seemed to get under andre's skin. >> isn't it true, mr. jackson, that marie told you that she was leaving you? >> absolutely not. >> that same day? >> november 11th. >> absolutely not. >> had she ever -- >> after three months in court and 18 years after marie's death, co-prosecutor pat kerry gave the prosecution's closing argument. >> there's only one person in this case who six weeks prior to the murder was observed choking marie. there's only one person in this case who drove right past marie's car when they were...

Blood on marie's saab, but at the time of marie's murder, dna analysis was still in its infancy. those samples had never been tested. in 2004, detective seyler called john lewin, a prosecutor with the l. a. da's office major crime division. lewin specializes in cold cases. >> they had collected originally the fingernail scrapings. they had collected the blood, and the detective had been unable to get the lab test it. so when i first got on the case i started trying to cash in favors at the crime lab to get it done. >> but a ten-year-old cold case was not a priority. three more years passed bef...

Dna, we got what you would characterize as a near miss, a familial hit. >> a near miss, but still enough to get an arrest warrant. the fbi's fugitive task force caught up with andre in tempe, arizona. he wasn't expecting it? >> no, he was not expecting it. >> andre also said he didn't do it, didn't kill his wife. but he couldn't make bail, so he sat in a jail cell, even though prosecutor lewin knew the evidence was not as strong as it might be. although andre's inconsistent statements, the bruise on his face, his appearance at the very beach where marie's car was later found all seemed suspici...