earlier? i can t remember if it was the older women who was the sister, but one of them looked at me and she gave me a little smile that was enough to let me know i m okay with them. they sent me a thank-you card of their gratitude. it made me feel good. i think about the young lady because i keep that. in remembrance of her, and i m so sorry that happened to her. just a few weeks after the trial, it was halloween once again, the always dreaded anniversary of robin s death. but that year my mom says i guess we need to buy some halloween candy. that might not sound like very much to anyone, but that is like huge, you know, and we did. you know, we do hand out candy
bridesmaids when their aunt val remarried. but there are too many from this family in the circle village cemetery. something, not something a family gets used to. they just learn to work around it. they go on. we re not victims. we re survivors. survivors keep on living life. and we re survivors. and we re survivors. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. for lovely robin, the late shift was her last. she was laying facedown, a pool of blood under one side. just one tiny clue a piece of curved foam rubber. there was a suspect, but he had an alibi, until this revelation. i said, i have something that you need to know.
she started with their mother. the first words out of her mouth are, you re lying to me. you re lying to me. she couldn t, you know, she couldn t believe that. so once she realizes really that i m telling her the truth, we know we have to talk to my dad. we called him and told him, and he said, okay, i ll meet you at the house. wendy, the youngest, heard at school that robin had been stabbed. my immediate response was, did she die, because i want her to still be alive, but she said, no, she s dead. tricia didn t hear a thing until she got home from work. i had dressed up for halloween as well, and i was wearing robin s flagster costume and i look down and i see that i m in her clothes, and i lost it. i was like, get it off me. i was screaming that i needed to
the trial began in 2007, 23 years after robin s murder. william marshall was now 46. he arrived in court each day carrying a bible. his troubled youth, early drug addiction, brief rap sheet were decades behind him. this is a man who looked incapable of cold-blooded murder. he said nothing. he just watched prosecutor john lewin make the case against him. william marshall knew before he walked in to the restaurant that night, he knew that robin knew him. so he knew that if he was going to do this crime, he was going to kill her, so this was just a, unconscionable crime. the motive? drug money, then eliminate the witness, said prosecutor john lewin. marshall had been arrested before robin hoynes murder for pcp, a man who needed cash, who thought he knew where to get it. and then yvonne hargrove told
the top cover of the safe was removed, and there were some paint chips missing off a new combination lock. there were a few drops of blood on the safe, but no fingerprint, no murder weapon, but there was something rather odd lying near robin s body. it was just a piece of foam rubber. we kind of speculated that it came from some padding maybe for a backpack or a handle for a briefcase. whatever it was and wherever it came from, the mysterious piece of foam wasn t much to go on. still, they bagged it, put it with all the other evidence. robin s wallet told them who she was, where she lived. an officer went to the house to notify the family. no one home. he left a note which said call the police department. it was something about robin. so i called back. i said, is she all right? and he said, no, she s not. so, now kim, the eldest of the four daughters, had to reveal the news.