Evidence? well, none really. back in cleveland, it hadn t gone so well either, and the cops were wrapping up their meeting with marshall s former girlfriend yvonne hargrove. and 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 from the police station when he was first a suspect in robin s murder. he s crying and he s saying how am i going to get to heaven? how am i going to get to heaven? he kept saying this over and over and over. that s as far as she would offer. it sounds like 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. when i came back the second time he got rid of the shoes. the closet was clean. all those shoes were missing. on the back porch he left one
Dinner. yvonne seemed credible, never wavered in supporting marshall s story. it was a solid alibi. maybe the marshall idea was a dead end. as they were leaving the cops had one more question, though, did she know anything about that mysterious piece of foam found at the crime scene? and they brought out this thing, had a funny shape, funny color, and said, do you know what this is? i said, no, i ve never seen that before. so what could they do? they let william marshall go. the cops had nothing on him. robin hoynes funeral was a big event in this part of town. and because robin was well known and so well liked, much of the neighborhood attended, and friends and colleagues, except for one, cheryl, the girl who had switched shifts with robin the night the murderer came to call. i had heard that they were really upset with me and that
Tricia and wendy. excited because this was halloween, one of the best days of the year. i loved it. we would trick-or-treat and then sort the candy and we would be trading what we liked. a halloween morning long ago, it was 1984, the morning after the incident in the fast food place. it started warm and sunny, that bubble of innocence, before anyone knew a thing. wendy donned her halloween costume, wore it to school, as did tricia who wore hers to work. kim, the eldest, left early for her job at the nearby mall. robin wasn t home. after working late, she told her family, she had arranged a sleepover at a girlfriend s place. she was due home any minute, as wendy remembers. she was good about reporting in, telling us where she was going to be and when she was going to be home. robin was 21 years old. she was a redhead, pretty,
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Case. going in? going in. coming out? coming out i felt like i had been kicked. nobody showed any interest, a complete rejection on prosecution. too circumstantial, said the d.a., and no incriminating evidence even on those items seized from marshall s 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 he had was back on the streets. maddening. his life goes forward and, you know, robin s is snuffed out and she never gets to meet her potential because of what he did. they all suffered, all the hoynes. perhaps mr. hoynes most of all. our dad felt like he had not done what he was supposed to do as a father because he didn t protect her.
yvonne was a force and when she started going, it just sounded credible, and then it was supported by the physical evidence we had which she knew nothing about. he did tell her he went out and went to a kentucky fried chicken. he did tell her he wanted to get the money but the employee put it in a drop box and couldn t get the money. he did tell her he stabbed the victim. he did tell her when he couldn t get the money, he slit her throat. one more piece. the foam from the crime seen. she knew how it got there. i guess he looked at his shoes and all the backs were worn off them. the most crucial moment of his life. that s when the piece of that foam from the back of that boot popped out and was on the floor. the foam, the murder, the coverup, yvonne s 20-year secret