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 well. they had hoped that key piece of evidence, the foam, would tie marshall to that long ago crime scene, but the lab wouldn t definitively back it up. without some break, the case would stall again. what to do? well, it was perhaps a long shot, but deputy d.a. john lewin had always figured the alibi marshall got from his old girlfriend, yvonne hargrove, was a little shaky. so he had an idea.
dinner. yvonne seemed credible, never wavered in supporting marshall s story. it was a solid alibi. so 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 they 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
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 that mr. 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. and my brain went and i m like, okay. so they tell me they re reopening up the one about william and the kfc. they asked me was he with you? i said, yes, the whole night. all those years later, yvonne insisted the story she told then and now was absolutely positively true. william marshall s alibi remained rock solid.
hargrove started wrestling with her own soul. she thought how williams had given her a beating so severe, she thought he d kill her and a cold fear set in. if she said anything, would he come after her and finish the job? after all, he alone knew the story he told her that time when he said he might never get to heaven. dangerous knowledge. i was thinking, what s going to happen to me. because i know this now. yes, yes. does he realize he s put a time bomb in me. why me? yeah. my life could be in danger, and i m thinking, what do i do with this, of which i did contact an attorney. an attorney all those years ago told her to say nothing, stay out of the investigation, so she did, buried it. but now after that visit from the cops, the turmoil was back, gut-wrenching as ever. she needed fresh advice. one of the professors that i had was an attorney. i called him, and he said, when
the day she was murdered. she d believed all those years that the family blamed her for it, and now, finally, learned that she was wrong. i remember her mom said something to me, that robin was a nice person and that s why she changed hours with me, and she said, and i believe you re a nice person, too, and you would have done the same thing, and that just that changed everything now because i thought, you know what? she s right. i would have. i would have changed hours too. how did it feel to be absolved by that family that day? they never, ever blamed me in any way. and for yvonne hargrove, the woman who in the end finally did the right thing, did the hoynes family harbor any resentment toward her for not coming forward so many years