shift was hurt last she was lying face down, a pool of blood under one side. just one tiny clue. a piece of foam rubber. there was a suspect, but he had an alibi, until this revelation. i said, i have something that you need to know. welcome to dateline, it hello, and welcome to dateline. it sometimes take especially to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that is out of place, the clue that will crack the case. in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential, that no one even knew what it was, let alone what it meant. it took almost two decades, a team of determined investigators, and a detective with an unusual background find out. here s keith morrison with the night before halloween. it was the night before halloween, october 30th midnight approaching. it happened in one of the middle class suburbs that s roll across the los angeles basin. inside a fast food franchise, closed for the night, a frantic scrambling, running feet, and then, sile
there was a suspect, but he had an alibi, until this revelation. revelation i said, i have something that you need to know. welcome to dateline, it sometimes takes a special eye to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that is out of place. the clue that will crack the case. and in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential, no one even knew what it was, alone would ve meant. it took almost two decades of a team of determinant investigators and a detective was than usual back out to find out. here is keith morrison with the night before halloween. it was the night before halloween, october 30th, late, midnight approaching. it happened in one of the little class suburbs that sprawl across the los angeles basin. inside a fast food franchise, closed for the night. a frantic scrambling, running feet, then, silence. but the nice morning, not far away, the family dollar prepared for celebration, kim was the eldest, then robin, trisha, wendy. excited, because
and then, even more surprised even to this day, i find it hard to believe. worried about your arrest, traveled fast home. it sounds terrible, but thrilling. and you stay in prison for the rest of his life and never get out. the trial finally began in 2007, 23 years after robin s murder. william marshall is now 46. he arrived in court each day, carrying a bible. he s troubled youth, early drug addiction, brief rap sheet for decades behind him. this was a man he capable and just watched john lewin with the case against him. william marshall knew before he walked into the restaurant that night, he knew that robbyn knew him. so, he knew that if he was going to do this, crime he was
he used to work there. earlier that day, william called me and he was going to come back and pick up his briefcase and return his uniform. and so before i left that day, i told her that william is going to be by later. she told me okay no problem. william was william marshall. a former kfc assistant manager who worked a long side robin for several months. he was young, just 23, ambitious, known to be friendly. quite religious, just like robin. did he know anything about her murder? it turns out that he did. but it would take detectives some 23 years to find out just what, what he knew that night before halloween. coming up, the case finally feels like it is heating up. and then it is stopped cold. i felt like i had been kicked. when dateline continues. i gotta wrap this commercial,
belong to him. a kfc uniform, which william marshall did not need any more. and for a very good reason. william marshall had been terminated because of missing cash and failed polygraph. 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