evening and that he could prove it. all police had to do was go ask his girlfriend. yvonne hargrove. without telling them why he were talking to her, they did ask. i told him that william was with me that night. because that s what they wanted to do. and what did we do? i said that we cooked a spaghetti dinner. yvonne seemed credible. never wavered in supporting marshals story. it was a solid alibi. so maybe the marshall idea was a dead end. as they were leaving, cops had one more question though. did she know anything about that mysterious piece of foam found at the crime scene? they brought out this thing. kind of funny shaped. funny color. you know with this is? i said no, i had 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
keith morrison: the 1980s were violent years in la the 19 80s were violent drug wars, gang shootings. years in l. a.. drug wars, gang, shootings and averages nearly four killings a day. but what is different. the murder at the kfc, halloween 1984. this was certainly not a crime infested neighborhood. and robin hoynes was a careful, safety conscious, churchgoing young woman. not an enemy of the world. but she was stabbed in the back by someone that she might have known. it did not make sense. the kindest hearted person you would probably ever meet. yeah. so now the four sisters were three. i just was completely lost. at 16, you do not have the capacity to really understand grief.
a neck injury from a slashing -type wound from a knife. it did not take lancaster long to figure out what happened. this was no accident. she had two knife wounds to her back. the right side, lower area near the spine. it looked frankly elementary. robin had been murdered and will appear to be an attempted robbery. the top cover of the safe was removed. and there were some paint chips missing off of a new combination lock. there were a few drops of blood on the safe, but no fingerprints, 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 from a backpack, a handle little briefcase. whatever, was wherever it came from, the mysterious piece of foam was not much to go on. still, they bagged it, put it with all of the other evidence.
cases in particular, are very visual. i am inclined that way. i see the structure of the space, the crime scene. every little detail the crime scene sticks out to me a little more. so, wallace looked at the photos and the fragments of evidence still preserved. i said, wow. the anomaly in the room is right here. if i can solve this, i can put everything together. the anomaly. that would be the puzzling piece of evidence, which haunted investigators from us two decades. that odd, oblong hunk of foam. and it was either gonna come from robin, the victim. or going to come from the suspect in the case. once i was comfortable that this didn t come from robin s purse, it didn t come from rob s clothing. it isn t from the kentucky fried chicken restaurant. it doesn t belong there. it left only one other possibility. the murder. wallace poured over the pictures of the one suspect, marshall. when he was pulled over by the cops a few weeks after robin s murder. suddenly, a light went
trial, it was halloween, once again. they always dreaded anniversary of robin s death. but that year? my mom says, i guess we need to buy some halloween candy. you know, that might not sound like very much to anyone, but that is, like, huge. you know? we did. you know, we do handle candy now. just things that you can t even imagine changed in ways that seemed very small, but really are monumental. that is all for this edition of dateline. i m andrea canning. thank you for watching. hello, i m andrea canning. and this is my poor baby, how dateline. could this happen to how