her story, looked over at marshall with his bible, hadn t seen him in over two decades. i wanted to walk over to him and say, you hurt me. i wanted to say you not only hurt this family, but you hurt me. i wasn t allowed. i guess once i gave my testimony, i guess you could say it was a done deal. two days later the jury agreed. they found william marshall guilty of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison. i always knew he was going to pay for what he did, but i m mean enough i want to see him pay here on earth, so i hope he lives to be 100 and lives a lot of years in that little 6x9 cell. robin deserves justice. you know, it s true that the trial didn t bring her back, but now robin s murderer is accountable. and there was someone else who had been worried about accountability, the woman who had traded shifts with robin on
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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? 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. interestingly on the back porch,
william was william marshall, a former kfc assistant manager who worked alongside 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? well, it turns out 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 s heating up, and then it stopped cold. i felt like i had been kicked. when dateline continues. when dateline continues
be out of i just freaked out. time doesn t wait, of course. darkness fell, halloween, laughing kids came to the door. the hoynes sat in the dark and tried to get used to the idea of what grief feels like. policemen buzzed around the kfc all day halloween day looking for something to go on. but all they came up with really was what didn t happen. there was no signs of forced entry. she had let somebody into the business, so we felt she knew somebody, and she felt comfortable enough to be working on her paperwork while that person was in the business. but who killed robin hoynes? a former friend? a customer? a colleague from work? could it be that robin hoynes had been murdered by someone she knew? as police search for clues that would lead them to her killer, robin s co-worker, cheryl, remembers something. coming up