Andrew cuomo will challenge governor kathy hochul. adam kinzinger will not seek re-election for his house seat. the congressman is the second republican who voted to impeach the former president to do so. kinzinger has hinted at a run for higher office in the future. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m natalie morales. investigators have a person of interest in the murder of 21-year-old be robin hoynes. william marshall. but marshall has an alibi and there isn t enough evidence to bring charges against him. a break in the case would come, but not for another 20 years. here again, keith morrison with the night before halloween. october 1985, another halloween. once the hoynes host would have been festive. not anymore.
A little shaky. so he had an idea. 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.
Department concerning thefts of cash from the safe. two thefts from the very same safe robin had left the money, and though they couldn t exactly prove 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 to the safe. so the night robin was killed, did marshall intend to rob that safe again? he knew the previous combinations. i don t believe he was aware they had changed it because it had happened just recently, several days earlier. so now detectives brought marshall in for questioning, and he was friendly, cooperative, said he was home the entire evening. and he could prove it, he said. all police had to do was go ask his girlfriend, yvonne hargrove, without telling her why they were talking to her, they did ask. i told them william was with me that night, because that s what they wanted to know, and what did we do. i said we cooked spaghetti
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
Out of the shoe, eventually wears his shoes. and he actually showed us several pairs of shoes that had the exact same pattern of wear. then detectives surprised marshall. they revealed the existence of that strange piece of foam found at the crime scene. they told him one of the boots seized from him was so worn it was missing a piece of foam, and the remaining foam in the boot seemed to match it just about perfectly. so you re saying that this boot foam this is boot foam is what you re telling me? and you re telling me that s out of my boot? the cops asked marshall, can we take some pictures of those old worn-out shoes? that s when marshall put on the brakes. i had some very negative experiences and stuff with this case and i feel like i m going down, i m spiraling away here quick. maybe i should speak with an attorney before we go into anything. and with that, the interview was over. interesting, sure, but usable