if i can solve this, i can probably put the whole thing together. the anomaly well, that would be the puzzling piece of evidence which haunted investigators for almost two decades, that odd oblong hunk of foam. i knew it was either going to come from robin, the victim, or it was going to come from the suspect in the case. and once i was comfortable that this didn t come from robin s purse, it didn t come from robin s clothing, it s not part of kentucky fried chicken s restaurant, it doesn t belong there. which left only one other possibility the murderer. wallace pored over the pictures of the one suspect, marshall, when he was pulled over the week earlier, and suddenly a light went on. he s wearing his clothing still, of course, and he has a pair of work boots. and his work boots, sure enough, i can see just enough from the pants being hiked up that i think i wonder if these are the kind of work boots that have that big fat couldn t be. couldn t be. could it be the foa
as a father because he didn t protect her. he didn t keep her safe. our dad would sit at the edge of his bed and just think about robin and wait for her to walk down the hall every day. of course, they didn t know, none of them did, that the solution was sitting right there hidden in plain sight until someone closed the lid and filed it all away. coming up nearly 20 years would go by without a break until a fresh pair of eyes focused on one particular photograph and saw something new. it couldn t be. it couldn t be. when dateline continues. when dateline continues
soon the shannons became six, with the birth of their two boys. and in 2000, david took the family south to fayetteville, when he was transferred to ft. bragg. david loved the military. he loved being the soldier. you talk about somebody having a first love or something they loved more than anything. he loved that uniform. and the military had been good to david. he was major shannon by now, well on his way to becoming a colonel. and that was the phone call the shannon family was really looking forward to from ft. bragg. not the one they got that devastating morning in july 2002. they said david s been shot. he s been murdered. it couldn t be, he was in special forces, he must have been into something odd, there must have been something with what he was doing at work that, you know, this must have been a hit.
he didn t keep her safe. our dad would sit at the edge of his bed and just think about robin and wait for her to walk down the hall every day. of course, they didn t know, none of them did, that the solution was sitting right there hidden in plain sight until someone closed the lid and filed it all away. coming up nearly 20 years would go by without a break until a fresh pair of eyes focused on one particular photograph and saw something new. it couldn t be. it couldn t be. when dateline continues.
would be the puzzling piece of evidence which haunted investigators for almost two decades, that odd oblong hunk of foam. i knew it was either going to come from robin, the victim, or it was going to come from the suspect in the case. and once i was comfortable that this didn t come from robin s purse, it didn t come from robin s clothing, it s not part of kentucky fried chicken s restaurant, it didn t belong there. which left only one other possibility the murderer. wallace pored over the pictures of marshall after he was pulled over and suddenly a light went on. he s wearing his clothing still, of course, and he has a pair of work boots. and his work boots, sure enough, i can see just enough from the pants being hiked up that i think i wonder if these are the kind of work boots that have that big fat couldn t be. couldn t be. could it be the foam? wallace rushed down to the evidence storage room and