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tell me, make sure the doors locked. this is not the sort of person who would have let someone in, just anybody? no, not at all. so when cheryl arrived at work, and pulled into the kfc parking lot i saw a robin s car. did you get mixed up, i think i wasn t trading, why is she here? shell crept through the empty kfc, everything seemed in order, until she entered the kitchen. as i came around the corner, i looked, and i thought why did robin spend the night here? that was my first reaction. and then when i look closer, i saw that she didn t spend the night here. that she had been killed. she ran out of the place. somebody called 9-1-1. detective jack lancaster was one of the first to arrive at the crime scene. she was laying first down. she had a pool blood under one side. had some slash marks to the left side of her face.
they all suffered. all the hoynes. perhaps most of all. our dad felt like he had not done what he was supposed to do. as a father, because he did not protect her. he did not 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 did not know, none of them did, that the solution was sitting right there in plain sight. until somebody close 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. i thought, it couldn t, be it couldn t be. when dateline continues.
rugged, rural, isolated. perfect place to get lost. it was here that william marshall, suspect in 1984 murder of robin hoynes, had settled. he was a firefighter and worked his way up to fire captain here at the station in 2000. the fire captain with the california department of forestry. according to hutchinson, he was responsible for the station. by the year 2003, marshall had been near 15 years here. lived quietly in this rustic community. in this mountain center. people called him bill, respected him, trust him to keep them safe. he lived right there at the house behind me. he finished real well up here in the mountains. back in torrents, the case
see him pay here on earth so i hope he lives to be 100 and robin deserved to see a justice. it s true that the child did not bring her back. but now and accountable. there is someone else the woman who traded chiefs with robin on the day she was murdered. she believed all those years that they family blamed her for it. and then, finally, learned that she was wrong. i remember her mom said something to me that robin was a nice person, and that she she said, not only are you a nice person to, it when and that changed everything. they felt, you know what?