business. that she knew somebody. that she felt comfortable enough to be working on her paperwork while that person was in the business. who killed robin robin hoynes. a former friend, a customer, a colleague from work? could it be that robin hoynes had been murdered by somebody she had new. as police searched for clues that would lead them to a killer, robin s coworker cheryl remember something. coming up she was going to come back and return his uniform. who was he and did he know anything about what happened to robin? when dateline continues. copd. birds flyin high, you know how i feel. breeze driftin on. [coughing] .by, you know how i feel. if you re tired of staring down your copd,. it s a new dawn, it s a new day. .stop settling. .and i m feelin good. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power
known and so well liked, much of the neighborhood attended. and friends and colleagues. except for one, cheryl. the girl who had switched shifts with robin the night the murderer came to call. i had heard that they were really upset with me. and that they did not want me at her funeral. and i did not go. i felt really sad that i traded hours with her. that should have maybe been me. i felt very guilty. a few days after robin s murder, the case seemed to be going sideways. william marshall remained only a person of interest, no new leads had emerged. and that odd clue, the piece of foam, was still just a mystery. then came a break. police got a call from an employee at a kentucky fried chicken about 30 miles away from the one where robin was killed. he had claimed that someone in army fatigues, when akot club and boots had been casing the
kim left early for a job at a nearby mall. robbyn was not home. after working late, she had told her family, she arranged to sleep over at a girlfriends place. she was due home any minute as wendy remembers. she was good about reporting and telling us where she was going to be. and when she was going to be home. robin was 21 years old, a redhead, pretty, popular, friendly. she was an assistant manager at a kentucky fried chicken franchise in the nearby town of torrance. had taken a late shift as a favor to a coworker named cheryl. i asked robin if she would trade hours with me. i had just started dating someone and we had plans. so robin worked the late shift. she closed the restaurant, counted the cash, carry across the parking lot to a bank deposit box. i knew that robin was very cautious about when i went to the store, she would always
robin s wallet told them who she was, where she lived, and then officer went to the house to notify the family. nobody home. he left a no, which said called the police department. it was something about robin. so i called back. i said, is she all right. and he told me no, she is not. so now kim, the eldest of the four daughters, had to reveal the news. she started with their mother. the first words out of her mouth were, you are lying to me. she could not believe that. once she realizes that i m telling her the truth, we know we have to talk to my dad. i called him, i told him, i said i will meet you at the house. wendy, the youngest, heard at school that robin had been stabbed. my immediate response was, did she die? because i want her to still be alive. but she said no, she s dead. trisha did not hear anything
with you for the rest of your career. this is one of them. the hoynes family struggle to move on without robin. there were high school graduations, marriages, children. but. the whole doesn t go away. there are times when you need to have a tissue hand? absolutely. absolutely. and then, a decade after robin s murder. our dad committed suicide. it was devastating for us. it s true, he had a terminal illness. he was dying of emphysema. honestly, he was dying of grief. virgil hoynes was just 61. by 2003, the robin hoynes murder case was as cold as they come. 19 halloween s old. buried in the basement of the torrence police department,