there was a suspect, but he had an alibi, until this revelation. revelation i said, i have something that you need to know. welcome to dateline, it sometimes takes a special eye to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that is out of place. the clue that will crack the case. and in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential, no one even knew what it was, alone would ve meant. it took almost two decades of a team of determinant investigators and a detective was than usual back out to find out. here is keith morrison with the night before halloween. it was the night before halloween, october 30th, late, midnight approaching. it happened in one of the little class suburbs that sprawl across the los angeles basin. inside a fast food franchise, closed for the night. a frantic scrambling, running feet, then, silence. but the nice morning, not far away, the family dollar prepared for celebration, kim was the eldest, then robin, trisha, wendy. excited, because
burden of proof, their heavy burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. and one of the reasons that defendants are presumed innocent and that government has such a high burden is because in criminal cases, the defendant really doesn t have the ability, doesn t have the resources, doesn t have the lawful authority to execute search warrants, subpoena documents, to prove his or her innocence, and so a defendant cannot secure a crime scene, cannot lift a crime scene for fingerprints, shoe wear impressions, cannot secure telephones and get electronic data in the course of an investigation, so the defendant is limited on what they can do. in this case on june 7th, 2021,
0 morning, joe scarborough? i wanted to go to the rev, he s on fire today. the commissioner rev, come on, you know, preacher s kids can be tough, right? a lot of pressur but a carpenter and a preacher, i don t know how he did it. that s a rough combination, we actually had a candidate quoting the bible this morning. we re going to have a great day deacon scarborough. sfwr amen, reverend sharpton. that does it for us this morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now. it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser. right now all eyes are on this courtroom in south carolina as the closely watched double murder trial of alex murdaugh s its final stages. the defense has begun its closing arguments just after a juror was dismissed. let s listen. alex murdaugh innocent of these charges and frankly, as he explained that s not natural when you hear on the news that a crime has occurred, an arrest has been made, you feel a little bit relieved, thank god they caught him, and f
meanwhile, 2,500 miles away, high in the mountains, detectives pulled up to william marshall s house not knowing what to expect. for whatever reason, he was comfortable enough with us to let us in. things unfolded slowly. marshall was cooperative and even keeled though in full denial of any guilt whatsoever. i had nothing to do with this. no, i wasn t there. yes, you knocked on my door today and you opened up a chapt earp of my life that i thought i had closed. then detective wallace tried a different approach. they got talking about shoes, why that distinctive wear pattern on the shoes police seized from marshall back when he was first arrested after the murder of the kfc. he did explain to us that his pattern of shoe wear was such that he typically wore out his shoes in this fashion. he wouldn t untie his shoes to get them off, he would kick them off, and the rubbing on the heel, constantly rubbing coming out of the shoe, eventually wears his shoes.
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