welcome to dateline. it sometimes takes a special eye to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that s out of place, the clue that will crack the case. in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential, no one even knew what it was let alone what it meant. it took almost two decades, a team of determined investigators, and a detective with an unusual background to find out. here s keith morrison with the night before halloween. it was the night before halloween, october 30th, late, midnight approaching. it happened in one of the middle-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. the next morning, not far away, the hoynes family daughters prepared for a favorite celebration. kim was the eldest, then robin, tricia and wendy. excited because this was halloween, one of the best days of the year. i loved it. we would trick-or-treat and then sort the can
it sometimes takes a special eye to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that s out of place, the clue that will crack the case. in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential, no one even knew what it was let alone what it meant. it took almost two decades, a team of determined investigators, and a detective with an unusual background to find out. here s keith morrison with the night before halloween. it was the night before halloween, october 30th, late, midnight approaching. it happened in one of the middle-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. the next morning, not far away, the hoynes family daughters prepared for a favorite celebration. kim was the eldest, then robin, tricia and wendy. excited because this was halloween, one of the best days of the year. i loved it. we would trick-or-treat and then sort the candy and we would be trad
the trial began in 2007, 23 years after robin s murder. william marshall was now 46. he arrived in court each day carrying a bible. his troubled youth, early drug addiction, brief rap sheet were decades behind him. this is a man who looked incapable of cold-blooded murder. he said nothing. he just watched prosecutor john lewin make the case against him. william marshall knew before he walked in to the restaurant that night, he knew that robin knew him. so he knew that if he was going to do this crime, he was going to kill her, so this was just a, unconscionable crime. the motive? drug money, then eliminate the witness, said prosecutor john lewin. marshall had been arrested before robin hoynes murder for pcp, a man who needed cash, who thought he knew where to get it. and then yvonne hargrove told
Containing chlorine. the widespread smoke shut down a major highway and passaic s mayor told residents to close their windows. the government is offering to send four at-home covid-19 tests per residential address starting next week. it will take 7 to 12 days for the tests to arrive once ordered online. now back to dateline. 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 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.
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? 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. interestingly on the back porch,