Jimmy Dean
September 30th, 2007, 09:01 PM
Man guilty of 1984 murder
Whittier victim's mom says verdict 'long time coming'
whittierdailynews.com
Whittier, CA, 9/30/2007
A 46-year-old Department of Forestry captain was unable to escape his past Friday as a jury found him guilty in the murder of a Whittier woman 23 years ago....
WILLIAM MARSHALLhttp://www.pe.com/imagesdaily/2006/09-29/coldcase29a_300.jpg
William Marshall killed Robin Hoynes, a 21-year-old restaurant manager, when he returned to rob the Kentucky Fried Chicken where he once worked....
ROBIN HOYNES
http://www.pe.com/imagesdaily/2006/09-29/coldcase29b_263.jpg
Although Marshall was always a suspect, he wasn't arrested until the case was reopened several years ago and he was indicted by a grand jury in 2006....
Hoynes knew Marshall was a suspected thief, so she likely dropped the day's cash receipts into the safe before letting him in - even though the store's policy was to take the money to the bank or home that night.
Marshall, thinking he knew the combination to the safe, stabbed Hoynes twice in the back. A medical examiner and a tool mark expert told the jury that she likely never saw it coming.
Then Marshall went to the safe. Two small specks of blood found on it were from Hoynes, and pry marks on the safe show he tried to break in after the combination he tried didn't work.
Marshall, unsuccessful in his attempt to get the cash, then slashed Hoynes' throat as she lay dead or dying.
He fled, but left behind a piece of evidence that would prove key when the cold case was reopened by Torrance detectives 20 years later: a piece of shoe foam.
The yellowish, spongy object perplexed investigators until it was linked two decades later to a pair of boots Marshall was wearing when he was arrested 10 days after the murder.
Full Story (http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_7034065)
Whittier victim's mom says verdict 'long time coming'
whittierdailynews.com
Whittier, CA, 9/30/2007
A 46-year-old Department of Forestry captain was unable to escape his past Friday as a jury found him guilty in the murder of a Whittier woman 23 years ago....
WILLIAM MARSHALLhttp://www.pe.com/imagesdaily/2006/09-29/coldcase29a_300.jpg
William Marshall killed Robin Hoynes, a 21-year-old restaurant manager, when he returned to rob the Kentucky Fried Chicken where he once worked....
ROBIN HOYNES
http://www.pe.com/imagesdaily/2006/09-29/coldcase29b_263.jpg
Although Marshall was always a suspect, he wasn't arrested until the case was reopened several years ago and he was indicted by a grand jury in 2006....
Hoynes knew Marshall was a suspected thief, so she likely dropped the day's cash receipts into the safe before letting him in - even though the store's policy was to take the money to the bank or home that night.
Marshall, thinking he knew the combination to the safe, stabbed Hoynes twice in the back. A medical examiner and a tool mark expert told the jury that she likely never saw it coming.
Then Marshall went to the safe. Two small specks of blood found on it were from Hoynes, and pry marks on the safe show he tried to break in after the combination he tried didn't work.
Marshall, unsuccessful in his attempt to get the cash, then slashed Hoynes' throat as she lay dead or dying.
He fled, but left behind a piece of evidence that would prove key when the cold case was reopened by Torrance detectives 20 years later: a piece of shoe foam.
The yellowish, spongy object perplexed investigators until it was linked two decades later to a pair of boots Marshall was wearing when he was arrested 10 days after the murder.
Full Story (http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_7034065)