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Robert Marshall 5. Robert Marshall 4. Robert Marshall 2. Robert Marshall 1. Larry Thompson 3. Larry Thompson 2. More like this Hitman finally confesses in 'Blind Faith' murder, investigator says. Load comments. Most Popular. Their youngest brother, John, 44, has always believed in their father's innocence. That Robert Marshall even got to a second parole hearing came as a shock to his two eldest sons. Christopher Marshall thought his father's release from state prison for murdering his mother was impossible.
The sons knew their father was eligible for parole in December, after he served 30 years in their mother's murder — Ocean County's most infamous murder case that spawned a best-selling book, "Blind Faith," and a subsequent TV movie.
We have constant reminders coming back to us. But when we were put into this situation, this scenario, the chance of my father's release — this was one time when we would say publicly , this has to stop here. Though she was just 42 years old when she died, Maria Marshall was clearly loved by her sons.
Both Roby and Chris have described her as their best friend. In , when Robert Marshall was being resentenced, Chris described the pain of losing his mother when he was 18 years old. I can't take it. Christopher and Roby had first gone to the Parole Division in August to make their case, confident that the nature of their father's crime and their emotional appeal on behalf of their mother would be enough.
But then, earlier this month, a preliminary, two-member parole board panel determined that Marshall was entitled to a hearing before the full board, said James T. Plousis, state Parole Board chairman. The sons were shocked. Christopher was in California with Roby, when the news broke that Marshall would get his full hearing. Over dinner, they discussed how they would cope with the real possibility their father could actually be set free. Was the initial two-member Parole Board panel merely a procedural step?
Did one or both members of the panel think he should be released? Did the panel punt the matter to the full board because of the high-profile nature of the case? They couldn't get any answers over the phone, Christopher said. Christopher said the Parole Board granted them an opportunity to address the full board, the same opportunity their father was given.
They seized the chance. When asked if the brothers wanted to come in February or March, Christopher took the first date offered, he said. In , Roby and Christopher, were 19 and 18 respectively, when their dad Robert Marshall arranged to have their mother, Maria, executed in an elaborate murder-for-hire plot. The case spawned a best-selling book, "Blind Faith," and a subsequent TV movie of the same name. The meaning of the title comes from the fact that Robert and Maria Marshall's three sons continued to believe in their father's innocence, even in the face of mounting evidence for his guilt and his increasingly bizarre behavior after their mother's death.
Ultimately, the eldest sons, Roby and Christopher Marshall, who were 19 and 18 respectively at the time of their mother's death, came to terms with their father's guilt.
Their youngest brother John, who was 13 at the time, was never able to accept that truth. Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato said Monday that he too is troubled by the fact that Marshall was incapable of acknowledging his complicity in the case. But if there was any doubt about whether Marshall felt regret or sorrow over what he had done to his family was illustrated in what then-Assistant Prosecutor Kevin W. Kelly revealed during Marshall's trial in Coronato explained that Kelly told the jury that Robert Marshall had never picked up the cremated remains of his wife, which were left in a cardboard box at a Toms River funeral home.
For him, all those years ago, that anecdote underscored how cold-blooded Marshall really was. Maria Marshall, 42, was shot twice at close range in the back on Sept. While returning home from a night out at Harrah's casino in Atlantic City that night, the Marshalls stopped at the picnic area after Robert Marshall pretended there was a problem with the right rear tire on their Cadillac Eldorado.
To make the crime look like a robbery, Robert Marshall had himself struck on the head and knocked unconscious as he was ostensibly checking the tire. The tire itself was slashed at the scene to appear as if the vehicle had been sabotaged in Atlantic City by robbers who had planned to follow the couple home until the flat tire forced them to pull over in a remote location such as the Oyster Creek picnic area.
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