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Red Collar

“Blind Faith” Killer

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.46.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Robert and Maria Marshall were the ultimate power couple…until the night when they got a flat tire. A gunman came out of the darkness, Rob was attacked and Maria was brutally murdered. The killing and its shocking aftermath would plunge the town of Tom’s River into a story of sex, greed and murder. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/

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0:00.0

September 6, 1984 started out as date night for 45-year-old Robert Marshall and his beautiful

0:09.3

wife, 42-year-old Maria Marshall.

0:12.6

The couple drove from their hometown of Tom's River, New Jersey to Atlantic City.

0:17.3

They had dinner.

0:18.3

They gambled at Harris, Casino.

0:20.6

Rob, always the romantic, gave Maria a rose.

0:24.7

This was a special time in their lives.

0:27.0

Rob and Maria had become wealthy and successful and had three beautiful children.

0:31.8

They had recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary.

0:35.5

On that anniversary, Rob gave Maria 20 white roses, one for each year, he said, of their

0:41.9

amazing marriage.

0:43.8

But on that drive back, on the dark road that night, shortly after midnight, something

0:48.7

happened.

0:50.4

Right after he passed through a toll booth on the Garden State Parkway, Rob would later

0:55.1

tell police that he felt the back tire of his Cadillac go soft.

1:00.2

Worried that he may have a flat, he pulled over to a picnic area to check it out.

1:04.8

He told Maria to pop the trunk.

1:07.2

And when he leaned down, he felt something hit him in the back of the head.

1:12.1

When he regained consciousness, he found Maria lying across the front seat of the car,

1:17.6

covered in blood.

1:19.3

He ran out onto the road, and that's where a driver saw him at around 12.30 am, flagging

1:25.0

down cars near the entrance to the Oyster Creek picnic area.

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