Making the pitch of his life: Robert Marshall's 2001 death row interview - NJ.com
EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview with Brian Donohue, published in The Star-Ledger in April 2001, was the first time Robert Marshall spoke publicly after his murder conviction. TRENTON —The golden wedding band on Robert Marshall's left hand glimmers in the drab fluorescent light of New Jersey's death row. He was convicted of hiring two men to kill Maria Marshall, the wife he still insists he loved, so he could collect $1. 5 million in life insurance and continue his affair with another woman. The ring is the same one a prosecutor accused Marshall of wearing to dupe the jury in his 1986 trial into believing he loved his wife too much to have her shot in the back of the head by a hired gunman late at night in a secluded picnic area on... Marshall is wearing it, 15 years later, as he sits down inside a steel-enclosed visitors booth in Trenton State Prison for the first interview since his conviction. RELATED : Marshall dies in prison, awaiting parole hearing The murder-for-hire case, one of New Jersey's most infamous homicides, spawned the best-selling book "Blind Faith," a tale of sex and greed, and the eponymous television movie. Source: www.nj.com
