McGinnis’s’ Blind Faith is dramatized reportage of a New Jersey murder case in which Rob Marshall was accused of hiring hitmen to free himself to marry his flamboyant mistress.
According to McGuiness, when Marshall thought something was wrong with one of his tires, he pulled off the Garden State Parkway into a pitch-black, deserted picnic area. While fixing the tire, his wife Maria was murdered, and Marshall was oblivious to what was happening inside the car.
Marshall’s motivation seemed obvious; Mrs. Marshall’s life was insured for $1.25 million. Marshall’s children refuse to believe that their father would kill her for the money, hence, the title Blind Faith.
Marshall was convicted in 1984 but did not admit his role in her murder until 2004.
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See Joe McGinnis’s’ Blind Faith. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1989