A Flirtation No Longer What happened to Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller? One lawyer at the trial suggested that Noel, himself a big man, was attracted to the extreme machismo and violence that was represented by Schneider and was so different from his own well-to-do life. A former Pelican Bay guard quoted in Rolling Stone magazine said he saw Noel change. I'd get on the phone with Bob to ask him about a case, Keith Whitley said, and all he did was talk about how big Bane's balls were. Noel himself bragged to the magazine about the size of the dog's penis and its erections.