a surfer. the real deal. his name was archie mcfarland. good ol arch. everybody loved him. laid back, kind, reliable. ten years older than mary ann but crazy about her. she brought a daughter with her when they married in the early 60s, and together they had a son gary. they settled down near the ocean, an l.a. suburb. we had a great typical nuclear family. dad went off to work. my mom stayed at home and did all the home stuff, the stuff that you see in leave it to beaver. you will see when gary talks about his dad how close they were. and it wasn t just because archie introduced him to surfing. i always looked up to my dad. my dad was a really soft-spoken, easy-going yet affable guy.
evidence was thin. no blood, no murder weapon. no witnesses. and dna found under archie s finger nails, it had now been determined, did not match janos. even if everybody right away thinks that janos kulcsar is the killer, there has to be proof beyond a reasonable doubt. of course, gary mcfarland had no doubt he killed archie. he told the jury about that awful defense morning when he discovered his dad dead on the driveway and knew instantly who did it. i turned around, looked at my mom, and said i can t believe [ bleep ] you know exactly who did it. she goes, i m so sorry. i m so sorry. i can t believe he d do this. i m so sorry, son. she was just she went hysterical. she lost it. so difficult to rein in the
sentenced to 26 years to life. just about the same amount of time he spent with mary ann. his attorney has appealed his case. occasionally you ll still find gary mcfarland at the beach where his dad archie brought him to surf. and he thinks about father and mother and forgiveness, the lesson gary is still learning from archie mcfarland. i still love my mother. i don t harbor bitterness or resentment. there are tons of questions you d love to ask and get answers to, but i m not in a position, nor in my opinion anyone is in a position, to completely understand what s going on in somebody else s heart.
found nothing. nothing suspicious anyway. no blood or other evidence related to archie mcfarland s murder. same inside the apartment. except there was this one weird thing. hanging over the bathtub were clothes that were wet, a shirt and pants. if he is going to do laundry, why would you spot wash something and leave it hang in your bathroom to dry if you are going to do laundry? go do laundry. janos was arrested and taken back to the p.d. where the detective had 72 hours to compile a case that would convince the d.a. to file murder charges. otherwise he would be released. he was confident he could wrap this up quickly. we had the wet clothes. he was changing his statements. his girlfriend, our victim s wife, was very positive he was the one responsible for this. he grilled him for hours.
but janos was insistent he had nothing to do with mcfarland s murder. there was no history or scratch of any kind on him. with no history of committing any kind of crime, was it possible janos wasn t the killer? the detective had an idea. mary ann wanted to see her former lover in jail. what if they taped the conversation? so the two met for the first time since archie s murder as the tape rolled. how could you do such a horrible thing and think you are a man? if you get out of here alive, i ll kill you. do you know what you ve done? you ve destroyed me. i didn t do what you accuse me. i did not do it. if i had a gun, i would blow your damn brains out right now. at one point mary ann became so enraged, she even spat on him. you did this in the name of love?