one woman who was loved intensely over the top by two men in two very different ways. he was the first, the husband. hand sell, athletic, adventurous. 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 called torrence. 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.
wallace knew the crime lab never found a trace of blood in 1985. now he needed to know why not. he does the murder. where did he go next? i know this. when they got to his house, he had wet clothing hanging in his bathtub. one pair of pants, one shirt. in other words, it s one outfit that needed washing that day on the day he told us he was going to his brother s to do the wash. what is it about that one outfit that needed a washing that day? back in 1985, those clothes were tested for blood using a chemical called luminol. when you spray it on the clothing, it will luminesce in those areas you have body fluid. blood will luminesce. two important areas. when they tested them for blood, they were negative for blood. something is there but it s not blood. now, two decades since archie mcfarland s murder, wallace found janos clothes. they were still in the evidence
decades after archie mcfarland was murdered, the case against janos kulcsar finally came to court. and, of course, the prosecution s star witness was mary ann mcfarland. what did she know, and what would she admit? could her testimony sink her lover or maybe save him? coming up tough questions let me make it very simple. are you in love with him? and raw emotions. i m so sorry. i m so sorry, son. and she went hysterical. she lost it. when dateline continues. any who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we ve created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it s a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions.
basket of clothes inside his car before he came out of the apartment. so they searched the car and 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 torrance pd where the detective had 72 hours to compile a case that would convince the d.a. to file murder charges. otherwise janos would be released. kranke 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
i just i just wish i knew for sure. i miss you so much. i miss all of you. i hope you guys miss me a little bit. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales. thank you for tuning in. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. she told archie she was dating this man. if he didn t like it, he could leave. he had been stabbed multiple times. nobody saw anything. i went, dad. and i touched him. i will never forget that feeling. it was just before dawn when he found his father dead in the driveway. there was no doubt in my mind what happened. i immediately knew. there was someone else who