had that moment of like disbelief. archie was healthy, just 58. it didn t make sense seeing him like this on the driveway. i went, dad? and i touched him. and there was just i will never forget that feeling. but it just it was very lifeless. it didn t it didn t feel good. so i started yelling, mom, mom, call 911, dad s laying on the driveway. i don t know what s the matter. when the paramedics arrived, it was much too late to save archie or in this next moment the innocent expectations about life, which gary now lost for good. there was just blood everywhere on the front of him, and i just lost it at that point.
more sinister was going to happen that day. in fact, nothing happened. janos went home. but he came back here to mary ann s house a few days later, lewin and wallace learned. it was on the friday before the murder. he met with mary ann alone and had an epiphany. it was something he referred to in one of the conversations the police recorded between janos and mary ann. remember that morning that i left, friday? i remember. it never clicked until i came home. sometimes i m slow on things, you know, but it clicked. clicked? what did he mean by that? he realized, you know what? she doesn t love archie. she s not going back to archie because she loves him. she loves me. so if i could just find a way to get rid of archie, i don t need to kill myself. if i get rid of him, i get the girl, she gets the security, and he s out of the way.
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the one responsible for this. kranke grilled him for hours. but janos was insistent he had nothing to do with archie mcfarland s murder. they didn t find a speck of blood on his clothes or any scratches on him of any kind. 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.
lost both his parents. and years passed. the silence continued. gary got married, started his own family. but the loss of his father still haunted him. he never got to see me be successful in my career. never got to see me get married. never got to be the grandfather. 17 years went by. 17 awkward christmases. detective kranke retired. but remember that fresh set of eyes he was hoping for? it was 2002 and an aggressive deputy d.a. named john lewin read about archie mcfarland. and as soon as i looked at it, i said, this guy is good for this murder. just what police thought at the beginning, of course. difference was, where some d.a. s avoid circumstantial