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hello. i m cori coffin. thousands more flight delays and cancellations this sunday as omicron continues to ravage the airline industry. flight tracker reporting more than 4,000 flights canceled over the last 24 hours. and president biden reaffirming unwavering support for ukraine in a call with the country s president. it was their first conversation since biden spoke to russian president vladimir putin thursday. warning of severe sanctions should russia invade ukraine. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. two decades after archie mcfarland was murdered, investigators were digging up new details about his wife s younger boyfriend. here s keith morrison.
much. and she was a vibrant woman still and attractive. but 47 and in need of something. and then there he was, janos. she met him at a local club. he was just 32, 25 years younger than stale old archie. he was everything archie wasn t. he satisfied everything that archie couldn t satisfy for her. she told archie she was dating this man. archie was passive about it. she basically told us, if he didn t like it, he could leave. archie accepted it, hoping his marriage would somehow survive. gary was just 18 then. didn t know for sure about the affair. but suspected his mom was seeing someone, especially the day he caught her sneaking off to take a private telephone call. i grabbed the phone from her and said, do you have any idea what you re doing to my family, and i hung the phone up.
torrence police detective gil kranke arrived. he had been stabbed multiple times. two were upper torso as if the assailant was confronting him. couldn t have been a robbery. not a thing was taken. archie s car still there. nobody saw anything. to detective kranke, it was clear enough. archie mcfarland had been targeted and executed. and whoever killed him had escaped without leaving behind a murder weapon or fingerprints or even a hair from what must have been a violent struggle. anyway, this was pre-dna. they just didn t have any physical piece of anything left on the driveway. that was the big focus. but there was a clue. oh, yes. and it was, frankly, very, very strange. one of the stab wounds was in the groin area. what did that tell you? it s personal. kind of like somebody sending a message? yes. maybe a sexual message?
husband, has the almost certain prospect of spending the rest of his days in prison. in january 2012, janos was sentenced to 26 years to life. just about the same amount of time he spent with mary ann. 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