confession, or an eyewitness, we didn t have any of that. so the case went cold. not much more detective kroenke could do. you put it away, and then let some fresh eyes look at it later on down the line and see if there s something you missed. and then, a very strange development, not a police issue, but for gary, it was awful. it was a few years after the murder, gary was paying his mom s phone bill, and he noticed several calls back and forth to long beach. he dialed the number. and on the other end was janos kulscar. was it fair to say it was a bit of a surprise? kind of a shock when you found
poo on your love! i didn t kill him. i did not kill him. and i don t know anybody who did. i hate you with all the passion i can dig up. mary ann s tirade seemed authentic. but, of course, the cops weren t sure at least at this point if she knew more than she was saying. did you ever think mary ann has to be involved in this somehow. i don t think she could have been directly involved but she could have thrown out some ideas to him, and he might have taken them on his own. but janos guilt seemed clear enough, so kroenke took his case to the d.a., and got a big surprise. without a confession, a witness or a murder weapon the d.a. s office refused to gamble on such a circumstantial case, so no charges were filed against janos kulscar. what was it like watching him walk out of jail? well, it hurts, because you know he s the guy that did it. and he beat the system. i was dumb-founded. to me, there was so much
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 some clothes that were wet, a shirt and pants. if he s going to do laundry, why would you spot wash something and leave it to hang in your bathroom to dry if you re going to do laundry, go do laundry. janos was arrested and taken back to the torrance pd whether detective kroenke now had 72 hours to compile a case to convince the da to file murder charges, otherwise janos would be released. kroenke was confident he could wrap it up quickly. he had his wet clothes, changed his statements all the time, his girlfriend, the victim s wife, was pretty
positive he was responsible for it this. he kept insisting he had nothing to do with archie mcfarland s murder and crime lab tests didn t find a speck of blood on his clothes, or him, no scratches on him. was it possible janos wasn t the killer? detective kroenke 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 re 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 re accusing me. i did not do it. if i had a gun, i d blow your damned brains out right now. at one point mary ann became so enraged she even spat on him. love? you did this in the name of love?