welcome back to dateline. i m craig melva. i m craig melvin. two decades after archie mcfarland had been murdered, investigators were digging up new details about his wife s younger bar boyfriend. here is keith morrison. the phone calls did not. stop mary ann mcfarland move back home to archie, but her spurned lover janos kulcsar wouldn t move on. biden is like, why does he keep calling? she said i don t know. the whole era of this guy was wasn t accepting it. in fact, as the a jean lewin and detective jim wallace review the evidence, they
that kind of infatuation had apparently worn off. after a period of time, she was certainly still passionately being chased by janos archie after all had a pension, savings, life insurance. it mary ann was almost 50. did she worry also that janos was too young for her? that maybe his feelings would change? eventually mary ann decides, you know what? this is stressful. i kind of miss my life. i don t have the security that i had. mary ann decides i want to move back home. and archie? welcome to our backs for giving as always. no resentment? no anger? he didn t show any. how is that possible? that was my dad. but across town in long beach, janos kulcsar wasn t so forgiving. he was fuming. janos truly loved her. love bordering on obsession. unfortunately it takes too
the magical place they hoped to own? did you ever go back to spider lake? yes. we go every year, yes. we take our vacation and june. i go back in september. jan birthday is the 24th of september, and she loved it there. in a way, he still takes her with him, out here, on spider lake. hello, i m craig melvin, this is dateline. she told archie she was dating this man and if he didn t like it he could leave. he was stabbed multiple tilt line times. nobody saw anything. i went and i touched him, i ll never forget that feeling. it was just before dawn when
the whole system. the cops were sure janos killed archie. gary was doubly sure. but yet he still huffing around. you know? breathing air and has all the freedoms that you and i have. it just didn t seem right. perhaps not. but the cops were simply stuck. the murder weapon, the confession, and 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.
otherwise janos would be released. kroenke was confident though he could wrap this up quickly. we had the wet clothes. he was changing his statements all the time. his girlfriend, our victims wife, was very positive he was the one responsible for this. kroenke grilled him for hours, but janos was insistence he had nothing to do with archie mcfarland s murder. and crime lab tests didn t find a speck of blood on his clothes. nor was there a trace on him. or scratches either. and though and no history of committing any kind of crime. was it possible janos was in the color? detective kroenke had an idea. mary ann wanted to see her former lover in jail. he taped the conversation. so the two men for the first time, since archie s murder, had as the tape rolled. how could you do such a horrible thing and think you re