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
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.
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?
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 lying on the driveway. i don t know what s the matter. when the paramedics arrived, it was too late to save archie or 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. 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.