all right, you can call your first witness. and now here she was, 2011, in a courtroom of all places. forced to confess her forbidden love, account for her since. this grandmother, widow, penitent. what story would she tell? the main thing going through my mind is to tell the truth. and let the chips fall where they may. the truth. such a difficult word. especially when it bubbles up from a past which mary ann mcfarland must have believed it was buried forever. and where was your husband? he was still in the house. men. trouble was they were too. which was the one central fact the inconvenient truth, that caused all the trouble. and might have been forgotten had it not been for the for
the man she loved, the man convicted of murdering her husband, was the almost certain prospects 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 macfarlane at the beach where his father archie brought him to surf. 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 am not in a position, nor in my opinion, is anyone in the position to understand what is going on in somebody else his heart.
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and i just lost it at that point. torrents police detective bill crombie arrived. he had been stabbed multiple times. two were upper torso, as if the assailant was confronting him. it couldn t have been a robbery. nothing was taken. archie s car, still there. nobody saw anything. but to detective it was clear laugh. archie mcfarland have been targeted and executed. and whoever killed him had escape without leaving behind a murder weapon or fingerprints, or even a here. 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, and that was the big focus. but there was a clue. oh yes, and it was frankly, very, very strange.
decide. then, after just two hours and has the jury reached a verdict? yes we have. we did jury find the defendant janos kulcsar guilty of the crime of murder. it was just relief. it was like a big wave was lifted off my shoulder. janos got a free 25 year ticket that most people who commit a murder don t get. conspicuously absent on the day where justice was brought to her late husband, and the conviction for her lover was mary ann mcfarland. she does not want to believe that he did this, for a lot of reasons. if mary ann we re to accept that he committed this crime, she admitted that she would hold herself morally responsible. so, some people decide, i m not gonna accept reality unless it absolutely punches me in the face. i guess, we didn t punch hard enough. reality for janos kulcsar,