read about archie mcfarland. as soon as i looked at it i said, hey, this guy is good for this murder. just one police fought back in the beginning of the path of course. difference was, were some days of void circumstantial cases, lewin, who has by the way served as an nbc news consultant other stories, loves them. especially the case is gone cold. lewin called irregular partner, veteran detective jim wallace. in almost every case or something you can do. if nothing else, there is an opportunity for you to look at the evidence and see anything that was. miss so wallace and lewin began by digging into the digging into that love triangle. by reentering mary and. asking about her relationship with both archie and janos. and about the events that preceded the murder. typically when these kinds of murders occur, behaviors start slowly to fall apart and then you see the behavior of the murder get a bit more aggressive and then the murder occurs.
her husband. but as it turned out, janos was the only man in her life. ever since archie was murdered. she loves janos and does not want to believe that he is the killer. in the summer of 2011, two and a half decades after archie macfarlane was murdered, the case against kulcsar came to court. of course the prosecution star witness was mary ann mcfarland. why did she know? what would she admit? could her testimony sink her lover? or maybe, favor him. coming up, tough questions. we make it very simple. are you in love with him? and raw emotions. i am so sorry, i am so
own mind that it was okay to go back with him because there was really no proof that he did it. just how much mary ann, if anything, about janos s role in her husband s murder, she wasn t saying. certainly not to her son, gary. but the rift in the relationship between mother and son now seemed irreparable. for gary it was like he had lost both of his parents. and years past. the silence continued. gary got married, started his own family. but the loss of his father still haunted him. he never got to see me be successful in my career. never got to see me get married. never got to be the grandfather. 70 17 years went by. 17 awkward christmas is. detective kroenke retired. you remember that fresh set of eyes he was hoping for? it was 2002, an aggressive deputy de a name john lewin
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
this inquisitive da, and this long, lean cop, jim wallis, looking on so intently. this case was a true love story between three people. one woman who is loved intensely, i mean, over the top by two men. in two very different ways. he was the first. the husband, handsome, athletic, adventurous. a surfer, the real deal. his name was archie mcfarland, good all arch, everybody loved him. lead back, kind, reliable. ten years older than mary ann, but crazy about her. she brought a daughter with her when they married in the early sixties, and together they had a son, gary. they settle down near the ocean. an l. a. suburb called torrents. we had a great, typical, nuclear family. that went off to work. my mom stayed at home. and it all the home stuff. you know?