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. that s all for this edition of dateline, i m craig melvin, thank you for watching. we hope that everyone is
they were certainly a couple. passion apparently and dimmed. i just believe that in her 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 read about archie mcfarland.
and it was magic. 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.
why was his car engine hot? especially if he was just now leaving the house? janos backtrack a bit then. he said he left earlier then returned to the house. because he forgot something. came back home, went into the apartment. and what did janos claim he forgot? the laundry. even the cops had spotted a 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 are ever there 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 is going to do laundry, why would you spot wash something and leave it hanging in your bathroom to dry? if you re going to do laundry, do laundry.