of banning abortion around six weeks of pregnancy. the law will not go in effect until they can review the case to determine whether it violates the states constitution. now, back to dateline. now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. 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
recovered. it was tough on her, i know. i know she felt like she was on trial. but a lot of the stuff that they went over, and they pinned her on was to explain the mindset of janos and the whole circumstances that led to this and it was necessary. but it was tough. finally, after three weeks, it was up to the jury to 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.
prosecution pick apart janos changing alibi, and janos, he never took the stand, just listened stoically as his are attorney argued for him. when you asked somebody to remember something, 25 years ago, they re not gonna remember every single detail, every single thing they did. the da had someone, a witness who he hoped would have remember the whole story, that is if she chose to. the woman who first accuse her lover of murdering her husband, and then resumed her affair with him. so under oath, what would mary ann mcfarland say about janos kulcsar now. miss mcfarland step up. he didn t believe that marianne was involved in the murder, but now would she protect her love for or help prosecute him? for two days, the battle of wills mesmerize the jury as they argued over mary ann relationship with janos. i m gonna make it very simple, are you in love with him? no.
marianne, who had moved on with janos, didn t just go to him for a little while. spent the last 20 plus years with janos, the very same man she wants to accused of killing 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.
review the evidence, they uncovered a man who seem obsess. who first pleaded with marianne and then began using language that sounded more threatening. i want you to come back to me. kind of statements. and then, you better come back. she was afraid he would skin her a life, she told us. skin her life? if she didn t come back to him. but he janos wouldn t stop calling, or even making threats over the phone to archie. and archie hung up on him. he d call back immediately. don t hang up on me. and then she called me back, i m going to get you. the next day janos showed up at the mcfarland s house, caring a small pouch. mary ann was in the shower, saar to let him in. the two started talking but then marianne entered the room. and janos says, darling comes it over by me. and mary ann puts her foot down and says it s over. i janos was upset, went to the bathroom. mary ann was curious about the pouch he brought in. she took a peek. and inside was a loaded automatic firearm.