did. i hate you with all the passion i can dig up. mary ann s tirade certainly seemed authentic. but, of course, the cops weren t sure at least at this point if she knew more than she was saying. did you ever think mary ann has to be involved in this somehow. i don t think she could have been directly involved but she could have thrown out some ideas to him, and he might have taken them on his own. but janos guilt seemed clear enough, so kroenke took his case to the d.a., and got a big surprise. without a confession, a witness or a murder weapon the d.a. s office refused to gamble on such a circumstantial case, so no charges were filed against janos kulscar. what was it like watching him walk out of jail? well, it hurts, because you know he s the guy that did it. and he beat the system.
and i hung the phone up, and that s basically when she left. that very day, mary ann moved into janos one-bedroom apartment, leaving home and kids and, of course, archie. he still loved my mom, after she left. he wouldn t let me say anything negative. she s still your mother. she s still my wife. and perhaps archie understood the human heart after all. it took a year but mary ann s heart began to cool there in that cheap little apartment. the kind of interest she had in being chased, that infatuation, that period rubbed off. after a period of time she was certainly passionately being
conspicuously absent on the day that finally brought justice for her late husband, and a conviction for her lover, was mary ann mcfarland. she does not want to believe he did this, for a lot of reasons. if mary ann were to accept that he committed this crime, she admitted that she would hold herself morally responsible. so some people decide i m not going to accept reality unless it absolutely punches me in the face, and i guess we didn t punch hard enough. reality for janos kulscar, the man she loved, the man now convicted of murdering her husband, is the almost certain prospect of spending the rest of his days in prison. in january, barring some last-minute appeal, janos will
watching all this with mixed emotions was mary ann s son, gary. even after all these years, their relationship has never fully 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 mind-set of, you know, 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 [ beeping ] has the jury reached a verdict? yes, we have. we the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant, janos kulscar, guilty of the crime of murder. it was just relief. it was like a big weight just lifted off my shoulder. janos got a free 25-year ticket that most people who commit a murder don t get.
yes, off and on. his full name was janos kulscar, originally from hungary. once police got the gist of mary ann s tearful confession she had a picture of him, said here s his address. reporter: they high-tailed it to his apartment at long beach, where they found his car, just about an hour after the murder, sitting all innocent-like, not far from his door. so the officers, having had some experience with this sort of thing, performed a little test to see just how innocent that car was.