That. She loved skiing, sailing, and friends. She was extremely outgoing. A wonderful life that came to a tragic end on a warm summer night. Her life had ended, but our story was just beginning. Her killer had not been caught. But, the trail grew cold, the file forgotten until decades later, someone dusted it off. The whole goal of this case was trying to see the thing that was hiding in plain sight. There were clues, mysterious weapon made of wire, a wedding invitation, a midnight sale to nowhere. Were they enough to catch a killer . I was 100 confident he was our guy. Now, the showdown. A determined prosecutor against the famed Defense Lawyer who helped set o. J. Simpson free. After 35 years, was it finally time for justice . He was alone in his makeshift workshop. Had to be for what he intended. Carefully, he cut lengths of a broom handle, two of them, just a few inches each. Send them down, drilled a hole in each one, found a piece of wire to string between them. Too thin. He doubl
there was a suspect, but he had an alibi, until this revelation. revelation i said, i have something that you need to know. welcome to dateline, it sometimes takes a special eye to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that is out of place. the clue that will crack the case. and in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential, no one even knew what it was, alone would ve meant. it took almost two decades of a team of determinant investigators and a detective was than usual back out to find out. here is keith morrison with the night before halloween. it was the night before halloween, october 30th, late, midnight approaching. it happened in one of the little class suburbs that sprawl across the los angeles basin. inside a fast food franchise, closed for the night. a frantic scrambling, running feet, then, silence. but the nice morning, not far away, the family dollar prepared for celebration, kim was the eldest, then robin, trisha, wendy. excited, because
they asked you what happened 20 years ago, did you tell them the truth? i said, no, sir, i told them the same story they told them 20 years ago, but it wasn t the truth. he said, you know, maybe you should tell the truth. so she picked up the phone and called the torrance p.d. and i said i have something that you need to know. what happened 20 years ago with william being at my house was not true. he wasn t at my house that night. and now here it was, the awful secret she d kept all those years. i said, the next thing is he killed that lady, and he did not get a dime. he did it. yvonne was his confessor, and now she recited it all, every murderous moment that night before halloween at the kfc.
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 or other evidence related to archie mcfarland s murder. same inside the apartment. except there was this one weird thing. hanging over the bathtub were clothes that were wet, a shirt and pants. if he is going to do laundry, why would you spot wash something and leave it hang in your bathroom to dry if you are going to do laundry? go do laundry. janos was arrested and taken back to the torrance pd where the detective had 72 hours to compile a case that would convince the d.a. to file murder charges. otherwise janos would be released. kranke was confident he could wrap this up quickly. we had the wet clothes. he was changing his statements. his girlfriend, our victim s wife, was very positive he was
they asked you what happened 20 years ago, did you tell them the truth? i said, no, sir, i told them the same story i told them 20 years ago, but it wasn t the truth. he said, you know, maybe you should tell the truth. so she picked up the phone and called the torrance p.d. and i said i have something that you need to know. what happened 20 years ago with william being at my house was not true. he wasn t at my house that night. now here it was, the awful secret she d kept all those years. i said, the next thing is he killed that lady, and he did not get a dime. he did it yvonne was his confessor, and now she recited it all, every million dollar russ moment that night before halloween at the kfc.