apartment. the kind of interest you had a mean chase. that kind of infatuation had apparently worn off. after a period of time, she was certainly still passionately being chased by janos archie after all had a pension, savings, life insurance. it mary ann was almost 50. did she worry also that janos was too young for her? that maybe his feelings would change? eventually mary ann decides, you know what? this is stressful. i kind of miss my life. i don t have the security that i had. mary ann decides i want to move back home. and archie? welcome to our backs for giving as always. no resentment? no anger? he didn t show any. how is that possible? that was my dad. but across town in long beach, janos kulcsar wasn t so forgiving. he was fuming. janos truly loved her.
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.
janos was arrested and taken back to the torrance were detective kroenke had 72 hours to convince city da to file charges. otherwise janos would be released. kroenke was confident though he could wrap this up quickly. we had the wet clothes. he was changing his statements all the time. his girlfriend, our victims wife, was very positive he was the one responsible for this. kroenke grilled him for hours, but janos was insistence he had nothing to do with archie mcfarland s murder. and crime lab tests didn t find a speck of blood on his clothes. nor was there a trace on him. or scratches either. and though and no history of committing any kind of crime. was it possible janos was in the color? detective kroenke had an idea. mary ann wanted to see her former lover in jail. he taped the conversation. so the two men for the first time, since archie s murder, had as the tape rolled. how could you do such a
one woman who was loved intensely over the top by two men in two very different ways. he was the first, the husband. hand sell, athletic, adventurous. a surfer. the real deal. his name was archie mcfarland. good ol arch. everybody loved him. laid 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 60s, and together they had a son gary. they settled down near the ocean, an l.a. suburb called torrence. we had a great typical nuclear family. dad went off to work. my mom stayed at home and did all the home stuff, the stuff that you see in leave it to beaver. you will see when gary talks about his dad how close they were. and it wasn t just because archie introduced him to surfing.
much. and she was a vibrant woman still and attractive. but 47 and in need of something. and then there he was, janos. she met him at a local club. he was just 32, 25 years younger than stale old archie. he was everything archie wasn t. he satisfied everything that archie couldn t satisfy for her. she told archie she was dating this man. archie was passive about it. she basically told us, if he didn t like it, he could leave. archie accepted it, hoping his marriage would somehow survive. gary was just 18 then. didn t know for sure about the affair. but suspected his mom was seeing someone, especially the day he caught her sneaking off to take a private telephone call. i grabbed the phone from her and said, do you have any idea what you re doing to my family, and i hung the phone up.