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Men in two very different ways. he was the first, the husband. handsome, athletic, adventurous, a surfer. the real deal. his name was archie mcfarland. 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. together, they had a son, gary. they settled down near the ocean, an l.a. suburb. we had a great typical nuclear family. dad went off to work. my mom stayed at home. and did the all the home stuff, the stuff that you see in leave it to beaver. reporter: you will see when gary talks about his dad how close they were. and it wasn t just because archie introduced him to surfing. i always looked up to my dad. my dad was a really soft spoken, ....
That son of a there was one thing no one could know. the strange twist still to come. it was a bit of a surprise. kind of a shock when you found out she was seeing him again. yes. a lover s triangle always leads to trouble. how could you do such a horrible thing? you destroyed me. did this lead to murder? what was it like watching him walk out of jail? he beat the system. deadly triangle. hello and welcome to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. how long does it take a killer to stop worrying about whether he will ever be caught? a couple of weeks, a couple of months, 25 years? if he still is a free man then, he is probably pretty sure he did, indeed, get away with murder. after all, detectives retire, witnesses forget. a trail goes cold never to warm up again. ....
And then there he was, yanos. she met him at a local club. he was just 32, 25 years younger than 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. he was passive about it. she told him, if he didn t like it, he could live. reporter: he 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 are doing to my family? i hung the phone up. that s basically when she left. reporter: that very day, mary ....
Was sure stabbed his father, her husband, and left him to die in the driveway? when i first found out, all ties were cut. i wrote her a letter. dropped it in her mail slot. as far as i m concerned, our relationship is over. reporter: mary ann accused yanos of murder the day it happened. confronted him in jail. now here she was back with him. they didn t actually move in together. they were certainly a couple, passion apparently undimmed. 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. reporter: how much mary ann knew, if anything, about yanos role if her husband s murder she wasn t saying. certainly not her son, gary. the rift in the relationship between mother and son now seemed irreparable. for gary, it was like he had lost both his parents. ....
It to beaver. reporter: you will see when gary talks about his dad how close they were. and it wasn t just because archie introduced him to surfing. i always looked up to my dad. my dad was a really soft spoken, easy going yet affable guy. reporter: here they were to the outside world anold-fashion family. inside, secretly, something seething. it was almost christmas 1985. 5:30 a.m. archie started work early. so did gary, who was just 20 years old then. he had come into my room and he said, gary, i m going to be leaving now. so make sure you get up. i said, okay, no problem. thanks, dad, love you. see you. reporter: gary showered, dressed, headed outside into a cold, dark morning. it was then he saw something odd lying on the pavement. ....