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And years passed. the silence continued. gary got married, started his own family. but the loss of his father still haunted him. >> he never got to see me be successful in my career. never got to see me get married. never got to be the grandfather. >> reporter: 17 years went by. 17 awkward christmass. the detective retired. remember that fresh set of eyes he was hoping for? it was 2002 and an aggressive deputy d.a. read about archie mcfarland. >> as soon as i looked at it, i said, this guy is good for this murder. >> reporter: just what police thought at the beginning, of course. difference wa...

Welcome back to "dateline extra." here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: it was a mean christmas for gary the year his father was murdered. the spring of '86 brought no solace. the summer surf lost its appeal. sg >> the whole thing didn't make sense to me. >> reporter: because no matter how thoroughly gary wished otherwise, yanos was as free as a bird. >> kind of made me question the whole system. >> reporter: the cops were sure yanos killed archie. gary was doubly sure. >> he still is hoofing around, breathing air and has all the freedoms that you and i have. didn't seem right.

>> reporter: perhaps not. but the cops were simply stuck. >> the murder weapon, the confession, or an eyewitness, we didn't have any of that. >> reporter: so the case went cold. not much more the detective could do. >> you put it away and then let some fresh eyes look at it later on down the line and see if there's something you missed. >> reporter: and then a very strange development. not a police issue. but for gary, it was awful. it was a few years after the murder, gary was paying his mom's phone bill. he noticed several calls back and forth to long beach. he dialed the number. and on the ...

Inquisitive d.a. and this long, lean cop, jim wallace, looking on so intently. >> this is a case, a true love story. between three people. one woman who was loved intensely over the top by two men in two very different ways. >> he hawas the first, the husband. 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...

And attractive. but 47 and in need of something. 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. if he didn't like it, che could leave. >> 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...