Cari Lea Farver was born on November 30, 1974. We don’t know an excessive amount of about Cari’s background, however by 2012, she was 37 and had a son in highschool. Cari labored as a pc programmer in Omaha, Nebraska. She and her son Max have been dwelling in Macedonia, Iowa, round one hour away from her work place.
Cari’s mom Nancy Raney has stated that Cari was recognized with melancholy in her late 20’s and that she was finally recognized with bipolar dysfunction.
“She had been seeing therapists and was on treatment,” Nancy stated. “There was a few occasions when she would cease taking the treatment as a result of she stated, ‘Mother … I really feel like I’m numb.’”
By 2012 although, Nancy stated Cari was in an excellent place in her life and together with her psychological well being.
“You seen Cari when she walked right into a room,” stated her pal Amy Lengthy. “She had fun, she had a smile. She lit up a room… You couldn’t assist however discover her. You have been drawn to her.”
Family and friends have stated that Cari was vivacious and heat.
In 2012, Cari took her Ford Explorer into an auto restore store in Omaha. There she met Dave Kroupa – he was the supervisor.
Dave had just lately moved to the world. He had simply separated from his long run associate with whom he had two youngsters. Dave spoke about attempting to get again into the courting scene.
“I didn’t know methods to enterprise again into the courting pool,” he stated. “I felt fairly rusty … so web courting was … the best way to go.”
The primary lady that Dave met was Elizabeth Golyar – she glided by the identify Liz.
“I believed Liz was very fairly. I used to be interested in her straight away, so then we arrange a date,” he stated.
Liz instructed Dave that she was a single mom with two youngsters who have been across the similar age as his youngsters. They went on just a few dates they usually grew to become intimate. Dave apparently instructed Liz that he was having fun with their time collectively however that he additionally wished to proceed seeing different girls.
Dave and Cari met six months after he met Liz. Dave stated that Cari was an ‘extraordinarily engaging lady.’
“Once we checked out one another, there was just a little spark,” Dave stated. “She’s exhibiting me one thing contained in the automobile and we’re standing there, and we’re very shut … and there was some pressure.”
The 2 went out on a date and Dave invited Cari again to his condominium. After they acquired there, Cari stated she was simply on the lookout for enjoyable and didn’t need something severe.
“I felt like I hit the jackpot with that,” Dave stated.
As Cari left his condominium on the finish of the night time, she walked proper previous Liz within the hallway. Liz had turned up unannounced as a result of she wished to select up a few of her belongings from Dave’s place.
“It was only a temporary encounter, perhaps 10 seconds or much less … however this encounter would go on to have lasting ramifications for all three of them,” stated Jenn Carpenter, host of the “So Lifeless” podcast, which adopted the case.
As we talked about, Cari’s office was round an hour from her dwelling. When she was positioned on a giant work venture, Dave supplied to let her stick with him as his home was nearer.
On the morning of November 13, 2012, Dave acquired prepared for work. He kissed Cari as he left and instructed her he would see her later.
Just a few hours later, Dave acquired an odd textual content from Cari. She was speaking about wanting to maneuver in collectively. He stated that this was “ very left area as a result of we had already talked about that not taking place.”
Dave wrote again that he wasn’t . Cari responded nearly right away. “Advantageous. I hate you. I’m courting another person. I don’t need to see you anymore. Go away.”
“A lot of profanity,” Dave stated. “I didn’t know what to assume. I used to be blown away.”
When Dave acquired dwelling that night time, Cari was gone. After just a few days, his telephone began blowing up with texts from her.
“I hate you … you’ve ruined my life… You’re a horrible individual.”
David stated “I don’t want this… I dodged a bullet.”
Round this time, Nancy (Cari’s mom) began getting unusual texts from her daughter.
Cari instructed Nancy that she had taken a job in Kansas. Nancy stated that this ‘completely threw me.’
Nancy has stated that the texts have been usually imply and aggressive “saying that I wasn’t an excellent mom and that I used to be controlling.” She seen that always occasions the texts could be filled with grammatical and punctuation errors, in addition to spelling errors, which she stated was out of character for her daughter, who was “a stickler for punctuation and spelling.”
Nancy tried to name Cari many occasions, however was by no means capable of pay money for her. Lastly, when Cari didn’t present as much as her half-brother’s wedding ceremony, Nancy reported her lacking.
Nancy instructed authorities about Cari’s bipolar dysfunction and that she was on treatment. After that, Nancy stated that the authorities wouldn’t take the scenario significantly.
“The police jumped on that and stated, ‘Properly, this type of factor occurs on a regular basis. When anyone who’s bipolar stops taking their meds, typically … they’ll begin some actually erratic conduct,’” stated writer Leslie Rule, who wrote “A Tangled Net” concerning the case.
Cari additionally missed extra household occasions together with her son’s fifteenth birthday, Thanksgiving and likewise the funeral of her father.
Dave stored getting messages on each textual content and e mail from Cari – a whole bunch of them.
“I’ll do what I can to make you endure,” one message stated. One other stated, “We belong collectively, Dave.”
Together with the messages, Dave stated that he was being stalked.
“On one particular event, I used to be sitting in my La-Z-Boy with my ft up, watching TV, attempting to loosen up, and it’s nighttime and I get a textual content saying, ‘I see you. You’re sitting in your chair along with your ft propped up, sporting a blue shirt.’ And people issues have been true,” he stated.
Dave stated that many of the messages he obtained targeted on Liz.
Liz instructed him she was additionally receiving harassing texts and emails. She known as Dave at some point and stated that her dwelling had been vandalized.
“Upon pulling into the storage, she discovered that somebody had written … ‘Whore from Dave’ on the within” in spray paint, Dave stated.
Liz reported this incident to police in late November 2012.
Dave and Liz continued to see one another throughout this section. Generally, they might each be harassed on the similar time. “It was truly extraordinarily frequent for us to be… hanging out on a sofa, watching TV or one thing and each of our telephones would begin blowing up with textual content messages and emails from Cari,” David stated.
Cari’s son Max additionally obtained texts. His mom instructed him that she was going to Kansas and could be coming to get him however she by no means confirmed up.
In January 2013, Dave seen that Cari’s automobile was parked in a close-by parking zone. He took a photograph of it and despatched it to Omaha police.
Police searched the automobile and located a single fingerprint on a mint container. The print didn’t match Cari’s, or anybody else within the nationwide database.
In the meantime, recommendations on Cari’s whereabouts have been coming in. One man known as Nancy to say that he had seen Cari at a homeless shelter and that she wished her mom to go and decide her up.
“I used to be shaking… I believed, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to convey her dwelling, she’s going to be OK,’” Nancy stated.
When Nancy went to the shelter, it was found that Cari had by no means been there.
“It was such a letdown and I used to be simply devastated,” she stated. “I get this elevating in my hopes after which it’s dashed once more… I knew anyone was enjoying video games right here.”
Six months after his mom disappeared, Max messaged her on Fb. She messaged again “ ‘Hey little man, how are you?’” “He requested her to reply three inquiries to show that it was actually her… What his center identify was, what the identify of their first [dog] was and what his finest pal’s identify was, and he or she by no means responded to that message.”
Cari stored up the harassment of Dave and Liz. She despatched an e mail to Dave the place she threatened to kill Liz and included a photograph of a lady tied up in a automobile. Cari additionally despatched Dave a hyperlink to a faux obituary for Liz.
In August 2013, Liz’s dwelling caught hearth. Her pets – two canine, a cat and a snake – all perished. Hearth investigators stated that they suspected arson. Liz stated that she believed Cari had began the hearth.
The auto store the place Dave labored was vandalized. In January 2014, Dave was with a lady in his condominium when his cellphone was blasted with messages. Additionally they heard somebody attempting to open the entrance door. A brick was thrown by means of a window of the house that night time.
The mom of Dave’s youngsters additionally obtained threatening messages from Cari.
Dave grew to become so nervous that he bought a gun for his security. He would later notice that the gun was lacking and he reported that to police.
The harassment continued for years. By the Spring of 2015, no one had seen Cari for two.5 years however the messages stored coming.
Detectives Ryan Avis and Jim Doty, of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Workplace in Council Bluffs, Iowa, had by no means labored on the case however that they had heard about it within the workplace. The 2 detectives determined to strategy the case from totally different angles.
“Jim’s going to work it like she’s lifeless and I’m going to work it like she’s alive. I’m going to try to show each which approach I can that Cari continues to be on the market, and Jim goes to try to show each which approach that she is just not,” Detective Avis stated.
Detective Avis grew to become alarmed when it was found that there had been no exercise on Cari’s financial institution accounts.
“It’s not regular for adults to simply up and depart and actually spend no cash. Nobody’s seen them and nobody’s heard their voice… It simply didn’t make sense,” Detective Avis stated. “She had good earnings, an excellent home… I had come to the conclusion that I couldn’t show she was truly alive.”
Detective Doty stated that Liz was one of many individuals who stood out to him. She had by no means been concerned in Cari’s life till she went lacking. “Rapidly she’s this focus of harassment,” he stated. “Her identify was throughout all of the experiences. So to me, there was one thing with Liz. … She undoubtedly was an individual of curiosity.”
All the harassment was despatched electronically so the detectives enlisted a digital forensics professional to assist.
Dave and Liz agreed to have their telephone knowledge examined. This was the start of discovery within the case.
“We knew these messages don’t appear to essentially be coming from Cari Farver,” Anthony Kava, the digital forensics professional stated. “Cari, or … the imposter who was pretending to be Cari, despatched Dave about 15,000 e mail messages over a 3 12 months span…. It would’ve been upwards of 25,000 or 50,000 texts in all.”
“Whoever was pretending to be Cari … acquired increasingly more refined in what they have been doing to attempt to conceal their IP deal with, to attempt to conceal their actual id,” he added.
Investigators additionally discovered a photograph of Cari’s automobile in Liz’s telephone dump. This had been taken a month earlier than the automobile was recovered by police.
“Someway Liz knew the place Cari’s automobile was earlier than regulation enforcement even did,” Detective Doty stated. “One other factor we discovered on the telephone obtain was there have been six calls that have been made to Cari’s residence. It was utilizing the *67 prefix to disguise the quantity, so Liz was calling Cari six occasions. This didn’t make sense to us as a result of she stated she’d solely met Cari one time passing by means of a hallway.”
The picture of the tied up lady that had been initially despatched to Dave was decided to have been taken by Liz’s telephone.
Investigators additionally found a video exhibiting somebody strolling exterior of Dave’s condominium. It had been uploaded to YouTube underneath Cari’s identify however had come from an IP registered to Liz’s dwelling.
Nancy spoke to investigators and stated that in 2012, Cari despatched her a textual content saying that she had bought her furnishings. She requested Nancy to let the client into the home to gather it. Cari despatched Nancy a photograph of a verify for the furnishings that had been signed by ‘Shanna Golyar.’
“We knew Liz Golyar’s actual identify was Shanna,” Detective Doty stated. It was one more connection between the 2 girls who supposedly have been strangers.
“Granted, [that] didn’t give us any solutions on what had occurred to Cari, however we knew [that] Liz knew greater than she was telling us.”
The fingerprint that was discovered on the mint container in Cari’s automobile was decided to belong to Liz.
In December 2015, Liz went to the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Workplace. She instructed the detectives that she wished to file a harassment grievance towards the mom of Dave’s youngsters, Amy Flora.
Liz then stated that she thought it was Amy who had been sending her messages this entire time, not Cari. She additionally stated that she thought Amy had Dave’s lacking gun.
“She realized that she most likely shouldn’t know any particulars concerning the gun and … then any additional questions I requested concerning the gun, she was very obscure,” Detective Avis stated.
Investigators requested if Liz would give consent for her telephone knowledge to be examined and he or she did.
The next day, Liz known as 911 and stated that she been shot within the leg and that she thought the shooter could have been Amy Flora.
“I discovered it extremely suspicious that the day earlier than she felt the necessity to inform me that Dave Kroupa’s gun had been stolen … and fewer than 24 hours later, she is shot,” Detective Avis stated. “It was fairly rapidly decided that almost certainly Liz Golyar had shot herself.”
Amy was cleared of any involvement on that night time.
When police investigated Liz’s telephone contents, they found that she had registered “upwards of 20 or 30 faux [email] addresses,” all of which had some variation of Cari’s identify.
Additionally they discovered that she had an app which allowed her to schedule messages to be despatched at later occasions and dates. This might clarify how each Dave and Liz would usually be harassed on the similar time.
“She was capable of ship messages pretending to be Cari, and they might arrive whereas she was sitting on the sofa subsequent to Dave,” Anthony Kava added. “From Dave’s viewpoint, Liz couldn’t have despatched it as a result of she was sitting subsequent to him the entire time.”
It was stated that Liz will need to have spent about 40 to 50 hours every week impersonating Cari.
Police got here up with a plan. They instructed Liz that they believed Amy had shot her. They stated they wished her assist to see if Amy would incriminate herself.
This labored. Liz instantly created faux emails from Amy.
“We began receiving messages … that she stated have been from Amy [Flora] … the place Amy confesses to capturing Liz at Huge Lake Park,” Detective Doty stated.
The detectives continued to press Liz to ask “Flora,” for particulars about Cari’s demise. They knew they have been speaking to Liz and never Amy.
They stated she forwarded an e mail to them that had supposedly come from Amy, saying she had stabbed Cari “three to 4 occasions” and stuffed her physique right into a rubbish bag.
“The main points have been … bone chilling as a result of they have been graphic,” Detective Doty stated.
Liz began to turn into upset as a result of Amy had not been arrested. The detectives instructed her they wanted particular data that solely the killer would know earlier than they may make an arrest.
Inside hours, they stated extra “confession” emails from “Flora” appeared. The emails included that Cari had been stabbed to demise in her personal automobile.
“These emails … gave us Cari’s automobile as a criminal offense scene,” Detective Doty stated. “What we wished to do was return and have a look at that automobile to find out if that crime occurred there.”
Police searched Cari’s automobile once more. They eliminated cloth from the passenger seat and located her blood stained on it.
Liz was confronted with the entire proof that investigators had gathered towards her. She denied being concerned and likewise stated she had no web service.
Police searched her condominium and located a few of Cari’s belongings together with a digicam and a camcorder. On the camcorder, they discovered video of Cari speaking about how somebody had vandalized her automobile. It was time stamped two days earlier than she disappeared.
On December 22, 2016, greater than 4 years after Cari vanished, Liz was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide.
Douglas County lawyer Brenda Beadle, who prosecuted the case, stated, “this was by far probably the most tough case I’ve ever tried.”
“Most homicides are darkish. This one was … weird to the purpose the place it will take some convincing to make anyone consider that it truly occurred,” she stated. “There’s no approach that somebody would let their canine die in a hearth that they began. There’s no approach that somebody would shoot themselves within the femur.”
Liz’s lawyer determined to waive a jury trial in favor of a bench trial. This meant {that a} choose would resolve the case.
“Not solely was there no physique, there was no crime scene, there was no homicide weapon… There was no proof that she even died,” the lawyer stated. “We waived the jury trial to maneuver it up so I might do that case hopefully earlier than they’d discover a physique.”
The trial was scheduled to start out in 2017. Just a few months earlier than this, Dave remembered that he had an previous pill in storage and he gave it to police. Investigators found a micro SD reminiscence card within the pill that additionally had been in Liz’s telephone across the time of the homicide. The SD card had 1000’s of deleted pictures — all of which have been capable of be recovered.
“I got here to a photograph that nobody had seen earlier than,” Anthony Kava stated. “I wasn’t positive what I used to be taking a look at first, but it surely turned out to be … a human foot with a tattoo.”
The tattoo was of the Chinese language image for the phrase “mom.” It was the identical one Cari had on her foot.
“It was surprising,” Anthony Kava stated. “It made me notice that … Liz Golyar killed Cari Farver and he or she’s taking pictures of her physique.”
In 2017, Decide Timothy Burns discovered Liz responsible of first-degree homicide and sentenced her to life in jail. Throughout his ruling, Decide Burns stated, “Cari Farver didn’t voluntarily disappear and drop off the face of the earth. Very sadly, she was murdered.”
Cari’s stays have by no means been discovered.
Nancy has stated that she desires to recollect her daughter as “because the fun-loving, gifted, sensible lady that she was.”
“Cari was solely 37 when she died,” Nancy stated. “If I might discuss to Cari proper now, I’d say ‘I like you. I’m so glad that you’re in my life. You could have a good looking son who’s acquired a beautiful life coming, and I miss you terribly.’”
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