Lifetime Television also donated in Caris honor to The Cari Farver Memorial Scholarship at Iowa Western Community College, a scholarship established to keep Caris memory and her legacy of kindness alive by supporting students attending Iowa Western Community College in pursuit of a career in information technology. "There's no way that someone would let their dog die in a fire that they started. She even sent threatening messages to herself so that Kroupa wouldnt catch on to her act. Golyar was arrested on Dec. 22, 2016 in Iowa and extradited to a Nebraska jail where she is awaiting trial for the first-degree murder of Farver, whose body has not been found. You have a beautiful son who's got a wonderful life coming, and I miss you terribly. Assistant Attorney General Sarah Marfisi conceded that most of the evidence presented at Golyar's 2017 trial was circumstantial. Leslie Rule, daughter of the late true-crime writer Ann Rule, has published a book about this case called A Tangled Web. Very good book, and a terrifying story! Golyar told him that she was a single mother with two kids who were around the same age as his kids. To this day, no trace of Cari Lea Farver's body has ever been found, but police discovered a photograph of Cari's severed foot (identified by a telltale tattoo) that had been deleted from Liz's phone, which was enough to charge Liz with Cari's murder, despite the lack of a murder weapon or any other physical evidence. But as detectives retrace his final moments, a trail of text messages left behind on his cellphone reveal a toxic teenage romance. Cari Farver, 37, went missing from Omaha Nov. 13, 2012. At the time, he was separated from his longtime girlfriend Amy Flora, with whom he had two children. It might've been upwards of 25,000 or 50,000 texts in all.". As their investigation was underway, Kroupa realized the pistol he had purchased for protection was missing. Hed just split up with his long-time girlfriend, Amy Flora, with whom he shared two children. . "It was just a brief encounter, maybe 10 seconds or less but this encounter would go on to have lasting ramifications for all three of them," said Jenn Carpenter, host of the "So Dead" podcast, which followed the case. Daves on-again-off-again girlfriend, Shanna Liz Golyar, was found responsible for Cari Farvers disappearance and subsequent murder. Terrifying intrusions kept happening to him. This content was included in the original case file and Kava started connecting the dots. In February 2015, he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and he stopped spending as much time with Golyar. The SD card had thousands of deleted images -- all of which he was able to recover. Those who have already cut the cord can still watch the premiere live with Philo. Her Body Was Never Found But Golyar Was Charged With Her Murder & the Missing Person's Case Was Closed. Farver worked as a computer programmer and her office was located around the corner from where Kroupa lived, he said, whereas she lived nearly an hour away in Macedonia, Iowa. I don't want to see you anymore. Shanna Golyar is led out of the courtroom on Wednesday, May 10, at the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha. Golyar spent the next four years impersonating Cari Farver [photo], in text messages, emails and Facebook posts. Golyar is being held on $5 million bail. The memorial has expired, but from the google cache it at least says: Surived by daughter Elizabeth Golyar; son Jasen Gagnon. 2013, though Farver's body was never found. At Golyars trial Monday, Kroupa read aloud a tiny percentage of the roughly 12,000 emails he purportedly received from Farver since he last saw her on Nov. 13, 2012. Authorities also said that Golyar wrote 11 emails and forwarded them to the Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office under the identity of the boyfriends ex-wife. Kroupa said he had become so paranoid by that point that he bought a gun -- a 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol. Farver still wanted to keep things casual, but she did agree to stay with him for a few nights in November 2012. When the fund was announced, Kava said, The thing that bugged me the most out of this case, if you search Caris name online, you find the person that harmed her, not a lot of information about Cari. Powered by. Farver's mother upset over not finding daughter's body. Farver's mother, Nancy Raney, says her daughter was diagnosed with depression in her late 20s -- a few years after having her son, Max Farver -- and that she was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Kroupa, 36, was almost used to it by now. Golyar was also given an additional 18 to 20 years for arson. David Golbitz. When Cari Farver went missing in 2012, emails and texts sent under her name fooled authorities into thinking she just didn't want to be found. Doty and Avis brought Golyar in for an interview two weeks after she was shot. After reading the verdict, Douglas County Judge Timothy Burns said, Cari Farver did not voluntarily disappear and drop off the face of the Earth, very sadly, she was murdered, KETV reported. . Then, a few months before the trial was set to begin in 2017, Kroupa remembered he had a tablet in storage, and turned it over to investigators. As time went on, the investigators said Golyar grew increasingly upset that they hadn't arrested Flora. With this, investigators began looking deeper into Liz and estimated that she must have spent about 40-50 hours a week impersonating Cari for almost three years. Shortly after Cari disappears but he and his ex-girlfriend start receiving messages from her and the police make a shocking discovery. The detectives zeroed in on Golyar, and when she suspected that they might be onto her, she told them that she thought Kroupas ex-girlfriend Amy Flora had killed Farver and had been the one harassing them all along. "She's showing me something inside the vehicle and we're standing there, and we're very close and there was some tension.". She has a youtube account and it says that 6 months ago she uploaded a video called husbands cheating place. Very weird, like whomever filmed it was engaging in stalking. ABCs 20/20: A Tangled Web chronicles the mind-boggling story of the disappearance and death of Cari Farver, a woman who unknowingly stepped into a twisted and fatal love triangle, the end of which was more shocking than anyone could have ever imagined. Author Leslie Rule was so fascinated by this story that she wrote a book about it called "A Tangled Web." I couldnt even use my phone, itd be beeping all day long.. Golyar, 41, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with Farver's alleged killing. A few days later, she was reported missing by her family to the Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Golyar described in those emails how Farver had been stabbed in the chest and stomach, her body was burned and thrown into garbage bags in a dumpster, according to Omaha World-Herald. A few days later on Friday, November 16, her mother, Nancy Raney of Carson, Iowa, reported her missing to the Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Farvers boss also told law enforcement that after a couple of days of missing work, the company got a text from Farvers number saying she was quitting and had moved to Kansas, and instead referring Golyar as her replacement, the outlet reported. Liz is suspected of murdering Cari, allowing her body to rot, and then burning the remains to destroy all evidence. Contact Us. She lit up a room You couldn't help but notice her. On Wednesday, May 24, 2017, Douglas County District Judge Timothy Burns found Golyar guilty of first-degree murder and second-degree arson after 10 days of trial. Beadle said theres a lot of computer and text messaging evidence that will tie the defendant to the case. She told Avis she now thought it was Flora who had been sending her threatening messages this whole time, not Farver. 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