Cari Farver Sent Messages for Years After Her Disappearance/ Her Gruesome Murder

Yet, Kroupa was not responsible for her strange disappearance. Before he met Farver, Kroupa had a brief relationship with Shanna "Liz" Golyar, who later kidnapped and killed Farver.

Golyar sent Kroupa and Farver's family members hundreds of texts and emails over the course of the following three years while posing as Farver. To keep Kroupa from seeing her charade, she even wrote threatening letters to herself.

It wasn't until 2015 that investigators really began focusing on Farver's disappearance since the messages and emails were coming from her accounts. They discovered the entire hoax extended far further than anyone could have ever anticipated as they started looking into Golyar.

The Sudden Development of Cari Farver and Dave Kroupa's Relationship

David Kroupa was employed in an auto repair facility in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2012. He was looking for a new beginning at the time. He just ended his long-term relationship with Amy Flora, with whom he had two children. Shortly after, he made the decision to join an online dating site, where he met Liz Golyar.

Before things could get too intense, Kroupa allegedly told Golyar he wasn't looking for anything serious after the two started dating. Golyar, a single mother, said she was pleased with the deal.

A few months after first meeting Golyar, Kroupa saw Cari Farver enter his store. He saw her distinctive qualities right away.

There was a "small spark" between the two of us, Kroupa later told ABC News. We're sitting there, very close, and she's trying to show me something in her car. There was also considerable tension.

Farver and Kroupa talked about how neither of them was searching for a serious relationship while out on a date. After their return to his flat, Farver saw a woman in the corridor as she was exiting. It was Golyar, who had unexpectedly been over to pick up a few of her belongings.

The two women's lives would alter as a result of this accidental encounter, which couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds.

The Strange Case Of Cari Farver's Disappearance

Following a few weeks of meeting Farver, Dave Kroupa started to second-guess his decision to remain single. She consented to spend a couple nights with Farver in November 2012 even though he still preferred to keep things informal. Kroupa's apartment was a lot closer to her workplace than her house was, and she was focused on a significant project for her company.

On November 13, 2012, Cari Farver was last seen alive. As she went for work after spending the night with Kroupa, he gave her a kiss, but she never came back.

Yet a few hours later, Kroupa got a strange SMS from Farver. Even though they had just talked about staying casual, she informed him she wanted to formally move in with him. He was sent a furious message when he gently rejected.

"As soon as I reply to her , I get a text back saying, ’OK, I don't ever want to see you again, go away, I'm dating somebody else, I hate you,' he recalled to Oxygen's Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.

Also, Farver's family began getting texts. Her mother, Nancy Raney, received a message from Farver informing her that she had relocated to Kansas for a job position and would be in touch to prepare for the pickup of her son Max, who was 15 at the time. Raney found this odd, but she realized something was really wrong when Farver skipped her half-brother's wedding and her father's memorial service.

Police allegedly attempted to contact Farver, but gave up after they got texts from her phone number requesting that they leave her alone. Investigators concluded that Farver had stopped taking her medicine and left on her own own since Raney also revealed that she had previously been diagnosed with bipolar illness. Years would pass before they realized how mistaken they were.

David Kroupa and Liz Golyar's Terrifying Harassment

Liz Golyar contacted Dave Kroupa in a panic on August 17, 2013. The two had become close because of the frightening messages that Cari Farver was sending to them both, but now it seemed that things had taken a turn for the worst.

Golyar said that her house had been burned down and that her cherished animals had died in the fire. ”  I am not lying, I lit that nasty house on fire”, read a text that Kroupa shortly got from Farver's phone number. I hope it kills the wh— and her children.

Also, texts detailing what Kroupa was doing or wearing at any given time began to reach him. He had no reason to believe Golyar was responsible for them because some of the texts would arrive when he was in the same room as her and could see that she wasn't using her cellphone at that moment.

The texts stopped for some time when Kroupa changed his cell number. He relocated to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in February 2015 and minimized his contact with Golyar.

During this time, detectives started looking into Cari Farver's mysterious disappearance more thoroughly.

Discovering Cari Farver's Scary Truth

According to Distractify, the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office in Council Bluffs investigators Ryan Avis and Jim Doty launched a thorough inquiry into Farver's whereabouts in the spring of 2015. While they believed she was gone, they were unsure of her exact cause of death.

In 2015, when investigators extensively studied Cari Farver's abandoned automobile for the second time after she vanished, they discovered bloodstains hidden inside the fabric of the passenger seat.

For the sake of their inquiry, they downloaded the data of Kroupa's and Golyar's phones, and digital forensics uncovered an issue. On Golyar's device, there was proof that she owned pictures of Farver's automobile, 20 to 30 fake email addresses, and an app that let her plan SMS messages for later delivery.

As Golyar realized the investigators were probably on to her, she informed them that she believed Kroupa's ex-girlfriend Amy Flora had murdered Farver and had been bothering them all along.

Golyar contacted 911 from Big Lake Park in Council Bluffs shortly after the chat to report that Flora had shot her in the leg. She had no idea Flora had a good alibi. Golyar's narrative started to fall apart, but when police looked through her tablet, it was all over.

Police discovered hundreds of erased photographs on the SD card, one of which featured Cari Farver's dissolving body.

On or around November 13, 2012, Golyar fatally stabbed Farver inside her own vehicle. Then, for the next three years, she pretended to be Farver and sent up to 50,000 texts while sending 15,000 emails to hide her murderous deed. To support her claims, she even set fire to her own home, murdered her dogs, and shot herself in the leg.

Liz Golyar was found guilty of second-degree arson and first-degree murder in 2017. She was given a life sentence without the chance of release.

The course of the inquiry shocked Dave Kroupa. "I want Liz to leave and never do this to anyone again," he said of the experience. “The first people I thought of were Cari's son and Nancy [Raney] Unfortunately, they are the ones who must deal with the consequences.”