However, suddenly on November 13, 2012, after only two weeks of dating, Cari disappeared. A few days later, Golyar did exactly that. His motion for acquittal was overruled by Douglas County District Judge Timothy Burns, who will make the final decision on the case. By all accounts, Cari Farver was a lively and warm woman who lit up any room that she walked into. "It was such a letdown and I was just devastated," Raney said. The first person he met through one of them was a woman named Shanna Elizabeth Golyar, who went by "Liz.". On Aug. 17, 2013, Liz Golyar called Dave Kroupa in a panic. Cari Farvers friends remember her as a loving mother and supportive friend. Her 2002 Ford Explorer was located in Omaha in her boyfriends apartment complex, but next to a different building on January 10, 2013. Then, go inside the story of Christina Whittaker, the Missouri mom who vanished without a trace. The investigators found a photo of Farver's Ford Explorer in Golyar's phone dump, which included metadata that showed the photo had been taken about a month before police recovered the vehicle. . They also discovered a video recording that showed someone walking outside of Kroupa's apartment. Officials found Farvers vehicle in Omaha on January 10, 2013, though Farvers body was never found. "She was able to send messages pretending to be Cari, and they would arrive while she was sitting on the couch next to Dave," Kava added. They simply begin with http:// instead of https://. They believe the incident was perpetrated in Omaha because she lived there at the time. He went closer, and when he was sure that the vehicle was Caris, he took a photo of the license plate and sent it to the police. It was Cari Farver, a single mom who had brought in her Ford Explorer for maintenance. Golyars relationship with the man drew the attention of Council Bluffs police in December 2015 when Golyar told police shed been accosted at Big Lake Park and shot in her left thigh and tried to blame the alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound on Farver. In January of 2013, almost two months after the harassment began, Dave noticed a familiar car in a nearby parking lot while coming home from work. "Those guys, they mean the world to me. In a press release dated Thursday, December 22, 2016, police said a grant awarded to the Omaha Police Departments Cold Case Unit allowed for DNA testing regarding Farvers homicide, and on that same day Omaha police announced theyd arrested 41-year-old Shanna Golyar at her home in Persia, Iowa, and charged her with first-degree murder in Cari Farvers death. In a statement to ABC News, the Omaha Police Department said, "The unusual nature of this case, and the great lengths that Shanna Goylar went to hide this homicide, undoubtedly perplexed everyone involved. Facebook previously removed all the fake Cari Farver profiles Golyar created, and Kava has asked for two years for Facebook to remove the last two. Forensic pathologist Michelle Elieff looked at the foot photo that was found on the memory card. See more at: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cjonline/obituary.aspx?pid=161644844. You can cancel at any time. In the weeks and months that followed, Farver appeared to be active online and sending messages, but investigators couldnt determine that it was actually her behind the messages so the missing persons case remained open, according to Iowa Cold Cases. 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! "All of a sudden she's this focus of harassment," he said. Investigators have never found Farvers body. Golyar's defense attorney argued that all of the evidence from the state was circumstantial, that at one point Golyar had been considered a victim in all this and Farver's body hadn't been found. "Whoever was pretending to be Cari got more and more sophisticated in what they were doing to try to hide their IP address, to try to hide their real identity," he added. Golyar is being held on $5 million bail. (WOWT) The prosecution and defense each presented their closing arguments in the trial of Shanna Golyar. man as Farver stabbed Farver to death in Farver's car and disposed of her body, which has never been found. In May 2015, Doty and Avis went to interview Nancy Raney, during which they said they believed her claims that her daughter was missing and that something had happened to her. "Another thing we found on the phone download was there were six calls that were made to Cari's residence. he said. Thus, they searched her vehicle again, this time pulling off the fabric from the seats, only to discover that the passenger side cushion was blood-stained blood that was later identified to be Caris. Shortly after Cari disappears but he and his ex-girlfriend start receiving messages from her and the police make a shocking discovery. Even with that, nothing happened, and Caris family, along with Dave, continued getting messages that soon turned nasty in nature, even stalker-ish. The photo of the foot, although a digital file, may be the only evidence of Farvers body after what officials say was her slaying. Farver had been dating Golyars ex-boyfriend for some weeks. Doty and Avis brought Golyar in for an interview two weeks after she was shot. Nov. 10, 2018 LINCOLN, Neb. Golyars motive, detectives said, was that she was jealous of Farver who was dating her ex-boyfriend, Omaha World-Herald reported. Blog Golyar was also given an additional 18 to 20 years for arson. Having worked on the car he knew it fairly well, so he said he took a photo of the license plate and sent it to Omaha Police. One message claimed Farver had taken a new job in Kansas, which Raney said, "totally threw me.". Forty-two-year-old Shanna Golyar killed 37-year-old Cari Farver in November of 2012. Within weeks of meeting Farver, Dave Kroupa was beginning to rethink his commitment to bachelorhood. They were so intrigued by Farver's mysterious disappearance that they volunteered to take it on. Golyar's defense attorney James Martin Davis requested to waive a jury trial in favor of a bench trial, meaning a judge would decide the case. On the camcorder, they found video of Farver talking about how someone had vandalized her car. Read More: Where Is Shanna Liz Golyar Now? When Shanna Golyar asked the states high court to reverse her conviction and life sentence for first-degree murder, she pointed out that criminal investigators never found a murder weapon, a single witness or most importantly, a body. To this day, not a single trace of Cari Farver's body has ever been found. I just wish she could have had more of it, Raney said. Burns said Golyar spun a twisted plot of lies, deceit and impersonations through digital messaging to keep Farver alive online and distract authorities. Golyar signed the consent form and turned it over. Farver's body was never found. It was time stamped two days before she disappeared. Actress: The Disappearance of Cari Farver. Says site isnt secure and wont open. Golyar told him that she was a single mother with two kids who were around the same age as his kids. 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. 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. Within hours, they said more "confession" emails from "Flora" appeared. It began in the fall of 2012 when Kroupa was struck by a "gorgeous" woman who came to the counter at his auto repair shop to get her SUV fixed. On December 22, 2016, a woman who had been dating the same man as Farver, Shanna Liz Golyar, was arrested and charged with Farvers murder. . Liz was also found guilty of second-degree arson at the same sentencing for setting fire to her own home in August of 2013, which she tried to blame on Cari. ", During their meeting, Raney provided investigators with another clue. The mint container found in Cari Farver's car. However, Farver's body has never been found. Raney thought this was strange, but when Farver missed her half-brothers wedding and her fathers funeral, she knew something was dreadfully wrong. Cari Farver was an extraordinarily charming and warm single mother-of-one who went missing on the 13th of November, 2012. By Leslie Veliz / Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 3:49 pm EST. . The Supreme Court is now tasked with reviewing records from a 10-day trial to decide whether Golyar's convictions should stand. All Rights Reserved, Home Golyar made her first court appearance in the Douglas County Jail on Tuesday, December 27, 2016. Meanwhile, weeks turned into months, and Raney still hadn't found her daughter. "It wasn't just Dave and Liz. She received a . "She had a laugh, she had a smile. Daves ex-girlfriend, Liz (Alicia Witt) also begins receiving harassing texts from Cari, resulting in a dangerous situation for them both. (Hilary) Farver of Des Moines, Iowa, and Jarod W. Farver of San Diego, California. "It was actually extremely common for us to be hanging out on a couch, watching TV or something and both of our phones would start blowing up with text messages and emails from Cari," Kroupa said. For months, the two had bonded over the threatening messages they were both receiving from Cari Farver, but now things had seemingly escalated. About Raney said she couldn't get the police to take her pleas seriously. "I wasn't sure what I was looking at first, but it turned out to be a human foot with a tattoo.". Attorney James Martin Davis says prosecutors have no body, no murder weapon, and no witnesses. She told Avis she now thought it was Flora who had been sending her threatening messages this whole time, not Farver. "It was pretty quickly determined that most likely Liz Golyar had shot herself.". In February 2015, he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and he stopped spending as much time with Golyar. She said she was still getting texts from Farver and begged her daughter to call her so she could hear her voice, but she never did. She messaged back. Detectives also discovered that Golyar wrote and sent an email from a fake account posing as someone else and detailing the murder, KETV reported during the trial. "She realized that she probably shouldn't know any details about the gun and then any further questions I asked about the gun, she was very vague," Avis said. Author Leslie Rule was so fascinated by this story that she wrote a book about it called "A Tangled Web." Golyars device showed evidence that she had photos of Farvers car, 20 to 30 fake email accounts, and an app that allowed her to schedule text messages to be sent at a future time. Cari Farver, 37, went missing from Omaha Nov. 13, 2012. But when they arrived, they learned Farver had never been there. It affected him emotionally. Goylar was found guilty in the Cari Farver homicide case. For Kroupa, the harassment wasn't just over text and email, he was also being stalked. Nancy [Raney] and Caris son were foremost in my mind Theyre, unfortunately, the ones that have to live with the repercussions.. Shes got her name back. Cari Farver, 37, was an Iowa woman who went missing in 2012. Golyar waived her right to a jury trial, so her fate is now in the hands of Judge Timothy Burns. Later, Kroupa said Farver sent him a link to a fake obituary for Golyar. Thank you in advance! In an (Omaha) World-Herald article dated December 24, 2016, police said they believed the slaying took place November 13 or 14, in west Omaha. Case Summaries On Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, Golyar waived her right to a jury trial and opted for a bench trial, scheduled for May 10, 2017. A few days later, she was reported missing by her family to the Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office in Council Bluffs, Iowa. "The details were bone chilling because they were graphic," Doty said. 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