A Nebraska judge sentenced Shanna Golyar, 42, to life in prison on Tuesday, three months after she was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Cari Farver, who has. "It's not normal for adults to just up and leave and literally spend no money. July 17, 2019 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) The disappearance of Cari Farver in 2012 puzzled investigators, but the murder trial that followed stunned the community. Contact Us. 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. Avis thought it was alarming that there hadn't been any activity in her checking account the entire time she had been gone. July 17, 2019 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) The disappearance of Cari Farver in 2012 puzzled investigators, but the murder trial that followed stunned the community. He is survived by his family including his wife, Diane of Newton; children, Adam R. (Tara) Farver of Fountain Hills, Arizona, Cari L. Farver of Macedonia, Iowa, John J. She responded almost immediately, saying, "Fine. He recalled to Oxygens Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, As soon as I text her back, I get a text back that says, Fine, I dont ever want to see you again, go away, Im dating somebody else, I hate you, on and on and on.. There's no way that someone would shoot themselves in the femur.". Nearly two days passed before he said his phone started blowing up again with texts, in which Farver said, in part, "I hate you you've ruined my life You're a terrible person. 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. Farver had been dating Golyar's. The SD card had thousands of deleted images -- all of which he was able to recover. Cari Farver, 37, was an Iowa woman who went missing in 2012. "My favorite thing to do is stand outside and stare at you," one message read. She was convicted of the same a few months later, in August of 2017. When Kroupa changed his phone number, the messages abated for a while. All Rights Reserved, Home Powered by WordPress.com VIP. This one was bizarre to the point where it would take some convincing to make somebody believe that it actually happened," she said. One message claimed Farver had taken a new job in Kansas, which Raney said, "totally threw me.". Beadle said theres a lot of computer and text messaging evidence that will tie the defendant to the case. Cari Farver disappeared on November 13, 2012, and years later, Shanna Liz Golyar was charged with her murder. After all, one such photo included a foot with a Chinese symbol tattooed on the bottom the same kind that Cari had on hers. The mint container found in Cari Farver's car. Raney said she couldn't get the police to take her pleas seriously. As he got closer, he realized it was Farver's Ford Explorer. Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Golyar said her house had been set ablaze and her beloved pets had perished in the fire. Cari Farver met Dave Kroupa at an auto shop where he worked. As years went on, the text messages continued, but they became creepier, with Daves on-again-off-again girlfriend, Shanna Liz Golyar, also receiving them. Officials described her as a 5-foot-7 white female with brown hair, hazel eyes, weighing about 145 pounds, and having four tattoos: a large sun in between her shoulder blades, a tattoo on her left hip, a tattoo on the top of her foot and a flower on her lower back. "We started receiving messages that she said were from Amy [Flora] where Amy confesses to shooting Liz at Big Lake Park," Doty said. In rejecting Golyars appeal Friday (Nov. 9, 2018), the Nebraska Supreme Court relied on volumes of circumstantial evidence amassed by investigators in one of the most bizarre romantic obsession murders the state has ever seen. When asked how she wanted her daughter to be remembered, Raney said "as the fun-loving, talented, smart woman that she was. 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. Digital Forensic Administrator with the Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office, Anthony Kava, worked for years on the case and says two profiles used to stalk people and commit the murder remained on Facebook this week. "Granted, [that] didn't give us any answers on what had happened to Cari, but we knew [that] Liz knew more than she was telling us.". She told him she wanted to officially move in with him, despite the fact that theyd just discussed keeping things casual. Later, Kroupa said Farver sent him a link to a fake obituary for Golyar. He reported it stolen to police. Terrifying intrusions kept happening to him. The Chilling Murder Of Cari Farver, The Woman Who Seemingly Sent Texts For Years After Her Disappearance. It was years after the harassment began that detectives uncovered a vindictive lover, who had gone to extreme and deadly lengths to destroy her perceived rival. On Thursday, December 22, 2016, Omaha police announced theyd arrested 41-year-old Shanna Golyar at her home in Persia, Iowa, and charged her with first-degree murder in the death of Cari Farver, a woman who may have been a romantic rival. To this day, Farver's body has not been found, although during Golyar's trial, prosecutors said her memory card had photos of Farver's decomposing thigh and foot, which had her tattoo on. Very sadly, she was murdered.". "I get this raising in my hopes and then it's dashed again I knew somebody was playing games here.". 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. Farver mysteriously . Read World-Herald reporter Alia Conleys story here. Fire investigators believed it was arson, and Golyar told police she suspected Farver was the culprit. She told them that after Farver disappeared in 2012, she received a text saying Farver had sold all her furniture and asked Raney to let the buyer into the house to pick it all up. Dang phone! "[It said] 'Hey little man, how are you?'" So, they decided to play along with her acting scheme to get her to confess to her crimes. The inside of Cari Farver's car showing the mint container in the middle console. She lit up a room You couldn't help but notice her. Within weeks, officers got knowledge of an e-mail that claimed that Cari had been stabbed to death in her own car. ABCs 20/20: A Tangled Web examines the brutal case of Cari Farver, who disappeared from Council Bluffs, Iowa, on November 13, 2012, never to be seen again. Kava estimated that Golyar must have spent about 40 to 50 hours a week impersonating Farver. In her late 20s, a few years after she gave birth to her son, she was diagnosed with depression, which eventually escalated to bipolar disorder. Avis said he couldn't believe she agreed to it. "She's showing me something inside the vehicle and we're standing there, and we're very close and there was some tension," Kroupa told ABC News . Its too bad because I like to read the articles! In a statement, they said, the department "takes all missing persons reports seriously no matter the circumstances surrounding them.". Its not tarnished, she said, referencing the online persona Golyar created while pretending to be Farver. So, she received an additional 18 to 20 years behind bars. There was no denying that they were attracted to each other, so by their fourth date, they started having sex. Kroupa, 36, was almost used to it by now. She said Max also started getting messages from her, saying she was going to Kansas and coming to get him, but she never showed up. Det. ABC News. Re the secure site warning: According to our web hosting service, InMotion Hosting, the reason some of the pages on ICC render a warning about security is because the ICC page contains one or more links to other websites that arent SSL (or https) enabled. Some of these messages would come in while he was in the same room as Golyar and could see that she wasnt using her phone at the time, so he had no reason to suspect she was behind them. 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. Douglas County District Judge Timothy Burns will decide whether Golyar is guilty in the disappearance and presumed death of Cari Farver. Getting access to the information on Golyar's phone was an important moment in the investigation. Theres no confessions, no admissions, theres no body, theres no murder weapon, theres no sufficient showing of blood that there was a death that even took place.. Her car was gone, but some of her belongings were left behind. A Douglas County judge conducting the nonjury trial found Shanna Golyar of Persia, Ia., guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the slaying of 37-year-old Cari Farver. The two started dating after a chance encounter at an auto repair shop. Stunned to see her, they learned she was there to file a harassment complaint against Kroupa's ex-girlfriend, Amy Flora. She will serve the sentences consecutively, KCCI.com reported. Oxygen writes that in the fall of 2012, Dave Kroupa met Cari Farver at the auto repair shop where he was working in Omaha, Nebraska. You were drawn to her.". There will be no veiwing or service. After Golyar left, Avis drove over to her house to interview her, pretending it was about her complaint. The case went cold, and although Iowa Cold Cases (ICC) received correspondence from readers that Cari was alive and well and posting on Facebook, ICC could find no definitive evidence on the social media site to prove Farver wrote and published the posts, and so chose to keep Farver listed on ICC as a missing person. Kroupa said he had become so paranoid by that point that he bought a gun -- a 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol. Investigators have never found Farvers body. Cari Lea Farver (Courtesy Iowa Department of Public Safety), Originally premiered Saturday, October 8 at 8/7c on Lifetime, Cari Farver(Courtesy Pottawattamie County Sheriffs Office). On the camcorder, they found video of Farver talking about how someone had vandalized her car. In a bizarre twist, Golyar called 911 the following day, claiming she had been shot in the leg while walking alone at night in Big Lake Park in Council Bluffs. When Farver didn't show up on her half-brother's wedding day, Raney reported her missing. The intimidation affected him physically. Shanna Golyar was found guilty of stabbing Farver to death, and received a sentence . Rule's name might sound familiar, as she is the daughter of legendary true crime writer Ann Rule, who wrote the classic book "The Stranger Beside Me" about her friendship with Ted Bundy. The lack of a body, a weapon or even eyewitnesses didnt allow Shanna Golyar of Persia to escape conviction in one of Nebraskas strangest homicide cases. Shanna "Liz" Golyar is a woman from Omaha, Nebraska, serving a life sentence in prison plus 18 to 20 years for the 2012 murder of her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend, Cari Farver. Was Farver's body ever found? 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. After all, Cari, Daves newest romantic partner, went missing just two weeks later. Author Leslie Rule was so fascinated by this story that she wrote a book about it called "A Tangled Web." This was the third time police had searched Farver's car, but this time, Doty says they pulled the fabric off the passenger seat. Golyar was also found to have several of Farvers belongings in her possession, Kearney Hub reported. I feel like I'm numb.'". He and Avis continued to press Golyar to ask "Flora," who they knew to be Golyar, for details about Farver's death. In 2017, Judge Timothy Burns found Golyar guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced her to life in prison. Others would claim that the woman was outside his apartment or workplace, with photos to prove it. If you'd like to reprint a post or case summary, please contact us with the name of the requested post/article. Yet, remove the s from https, and the video appears. Farver disappeared in . Jim Doty, Digital Forensics and Technology Administrator. When police searched the car, they were able to find only a single fingerprint on a mint container. "I wasn't sure what I was looking at first, but it turned out to be a human foot with a tattoo.". "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. Shanna "Liz" Golyar, Dave's on-again, off-again lover, was found guilty of Cari Farver's disappearance and eventual murder. 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. "The details were bone chilling because they were graphic," Doty said. Was Cari Farver's body ever found? Shanna Liz Golyar was charged and arrested with first-degree murder in connection to Cari Farvers case on December 22, 2016, more than four years after she went missing. "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. Police said that Flora was cleared that same evening. 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