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I don't feel blameless
in all of this.
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A lot of bad things
happened to good people...
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...all because of a series of events
that I'm at the center of.
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911, what's the address
of your emergency?
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I've been shot. Oh no!
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Prosecutors allege
a love triangle turned fatal.
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Of all the cases I've ever prosecuted,
this is the most bizarre and twisted.
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The defense is arguing a murder
might not have even happened.
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I was obsessed with this case,
we all were.
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But we knew
it was gonna be an uphill battle.
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We didn't have a body,
we didn't have a weapon,
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we barely had a crime scene.
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I mean, those are the things
that every murder trial has.
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I thought I'd seen it all.
I hadn't seen anything like this.
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I was terrified for my kids.
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The person we're dealing with
is scary.
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Who knows what they're capable of?
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The one word
that comes to mind is "monster."
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It must've been 2000.
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{\an8}I was workin' as a mechanic
at a truck stop.
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{\an8}One day, this blonde-haired,
good-lookin' woman started workin' there.
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He asked if he could
take me out on a date,
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and it was kind of in a goofy way.
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His dorkiness kind of did attract me.
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I found myself
falling in love with him very fast.
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Before you know it, we had, ya know,
everything but the white-picket fence.
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So it was, ya know, the American dream.
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Almost.
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Dave worked days, and I worked nights,
and so we didn't see a lot of each other,
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and I think that's basically where
we started growing apart.
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We just weren't happy
anymore together,
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and it was probably time to split.
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I decided
that I was ready to come home,
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and I was bringing the kids with me.
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There was no part of me
that wasn't gonna take care of my kids,
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so separated or not, we were gonna have
to be in the same place.
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{\an8}That's how I ended up movin'
to Omaha, Nebraska.
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{\an8}But I had no idea
what the hell was waitin' for me.
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I was starting over as a single person.
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It's a little bit lonely in a new place
where you don't know anybody.
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{\an8}So I got a job in the automotive industry,
turnin' wrench, 'cause that's what I do.
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I got a little one-bedroom apartment,
it was pretty nice.
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I was wild and free at 35,
and I was determined to enjoy it.
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Plenty of Fish. That's what everybody
was usin', apparently.
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I was definitely not looking
for something serious.
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So I'm pretty excited at this point.
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Zero, zilch, nada.
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Am I that bad
that nobody wants to talk to me?
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A few days after that...
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...looked again, and...
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That's when Liz came into my life.
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{\an8}She seemed very cool, very down-to-earth.
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She had a cleaning company.
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She obviously loved animals.
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She had two dogs, a cat...
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...and a big snake.
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It turns out that we had a lot in common.
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We both liked sci-fi action movies,
heavy metal.
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She liked motorcycles, I had a motorcycle.
It was a match made in heaven.
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We both had a son and a daughter.
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We were both lonely.
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This was my first real date
in years and years.
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I was pretty nervous,
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but we really hit it off.
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She was very smiley, energetic.
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Full of life.
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We would go downtown and hit the bars.
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Ya know, it'd been a long time for me,
and I guess once I got the green flag,
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I was in.
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It was exactly the right mix.
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Ya know, I still had my personal space,
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but there was someone around
when I wanted to chat or hang out.
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It was, I would say, just what I needed
at that time in my life.
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As early as our first date,
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I had made it clear to Liz
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that I was absolutely not
going to be tied down.
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And then, one day...
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Cari Farver came into my life.
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My initial thought was,
"Dang, she's good-lookin'."
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Hey! You look like a car mechanic.
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Like one, but...
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We just smiled at each other.
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Are you busy,
or can you take a look at my car?
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Yeah, sure. I can do that.
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She was a customer,
I was the manager, that was it.
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Every car is a little...
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For all I knew, I'd never see her again.
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All right, thank you so much.
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A couple weeks later,
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I'm goin' through the profiles
on a dating site,
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and I run across one
I absolutely recognize.
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It was the girl from the shop,
a couple weeks ago, Cari Farver.
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And of course, I made contact.
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"Hey, I know you."
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She messaged me back and said,
"I know you too," and that was it.
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Our first date was pretty good.
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She told me a little bit about her life.
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She had grown up locally in a small town.
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She had had a child
when she was quite young.
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But had gone back to college to study.
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She had a-- a career job.
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Computers were her thing.
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Her spirit and her drive definitely
marked her out differently
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from the rest of the women I had met.
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She was smart and sexy,
not in my league all the way around.
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But I asked her if she wanted to come back
to my place, and she said sure.
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We haven't even taken our coats off...
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...and there's somebody outside.
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It's Liz.
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She's like, "I need to get somethin'
outta your apartment."
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This is going to be very difficult.
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I explain to Cari what's goin' on.
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To have this conversation,
yeah, it was a little fuckin' awkward.
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Cari and Liz made eye contact
for all of three seconds, maybe.
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After Liz left the apartment...
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...I gave Cari a call and she said,
"Look, I'm halfway home."
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"Why don't you just come
over to my place?"
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She lived in Macedonia,
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which is a tiny town
over the border, in Iowa.
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When I get there, she says,
"Look, we're not boyfriend-girlfriend,
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we're not monogamous,
we're not gettin' married."
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"This is just fun."
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And I was like,
"Oh my God. What the hell?"
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Yes! I'm in.
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Cari worked three blocks
from my apartment,
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so we immediately started
spending a ton of time together.
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She stayed a lot of nights,
but it wasn't all sex.
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We spent a fair amount
of time just talkin'.
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And of course,
I was happy to have her there.
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And then one mornin',
I got up at six to go to work.
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I gave her a little kiss,
I'm out the door.
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I didn't know at the time,
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but that day would change my life forever.
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About ten, ten-thirty...
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...I get a text from Cari.
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And I'm thinkin',
"I've been seeing you for two weeks."
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"Yes, it's been hot and heavy,
it's also been two weeks."
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I felt like I no sooner said "send,"
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and I'm getting a barrage of texts back.
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It was a total shock.
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We were involved, but we weren't tryin'
to get that involved.
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At this point, I'm thinkin',
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"No matter how well
you hit it off with somebody,
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you don't really know who they are."
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When I went home at lunch,
there was no sign of Cari.
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Her bags were gone,
her toothbrush was gone, she was gone.
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I felt kinda sad that it didn't work out,
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but I tried to get on with my life
like nothin' happened.
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I didn't hear from Cari
for a couple of days,
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and then outta the blue,
I started receiving texts from her again.
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{\an8}The messages started slowly,
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but it ramped up.
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Meaner, ruder...
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...more threatening as time went on.
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Why she would be harassing me,
I... I just didn't get it.
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At that time,
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Cari was very much her own person.
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She'd let you know her opinion.
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I knew that she had met somebody.
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It was a new relationship,
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and those are always,
ya know, interesting at the beginning.
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He lived just a couple blocks
from where she was working, which helped,
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and she could stay there.
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So I didn't think too much
about the fact that I didn't talk to her.
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But after a while,
I still couldn't get a hold of her.
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Ya know, mothers and daughters
always have their ups and downs,
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and we did,
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but it was just so puzzling
when I couldn't get through to her.
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So I'm at work,
and my front counter guy comes back
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and says, "Dave, there's sheriffs
up front lookin' for you."
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How you doin', guys?
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What could I have possibly done
that the sheriffs are lookin' for me?
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Ya know, I don't know
what's goin' on here, but it's not funny.
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The first thing they ask is,
"Do you know Cari Farver?"
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And of course, I did.
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They told me Cari's mother
had filed a missing person's report.
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I'm on the hot seat now.
Ya know, they're lookin' at me like,
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"Why don't you know where she's at?
You're her boyfriend."
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So I pulled my phone out
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and I showed 'em all these nasty messages
I'd been gettin' from her.
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After that, their whole demeanor changed.
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The sheriffs implied that,
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"Here's a bad breakup,"
something they see all the time.
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It's not a big deal,
and it should stop pretty shortly.
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Nobody stays around that long
harassing people.
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Shortly after
we reported her missing,
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I started getting these messages
from Cari on her Facebook page.
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She texted me on Mother's Day,
and said, "Happy Mother's Day",
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but it got to the point where I was
getting one- to two-word messages
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that just got steadily nastier
and nastier.
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I hadn't seen Liz for quite a while,
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but then she comes
to the apartment one day.
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She says she's,
ya know, got somethin' to show me.
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I look at the side of her vehicle,
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and it's very obviously been keyed deeply.
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It turns out that Liz
is being harassed by Cari
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in the same ways as... as I was,
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by text and email.
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Cari was clearly jealous of Liz.
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We were afraid that somethin' bad
could happen at any time.
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I was an officer
with the Omaha Police Department
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for 22 and a half years.
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The last ten to 12 years of my career,
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I worked
as a Special Victims Unit detective,
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specializing in domestic violence
and stalking.
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Dave Kroupa came to see me
at the end of 2012.
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The case was something we see often.
It was very routine.
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{\an8}We were dealing
with some kind of jealous ex-girlfriend,
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possibly at the initial phases
of stalking.
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The implication, when you look through
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all the different
text messages and emails,
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was, "If I can't have you, nobody will."
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But this turned out to be
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one of the strangest,
most unpredictable cases I'd ever worked.
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The texts from Cari,
for the first several days,
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came from her original phone,
but after that, they changed.
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It was multiple
other phone numbers, 20, 30, 40.
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You couldn't block 'em fast enough.
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I can tell they were all Cari
because the verbiage was all the same.
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The same happened with the emails.
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The emails were under
all different kinds of aliases,
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or just random names,
and upwards of 125 a day.
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Dave had made a report
of Cari messaging him
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with particular details
of customers he was talking to,
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standing right outside of his workplace.
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I thought, "Okay, if she could see
what he was doing...
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she's gotta be hiding around his place."
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So, I scan the area for every place
where someone could see what he was doing.
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I was doing a reverse stakeout
to find out where she was watching from.
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I took Cari's picture, knocked doors.
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Nobody had seen her.
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I knew that before I could get
anything done, I had to find her.
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What happened next
was a total shock.
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{\an8}Cari told me she was livin'
a couple buildings away from me,
237
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in the same apartment complex.
238
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One, two, three...
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I'm hopin' that I catch her.
240
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:45,387
But the closer I get, five, six, seven,
241
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now I wanna call the cops.
242
00:21:54,813 --> 00:21:57,274
I'm workin' myself up into a frenzy.
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I don't wanna call the cops.
Now, I wanna hurt her bad.
244
00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:09,703
And then I hit ten,
245
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and then I hit 11,
246
00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:15,334
and of course, I'm lookin' for 12.
247
00:22:20,797 --> 00:22:21,923
And there's no 12.
248
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Doesn't exist.
249
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,763
It's just one more part of the mindfuck.
250
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As I'm walkin' back to my apartment,
251
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I'm lookin'
at all the apartments everywhere,
252
00:22:36,563 --> 00:22:38,732
I'm wonderin' which one
she's watchin' me out of.
253
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She did it purely to mess with my head.
254
00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:56,291
But then, things only got worse.
255
00:23:02,255 --> 00:23:03,090
Oh fuck.
256
00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:06,802
Cari's inside Liz's house.
257
00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:17,687
{\an8}I mean, seriously, how-- What the hell?
258
00:23:21,191 --> 00:23:23,485
This is definitely a big escalation.
259
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,703
We find that not only has she keyed
Liz's car in the garage,
260
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but she's spray-painted on the wall.
261
00:23:40,877 --> 00:23:43,880
The cops were called
and a police report was filed,
262
00:23:44,881 --> 00:23:48,927
but I can tell how much stress
this is puttin' on Liz and her kids.
263
00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:55,267
I felt like Liz was being harassed
because I dated this woman,
264
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who's now makin' her life hell too.
265
00:24:09,531 --> 00:24:12,868
I felt like she was
the real victim in all of this,
266
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,538
and I wanted to try and protect her.
267
00:24:18,331 --> 00:24:19,666
We felt safe together,
268
00:24:20,584 --> 00:24:22,878
and our relationship rekindled.
269
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,191
{\an8}Dave and I were still pretty close.
270
00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:47,277
The kids went to his house
on the weekends,
271
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so they knew some
of what was going on with Cari
272
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and her threatening Dave.
273
00:24:56,077 --> 00:24:59,748
After he had told me of all
the text messages and the vandalizing,
274
00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:04,169
I told him that I didn't want
the kids goin' over to his house.
275
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If he wanted to see them,
he had to come to my house.
276
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It made me very nervous.
277
00:25:18,141 --> 00:25:21,186
I'm at work,
and I get a call from Liz.
278
00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:23,438
One of my windows is smashed out,
279
00:25:23,438 --> 00:25:25,857
and it looks like somebody's
been in my apartment.
280
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Over the top of the bed in red lipstick,
281
00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:39,162
it was written, "Go away, whore."
282
00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:44,501
On the bed was some clothes
that belonged to Liz.
283
00:25:44,501 --> 00:25:48,171
They had been stabbed
and slashed with a knife.
284
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:54,177
Like, murder style.
285
00:25:56,012 --> 00:25:57,264
I don't know how much more
286
00:25:57,264 --> 00:26:01,309
of a direct physical violent threat
there could be.
287
00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:09,985
In my mind, I'm thinkin', "What if Liz
was there when Cari broke in?"
288
00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:12,821
Would Liz have actually gotten stabbed?
289
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:17,325
This is a real threat.
This isn't bullshit.
290
00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,430
At this stage in the investigation,
291
00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:41,308
given all the things that happened,
the crimes that had been committed,
292
00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:45,770
I had felt I had sufficient probable cause
for an arrest warrant for Cari.
293
00:26:45,770 --> 00:26:48,690
Unfortunately, this is all
I can do right now,
294
00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:50,233
because I can't find her.
295
00:26:51,860 --> 00:26:54,195
In a stalking case, that's not unusual.
296
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:57,824
But the longer you investigate
these types of cases,
297
00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:01,536
the more you see
the effect it has on your victims.
298
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,919
The stalking had been goin' on
for over a year.
299
00:27:10,837 --> 00:27:13,381
Ya know, it wasn't uncommon for me
to go to dinner with my kids
300
00:27:13,381 --> 00:27:16,426
and get a message, "You're at so-and-so,
eatin' with your kids."
301
00:27:16,426 --> 00:27:18,094
Well, fuck you!
302
00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:20,138
Leave me the fuck alone.
303
00:27:29,064 --> 00:27:33,943
Slowly, your normal
kinda devolves into abnormal.
304
00:27:38,198 --> 00:27:39,866
The paranoia is your life.
305
00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:53,797
You're thinkin' about all the what-ifs,
all the time.
306
00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:25,161
It was hard to know sometimes
what was real
307
00:28:25,161 --> 00:28:27,038
and what I might be imagining.
308
00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:41,428
As the months went on,
309
00:28:41,428 --> 00:28:44,472
I ended up spending
more and more time at the bar.
310
00:28:46,307 --> 00:28:48,893
I had a drink, but you know,
it took the edge off.
311
00:28:50,019 --> 00:28:53,273
My brain could just shut the fuck up
for a little bit.
312
00:29:00,321 --> 00:29:02,949
I was on a road
to havin' a mental breakdown.
313
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:28,308
My stomach just drops.
I'm like, "Oh shit."
314
00:29:33,688 --> 00:29:36,316
Cari has set Liz's fuckin' house on fire.
315
00:30:02,383 --> 00:30:05,220
Try and give 'em...
They moved everybody outta here.
316
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:11,851
That way, move that way.
Come on. Move, that way.
317
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:20,610
Liz was by herself, just cryin'.
318
00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:28,827
Fortunately, Liz's kids
weren't in the house,
319
00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:32,038
but all of her pets died.
320
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:39,295
She's lost her residence
and everything she owns.
321
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,180
I'm thinking, "This is now
a complete different investigation."
322
00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:52,976
I contacted the fire investigator.
323
00:30:55,061 --> 00:30:58,189
We met at the scene,
walked through the house.
324
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:10,910
There was still water,
there-- the horrible smell of a fire.
325
00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:19,127
The red flags are just going up
all around me.
326
00:31:20,628 --> 00:31:22,881
And I'm thinking,
"This could get to the point
327
00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:25,842
where someone gets
seriously injured, murdered."
328
00:31:25,842 --> 00:31:29,095
And in the back of my head, I'm thinking,
"I've got to catch this person!"
329
00:31:31,973 --> 00:31:35,977
Our investigation at the scene
included, of course, speaking to Liz.
330
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:39,522
The interview was recorded on tape.
331
00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:43,443
I understand there's been
some problems going on.
332
00:31:43,443 --> 00:31:45,236
- Why don't you tell me about that?
- Uh...
333
00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:47,113
The guy that I'm seeing,
334
00:31:47,113 --> 00:31:49,407
he has a girlfriend
he dated for two weeks,
335
00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:51,492
and she's been stalking me since November.
336
00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:54,287
- Do you know her name?
- It's Cari.
337
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:58,041
She kept texting me telling me
she wanted to kill me and my kids.
338
00:31:58,041 --> 00:32:02,295
Okay. It's pretty obvious
this is an intentionally-set fire.
339
00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:05,632
What about my, uh, animals?
340
00:32:06,507 --> 00:32:09,594
- The animals are--
- I know that they're all dead, but--
341
00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:14,766
The Humane Society is going
to take care of the animals. Sorry.
342
00:32:16,517 --> 00:32:18,311
I just wish she would go away.
343
00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:35,954
After the fire, Liz took what little
she could scavenge from the house,
344
00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:37,080
and moved.
345
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,708
She didn't tell me where,
and I didn't blame her one bit.
346
00:32:40,708 --> 00:32:43,920
She did not want Cari
to come along after her.
347
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:49,550
At that point, I felt alone.
348
00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:54,889
I didn't know
whether to be mad, or sad, or cry.
349
00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:58,393
I had lost my partner,
350
00:32:58,393 --> 00:33:01,604
or the one person who understood
what I was goin' through.
351
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:08,945
I felt like the only thing I could do
was also pack up and move.
352
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:12,073
I changed phones,
353
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:13,950
and got a new job.
354
00:33:16,828 --> 00:33:20,081
I wanted to rebuild my life
away from Cari.
355
00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:23,751
But in the back of my mind,
356
00:33:23,751 --> 00:33:27,005
I knew that she was still out there.
357
00:33:49,277 --> 00:33:52,530
Pottawattamie County
Sheriff's Office is a small agency.
358
00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:58,244
So two years earlier, I had heard
that there's another couple detectives
359
00:33:58,244 --> 00:34:01,998
lookin' into somebody named Cari Farver
as a missing person.
360
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:06,544
I'd heard that she was a single mom
that kinda just vanished.
361
00:34:07,503 --> 00:34:09,338
Nobody had physically seen her,
362
00:34:09,338 --> 00:34:12,800
but she was still communicating
via emails and text messages.
363
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:17,305
At the same time,
detectives from Omaha Police Department
364
00:34:17,305 --> 00:34:22,268
{\an8}had been investigating arson,
and harassment, and vandalism,
365
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:25,938
but after a long time,
the case had kinda gone cold
366
00:34:25,938 --> 00:34:28,316
for the investigators
who were lookin' into it.
367
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:37,533
{\an8}The case had always perked my interest,
like, it had always intrigued me.
368
00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:43,247
I remember talkin' to Jim,
369
00:34:43,247 --> 00:34:46,084
saying, ya know, "We should ask
if we can take the case."
370
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,676
Me and Ryan, we're best friends.
371
00:34:57,804 --> 00:34:59,430
That was a good shot there, Ryan.
372
00:35:00,723 --> 00:35:03,309
Jim's the most metro cowboy
I've ever met.
373
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,563
I don't think he's ever ridden a horse,
but he pulls off the look.
374
00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:13,569
Ryan is more
of a shoot-from-the-hip kinda guy.
375
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:17,031
Never mind.
376
00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:21,994
I'm a little bit more organized.
377
00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:27,750
Our skills and abilities
really complement each other.
378
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:32,547
And so Avis and I went to our... our boss,
379
00:35:32,547 --> 00:35:35,967
and asked if we could take over
in the Cari Farver case,
380
00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:37,718
and he gave us the go-ahead.
381
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:50,148
We went to visit Nancy Raney,
who's Cari's mother.
382
00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:51,858
She lived out in Macedonia, Iowa.
383
00:35:53,067 --> 00:35:55,069
And she told us
how this whole case got started.
384
00:35:58,781 --> 00:36:00,032
It'd been several years
385
00:36:00,032 --> 00:36:02,535
since we'd talked
to an investigator face-to-face,
386
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:04,495
and, uh, I was skeptical.
387
00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:06,539
I probably was a little short with him...
388
00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:10,710
...when he came in,
because I didn't have much faith in him.
389
00:36:11,544 --> 00:36:14,672
Now, what day was the last time
you guys saw her?
390
00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:18,342
We haven't seen her
since the 11th of November 2012.
391
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:19,886
So, couple years ago.
392
00:36:22,263 --> 00:36:25,224
Shortly after she left,
I started getting messages,
393
00:36:25,224 --> 00:36:28,019
saying, "I've taken a job in Kansas
394
00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:30,813
and I'm going to be making
$100,000 a year."
395
00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:34,400
And Max, her son, had to stay with us.
396
00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:39,322
I'm curious about how she was
before she left.
397
00:36:39,322 --> 00:36:41,699
What was goin' on,
if she mentioned anything?
398
00:36:41,699 --> 00:36:43,868
She was tired
because she'd been working a lot.
399
00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:44,952
Mm-hmm.
400
00:36:45,703 --> 00:36:47,872
Granted, there's probably
some things she didn't tell me...
401
00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:51,500
...but I have some things
that I didn't tell my mother.
402
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,503
But, she'd always call home.
403
00:36:57,298 --> 00:37:01,844
I couldn't make sense of it,
and that's when we reported her missing.
404
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:07,183
If she's just decided she doesn't want
to be around here anymore,
405
00:37:07,183 --> 00:37:08,726
that's her decision,
406
00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:11,395
but I'd like to know if she's okay,
407
00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:13,940
if she's sick, if she's hurt.
408
00:37:23,074 --> 00:37:27,203
When I first got involved in the case,
it was because it sounded interesting.
409
00:37:27,203 --> 00:37:28,454
Once I met Nancy...
410
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:32,833
it turned for me,
I wanted to get her answers.
411
00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:39,340
Lookin' through the case file,
412
00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:45,263
the original reports noted that Cari
had a history of bipolar disorder.
413
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:54,021
Yeah, she had depression problems.
414
00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:57,608
I presumed
she would've taken medication with her,
415
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:00,111
{\an8}but she hadn't.
416
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:06,117
{\an8}If Cari wasn't taking
her medication,
417
00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:08,786
{\an8}it might suggest
her change in personality,
418
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:12,915
to start the harassment,
the messaging, the stalking, all of that.
419
00:38:15,501 --> 00:38:17,920
The original investigators
came to the conclusion
420
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,965
that her vanishing
was a symptom of a mental-health crisis.
421
00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:25,678
I had hope
422
00:38:26,971 --> 00:38:28,180
that she'd be back.
423
00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:49,618
I had moved
and was just tryin' to start over.
424
00:38:49,618 --> 00:38:51,370
Liz is outta the picture.
425
00:38:51,370 --> 00:38:53,998
So, of course, I wanna try to date again.
426
00:38:59,962 --> 00:39:02,465
I hop back online
onto another dating site.
427
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:08,512
Made some profiles,
start talkin' to people.
428
00:39:09,638 --> 00:39:12,099
End up talking to a particular woman.
429
00:39:13,434 --> 00:39:17,396
Things are goin' well,
we're chatting, set up a date.
430
00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:32,661
I've been there an hour.
431
00:39:32,661 --> 00:39:35,581
Waiter comes over and says,
"Bein' stood up?" Or whatever.
432
00:39:35,581 --> 00:39:37,291
And I was like, "Ah, looks like it."
433
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:44,882
So I sit there for a little while longer.
434
00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:49,929
And sit there...
435
00:39:51,889 --> 00:39:52,848
and sit there...
436
00:39:54,266 --> 00:39:55,267
and sit there.
437
00:39:57,269 --> 00:39:59,855
And about the time
I decide she's not comin',
438
00:39:59,855 --> 00:40:01,482
she sends another message.
439
00:40:10,282 --> 00:40:13,244
I had fucked up
and let Cari back into my life.
440
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:23,462
But this time,
it started to get so much worse.
441
00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:30,469
All of a sudden,
Amy, my ex, became a target.
442
00:40:37,935 --> 00:40:40,938
I started getting messages
from Cari,
443
00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:44,442
telling me I needed
to stay away from Dave.
444
00:40:51,532 --> 00:40:52,533
I was terrified.
445
00:40:57,246 --> 00:41:01,250
But then, the text messages
started involving my children.
446
00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:16,265
One weekend, me and the kids went
to the park to play for a while.
447
00:41:34,783 --> 00:41:36,911
She knew exactly what we were doing.
448
00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:58,891
I was thinking,
"Is this lady following me all the time?"
449
00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:06,941
One night, I got a text message from Cari,
450
00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:09,360
saying she was going to...
451
00:42:10,945 --> 00:42:14,990
slit my kids' throats in their sleep.
452
00:42:18,118 --> 00:42:21,413
I found my son sleeping
on the couch with a baseball bat.
453
00:42:22,289 --> 00:42:24,625
I woke him up to tell him
to go into his own room,
454
00:42:24,625 --> 00:42:27,419
and when I asked him
why he was sleeping on the couch,
455
00:42:27,419 --> 00:42:30,756
he said that he was going to protect us.
456
00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:33,592
It was heartbreaking.
457
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:38,097
No kid should have to feel that way.
458
00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:45,938
I'm lookin' for a... a handgun.
459
00:42:45,938 --> 00:42:48,607
Are you lookin' for somethin'
that is a target...
460
00:42:48,607 --> 00:42:51,151
I did feel
that it was only a matter of time
461
00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:53,279
till somebody gets hurt for real.
462
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:56,949
There was a need to protect my family.
463
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,036
So, my father got me a pistol.
464
00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:06,000
It was a Smith & Wesson,
nine-millimeter automatic.
465
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,127
Come out back,
we'll get you taken care of.
466
00:43:11,046 --> 00:43:13,841
I'm not a gunslinger.
It's not gonna hang off my hip.
467
00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:17,136
So it was up in the top
of the closet in the bedroom,
468
00:43:17,136 --> 00:43:19,930
well outta reach of my children,
but I could reach up there
469
00:43:19,930 --> 00:43:23,642
and grab the pistol
if I felt like I needed to.
470
00:43:24,351 --> 00:43:26,645
I didn't want to have to use it.
471
00:43:34,945 --> 00:43:36,864
There's a lot of mystery
in this case.
472
00:43:37,823 --> 00:43:39,992
But the biggest thing that stuck out to us
473
00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:44,371
is that Cari had not physically been seen
or heard from for two years at this point.
474
00:43:45,789 --> 00:43:49,418
The emails and the messages
and the social media alone
475
00:43:49,418 --> 00:43:51,420
were not proof that Cari Farver was alive.
476
00:43:53,714 --> 00:43:56,842
In those messages,
Cari said she was quittin' her job,
477
00:43:56,842 --> 00:43:59,303
movin' to Kansas,
and just needed some space.
478
00:44:01,513 --> 00:44:05,559
{\an8}But when we looked at the original
investigators' photographs of Cari's home,
479
00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:08,771
we found that her closet
was still full of clothes.
480
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:12,191
All of her belongings
were still in that house.
481
00:44:12,691 --> 00:44:14,735
It was just like
she was coming back tomorrow.
482
00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:16,862
She was coming back this afternoon.
483
00:44:16,862 --> 00:44:18,489
Nothing was changed.
484
00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:23,911
The bed was made,
the coat was still hanging on a chair.
485
00:44:25,162 --> 00:44:28,832
Nothing there suggested she had packed up
and moved to a different city.
486
00:44:30,918 --> 00:44:32,544
We got Cari's bank records,
487
00:44:32,544 --> 00:44:34,713
and what we saw then were two transactions
488
00:44:34,713 --> 00:44:37,508
that happened just a couple days
after she went missing,
489
00:44:38,717 --> 00:44:40,636
and after that, there's nothing.
490
00:44:41,136 --> 00:44:43,555
And of course,
it's hard to exist without money.
491
00:44:48,894 --> 00:44:52,773
Right at the time she went missing,
Cari's father was dying.
492
00:44:55,567 --> 00:44:59,488
In my mind, she would never have left,
because her dad was so sick.
493
00:45:02,366 --> 00:45:07,496
Two weeks, three weeks after he passed,
I had this very vivid dream about him.
494
00:45:07,496 --> 00:45:09,373
And in that dream, he'd said,
495
00:45:09,957 --> 00:45:12,501
"Nance, she's with me, it's okay."
496
00:45:16,213 --> 00:45:17,715
I can still see his face.
497
00:45:19,842 --> 00:45:22,136
But I had to be there for Max,
498
00:45:23,262 --> 00:45:24,638
to give him a stable life.
499
00:45:25,806 --> 00:45:27,015
He was only 14.
500
00:45:28,684 --> 00:45:31,478
I don't know if it's a mother's thing
or what, but I just knew.
501
00:45:31,478 --> 00:45:33,188
Cari's not with us anymore.
502
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,782
When Jim came out to talk to us a-- again,
503
00:45:44,867 --> 00:45:47,286
I said, "I don't think
she left on her own."
504
00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:50,581
And... he looked at me and said,
505
00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:53,292
"I don't think she left,
either, on her own."
506
00:45:53,292 --> 00:45:55,586
And I hugged him, and I cried,
507
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:59,590
because nobody with authority
had ever told me that.
508
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:07,306
If Cari wasn't alive,
this case takes a big turn.
509
00:46:14,897 --> 00:46:17,274
It was all just theories and speculation,
510
00:46:18,066 --> 00:46:19,943
but we continued the case,
511
00:46:19,943 --> 00:46:23,238
lookin' at it through the lens
of a death investigation.
512
00:46:27,117 --> 00:46:30,037
We knew Dave and Liz
had been gettin' these harassing emails
513
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:32,748
and text messages from Cari for years now.
514
00:46:34,374 --> 00:46:37,669
But if Cari was dead,
clearly she hadn't sent the messages.
515
00:46:38,921 --> 00:46:40,839
So in order to figure out
what happened to Cari,
516
00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:43,091
we needed to figure out
who was sending these messages.
517
00:46:46,678 --> 00:46:48,180
We needed an IT guy.
518
00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:54,144
Just a second.
519
00:46:59,274 --> 00:47:01,944
{\an8}I've got Soylent,
520
00:47:02,945 --> 00:47:04,279
{\an8}which has caffeine in it,
521
00:47:04,279 --> 00:47:06,281
{\an8}and I've got coffee,
which has caffeine in it,
522
00:47:06,281 --> 00:47:08,242
and then I've got the remnants
of my last coffee,
523
00:47:08,242 --> 00:47:10,536
which has caffeine in it. Ah...
524
00:47:10,536 --> 00:47:12,871
Tony Kava worked for our IT department,
525
00:47:12,871 --> 00:47:16,291
and he was also a volunteer
for our sheriff's office as a deputy.
526
00:47:16,291 --> 00:47:18,418
- Soylent.
- What's Soylent?
527
00:47:18,919 --> 00:47:22,840
It's, um... It's what nerds drink
instead of eating.
528
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,509
For the most part,
I just drink two or three of these a day,
529
00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:27,636
and then eat some hummus.
530
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,514
As a reserve deputy,
531
00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:34,810
Tony was paid a dollar a year to help
with digital forensics investigations.
532
00:47:34,810 --> 00:47:39,231
I don't know if it's clear, but I'm also,
uh, apparently on the, uh, spectrum.
533
00:47:40,357 --> 00:47:42,484
That does, uh, make sense when you see
534
00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:44,945
that I eat and drink
the same thing every day.
535
00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:47,739
I think it actually helps
with the investigations and all that.
536
00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:59,084
{\an8}In the Cari Farver case, there were
hundreds of thousands of email messages,
537
00:47:59,084 --> 00:48:01,169
hundreds of thousands of text messages.
538
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:04,464
Over two years of digital evidence.
539
00:48:04,965 --> 00:48:07,259
If we could figure out
where the messages were coming from,
540
00:48:07,259 --> 00:48:09,469
we may be able to find out
what happened to Cari.
541
00:48:13,181 --> 00:48:15,434
Every computer on the Internet
has an IP address.
542
00:48:17,311 --> 00:48:18,979
{\an8}It stands for Internet Protocol.
543
00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:23,483
It's like, uh, the address on your house,
except for your computer.
544
00:48:23,483 --> 00:48:26,778
And so if we can find
an IP address for an email,
545
00:48:26,778 --> 00:48:28,822
or that was used to send a text message,
546
00:48:28,822 --> 00:48:32,576
we can use that to try
to trace that back to an actual location.
547
00:48:34,494 --> 00:48:36,997
But it seemed like whoever
was sending these messages
548
00:48:36,997 --> 00:48:40,667
was using a lot of different services
to hide their real IP address.
549
00:48:41,543 --> 00:48:45,339
VPNs, proxies,
sometimes even the Wi-Fi at McDonald's.
550
00:48:48,342 --> 00:48:51,803
I was just certain that there's going
to be an IP address in there somewhere
551
00:48:51,803 --> 00:48:54,389
that would be key in trying to solve this.
552
00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:56,934
The solution was
to write the program that I needed.
553
00:49:06,693 --> 00:49:07,986
I called it Dex.
554
00:49:10,781 --> 00:49:14,493
Once I have Dex available,
I start asking it questions.
555
00:49:17,996 --> 00:49:22,042
I was tryin' to find a pattern, um,
in the chaos of all this information.
556
00:49:27,172 --> 00:49:29,257
We had millions of IP addresses.
557
00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:31,969
I asked it,
"How many of those are unique?"
558
00:49:38,475 --> 00:49:40,894
That narrowed it down to 13,000.
559
00:49:42,396 --> 00:49:44,231
Then I asked the follow-on question,
560
00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:48,610
"Show me the top ten IP addresses
we've seen everywhere in this case."
561
00:49:52,614 --> 00:49:56,326
Out of the top ten IP addresses
seen everywhere in this case,
562
00:49:56,326 --> 00:49:57,619
eight of them are VPN services.
563
00:49:57,619 --> 00:49:59,246
We won't be able to do much with that.
564
00:50:01,373 --> 00:50:03,917
But the very top one,
the one that we see the most,
565
00:50:05,210 --> 00:50:11,550
that IP address was 174.71.6.113.
566
00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:24,980
The IP address was connected
to a house in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
567
00:50:26,106 --> 00:50:30,193
It was the home of a man
named Todd Butterbaugh.
568
00:50:31,153 --> 00:50:32,821
This was a huge shock because...
569
00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:36,199
...Todd works at Pottawattamie County,
570
00:50:36,199 --> 00:50:38,744
and, uh... I'm his boss.
571
00:50:42,372 --> 00:50:45,625
Obviously, this was an awkward situation.
572
00:50:51,506 --> 00:50:54,384
The first step was to hide
where our case file was,
573
00:50:54,384 --> 00:50:57,304
'cause as an IT person,
he would have access to all these files.
574
00:50:59,306 --> 00:51:03,185
At that point, we had to present him
with a search warrant to search his house.
575
00:51:06,772 --> 00:51:08,273
We were suspicious of Todd.
576
00:51:08,774 --> 00:51:10,525
He's an IT computer guy,
577
00:51:10,525 --> 00:51:14,112
and this case is hugely digital.
578
00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:18,992
But we also asked if anyone else
had been living there with him,
579
00:51:18,992 --> 00:51:20,452
using his Wi-Fi.
580
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,540
He told us that he had
an on-again, off-again girlfriend.
581
00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:30,587
That girlfriend had been livin' at Todd's
ever since her house was burned down.
582
00:51:37,677 --> 00:51:40,764
Todd's on-again,
off-again, live-in girlfriend
583
00:51:41,681 --> 00:51:43,683
was called Liz Golyar.
584
00:51:47,187 --> 00:51:48,647
I was floored.
585
00:51:49,231 --> 00:51:52,567
The case took a 180-turn, just like that.
586
00:51:55,570 --> 00:52:00,242
Todd had told us that Liz Golyar
had been using his Wi-Fi for years.
587
00:52:03,995 --> 00:52:05,997
We piece together
the digital evidence
588
00:52:05,997 --> 00:52:08,166
in all of the, uh,
email accounts and everything else,
589
00:52:08,166 --> 00:52:11,628
it-- it's clear that all roads
lead to Liz.
590
00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:17,217
Everything suggested
Liz had been impersonating Cari
591
00:52:17,217 --> 00:52:19,177
from the moment Cari went missing.
592
00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:25,350
Every message that was sent
to Dave, to Liz, to Nancy, to Max,
593
00:52:25,350 --> 00:52:26,768
came from Liz herself.
594
00:52:27,602 --> 00:52:30,230
We believed that Liz was the victim.
595
00:52:30,230 --> 00:52:31,356
It's not true.
596
00:52:31,356 --> 00:52:33,900
In fact, Liz is the stalker.
597
00:52:49,749 --> 00:52:54,045
The sheriffs came and told me
Liz was the one behind all of it.
598
00:52:57,048 --> 00:52:59,050
My brain was spinning.
599
00:53:00,886 --> 00:53:04,181
I went to the back of the shop
where my toolbox was,
600
00:53:04,181 --> 00:53:07,100
and I just leaned on it and cried.
601
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,406
I'm tryin' to go
through the pieces of the puzzle
602
00:53:21,406 --> 00:53:22,991
and put 'em together.
603
00:53:28,496 --> 00:53:33,001
Cari was never the one
outside my house messaging me.
604
00:53:35,378 --> 00:53:37,881
Cari wasn't the one that keyed my car,
605
00:53:37,881 --> 00:53:40,008
or burned down Liz's house,
606
00:53:40,008 --> 00:53:42,010
or smashed my fucking windows.
607
00:53:49,476 --> 00:53:52,520
It was Liz stalking me this whole time.
608
00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:56,274
I mean, it was such a mindfuck.
609
00:53:58,318 --> 00:54:00,153
It didn't take me long,
610
00:54:00,862 --> 00:54:02,739
checkin' the boxes in my head,
611
00:54:02,739 --> 00:54:06,534
to come to the conclusion
that Cari was probably dead,
612
00:54:07,452 --> 00:54:09,120
and that's tough to swallow.
613
00:54:11,081 --> 00:54:12,290
That's beyond tough.
614
00:54:26,388 --> 00:54:28,932
At this point,
we believe Liz was responsible
615
00:54:28,932 --> 00:54:30,767
for whatever happened to Cari,
616
00:54:30,767 --> 00:54:33,895
but we could only prove
that Liz was posing as Cari.
617
00:54:33,895 --> 00:54:34,896
That's about it.
618
00:54:34,896 --> 00:54:36,982
We couldn't tell you
what happened to Cari,
619
00:54:36,982 --> 00:54:39,109
{\an8}we couldn't tell you
that Liz was involved,
620
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:41,695
{\an8}and so we couldn't just arrest Liz.
621
00:54:41,695 --> 00:54:44,614
{\an8}But she became our primary suspect
on what happened to Cari.
622
00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:47,325
So now we needed to look back
623
00:54:47,325 --> 00:54:49,494
through all the evidence
that'd been collected
624
00:54:49,494 --> 00:54:50,870
in a whole different light.
625
00:54:54,165 --> 00:54:57,085
The original investigators
had believed Liz was the victim...
626
00:54:58,211 --> 00:55:00,005
...and so they downloaded her phone
627
00:55:00,005 --> 00:55:02,549
just a month and a half
after Cari went missing.
628
00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:08,763
When looking
through Liz's phone downloads...
629
00:55:10,223 --> 00:55:12,726
...I found somethin' that was
missed by the original investigators.
630
00:55:18,523 --> 00:55:21,067
There was a picture of Cari's vehicle,
631
00:55:21,067 --> 00:55:23,778
taken on Christmas Eve of 2012.
632
00:55:27,615 --> 00:55:29,034
Looking at the case file,
633
00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:32,829
{\an8}we see the car was not recovered
by police until January 8th.
634
00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:37,500
{\an8}This photo suggests that Liz knew
where the car was the whole time.
635
00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:41,880
{\an8}That fact revealed
a totally new aspect of our investigation.
636
00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:46,801
When a vehicle was recovered
in January of 2013,
637
00:55:46,801 --> 00:55:48,219
it was then processed.
638
00:55:51,598 --> 00:55:56,394
When I'm lookin' through that report,
I found that a fingerprint was discovered.
639
00:55:57,979 --> 00:55:59,856
The fingerprint was inside the vehicle,
640
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:02,442
on a mint container
that was on the center console.
641
00:56:04,194 --> 00:56:08,239
We had that fingerprint directly compared
to Liz's known fingerprints.
642
00:56:12,744 --> 00:56:15,747
It's a match.
That's Liz's print on the mint container.
643
00:56:17,415 --> 00:56:21,503
This was solid evidence
that shows Liz was in Cari's car
644
00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:25,131
prior to January 8th
when we recovered that vehicle in 2013.
645
00:56:26,591 --> 00:56:28,259
It was a huge break for us,
646
00:56:28,843 --> 00:56:31,262
but at the same time,
it... it doesn't answer any questions
647
00:56:31,262 --> 00:56:34,015
of what happened to Cari,
or where Cari's even at.
648
00:56:38,103 --> 00:56:40,438
{\an8}At this point, the stakes were high,
649
00:56:40,438 --> 00:56:43,566
{\an8}because we just didn't know
what Liz was capable of.
650
00:56:52,492 --> 00:56:54,702
As we were looking
for more evidence,
651
00:56:55,245 --> 00:56:58,498
we decided to put in a tracker
on Liz's vehicle.
652
00:57:07,715 --> 00:57:10,593
{\an8}We were monitoring
her GPS location at all times.
653
00:57:27,569 --> 00:57:31,614
{\an8}We find out that she's driving
and circling around Amy's house
654
00:57:31,614 --> 00:57:33,199
on a daily basis.
655
00:57:40,832 --> 00:57:44,294
So at this point, we're becoming
very concerned about Amy's safety.
656
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:58,600
I'd been visiting my kids
on a Sunday night.
657
00:57:59,267 --> 00:58:02,896
I get back home,
it's probably 8:30, nine o'clock.
658
00:58:03,897 --> 00:58:06,149
I go into my bedroom to change.
659
00:58:07,275 --> 00:58:11,696
As soon as I open my closet door,
I notice my gun had been moved.
660
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:19,120
The gun's gone.
661
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:20,413
It is not there.
662
00:58:23,708 --> 00:58:25,752
My stomach drops. I'm like, "Oh fuck."
663
00:58:48,608 --> 00:58:50,902
911, what's the address
of your emergency?
664
00:58:51,402 --> 00:58:54,280
- I've been shot.
- Okay, where are you at?
665
00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:58,326
I'm at, uh, the park
by the sheriff's department.
666
00:59:00,286 --> 00:59:03,456
The night of December 5th, 2015,
667
00:59:03,456 --> 00:59:07,210
I was out directing traffic, uh,
at a nativity scene.
668
00:59:07,210 --> 00:59:09,671
As I'm doing that, I heard a radio call,
669
00:59:09,671 --> 00:59:12,757
um, said that there had been
a shooting in Big Lake Park.
670
00:59:14,884 --> 00:59:17,303
Okay.
Is there any serious bleeding?
671
00:59:17,804 --> 00:59:20,682
Um, my... my feet and leg
are soaked with blood.
672
00:59:21,432 --> 00:59:24,602
Okay.
Is the assailant still nearby?
673
00:59:25,436 --> 00:59:27,814
I don't think so.
They took off running.
674
00:59:29,190 --> 00:59:31,025
Woman shot at Big Lake Park.
675
00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:35,989
When I heard that, my heart
immediately just dropped to my stomach.
676
00:59:35,989 --> 00:59:37,407
I mean... Like that.
677
00:59:37,407 --> 00:59:42,120
I was convinced Dave's ex-wife Amy Flora
had just been shot at Big Lake Park.
678
00:59:43,788 --> 00:59:46,374
- Do you know who did it?
- No.
679
00:59:48,459 --> 00:59:50,545
Do you know
if it was a male or a female?
680
00:59:50,545 --> 00:59:51,629
A female.
681
00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:56,134
Later on, there's a news report
682
00:59:56,134 --> 00:59:59,262
that says, uh, there's a woman shot
and her name is Liz Golyar.
683
01:00:04,183 --> 01:00:06,352
The question that's
running through our heads is...
684
01:00:08,313 --> 01:00:10,106
..."Who would want to shoot Liz?"
685
01:00:15,695 --> 01:00:19,574
Shock and concern tonight
surrounding a shooting in a local park.
686
01:00:19,574 --> 01:00:21,618
So far,
police can't find the woman
687
01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:23,745
who shot another woman in the leg.
688
01:00:23,745 --> 01:00:25,955
The circumstances appear strange.
689
01:00:26,789 --> 01:00:28,916
All I heard was, "Open up, police."
690
01:00:30,501 --> 01:00:32,211
I opened the door,
691
01:00:32,211 --> 01:00:36,507
and there were two officers
with guns drawn.
692
01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:38,551
I was freaked out.
693
01:00:39,636 --> 01:00:42,680
I felt like,
"What is gonna happen to my kids?"
694
01:00:43,973 --> 01:00:45,183
"I'm goin' to jail."
695
01:00:52,523 --> 01:00:54,442
Once she had recovered
from the shooting,
696
01:00:55,193 --> 01:00:57,487
we invited Liz to the sheriff's office
for an interview.
697
01:00:59,697 --> 01:01:03,284
I'm Investigator Doty, I work here
for the Sheriff's Office, okay?
698
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:08,665
I'm aware of that whole deal that happened
right over there in Big Lake.
699
01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:10,875
- Okay.
- Uh, I've read the initial police report.
700
01:01:10,875 --> 01:01:14,754
And it ID'd Amy
as the prime suspect. Okay?
701
01:01:15,338 --> 01:01:17,632
- I mean, I wouldn't put it past her.
- Mm-hmm.
702
01:01:18,424 --> 01:01:21,260
In truth, I did not suspect Amy
of shootin' Liz.
703
01:01:23,137 --> 01:01:27,225
It sounded crazy,
but we suspected Liz did this herself.
704
01:01:31,896 --> 01:01:35,233
We believe that Liz stole the gun
outta Dave's apartment,
705
01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:40,071
and then Liz used that gun
to shoot herself.
706
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:43,574
I've been shot in the leg.
707
01:01:46,661 --> 01:01:48,955
It seemed like
she was tryin' to set up Amy,
708
01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:52,208
not only for the shooting,
but also for Cari's murder.
709
01:01:54,836 --> 01:01:57,797
I know that there's been
some hostility between you and Amy.
710
01:01:57,797 --> 01:02:01,050
And it's the same hostility
that she has towards, uh, Cari too.
711
01:02:01,050 --> 01:02:03,386
- Yeah, has she ever--
- She's out flat told Dave that.
712
01:02:03,386 --> 01:02:04,387
She's told me that.
713
01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:06,139
What's the hostility
she's had towards Cari?
714
01:02:06,139 --> 01:02:09,058
That she wants to beat the crap
out of her, like, all the time.
715
01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:13,521
We knew the game Liz was playing,
and we'd play along with her theory.
716
01:02:14,105 --> 01:02:15,314
In my head, I'm thinkin',
717
01:02:15,314 --> 01:02:19,444
if she was bold enough
to go and then shoot you,
718
01:02:19,444 --> 01:02:22,822
okay, she could easily be bold enough
to have done somethin' to Cari.
719
01:02:24,615 --> 01:02:28,077
We were hoping she was gonna help us out
any way she could,
720
01:02:28,077 --> 01:02:29,787
if she thought we were gonna lock up Amy.
721
01:02:29,787 --> 01:02:33,166
So we used that to try
to turn the tables on Liz,
722
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:34,834
and deploy a bit of a ruse on her.
723
01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:37,336
If you would kinda go back through the--
724
01:02:37,336 --> 01:02:41,299
if you have any type of history
of contacts with Amy,
725
01:02:41,299 --> 01:02:44,927
and just make sure there's nothin'
where she said somethin' more threatening
726
01:02:44,927 --> 01:02:46,929
than, "Hey, I wanna beat up Cari."
727
01:02:46,929 --> 01:02:49,599
If she made anything--
Real threatening statements,
728
01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:52,435
or inferred that she ever did
anything to Cari,
729
01:02:52,435 --> 01:02:55,688
'cause that's like gold to me
if we had somethin' like that.
730
01:02:55,688 --> 01:02:58,316
Because then we could
start buildin' a case.
731
01:02:59,066 --> 01:03:02,653
Hopefully Liz would write to herself
posing as Amy,
732
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:04,822
and hopefully we'd get enough details
733
01:03:04,822 --> 01:03:07,784
that we'd be able
to build that case against Liz.
734
01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:14,624
Liz thought
she was smarter than us,
735
01:03:14,624 --> 01:03:17,043
but she was playing checkers,
we were playing chess.
736
01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:25,718
A couple days
after the interview with Liz,
737
01:03:25,718 --> 01:03:27,804
she started forwarding us
some messages from Amy.
738
01:03:29,347 --> 01:03:33,142
Confessing, "I shot you at Big Lake Park
because you wouldn't stay away from Dave."
739
01:03:35,686 --> 01:03:38,231
We knew this was Liz writing to herself
740
01:03:38,231 --> 01:03:40,107
usin' Amy's name.
741
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:42,610
It was a good start,
742
01:03:43,861 --> 01:03:46,197
but I knew we were gonna need
more details from Liz
743
01:03:46,197 --> 01:03:48,115
of what actually happened to Cari.
744
01:03:55,331 --> 01:03:58,251
I know the police
couldn't just go and arrest Liz,
745
01:03:58,251 --> 01:04:00,711
'cause they just didn't have
the evidence to convict her.
746
01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:06,133
But myself and the kids and Amy,
I mean, we're under threat.
747
01:04:06,133 --> 01:04:10,805
Not knowing what, if anything, may come,
or what kinda craziness might happen.
748
01:04:15,893 --> 01:04:18,646
If she could shoot herself,
what else is she capable of?
749
01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:22,483
I was terrified at that point.
750
01:04:27,446 --> 01:04:30,700
{\an8}There was concern
about Amy and her children,
751
01:04:31,951 --> 01:04:33,411
{\an8}so I developed a plan.
752
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:45,298
I got in touch with Dave,
and recorded the conversation.
753
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:48,426
Just speaking father to father,
man to man,
754
01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:52,221
I would do whatever I could
to be around my kids as much as possible.
755
01:04:58,936 --> 01:05:02,064
I'd be damn near moved in
with Amy if I were you.
756
01:05:02,064 --> 01:05:02,982
Okay.
757
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,447
If I had to get back with my ex
and move in with her,
758
01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:12,158
so be it,
as long as I know my kids are safe.
759
01:05:12,658 --> 01:05:14,577
{\an8}Okay. I'll take your advice.
760
01:05:23,502 --> 01:05:26,047
Did my plan have an ulterior motive to it?
761
01:05:26,547 --> 01:05:27,381
Yes.
762
01:05:27,381 --> 01:05:29,884
We knew that as soon as Liz found out
763
01:05:29,884 --> 01:05:31,928
that Dave was moving in with Amy,
764
01:05:32,595 --> 01:05:37,350
we were gonna start seein'
some real raw emotion coming from her.
765
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:50,029
This is Investigator Doty.
766
01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:50,988
Yeah.
767
01:05:50,988 --> 01:05:53,366
- Who am I speakin' to here?
- Liz.
768
01:05:53,366 --> 01:05:54,951
Liz, what-- what's goin' on?
769
01:05:55,451 --> 01:05:57,662
She's still not arrested.
770
01:05:57,662 --> 01:05:59,038
She gets to shoot somebody,
771
01:05:59,038 --> 01:06:02,208
and then she gets to kill another person,
and then she gets to move in with Dave,
772
01:06:02,208 --> 01:06:05,628
and she gets to be free,
and you guys aren't arresting her.
773
01:06:06,545 --> 01:06:09,840
There's only so much I can do
if Amy's not talkin' to us.
774
01:06:11,717 --> 01:06:14,136
- You still there?
- Yeah. Uh-uh.
775
01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:18,182
If she does let you know
some more specifics,
776
01:06:18,182 --> 01:06:20,184
that's the kinda stuff that makes a case.
777
01:06:20,184 --> 01:06:21,102
Okay.
778
01:06:21,686 --> 01:06:22,979
All right. Bye.
779
01:06:26,649 --> 01:06:29,443
That phone call with Jim
was the tipping point.
780
01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:31,779
The plan was actually working.
781
01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:39,078
That night,
there was a huge break for us.
782
01:06:40,997 --> 01:06:43,791
Liz starts forwardin' us
more messages from Amy.
783
01:06:47,670 --> 01:06:51,507
But this time, details about Cari's murder
begin pouring in.
784
01:07:02,893 --> 01:07:05,813
The emails seemed like a descriptor
from the killer of what happened.
785
01:07:10,985 --> 01:07:13,362
We knew this wasn't Amy.
786
01:07:13,362 --> 01:07:16,699
We knew this was Liz writing to herself,
posing as Amy.
787
01:07:22,079 --> 01:07:25,666
The emails described
how she'd parked in an abandoned lot,
788
01:07:26,208 --> 01:07:28,544
and covered Cari with a tarp
and burned her.
789
01:07:32,465 --> 01:07:34,592
As detectives, there's some excitement,
790
01:07:34,592 --> 01:07:38,054
because maybe we're gettin' the evidence
we've been looking for for years.
791
01:07:39,638 --> 01:07:40,723
But at the same time,
792
01:07:40,723 --> 01:07:44,018
what they're describing
is such a horrible thing.
793
01:07:48,814 --> 01:07:50,066
These confessional emails,
794
01:07:50,066 --> 01:07:53,027
if true, were a huge break to us,
'cause up to this point,
795
01:07:53,027 --> 01:07:54,987
we had no idea what happened to Cari.
796
01:07:54,987 --> 01:07:59,158
We believed Liz was involved,
but we had no idea what she had done.
797
01:08:01,702 --> 01:08:03,287
Reading all these emails,
798
01:08:03,287 --> 01:08:07,249
the common theme was there was a stabbing
that occurred in Cari's car.
799
01:08:08,250 --> 01:08:10,503
And that led us back to the vehicle again,
800
01:08:10,503 --> 01:08:13,130
but this time,
we were looking for traces of blood.
801
01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:25,142
We processed the vehicle
with the blood reagent.
802
01:08:27,937 --> 01:08:30,606
We just sprayed everywhere
we could think of.
803
01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:36,195
This chemical, when it hits blood,
will glow under a black light.
804
01:08:41,575 --> 01:08:44,578
The black light was taken
over the front seat, the passenger seat,
805
01:08:44,578 --> 01:08:46,580
throughout the back seats,
806
01:08:46,580 --> 01:08:47,873
the back hatch area.
807
01:08:50,501 --> 01:08:51,752
And we saw nothing.
808
01:08:53,879 --> 01:08:55,673
There were no traces of blood.
809
01:08:57,716 --> 01:08:59,176
But it was Cari's vehicle.
810
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:02,388
There's a good chance maybe
she was driving when she was stabbed.
811
01:09:15,276 --> 01:09:17,611
So I pulled the fabric
off the driver's seat,
812
01:09:18,863 --> 01:09:21,615
and there's nothin' under there.
It was just normal foam.
813
01:09:30,291 --> 01:09:33,335
Then I moved to the passenger seat,
I pulled the fabric off of that.
814
01:09:48,601 --> 01:09:51,270
On the bottom of that seat
was a big red stain.
815
01:09:59,153 --> 01:10:00,946
I think, "We found our crime scene."
816
01:10:09,371 --> 01:10:12,625
- Who you goin' with? Ambrose?
- Yeah, I'm gonna ride with him.
817
01:10:26,931 --> 01:10:28,933
Investigator Avis called me,
818
01:10:28,933 --> 01:10:31,352
said, "We just wanted to let you know
she's been arrested."
819
01:10:37,775 --> 01:10:41,987
In that moment, it did feel
like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.
820
01:10:42,988 --> 01:10:44,198
But not all of it.
821
01:10:49,536 --> 01:10:52,539
You can't wind up slowly over four years
and then just turn it off.
822
01:10:53,916 --> 01:10:55,668
That's not the way it works.
823
01:11:17,648 --> 01:11:21,235
Now, the reason
why you're in this chair right now today,
824
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:24,863
is because you have a lot of questions
that you need to answer for me.
825
01:11:25,489 --> 01:11:27,866
Did you ever see Cari's car?
826
01:11:30,411 --> 01:11:32,121
- You ever seen it?
- Nope.
827
01:11:32,705 --> 01:11:35,541
A picture of her car
with her plates, her Explorer,
828
01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:36,750
was on your phone.
829
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:41,213
- I've never seen her car. Ever.
- You've been in her car.
830
01:11:41,213 --> 01:11:43,424
- You drove her car.
- No, I didn't.
831
01:11:43,424 --> 01:11:45,426
I've never been inside her car.
832
01:11:45,426 --> 01:11:47,386
I've never even been around her car.
833
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:49,138
Ever.
834
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:53,475
- Your fingerprints are in there.
- No, I haven't.
835
01:11:53,475 --> 01:11:56,061
I'm not lying.
I've never been around her car.
836
01:11:56,061 --> 01:11:57,479
I've never even seen it.
837
01:11:58,147 --> 01:12:00,983
This is where I--
I want you to think hard, okay,
838
01:12:00,983 --> 01:12:04,236
about... what direction
you're gonna go in here.
839
01:12:04,862 --> 01:12:09,533
Are you gonna sit in this chair
and be remorseful or be cold-blooded?
840
01:12:09,533 --> 01:12:12,244
Because right now, after four years,
841
01:12:13,162 --> 01:12:15,497
this-- this family's been lookin'
for answers.
842
01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:18,459
For years and years,
843
01:12:18,959 --> 01:12:24,089
people have been, um, sending emails
under Cari's fictitious accounts.
844
01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:27,217
The IP addresses show up to whose house?
845
01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:29,219
Your house.
846
01:12:31,096 --> 01:12:33,223
Why would you create all these emails?
847
01:12:33,724 --> 01:12:35,768
I haven't created any emails.
848
01:12:37,478 --> 01:12:38,771
They're coming from you.
849
01:12:38,771 --> 01:12:39,897
No, they're not.
850
01:12:42,900 --> 01:12:45,694
I'm not gonna be accused
of something that I didn't do.
851
01:12:47,905 --> 01:12:49,907
The finger's pointin' right at you.
852
01:12:50,866 --> 01:12:53,327
Then I'm done talking,
and I'm gonna have my attorney.
853
01:12:59,166 --> 01:13:01,794
Just into our newsroom tonight,
word of an arrest.
854
01:13:02,378 --> 01:13:04,254
Golyar charged
with first-degree murder,
855
01:13:04,254 --> 01:13:06,757
and is being held
at the Pottawattamie County Jail.
856
01:13:08,008 --> 01:13:10,803
Once Liz was arrested, that doesn't mean
the investigation was over.
857
01:13:11,845 --> 01:13:13,472
This trial was gonna be tough.
858
01:13:14,056 --> 01:13:17,017
We needed brilliant prosecutors
workin' the case with us.
859
01:13:20,938 --> 01:13:22,523
Looking from the outside,
860
01:13:23,023 --> 01:13:25,651
this case truly came across
as far-fetched.
861
01:13:27,111 --> 01:13:28,362
I'm wondering to myself,
862
01:13:28,362 --> 01:13:31,865
how am I gonna get a court
to believe that this is true?
863
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:38,372
This was somebody keying their own car,
stabbing their own clothes.
864
01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:42,000
This person had even burned
their own home.
865
01:13:43,043 --> 01:13:46,004
I mean, who's gonna shoot themselves
in the leg, for cryin' out loud?
866
01:13:47,005 --> 01:13:49,174
But my biggest concern, honestly,
867
01:13:49,174 --> 01:13:51,635
was "How do you prove a murder
without a body?"
868
01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:57,433
We needed to prove that, A, Cari's dead,
869
01:13:57,433 --> 01:14:00,144
and, B, Liz killed her.
870
01:14:04,773 --> 01:14:07,526
It was all-consuming work, day and night,
871
01:14:07,526 --> 01:14:11,196
in search of some kind of smoking gun
to prove Cari was dead.
872
01:14:14,741 --> 01:14:17,578
Avis and I were leaving
no stone unturned.
873
01:14:17,578 --> 01:14:21,915
Anything that could potentially help us
with this case, we wanted.
874
01:14:23,917 --> 01:14:25,169
It was exhausting.
875
01:14:25,919 --> 01:14:28,255
Twelve, sometimes 14, 16 hours a day,
876
01:14:28,755 --> 01:14:32,593
going through the same old phone dumps
that we had reviewed a thousand times,
877
01:14:32,593 --> 01:14:34,845
making sure we didn't miss something.
878
01:14:36,472 --> 01:14:40,225
All those emails, all the email accounts,
make sure we didn't miss another one.
879
01:14:43,103 --> 01:14:45,022
It took a toll on my life.
880
01:14:48,066 --> 01:14:49,902
My marriage was failing.
881
01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:55,032
I knew that I wasn't bein' a good dad
at the time, which broke my heart.
882
01:14:59,286 --> 01:15:02,456
A year or so before I started
workin' on this case,
883
01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:05,209
I'd been diagnosed
with having a brain tumor.
884
01:15:07,336 --> 01:15:11,089
At this point in the case,
as it was really starting to-- to heat up,
885
01:15:11,089 --> 01:15:13,967
the tumor got bigger,
and that meant surgery.
886
01:15:15,594 --> 01:15:17,346
And so I asked the question,
887
01:15:17,346 --> 01:15:20,557
"Is it gonna impair
my ability to do work?"
888
01:15:21,058 --> 01:15:23,435
And the answer that I got was yes.
889
01:15:24,853 --> 01:15:28,524
So I said right away, "I'm not doin'
the surgery, not till this case is done."
890
01:15:30,901 --> 01:15:33,195
We were both 100% dedicated,
891
01:15:33,987 --> 01:15:37,699
just hoping to find
whatever that missing piece was.
892
01:15:43,580 --> 01:15:45,082
We were going back to everyone,
893
01:15:45,082 --> 01:15:48,210
asking them, "Is there anything else
that you haven't told us?"
894
01:15:50,837 --> 01:15:54,341
We interviewed Dave for what had
to have been, you know,
895
01:15:54,341 --> 01:15:56,134
the 13th, 14th, umpteenth time.
896
01:15:56,843 --> 01:15:59,388
They turn around to leave,
but they kinda stop.
897
01:15:59,388 --> 01:16:02,975
Then Kava turned around
and said, just really offhandedly,
898
01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:06,353
"Just one more thing.
Do you have any electronics
899
01:16:06,353 --> 01:16:09,773
from around November, December 2012
that we could take a look at?"
900
01:16:09,773 --> 01:16:11,316
"Anything you haven't given us?"
901
01:16:11,900 --> 01:16:15,445
I went to my storage unit
and did a little diggin' around.
902
01:16:18,615 --> 01:16:20,492
And I found this old tablet,
903
01:16:20,492 --> 01:16:23,745
and it was buried, and it was dusty,
and it was dead as a doornail.
904
01:16:28,875 --> 01:16:33,505
There's nothing interesting about it,
but it does have a memory card.
905
01:16:33,505 --> 01:16:36,466
It has this micro SD card
inserted into it.
906
01:16:44,683 --> 01:16:46,476
When I examine that micro SD card...
907
01:16:49,104 --> 01:16:51,023
...it didn't show any files at all.
908
01:16:51,023 --> 01:16:53,066
Nothing's on it.
Like, it's been wiped clean.
909
01:16:58,030 --> 01:16:59,698
But we can look deeper,
910
01:16:59,698 --> 01:17:03,285
and we can look for deleted information,
and so that's what I did.
911
01:17:04,119 --> 01:17:05,454
And then all of a sudden...
912
01:17:11,209 --> 01:17:14,963
...I found about 11,000
thumbnail-size photographs on there.
913
01:17:16,423 --> 01:17:20,260
As I started to look through these images,
I see that there are a lot of selfies
914
01:17:20,260 --> 01:17:21,637
of Liz in here.
915
01:17:24,181 --> 01:17:25,265
A selfie of Liz.
916
01:17:25,766 --> 01:17:28,101
Another selfie of Liz.
917
01:17:29,019 --> 01:17:29,895
Another one.
918
01:17:33,231 --> 01:17:35,025
My heart rate starts to go up.
919
01:17:38,195 --> 01:17:40,489
From the dates on these photos,
920
01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:46,662
we're realizing this is
the SD card from Liz's phone,
921
01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:48,455
back when Cari went missing.
922
01:17:49,456 --> 01:17:50,332
This is huge.
923
01:17:57,297 --> 01:18:00,175
I started to look
through the thousands of photographs.
924
01:18:03,261 --> 01:18:07,474
Is there any information here from 2012
925
01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:10,102
that would help us with this case?
926
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:17,484
Among the thousands of photos,
927
01:18:17,484 --> 01:18:19,653
there was one that caught my eye.
928
01:18:24,199 --> 01:18:27,786
I thought it was a piece of rosewood.
929
01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:31,081
I didn't think
it would have any bearing on this case,
930
01:18:31,081 --> 01:18:34,000
but it w-- I was curious,
because it-- it-- it looked different.
931
01:18:37,129 --> 01:18:40,298
When I took a look at it
from a couple different angles,
932
01:18:40,298 --> 01:18:42,551
I thought, "This looks like a foot."
933
01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:48,765
You know, I'm not a pathologist.
I do have a copy of Gray's Anatomy,
934
01:18:48,765 --> 01:18:50,308
so I-- I went to the bookshelf.
935
01:18:50,308 --> 01:18:53,145
And there is a drawing
right there that shows
936
01:18:53,145 --> 01:18:55,230
that this is where
the veins are in the foot.
937
01:18:55,230 --> 01:18:57,983
And there is a--
Something that happens postmortem
938
01:18:57,983 --> 01:19:01,778
called venous marbling,
where, uh, these veins become visible.
939
01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:05,949
And I thought, you know, all of a sudden,
940
01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:09,536
we're seeing a picture of a dead body.
941
01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:14,291
This might be Cari's foot.
942
01:19:21,465 --> 01:19:24,092
It was Presidents' Day weekend
when I got a phone call.
943
01:19:26,136 --> 01:19:28,805
You really had to squint to see.
944
01:19:30,557 --> 01:19:34,811
But there was hope that we now had
more evidence going into the trial.
945
01:19:37,022 --> 01:19:39,691
We also felt that we had a way of proving
946
01:19:40,275 --> 01:19:42,819
that it was Cari's foot,
because it had a tattoo on it.
947
01:19:45,489 --> 01:19:47,032
We got a hold of Nancy,
948
01:19:47,032 --> 01:19:50,368
and we had to ask,
"Did Cari have this tattoo?"
949
01:19:52,537 --> 01:19:53,914
And the answer was yes.
950
01:19:53,914 --> 01:19:56,208
Cari had the tattoo on her foot.
951
01:19:57,417 --> 01:19:59,628
It was the Chinese symbol for "mother."
952
01:20:12,057 --> 01:20:14,559
New tonight in Omaha,
woman on trial for murder.
953
01:20:14,559 --> 01:20:17,479
Prosecutors allege
a love triangle turned fatal,
954
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:21,358
but the defense is arguing
a murder might not have even happened.
955
01:20:26,112 --> 01:20:29,074
The first day of court,
I went in a little nervous.
956
01:20:33,787 --> 01:20:36,790
This was never going
to be the slam-dunk case,
957
01:20:37,582 --> 01:20:40,794
because we had to prove
not only was Cari dead,
958
01:20:41,294 --> 01:20:43,713
but the way she was killed,
959
01:20:44,422 --> 01:20:46,633
the manner, the premeditation.
960
01:20:46,633 --> 01:20:48,343
Those were gonna be some big challenges.
961
01:20:55,308 --> 01:20:59,104
This is a bizarre and twisted case
of a fatal attraction.
962
01:21:02,107 --> 01:21:06,486
I really didn't know
what happened to Cari until the trial.
963
01:21:06,486 --> 01:21:09,489
There isn't any question,
Your Honor, that Cari's dead,
964
01:21:09,489 --> 01:21:11,950
and the evidence shows
she was killed in Omaha.
965
01:21:11,950 --> 01:21:14,286
I wish it wasn't the case for this family.
966
01:21:16,413 --> 01:21:21,042
Having to hear that Cari had been
stabbed, for one thing, just... Uh...
967
01:21:22,711 --> 01:21:25,088
Uh... It's your--
your child, you just don't...
968
01:21:26,381 --> 01:21:28,341
It's not something that you ever...
969
01:21:28,842 --> 01:21:30,010
Uh...
970
01:21:30,010 --> 01:21:31,469
Guess it's a nightmare.
971
01:21:32,095 --> 01:21:33,889
These are trophy pictures.
972
01:21:34,598 --> 01:21:37,017
They memorialize the heinous acts
973
01:21:37,017 --> 01:21:39,603
as if it were some kind
of an accomplishment.
974
01:21:39,603 --> 01:21:41,938
Of course, they tried to warn me
what was coming,
975
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:44,941
but I don't think you can warn anybody...
976
01:21:44,941 --> 01:21:48,194
...when you've found out you--
your daughter's been mutilated,
977
01:21:49,029 --> 01:21:49,988
and...
978
01:21:51,156 --> 01:21:51,990
thrown away.
979
01:21:52,574 --> 01:21:56,202
Not one person on this Earth
has seen or heard from her
980
01:21:57,537 --> 01:22:00,165
since November 13th, 2012.
981
01:22:01,708 --> 01:22:03,335
That just tears me apart.
982
01:22:12,469 --> 01:22:15,013
The worst time
is waiting for the verdict.
983
01:22:16,097 --> 01:22:17,390
You don't get much sleep.
984
01:22:18,975 --> 01:22:22,520
You go over the evidence.
Did you do everything you could?
985
01:22:34,574 --> 01:22:38,078
I remember walking into the courtroom.
It was... tense.
986
01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:43,166
There was media and family.
987
01:22:46,086 --> 01:22:48,296
We waited for the judge to take the bench.
988
01:22:52,509 --> 01:22:53,885
Part of me wanted to believe
989
01:22:53,885 --> 01:22:56,888
that it was a foregone conclusion
that she was guilty,
990
01:22:57,389 --> 01:23:01,017
but we were all worried
that there was every possibility
991
01:23:01,017 --> 01:23:02,602
she could walk outta there.
992
01:23:04,437 --> 01:23:05,897
The stakes were high.
993
01:23:05,897 --> 01:23:09,275
If Liz is found not guilty,
Cari's name isn't cleared.
994
01:23:09,275 --> 01:23:13,029
There will always be a shadow
over Nancy and Max,
995
01:23:13,029 --> 01:23:14,447
and the entire family.
996
01:23:22,372 --> 01:23:24,749
I stood up. I remember, like,
997
01:23:24,749 --> 01:23:27,961
my hands were just shaking
'cause I was that nervous.
998
01:23:29,671 --> 01:23:31,631
The court finds,
999
01:23:31,631 --> 01:23:34,259
after careful consideration
of the evidence,
1000
01:23:34,884 --> 01:23:36,720
the contention by the defense
1001
01:23:37,345 --> 01:23:39,347
that the state has not met its burden
1002
01:23:39,347 --> 01:23:43,059
because the body of Cari Farver
has not been recovered...
1003
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:46,855
My stomach dropped,
everything in me just dropped.
1004
01:23:46,855 --> 01:23:48,565
The things he's saying
1005
01:23:49,107 --> 01:23:51,526
sound like it's gonna be
a not-guilty verdict.
1006
01:23:52,193 --> 01:23:55,780
...has been overcome
by the overwhelming amount of evidence
1007
01:23:55,780 --> 01:23:58,241
presented by the state during this trial.
1008
01:23:58,241 --> 01:24:00,744
But then, the way he was speaking changed.
1009
01:24:01,536 --> 01:24:05,206
Cari Farver did not voluntarily disappear
1010
01:24:05,206 --> 01:24:07,375
and drop off the face of the Earth.
1011
01:24:08,084 --> 01:24:09,711
Very sadly, she was murdered.
1012
01:24:12,297 --> 01:24:14,841
The court finds beyond a reasonable doubt
1013
01:24:14,841 --> 01:24:18,511
that the defendant
intentionally killed Cari Farver
1014
01:24:19,179 --> 01:24:21,723
with deliberate and premeditated malice
1015
01:24:21,723 --> 01:24:25,560
on or about November 13th, 2012,
1016
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,520
here in Douglas County, Nebraska.
1017
01:24:37,655 --> 01:24:41,576
There was crying,
and hugs with all the family members.
1018
01:24:48,374 --> 01:24:51,711
For Nancy and Max,
I felt a lot of sadness for them
1019
01:24:51,711 --> 01:24:54,964
because they had lost
their daughter, their mother,
1020
01:24:55,465 --> 01:24:57,342
and we could never give that back.
1021
01:24:57,842 --> 01:24:59,928
The little bit we could give back was
1022
01:24:59,928 --> 01:25:03,473
restoring Cari's reputation
in that small community.
1023
01:25:05,809 --> 01:25:09,104
People had the assumption
Cari was goin' crazy,
1024
01:25:09,104 --> 01:25:10,939
and that's obviously very hurtful.
1025
01:25:10,939 --> 01:25:13,233
That cuts pretty deep
on the-- on the family.
1026
01:25:18,863 --> 01:25:21,866
We got really close to Nancy and Max
throughout this whole thing.
1027
01:25:22,492 --> 01:25:23,910
Push, push, push, push...
1028
01:25:23,910 --> 01:25:26,371
We really got to know
who Cari was too.
1029
01:25:27,330 --> 01:25:28,206
Oh my gracious.
1030
01:25:28,206 --> 01:25:29,374
Go, go, Mom.
1031
01:25:29,916 --> 01:25:33,419
Okay, come on, let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
1032
01:25:33,962 --> 01:25:36,172
{\an8}Hold on. I gotta get the cookie.
See the cookie?
1033
01:25:36,172 --> 01:25:38,466
{\an8}We grew to see
that she was a great mother.
1034
01:25:38,466 --> 01:25:39,843
{\an8}Look what got into it.
1035
01:25:39,843 --> 01:25:41,344
{\an8}That she was a good person.
1036
01:25:41,344 --> 01:25:43,138
{\an8}- Oh man!
- Oh! He took the...
1037
01:25:43,888 --> 01:25:46,182
{\an8}- He did, though.
- Oh, okay.
1038
01:25:46,766 --> 01:25:48,101
{\an8}Oh my goodness.
1039
01:25:48,101 --> 01:25:50,812
{\an8}You have to-- Just turn him off, you...
1040
01:25:50,812 --> 01:25:53,606
{\an8}The woman that I'd dated had goals,
1041
01:25:53,606 --> 01:25:58,695
{\an8}and... was smiley,
and wanted to be somethin'.
1042
01:26:01,573 --> 01:26:03,491
She was just tryin'
to make her way in this world.
1043
01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:14,419
I'm very sorry for what happened.
1044
01:26:15,587 --> 01:26:17,130
If I hadn't have met Cari,
1045
01:26:17,130 --> 01:26:20,133
she wouldn't have met Liz,
and this all wouldn't have happened.
1046
01:26:22,218 --> 01:26:24,971
If I'd have known
the choice was this craziness
1047
01:26:24,971 --> 01:26:29,767
or tell Cari I'm not interested,
I would've told Cari I'm not interested.
1048
01:26:33,104 --> 01:26:35,440
But you don't get that choice.
1049
01:26:36,649 --> 01:26:37,483
Ya know.
1050
01:26:42,071 --> 01:26:44,407
All right, so which ones am I again?
1051
01:26:44,407 --> 01:26:47,493
- Six through ten.
- Oh, man, this is not looking good.
1052
01:26:47,493 --> 01:26:48,828
Here's the ten, six.
1053
01:26:48,828 --> 01:26:51,706
Well, yeah, I don't like
any of my options, really.
1054
01:26:52,248 --> 01:26:54,459
- Just hit 'em all, then.
- Oh, I'm about to.
1055
01:26:57,837 --> 01:27:00,882
I will forever be grateful
1056
01:27:02,050 --> 01:27:03,176
to Jim Doty,
1057
01:27:04,052 --> 01:27:05,303
and Ryan Avis,
1058
01:27:06,930 --> 01:27:08,681
and Tony Kava.
1059
01:27:08,681 --> 01:27:11,517
- It's my turn again?
- You really don't know how to play?
1060
01:27:11,517 --> 01:27:13,019
Well, I've seen it done.
1061
01:27:14,938 --> 01:27:15,897
Okay.
1062
01:27:21,611 --> 01:27:24,989
They saved my sanity.
1063
01:27:27,075 --> 01:27:27,909
And...
1064
01:27:29,452 --> 01:27:31,079
they'll always be my boys.
1065
01:27:32,163 --> 01:27:34,165
They're fantastic at what they do.
1066
01:27:35,333 --> 01:27:39,128
Tsk. And hadn't been for them,
I would still be in the dark now.