ABC crime thriller show ’20/20: A Tangled Web’ investigates the cold-blooded murder of Cari Farver by Shanna Liz Golyar. The whole story started after Cari went missing from Council Bluffs, Iowa on 13 November 2012 and nowhere to be seen for several months.
However, her friends and family members were continually receiving messages from her that she is starting a new life in Kansas. But, in reality, it was not Cari, it was her killer Shanna Elizabeth Golyar.
The case was taking lots of twists and turns but finally on 22 December 2016, Golyar was arrested and charged with Farver’s murder but the body of the victim Cari Farver was never found, she disappeared like a grain of sand on Palm Beach.
Who is Liz Golyar?
Shanna Liz Golyar is a Nebraskan woman and a party girl when she was hooked up with a 35 year old single father, Dave Kroupa.
She was looking to take her relationship to the next level while Dave was only planning to intimate with her without any long term goals.
However, Liz was trying her best to keep Dave involved with her until he met 37-year old Cari Lea Farver who become his priority.
Who is Cari Farver?
Cari Lea Farver was born on 30 November 1974 inside Iowa. She resided in Macedonia, Iowa with her family that includes her son, Maxwell Farver and mother Nancey Raney. To know more about the family of Cari Farver and her link with the killer Liz Golyar, you can also checkout this article.
Who is Dave Kroupa?
Dave Kroupa is a mechanic from Nebraska who went through a harrowing experience of being stalked and harassed by his ex-girlfriend Cari Farver after their brief relationship ended in 2012.
Farver inundated Kroupa with threatening messages, vandalized his new girlfriend Liz Golyar’s property, and started tracking his movements, as per ABC News. She scared Kroupa so much that he started living in the fear.
The Whole Story behind Cari Farver Murder and Disappearance (who killed her?)
A desperate Liz planned to start a harassing campaign against Cari and started threatening her over phone calls and internet. Finally, in November 2012, Cari quitted her job and started sending hate messages to his boyfriend Dave. Liz was also claiming about receiving threatening messages from Cari.
Moreover, Dave’s property was vandalized by Cari and Liz shot her leg only to blame Cari but the cops were intelligent and become active on finding no signs of shooter anywhere.
However, things become more fishy, Cari was nowhere to be seen and Liz claiming that she is receiving messages from a phantom attacker who has killed Cari and her next target is her.
As the police investigates, they found that those messages were sent by Liz to herself and after four your Farver’s disappearance in 13 November 2012, the truth was surfaced and Liz Golyar revealed what she has done, as per People’s exclusive report.
Where is Dave Kroupa now?
Dave Kroupa is currently living in Nebraska with his girlfriend Margie Hover. While he has tried to move on with his life, the trauma from Cari Farver’s stalking still impacts him.
He is very protective of his personal information and space after what he went through. So, you won’t be able to find his real social media, at least not on Facebook/Instagram.
Kroupa expresses remorse over the events that happened in the past and also expresses grief over the murder of Cari. He never wants to experience anything like that again
Where is Shanna Liz Golyar Now?
Shanna Liz Golyar is currently detained in Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, located west of Nebraska. She is serving life sentence in prison plus 18 to 20 years for the 2012 murder of her ex-boyfriend’s girlfriend Cari.
The case is dated 5 December 2016, the day she was arrested on. It was four years after the disappearance of Carrie Farver. But why did authorities take so long? The answer is simple, let me explain.
In 2012, it was only revealed that Liz had scheduled messages using an app on Carrie’s phone. In this way, she took the time to bomb the results when she was dating Dave. For this reason, Dave did not doubt her.
Shanna showed herself as Carrie for many years, doing this so cleverly that no one even suspected her. The investigation has revealed that Liège killed Cari within 24 hours of her disappearance.
Some evidence and photographs provided by the Dave to investigators reveal that Liz had also burnt Carrie’s body to vanish whole evidence.
In these photographs, the police found a photo of a woman with a Chinese tattoo on her arm burning a dead body. Surprisingly, the same tattoo was also on Liz’s arm. This is where the police tightened their grip on the liz.
In August 2017, Liz Golyar was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after a single jury trial, and also received an additional 18 to 20 years in 2013 for setting fire to his home, as per KETV Omaha.
You can also check out another case of an NYPD cop Valerie Cincinelli who was sentenced for hiring hitmen to kill her husband.
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