Deceased/Not Found NE - Cari Farver, 38, Omaha, 13 Nov 2012 *S. Golyar guilty*

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Judge grants bench trial request for suspect accused in cold case homicide

http://www.wowt.com/content/news/Judge-grants-bench-trial-request-for-suspect-accused-in-cold-case-homicide-411908015.html

A judge granted a request for a bench trial Thursday for Shanna Goylar, 42, accused in the murder of Cari Farver. Goylar entered a plea of not guilty Thursday in court.

Attorney James Martin Davis says prosecutors have no body, no murder weapon, and no witnesses. Davis argued the prosecution doesn't even know if a murder occurred or where it could have happened.

Davis says a bench trial will speed up the proceedings. Goylar's trial date is set for May 10th.
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Trial begins for Iowa woman who prosecutors say killed, then impersonated her romantic rival

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/trial-begins-for-iowa-woman-who-prosecutors-say-killed-then/article_0d7a80f9-3e26-5939-a850-223be1a213ca.html

It’s a chilling paradox.

To keep authorities from suspecting her in Cari Farver’s alleged slaying, Shanna Golyar took on the digital persona of her romantic rival, Chief Deputy Douglas County Attorney Brenda Beadle argued in her opening statement Wednesday.

Golyar, 41, is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree arson in connection with Farver’s disappearance on Nov. 13, 2012.

Wednesday marked the first day of a bench trial expected to last several days. Douglas County District Judge Timothy Burns will decide whether Golyar is acquitted or guilty.

Over time, authorities say Golyar sent thousands of texts and emails that were purported to be by Farver after Farver, 37, went missing.

Golyar, Beadle said, “spent her days, her weeks, her months, her years, tormenting many lives during this, spinning the web of deception to keep Cari alive so she wouldn’t get caught.

“The lengths that (Golyar) went to accomplish that are really unfathomable.”
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This case was discussed on Primetime Justice with Ashleigh Banfield on HLN tonight. They talked about the trial beginning.
 
At murder trial, relatives tell of receiving suspicious messages from writer who claimed to be missing woman

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/at-murder-trial-relatives-tell-of-receiving-suspicious-messages-from/article_39025d1c-9f75-557b-9c3b-c567dc03695d.html

On Mother’s Day three years ago — the second one since Nancy Raney’s daughter disappeared — a text from an unknown number appeared on Raney’s phone.

“Happy Mother Day mom! How has Max been?”

It had been nearly a year and a half since Raney’s daughter Cari Farver went missing, and Raney had received mysterious messages before. Although she was always hopeful for any trace of where her daughter might be, she was highly skeptical.

“The grammar was terrible,” Raney testified Thursday in the trial of her daughter’s alleged killer. “Cari was very meticulous with her grammar and spelling. Any text or email had to be perfect. It wouldn’t go out with bad grammar.”
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Two months later Raney discovered a new Facebook profile that someone created of Cari Farver, with a photo of Farver and her father, who had died of stomach cancer in December.

One of the first posts had a photo of a hand with an engagement ring. The post said that Farver was newly engaged to David Kroupa — the man she had spent the night with before she went missing.

“It was absolutely not my daughter’s hand,” Raney testified. “My daughter has very long, thin fingers, and that hand did not.”

Sgt. Jason LeMaster of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, who was investigating the missing person case, followed up with Kroupa, who said he was not engaged to Farver.
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One piece of the scant physical evidence of a potential slaying that prosecutors point to is blood on the front passenger seat of Farver’s car. Authorities discovered the blood in 2016, when they peeled the clean top fabric to expose the bloodied foam cushion.

Davis doesn’t dispute that it’s Farver’s blood. But he questioned in Golyar’s preliminary hearing whether it could be menstrual blood.

Raney’s testimony nearly dismissed that theory.

Raney said there’s no way it’s menstrual blood: Farver had a hysterectomy eight months before.
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The new Facebook profile of Farver messaged Raney in January:

“Mom why are you not talking anymore”

“Is this really you?” Raney replied.

“Yes mom the other account was hacked. I am sorry I missed the funeral”

The new Facebook account under Farver’s name also messaged Max in May 2013:

“Hey little man how are you?”

Max didn’t respond for nearly two weeks. The messages spooked him. He asked three questions: What is his middle name, what was the first family boxer dog’s name, and who was his best friend while growing up?

The three questions were strategic.

“The middle name, someone else would be able to figure out, but the other two only mom would know,” Max testified.

Max never got a response to those questions.
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Golyar blamed burglary, arson on the woman she killed, prosecutors say

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/golyar-blamed-burglary-arson-on-the-woman-she-killed-prosecutors/article_f2e14c2f-a25f-5fa2-bc57-9c4eee636a59.html

It seemed Shanna Golyar was living a double life.

She was dating two men at the same time: one for his money and the other for his love.

The one who often paid Golyar’s utility bills, Todd Butterbaugh, didn’t know about the other guy, David Kroupa, until authorities told Butterbaugh more than two years after they had started dating.

But prosecutors also argue that Golyar was living a third life: posing as Cari Farver, who was the alleged source of harassment, vandalism and arson against Golyar, according to Golyar.

“When this stuff happened, that was the go-to explanation,” Butterbaugh testified Friday, the third day of Golyar’s trial.
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Golyar was in the process of moving from her Omaha home into Butterbaugh’s Council Bluffs home because she was being evicted, a detail she later left out when talking to authorities.

Upon opening her home’s front door on Aug. 17, 2013, she encountered smoke and called 911.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which didn’t injure any humans but killed Golyar’s two dogs, a cat and a snake.

Captain Mark Sidener, one of the first firefighters on the scene, saw a gas can in the living room. In the basement, he also noticed several separated burn areas.

“(That) threw out a huge red flag. This isn’t normal, to find a gas can,” Sidener had testified. “Fire doesn’t start in different areas unless it’s made to start in different areas.”

Golyar told McClanahan that Kroupa received an email allegedly from Farver. She showed McClanahan a copy of the email on her phone, which contained multiple threats, including, “Hope you and your kids burn to death.”
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Harassing messages from person claiming to be missing woman kept coming for years, man testifies at murder trial

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/harassing-messages-from-person-claiming-to-be-missing-woman-kept/article_fa772a86-05c9-5f3c-998d-832ee64c416c.html

For roughly four years, David Kroupa was harassed daily by a steady barrage of texts and emails, seemingly from a woman he had dated for just two weeks.

Some threatened him or the people he knew. Others would claim that the woman was outside his apartment or workplace, with photos to prove it.

Kroupa unwittingly had found himself at the center of an obsession. But it wasn’t Farver who had become obsessed. It was another woman he had dated, authorities allege, Shanna Golyar.

At Golyar’s trial Monday, Kroupa read aloud a tiny percentage of the roughly 12,000 emails he purportedly received from Farver since he last saw her on Nov. 13, 2012. Authorities say Golyar concocted them.

The nearly 80 emails that Kroupa read out loud vacillated from obsessive and controlling (“I would follow you to the ends of the world. Dave is mine.”) to stalker behavior, expletive-ridden threats and graphic images. One email asked Kroupa how to find a hit man to kill Golyar and had a photo attached of an unknown bloodied dead woman.

He also received thousands of texts, from more than 25 phone numbers. Kroupa saved the numbers to his phone contacts as Cari 1 through Cari 18, and even assigned one number the name “Crazy Cari.”
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One of the strangest emails to Kroupa was sent in January 2013 and included a photo of a bound and gagged woman in a trunk of a vehicle.

“You will dump (Golyar), and you will start seeing me again that (sic) it no arguments about it,” the email stated. “If you don’t agree she will stay in my trunk and since no one knows my car you won’t find her.”

Prosecutors have said they will present evidence that Golyar took the photos of herself in the trunk — in various positions to make sure her face was hidden just enough to be mysterious.
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Prosecution: Golyar confessed to killing in emails she sent while posing as another woman

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/prosecution-golyar-confessed-to-killing-in-emails-she-sent-while/article_eaccc905-8843-5ffe-80f0-1729ae4c6640.html

For three years, authorities couldn’t find any trace of Cari Farver after she disappeared in November 2012.

Then, gruesome details of her alleged slaying emerged in emails purportedly sent to Shanna Golyar from Amy Flora.

“... I attaked (sic) her with a knofe (sic) I stabbed her three to four times in chest and stomach area. I took her out and burned her. I stuffed her body in a (garbage) bag with crap,” an email said in December 2015.

“I drove Cari out to the woods she was still begging for her life cryung wantung (sic) me to let her go,” another stated in February 2016.

“After I killed Cari I contacted her mom Nancy pretendung (sic) to be Cari,” said another days later.
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The fifth day of trial on Tuesday mostly consisted of testimony from Flora, who has two children with David Kroupa.

Golyar had also accused Flora of shooting her at Big Lake Park in north Council Bluffs in December 2015. Flora told police she was at home in her pajamas with her young son when the shooting occurred.

“I was in shock, I didn’t expect to have police at my door with guns pointing at me,” she testified, adding that she doesn’t own any firearms.

Authorities determined that the allegations were unfounded, and prosecutors allege that Golyar shot herself with a gun she took from Kroupa’s closet.
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Almost 100 exhibits introduced in effort to show that Golyar had belongings of missing woman

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/almost-exhibits-introduced-in-effort-to-show-that-golyar-had/article_e7f54a46-395e-592b-956a-9509e2717cbe.html

Cari Farver had a black shower curtain with white flowers on it in the bathroom of her home in Macedonia, Iowa.

When authorities searched Shanna Golyar’s apartment in Persia, Iowa, years later, they found a shower curtain with the same print.

Farver and Golyar may have had the same taste in home furnishings, but prosecutors allege that Golyar took the shower curtain and other items from Farver’s home in her continuing attempt to cover up that she killed Farver.

Nearly 100 exhibits were introduced Wednesday on the sixth day of trial. Almost all the exhibits were photos of Golyar’s apartment and her boyfriend’s Council Bluffs house, where she also had stayed.
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Judge finds Shanna Golyar guilty of first-degree murder in 2012 slaying of romantic rival

Douglas County District Judge Timothy Burns said Golyar spun a “twisted plot of lies, deceit and impersonations through digital messaging” to keep Farver alive online and distract authorities.

“Cari Farver did not voluntarily disappear and drop off the face of the earth,” Burns said just before delivering his verdict. “Very sadly, she was murdered.”

Golyar was so obsessed with the cover-up, she set fire to her own Omaha home — killing her two dogs, cat and snake — and blamed Farver, whom she had killed nine months earlier.
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Farver’s mother said the most difficult part was listening to the emails Golyar sent with vivid and disturbing details of the final moments of Farver’s life. The emails said that Farver was stabbed in the stomach and chest, that she begged to talk to her family, that she was burned, stuffed in garbage bags, rolled in a tarp and left in a dumpster. It’s unclear exactly what happened, but prosecutors regarded those emails as a confession.

“If any of them are true, any inkling of it ... that’s your worst fear, that something happened to your child,” Raney said. “This fear that something was wrong with her, and I couldn’t get to her.”

Raney wants to ask Golyar why she did it — Farver hadn’t been in a relationship with the man for very long, and it was casual.

“It would be nice if at least (Golyar would) say she’s sorry. That she deprived my grandson of his mother,” Raney said. “But I don’t know that there’s really anything she could say to me. Because Cari’s gone. Nothing will bring her back.”
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Golyar will officially be sentenced on August 15th.

Beyond satisfied that the judge returned with a guilty verdict. RIP Cari

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Golyar sentenced to life in prison for murder, disappearance

Judge Timothy Burns sentences Shanna Golyar to life in prison plus 18-20 years for the 2012 murder and disappearance of Cari Farver.

Golyar stabbed Farver to death, but her body has never been found. She then assumed her identity by trying to apply for her job at West Corp., sent text messages to Farver's family pretending to be the missing woman, and harassed her boyfriend. Golyar previously dated the man Farver was seeing.
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http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/shanna-golyar-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of/article_34e1d37a-81c7-11e7-af6b-6b2d941e3bbe.html

After years of heartache, relatives of homicide victim Cari Farver now have many of the answers they sought, though big questions remain.

“We’d still like to know exactly what happened and where my daughter ended up so we could take care of her,” said Farver’s mother, Nancy Raney.

“She terrorized too many people,” Raney said. “She needs to be off the streets. She needs to have the sentence (life) that she gave everyone else. My grandson will never see his mother again.”
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Did anyone else watch the Dateline episode?

I hadn't heard of this case before, but clocked on early that it was Golyar doing all of this. What a twisted woman. I'm glad she's never going to see the light of day again.

I hope that Dave Kroupa's memory of Cari can now focus on the good times they had for two weeks, rather than the 'Crazy Cari' he thought she was.
 
Lawyer gets anonymous emails threatening kids of woman convicted of killing romantic rival

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/lawyer-gets-anonymous-emails-threatening-kids-of-woman-convicted-of/article_352d1096-5bb5-572f-a0dd-819871ff5521.html

The anonymous emails threatened that Golyar’s children would be hurt if Golyar did not tell police the location of Farver’s body.

After the second email, James Martin Davis, the attorney for Golyar, showed the emails to prosecutors, then gave them to police.

Omaha Police Detective Dave Schneider said the guardians of Golyar’s children have been notified and that officials are investigating the threats. But he said the emails resemble messages Golyar sent after Farver’s disappearance.
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“Tell Liz she has 30 days to supply the location of Cari Farver or she will pay the price. As the saying goes, an eye for an eye.”

A second email sent on Thanksgiving was more forceful: “If the family of Cari Farver is unable to bury her, then Shanna will have big problems. She has children. She is in jail, unable to protect them,” the person wrote.
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I watched the Dateline re-run tonight. This case almost makes me afraid to date; I'm afraid I might meet someone like Shanna/Liz.
 
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