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A love triangle turned deadly and resulted in the headline-making murder of Cari Farver.
Police investigated Cari’s mysterious disappearance for years before they arrested and charged her killer, Shanna Liz Golyar.
Were Shanna Liz Golyar and Dave Kroupa dating?
Yes, Shanna Liz Golyar and Dave Kroupa were dating but broke up with her before starting a relationship with Cari Farver.
Kroupa and Golyar met on an online dating site in 2012.
They saw each other regularly, but before the relationship got serious, Kroupa told Golyar he wasn’t looking to commit.
Golyar told him she agreed.
A few months later, Kroupa met Farver, who lived an hour away in Macedonia, Iowa, at his auto shop, and later asked her out.
How Shanna Liz Golyar and Cari Farver first met
On one of their early dates, the two spent part of the evening together in Kroupa’s apartment; as she was leaving, Farver passed a woman in the hallway.
It was Shanna Golyar, who claimed she’d dropped by Kroupa’s apartment to pick up a few of her things.
While it made for an awkward few moments, Kroupa said that Farver didn’t seem fazed.
She told him it was “not a big deal” and just told him to call when he had everything sorted out.
He met Shanna six months prior after connecting through an online dating app.
While he was involved with both women, Cari was last seen on November 13, 2012.
She went missing for years due to meeting her demise at the hands of Shanna.
In the wake of Cari’s disappearance, Shanna repeatedly masqueraded as the late victim to throw police authorities off her trail during the investigation.
During this time, the perpetrator posed as the victim several times on social media to craft posts and send messages to loved ones.
In May 2013, Shanna circulated a noticeably long Facebook post through Cari’s profile.
Full of grammatical errors, the post on the missing woman’s page read: “I have answered enough questions to prove myself to everyone I am done.”
“You can’t either believe I am your daughter, mother, sister, and friend that you have know your whole life or you can just leave me alone.”
The alarming post further added: “I left on my own free will and I am sick of everyone giving me a hard time for doing what I needed to do.”
“I am not missing I just don’t want to come home right now.”
“I am a grown women and if I feel like leaving home I have the right.”
While impersonating Cari, Shanna even went as far as to mention her son and said in the same post: “I asked my son Max (Maxwell James) to come with me, but you didn’t want to.”
“So when I am ready to come back home I will. I am sorry for hurting everyone and just up and leaving.”
Who killed Cari Farver?
On December 22, 2016, Shanna Golyar was apprehended by Nebraska law enforcement.
She was charged with the first-degree murder of Cari Farver, and her bench trial commenced on May 10, 2017.
She was convicted for the killing, with an additional charge of arson, and sentenced to life in prison.
