When Truth Deceives: 5 Shocking Crime Cases That Defy All Expectations
In August 2013, Golyar’s house caught fire, kil**ng her pets, including two dogs, a cat, and a snake. Investigators suspected arson, and Golyar blamed Farver.
Kroupa’s workplace was also vandalised. In another frightening incident, someone tried his front door handle before throwing a brick through his window. He believed Farver was responsible for the escalating threats, unaware that the person he was dating might be connected to the harassment.
Meanwhile, Farver’s family was desperate for answers.
Her mother, Nancy Raney, received messages supposedly written by her daughter, claiming Farver had moved to Kansas for a new job and would eventually return for her son, Max. But Farver never called home or appeared in person.
She missed her son’s 15th birthday, Thanksgiving, her half-brother’s wedding, and her father’s funeral. Raney also noticed that the messages contained spelling and grammatical mistakes that didn’t resemble her daughter’s usual writing.
At one point, a man claimed he had seen Farver at a homeless shelter and said she wanted her mother to collect her. Raney rushed there, hoping to bring her daughter home, only to discover that Farver had never been there.
“It was such a letdown and I was just devastated,” Raney recalled. “I get this raising in my hopes and then it’s dashed again… I knew somebody was playing games here.”
Six months after the disappearance, Farver’s son, Max, tried messaging her Facebook account. Someone replied, but the conversation stopped when he asked questions only his mother should have been able to answer.
Raney reported her daughter missing, but the initial investigation failed to establish what had happened.
Farver had previously been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and her mother felt authorities focused too heavily on the possibility that she had left voluntarily.
The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office later said the available evidence had been inconclusive.
For Raney, the explanation never made sense.
Her daughter had a job, a home, and a son she loved, yet nobody could confirm that she was alive.
By spring 2015, two and a half years had passed since anyone had seen Farver. The messages continued, prompting investigators Ryan Avis and Jim Doty to revisit the case.
Avis explored whether Farver could still be alive, while Doty considered the possibility that she had been m**dered. One detail stood out: Farver’s bank account had shown no activity throughout her disappearance.
“It’s not normal for adults to just up and leave and literally spend no money. No one’s seen them and no one’s heard their voice… It just didn’t make sense,” Avis said.
Doty also questioned Golyar’s involvement. Although she had supposedly met Farver only once, her name appeared repeatedly in reports about the harassment.
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“All of a sudden she’s this focus of harassment,” Doty said. “Her name was all over all the reports. So to me, there was something with Liz. … She definitely was a person of interest.”
The investigators brought in digital forensics specialist Anthony Kava, who examined phone records, email accounts, and other electronic evidence.
He estimated that the person impersonating Farver had sent Kroupa around 15,000 emails over three years, along with tens of thousands of text messages.
Then investigators found a photograph of Farver’s Ford Explorer on Golyar’s phone. It had been taken about a month before police recovered the vehicle.
“Somehow Liz knew where Cari’s vehicle was before law enforcement even did,” Doty said.
Other digital evidence strengthened their suspicions.
A photograph sent during the harassment campaign had been taken using Golyar’s phone, while a video uploaded under Farver’s name was linked to an internet address registered to Golyar’s home.
Golyar later reported being sh*t in the leg while walking alone at Big Lake Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
She eventually suggested that Flora was responsible.
Investigators grew suspicious, particularly because Golyar had recently discussed Kroupa’s missing g*n and correctly identified its make and calibre.
“It was pretty quickly determined that most likely Liz Golyar had sh*t herself,” Avis said. Investigators cleared Flora of involvement.
Kava also discovered that Golyar had used an app that allowed her to schedule messages in advance. This explained how messages could arrive while she was sitting beside Kroupa, making it appear impossible for her to be the sender.
Kava estimated that Golyar might have spent 40 to 50 hours a week impersonating Farver.
“This seemed to be a full-time occupation for her, trying to stalk people and send them messages,” he said.
Investigators still needed evidence establishing what had happened to Farver.
In December 2015, Golyar complained to the sheriff’s office that Flora was harassing her.
Detectives used the opportunity to gather more evidence, pretending to believe her accusations and encouraging her to produce messages supposedly sent by Flora.
Some of the emails contained graphic descriptions of Farver’s m**der, including claims that she had been stabbed and placed in a garbage bag.
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