Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Debra Roberts. We're taking a few weeks off from new podcast programming on Wednesdays while we work on a new interesting series to share with you. So in the meantime, we're bringing back some of our installments from our classic series, Bad Romance. Here's this week's episode.
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An Iowa woman goes from lover to stalker. She sends 15,000 harassing emails and texts. But it goes so much further. Arson, a gunshot. And for one man, it seems like there's no escape from this tangled web. Am I ever gonna love, gonna love, gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love, gonna love, gonna love again? It's a huge place, this park, and somehow it feels bigger in the dark.
And a killer is in the park tonight, carrying a loaded gun. A woman is out for a walk, alone. She said a female approached her from behind, told her to get on the ground, and then fired a shot at her leg. She said the female ran off into the woods, and then she felt it was safe, so she walked this pathway and called 911, because she had left her phone in her car.
911, what's the address of your emergency?
I've been shot in the leg. Oh, my favorite leg is filled with blood. Oh, Jesus.
Is the assailant still there by?
I don't think so.
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Chapter 2: What events led to the transformation of a lover into a stalker?
You know, we both smiled. Carrie Farver was a 37-year-old single mother to a 14-year-old son. She was a computer programmer at a big firm in Omaha. She's showing me something inside the vehicle, and we're standing there, and we're very close, you know, within a couple inches of each other, and there's some tension.
Carrie talked to me about meeting Dave, and she was like, you know, this guy, totally not my type, but there was just something there.
Carrie and I ended up going to Applebee's for our first date. We hit it off. As we're getting up to leave, I asked Carrie if she wanted to come over, hang out, and she said yes. So we went back to my place and we shared a kiss. And then it got a little hotter and a little heavier. And then Carrie stopped and said, OK, if we're going to do this, and this implying sex, that's all it is.
You're not my boyfriend. I'm not your girlfriend. I felt like I hit the jackpot with that. I couldn't have wrote it better. So, first date goes well. As Carrie is leaving, Liz Golier, the other woman Dave had been dating, comes down the hall of the apartment complex, unannounced, to pick up a T-shirt she'd left at Dave's. No words exchanged.
I walked Carrie out the front door, and she walked right by Liz, and they probably saw each other for six seconds. out there in the hallway, in just a few seconds, three lives are changed forever. Carrie's job happened to be right around the corner from where I lived versus an hour from where she lives. She had a big project coming up at work. She was working very late hours.
Dave offered for her to stay at his house so that she wouldn't have to make that commute back and forth. Dave Krupa wakes up and gets ready for work. and about 6.30 a.m., he gives Carrie a kiss, and he leaves for work for the day. She's on the couch, got her laptop out, she's doing her thing. So I gotta go to work, so I say, I'll see you later. I had expected to see Carrie that evening.
When Dave said goodbye to Carrie that morning, he had absolutely no idea the nightmare that his life was about to turn into.
Mid-morning, Dave received a text, and he glanced at it. It was a message from Carrie.
She texts me and says, let's move in together, which was very left field. As soon as I can, I text her back and say, I can't do that. We haven't known each other nearly long enough for that. And almost immediately, I get a message back that says, fine, I hate you. I'm dating someone else. I don't want to see you anymore. Go away. Lots of profanity. I didn't know what to think. I was blown away.
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Chapter 3: How did Carrie Farver's life and background contribute to the unfolding drama?
They arrest Liz. Douglas County Prosecutor Brenda Beadle takes the case. This was by far the most difficult case I've ever tried. Most homicides are dark. This one was bizarre. There's no way that someone would let their dog die in a fire that they started. There's no way that someone would shoot themselves in the femur. Liz Golyer's defense attorney is James Martin Davis.
James Martin Davis is somewhat of a legend in Omaha, Nebraska, a very, very well-known defense attorney.
Not only was there no body, there was no crime scene, there was no murder weapon, there was no proof that she even died. We waived the jury trial to move it up so I could try this case, hopefully before they'd find a body.
In waiving the jury trial, Davis is requesting that the trial be presided over by a judge as the fact finder instead of a jury. There's one more startling piece of evidence that prosecutors have. Dave remembered he had a tablet that was in storage for the past couple years. Had been in a box for I don't know how long, you know, a year and a half probably.
And I don't even know why I thought about it.
It had a micro SD card in it. It looked blank. If you plugged it into your computer, it would look like there was nothing there. But there was deleted information. That SD card, it turns out it had been in Liz's phone.
It had thousands and thousands of deleted images that she thought were gone. But we were able to retrieve them. One of those images is the last and biggest piece of evidence against Liz Collier. I came to a photo that no one had seen before.
And I wasn't sure what I was looking at first, but it turned out to be a human foot.
Human foot with a tattoo. And the foot was decomposing. So this person was dead. And we were able to figure out that Chinese tattoo was a symbol for mother.
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