March 31, 2026
Chapter 137: The Case Against Liz Golyar-The Twisted Case of Cari Farver Part 2
After years of terrifying messages, threats, and manipulation, the truth behind Cari Farver’s disappearance finally begins to surface.In Part 2, investigators uncover a chilling web of deception that points not to an unknown stalker, but to someone much closer. As digital evidence, forensic clues, and shocking behavior come together, the case takes a turn no one expected.
Who was really behind the messages?
What happened to Cari Farver?
And how did one person maintain such an elaborate lie for years?
This is the conclusion of one of the most disturbing cases of identity theft, obsession, and murder in modern true crime.
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Hello, Hello, Welcome to the next chapter in the Book
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of the Dead. Last week I told you the story
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of Carrie Farvar, a thirty seven year old woman who
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was reported missing in November of twenty twelve after failing
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to show up for different family events. In addition to this,
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while no one had managed to lay eyes on Carrie,
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people were receiving alarming and disturbing messages from her, specifically
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her mother, Nancy Dave Krupa. The man she had been
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dating during the two weeks prior to her disappearance, and
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a woman named Liz Golier who was also dating Dave
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over two and a half years. Tens of thousands of
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messages were sent, Liz's home in Dave's workplace were vandalized,
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and Liz's home was even set on fire, killing her
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four pets in the blaze. But still, while Carrie claimed responsibility,
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no one had seen any sign of her. Her house
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looked as if she had simply gone out for the day,
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and her car had been found in pristine condition outside
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Dave's apartment the January after the last sighting of her. Finally,
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in twenty fifteen, and investigators were curious about the case
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of the woman who was actively stalking multiple people, but
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no one had any idea where she was. As they
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started looking into her case, it became clear that Carrie
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Farvar was likely dead and the person pretending to be
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her was none other than Liz Golier. As they uncovered
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more evidence that alluded to the fact that Liz was
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possibly responsible for Carrie's death, they feared that someone else
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was going to get hurt. On December fifth, twenty fifteen,
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the Pottawatamee County Sheriff's office received a phone call that
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a woman had been shot in Big Lake Park in
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Council Bluffs, Iowa. This was where Dave Croupa's ex girlfriend,
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Amy Flora lived, and Liz Goliar had just hours earlier
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told police that she believed Amy was the stalker and
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Dave's gun had been stolen. As police raced to the scene,
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convinced that Amy was their victim, they were baffled by
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who they found bleeding in the parking lot. Their gunshot
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victim was not Amy Flora, it was Liz's golier. Liz
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had been shot in the leg, and as she is
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receiving medical attention, she's asked what happened. According to court records,
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While her account of what happened would vary over the
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next few hours and days, she was insistent that Amy
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Flora was the person that shot her. Police went to
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Amy's home to confront her about the accusation, but when
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Amy opened the door with her young son and it
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was clear that her car had not been used in
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a while as it was cool to the touch, she
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was quickly cleared of any involvement of the accusation Deputy
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Ryan Avis told ABC quote, I found it highly I
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found it highly suspicious that the day before she felt
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the need to tell me that Dave Croupa's gun had
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been stolen, and less than twenty four hours later she shot.
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It was pretty quickly determined that most likely Liz Golier
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had shot herself. While it was clear that Liz had
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orchestrated the shooting to incriminate Amy, likely because the police
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were closing in on her, they still had a lot
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of evidence they needed to gather to show that Liz
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was responsible for whatever had happened to Carrie. So far,
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all they could prove was that Liz was impersonating Carrie
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and had been stocking Dave Krupa. Liz had given investigators
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permission to do a second data extraction on her phone
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the day before the shooting, and forensic analyst Tony Caba
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began sipping through it to find anything else that could
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help aid in building a case against her. Ung the
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various email addresses tied to Liz, but using variations of
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Carrie's name, he found that Liz was using apps to
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schedule messages to show up while she and Dapor together
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in order to make it appear to him that Carrie
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was sending them. Kabba told ABC quote she was able
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to send messages pretending to be Carrie and they would
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arrive while she was sitting on the couch next to Dave.
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From Dabe's point of view, Liz couldn't have sent it
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because she was sitting next to him at the time.
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After determining that Carrie was spending the majority of her
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time forty to fifty hours a week creating and sending messages,
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he said quote, this seemed to be a full time
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occupation for her, trying to stock people and send the messages.
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A couple of weeks after the shooting, Liz was brought
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in for another interview, and she expressed frustration that Amy
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wasn't being fully investigated. Detectives Doughty and Avis told Liz
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that they believed her, but they needed hard proof that
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Amy was responsible for the stalking, the messages, and for
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what had happened to Liz. Coincidentally, almost immediately after this meeting,
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they started receiving forwarded messages allegedly written by Amy claiming
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she had shot Liz at Big Lake Park. According to ABC,
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they pressed Liz to keep talking to Amy in order
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to get more information. Days later, there sent another email
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from Amy, this time detailing an alleged confession to the
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murder of Carrie Farber. According to the Omaha World Herald,
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a portion of the emails sent in late December twenty
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fifteen read, I attacked her with a knife. I snapped
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her three or four times in the chest and stomach area.
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I took her out and burned her. I stopped her
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body in a garbage bag with crap. While this email
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was damning in and of itself and what investigators believed
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to be a clear confess, it still wasn't exactly what
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they needed. Between December twenty one, twenty fifteen, and February
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twenty fourth, twenty sixteen, Gullier forwarded more emails to the
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police from Amy, with the messages detailing the fire started
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at Liz's home and alleged confession to the shooting of Liz,
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and various details of Carrie's murder, some of which they
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found to be inconsistent, but what was always consistent was
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the stabbing, wrapping her body in a tarp and burning
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it before disposing of her remains. One of the emails
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also mentioned specific tattoos that Carrie had, one being a
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Yin and Yan tattoo on her hip. She got to
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match her ex husband, as well as a tattoo of
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the Chinese character for mother on her foot, according to
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court records. In late February, after Liz questions why Amy
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hasn't been arrested, investigators tell her that they need a
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little bit more information that only the killer would know.
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While they were telling Liz that Amy was their prime suspect,
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she seemed completely unaware that she was really their target.
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After this conversation, another email came through, and this time
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it contained a key detail where Carrie had been killed. Quote,
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I drove carry out to the woods and she was
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still begging for her life, crying, wanting me to let
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her go. Investigators believed that the vehicle that Liz had
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driven had been Carrie's Sport Explorer, so they took a
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third look at the car on February eighteenth, and this
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time they find the evidence they had needed all along.
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The forensics technician removed the sea covers and found on
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the passenger seat the foam had been stained with blood.
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Upon further testing, the blood was determined to belong to Carrie. Farber.
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With this new evidence, Stdy and Avis are positive that
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Carrie was murdered and she had likely been killed in
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Omaha based on reports in the original missing person stile
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that showed Carrie's phone pinging in Douglas County a few
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days after she had disappeared. Based on this cold case's
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homicide Detective Dave Schneider and the Omaha Police Department were
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brought in to help work the investigation. Detective Schneider brought
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Liz in for questioning regarding the disappearance and murder of
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Carrie Farvar, showing her all of the evidence that had
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been gathered up until that point, the photos of Carrie's car,
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the different email accounts, the IP addresses that pointed to
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all the places she had lived, but Liz denied everything.
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She had no Internet access, had no idea what they
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were talking about. As she's being questioned, Dodi and ABIs
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obtain Warrens to search the apartment Liz was currently staying
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in and the home of Todd Butterbaugh, the tech guy
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who worked for the Sheriff's office, with whom Liz had
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lived with and used his Internet to send most of
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the harassing messages. As police searched the apartment. They found
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quite a few items of interest, LG cell phones, a
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specific black and white shower curtain that was identified to
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be the same one purchased at the Family Dollar with
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Carrie's debit card four days after her disappearance in November
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of twenty twelve, a red Sony video camera, a Nikon
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coolpit's digital camera, as well as various SD cards. In March,
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just a few weeks later, police searched the storage unit
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that Nancy, Carrie's mother had moved her daughters things too.
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In the storage unit, investigators found the user manuals to
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both the camquarder and the digital camera, as well as
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the receipt from the store they were purchased from in
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October of twenty twelve. According to ABC, investigators determined that
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Liz had broken into Carrie's home at some point after
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the murder and had taken what she wanted. They also
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viewed the footage on the camquarder and found and a
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clip of Carrie talking about someone vandalizing her car, dated
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two days before she vanished. According to Lover's Soccer Killer,
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Nancy recalled Carrie mentioning the damaged workr It had been
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spray painted all over, and she had spent a long
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time with her son cleaning all of the paint off.
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Carrie and Nancy had at some point assumed it was
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some kids playing a prank, but it seemed in hindsight,
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much more sinister than some juvenile joke. After over a
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year of tracking down every piece of evidence they could,
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the police finally had enough to make an arrest. On
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December twenty second, twenty sixteen, Liz Gollier was arrested and
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charged with first degree murder in the death of Carrie Farverr.
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Even with an arrest being made, though, there was still
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a battle to be fought. While the evidence against Liz
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was strong, it was still a case built entirely uncircumstantial evidence,
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and since they had never found Carrie's body, the prosecution
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would have to work hard to build a case for murder.
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Douglas County Prosecutor Brenda Beadle said, quote, this was by
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far the most difficult case I've ever tried. Most homicides
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are dark. This one was bizarre to the point where
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it would take some convincing to make somebody believe that
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it actually happened. There's no way that someone would let
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their dog die in a fire that they started. There's
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no way that someone would shoot themselves in the femur.
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Liz's attorney, James Martin Davis, was aware of the problem
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the prosecution had, but he was also acutely aware that
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if a body was found, his client was guaranteed to
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be convicted. To try and expedite the process, they wave
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the right to have a jury hear the case, opting
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for a bench trial instead. He said, quote, not only
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was there no body, there was no crime scene, there
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was no murder weapon, there was no proof that she
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even died. We waved the jury trial to move it
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up so I could try this case, hopefully before they'd
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find a body. According to an article for A and E,
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weeks before Liz's trial was to begin in February twenty seventeen,
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Dave Krupa brought investigators an old tablet he had owned,
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an old tablet he had owned at the time he
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had been dating Carrie and Liz. Inside was a micro
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SD card, and Tony Kava was able to recover over
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thirteen thousand photos and text messages that had been sent
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to and by Liz Golier. The SD card was determined
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to have originally been used in an LG cell phone
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that belonged to Liz and had had its data extracted
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in twenty thirteen. Hundreds of the photos found on the
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phone were also the same as once found on the
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SD card. As Kava sipped through the As Kava sipped
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through these photos, he found something alarming. In addition to
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various pictures of what seemed to be a blue and
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gray tarp, there was an image of a quote flesh
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colored object with a Yin Yang symbol on it. Another
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image had a similarly colored object with the Chinese character
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on it. A forensic video analyst compared the images to
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