Dateline Presents: Something About Cari

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4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

As a bonus for Southlake fans, we’re sharing the trailer for Something About Cari, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Keith Morrison. In this podcast Keith Morrison takes us to America’s heartland, where single mom Cari Farver disappears just weeks into a new romance. What follows is a series of strange and terrifying events, including taunting texts and threatening emails to Cari's boyfriend and his ex that escalate to stalking, arson and murder. But nothing could prepare friends, family, and investigators for the mind-bending twist that would come next… If you like what you hear, just search Something About Cari to listen to the first two episodes now, completely free. Or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or DatelinePremium.com. Subscribers get early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad-free.

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0:00.0	Imagine, if you can, the torment, the confusion.
0:06.0	Her brilliant daughter vanished without warning, without a word.
0:10.7	I didn't know how to start looking for.
0:13.3	So what does that like?
0:14.6	It's hell.
0:16.5	It's just frustration and just helplessness.
0:20.6	But the disappearance of Nancy Reni's daughter, Carrie,
0:22.9	was quite unlike any other,
0:25.3	because Carrie hadn't exactly vanished,
0:27.9	but retreated beyond the shadows to release rage in torrents of text messages,
0:33.0	to wound her worried family, and terrorized that man.
0:38.5	How would you get 50, 60 a day?
0:41.1	A day?
0:42.4	Yeah, all day long.
0:44.0	Was there brief fling so terrible?
0:47.4	Why all that hate?
0:49.3	Why deadly attacks on an imagined rival?
0:52.3	911, do you need police, fire, or medics?
0:55.0	Fire? I get walked into my house, and they're still swirling out of it.
0:58.9	Angry, vengeful, tireless, carry.
1:01.8	And it just went on and on and on for years.
1:06.1	I haven't wanted a severe emergency.
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