Episode 93 - Cari Farver
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In 2012, David Kroupa was working as a mechanic and enjoying life as a bachelor when his life was suddenly turned upside down after a few visits to a dating website.
David had no idea he’d become the deadly obsession of a woman with predatory focus unwilling to let anything stand in her way.
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu0uc1KZTNs
http://charleyproject.org/case/cari-lea-farver
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/cari-farver/
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20201127_050000_Dateline
https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/closing-arguments-delivered-in-shanna-golyar-trial
https://abcnews.go.com/US/horrific-stalking-case-jealous-lovers-cover-murder/story?id=74431142
“A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice.”
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| 0:00.0 | The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds |
| 0:05.0 | of Madness podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:36.8 | In 2012, David Crupo was working as a mechanic and enjoying life as a bachelor. |
| 0:45.8 | When his life was suddenly turned upside down, after a few visits to a dating website, |
| 0:51.9 | David had no idea he'd become the deadly obsession of a woman with predatory focus, unwilling |
| 0:58.6 | to let anything stand in her way. |
| 1:01.8 | Join me now as we take a look into a case of an eligible bachelor thrown into the middle |
| 1:07.3 | of a missing person's case. |
| 1:09.5 | You'll learn how dangerous playing the field can be and just how far a disturbed woman |
| 1:15.4 | was willing to go to get what she wanted. |
| 1:32.9 | Earlier in David Crupo's life, he enjoyed a relationship for over a decade with Amy |
| 1:37.4 | Flora, a woman he also shared two children with. |
| 1:41.0 | But throughout their time together, David was reluctant to get married. |
| 1:45.2 | Despite his southern path disuppering somewhere along the way, David had developed the opinion |
| 1:50.8 | that marriage was a trap. |
| 1:52.9 | Besides, although they didn't have official paperwork showing they were married, Dave |
| 1:57.8 | was a monogamous partner as well as a committed father. |
| 2:01.8 | But eventually, Ainean Dave's conflicting views on marriage drove a wedge between them. |
| 2:07.2 | Although they hoped to stay together for the sake of the kids, they eventually decided |
| 2:11.5 | to part ways. Initially, communication between them was strained, but they eventually managed |
| 2:17.6 | to pull it together. |
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