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The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Episode 93 - Cari Farver

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

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Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.56.7K 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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Research & Writing:
Ashton Morrow

Script Editing:
Rose Keefe

Special Thanks:
Samii Taylor

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu0uc1KZTNs
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Transcript

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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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