Lovers

Nightmares

Incongruity

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In November 2012, freshly divorced auto shop manager Dave Kroupa thought he was navigating the casual dating scene in Omaha, Nebraska until one short relationship ended and the stalking began. For the next three years, the messages grew more violent, more personal, and more terrifying, all coming from a woman who refused to let him go. But as detectives dug into the case, they uncovered a truth that forced Dave to confront a chilling possibility: the nightmare stalking him had been much closer than he ever imagined.

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0:00.0	Modern dating comes with an ugly reality.
0:05.0	In case you haven't figured it out.
0:22.6	You can give a stranger access to your life faster than you can figure out who they really are.
0:28.6	It starts with sharing a first name, then a last name, and soon enough you're handing out birth dates and your kids' names and all sorts of
0:40.3	password reminders.
0:41.3	They're hanging out at your house, they know your address, who the hell is this person
0:47.3	anyway.
0:48.3	Most of the time, it's harmless.
0:51.3	Online connections do occasionally turn into real love. But sometimes all it takes
0:56.7	is one polite text. Like, hey, I don't think this is going to work out. And then suddenly,
1:04.4	a person on the other end doesn't hear goodbye. To them, it's a challenge. 35-year-old David Krupa was freshly divorced
1:15.6	and having a great time keeping things casual on the dating scene. In fact, he'd found
1:22.5	more than one woman he was interested in, except one of them didn't really believe in the whole casual thing.
1:31.0	In the beginning, Dave thought he was just juggling a messy situation.
1:36.6	He had no idea.
1:39.6	He was stepping into a literal nightmare.
1:42.8	Music stepping into a literal nightmare. Welcome to Sword and Scale Nightmares.
2:10.6	True crime for bedtime.
2:13.6	When nightmare begins now. The Nightmare begins now.
2:20.3	The After his divorce, David Krupa was living the kind of life most people would call average.
2:45.6	He had two kids, and he was trying to make a co-parenting thing work with his ex-Amy Flora.
2:52.1	That meant calendars, custody swaps, school stuff, and constant coordination that keeps
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