1
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<i>[crow caws]</i>

2
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<i>[water trickles]</i>

3
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<i>[man 1] I don't feel blameless
in all of this.</i>

4
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<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

5
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<i>A lot of bad things
happened to good people...</i>

6
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<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

7
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<i>...all because of a series of events
that I'm at the center of.</i>

8
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<i>[gunshot]</i>

9
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<i>[woman 1 breathes anxiously]</i>

10
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<i>[phone dialling]</i>

11
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<i>[line rings]</i>

12
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<i>[operator] 911, what's the address
of your emergency?</i>

13
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<i>[woman 1 panting] I've been shot. Oh no!</i>

14
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<i>Prosecutors allege
a love triangle turned fatal.</i>

15
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<i>Of all the cases I've ever prosecuted,
this is the most bizarre and twisted.</i>

16
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<i>[match strikes]</i>

17
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<i>[anchor] The defense is arguing a murder
might not have even happened.</i>

18
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<i>[man 2] I was obsessed with this case,
we all were.</i>

19
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<i>But we knew
it was gonna be an uphill battle.</i>

20
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<i>We didn't have a body,
we didn't have a weapon,</i>

21
00:01:02,228 --> 00:01:03,938
<i>we barely had a crime scene.</i>

22
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<i>I mean, those are the things
that every murder trial has.</i>

23
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<i>[ominous music playing]</i>

24
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<i>I thought I'd seen it all.
I hadn't seen anything like this.</i>

25
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<i>[children playing]</i>

26
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<i>[woman 2] I was terrified for my kids.</i>

27
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<i>[man 3] The person we're dealing with
is scary.</i>

28
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<i>Who knows what they're capable of?</i>

29
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<i>[eerie singing]</i>

30
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<i>[door slams]</i>

31
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<i>The one word
that comes to mind is "monster."</i>

32
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<i>[spooky whistling]</i>

33
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<i>[cheerful music plays]</i>

34
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<i>[man 1] It must've been 2000.</i>

35
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{\an8}<i>I was workin' as a mechanic
at a truck stop.</i>

36
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{\an8}<i>One day, this blonde-haired,
good-lookin' woman started workin' there.</i>

37
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<i>[projector clicks]</i>

38
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<i>He asked if he could
take me out on a date,</i>

39
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<i>and it was kind of in a goofy way.</i>

40
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<i>[projector clicks]</i>

41
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<i>His dorkiness kind of did attract me.</i>

42
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<i>[projector clicks]</i>

43
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<i>I found myself
falling in love with him very fast.</i>

44
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<i>Before you know it, we had, ya know,
everything but the white-picket fence.</i>

45
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<i>[projector clicks]</i>

46
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<i>So it was, ya know, the American dream.</i>

47
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<i>Almost.</i>

48
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<i>Dave worked days, and I worked nights,
and so we didn't see a lot of each other,</i>

49
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<i>and I think that's basically where
we started growing apart.</i>

50
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<i>[projector clicks]</i>

51
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<i>[Dave] We just weren't happy
anymore together,</i>

52
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<i>and it was probably time to split.</i>

53
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<i>[cheerful music continues]</i>

54
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<i>[projector clicks]</i>

55
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<i>[woman 2] I decided
that I was ready to come home,</i>

56
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<i>and I was bringing the kids with me.</i>

57
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<i>[Dave] There was no part of me
that wasn't gonna take care of my kids,</i>

58
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<i>so separated or not, we were gonna have
to be in the same place.</i>

59
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{\an8}<i>That's how I ended up movin'
to Omaha, Nebraska.</i>

60
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{\an8}<i>[train horn blows]</i>

61
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{\an8}<i>But I had no idea
what the hell was waitin' for me.</i>

62
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<i>I was starting over as a single person.</i>

63
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<i>It's a little bit lonely in a new place
where you don't know anybody.</i>

64
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{\an8}<i>So I got a job in the automotive industry,
turnin' wrench, 'cause that's what I do.</i>

65
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<i>I got a little one-bedroom apartment,
it was pretty nice.</i>

66
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<i>[pleasant synth music plays]</i>

67
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<i>I was wild and free at 35,
and I was determined to enjoy it.</i>

68
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<i>[knuckles crack]</i>

69
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<i>[typing]</i>

70
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<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

71
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<i>Plenty of Fish. That's what everybody
was usin', apparently.</i>

72
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<i>I was definitely not looking
for something serious.</i>

73
00:04:02,033 --> 00:04:03,034
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

74
00:04:03,868 --> 00:04:04,869
<i>[typing]</i>

75
00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:06,955
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

76
00:04:07,038 --> 00:04:09,666
<i>So I'm pretty excited at this point.</i>

77
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<i>[rising tone]</i>

78
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<i>[pleasant synth music stops]</i>

79
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<i>[chimes]</i>

80
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<i>Zero, zilch, nada.</i>

81
00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,344
<i>Am I that bad
that nobody wants to talk to me?</i>

82
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<i>[birds chirp]</i>

83
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<i>A few days after that...</i>

84
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<i>[typing]</i>

85
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<i>...looked again, and...</i>

86
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<i>[beeps]</i>

87
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<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

88
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<i>That's when Liz came into my life.</i>

89
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{\an8}<i>[pleasant synth music resumes]</i>

90
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{\an8}<i>She seemed very cool, very down-to-earth.</i>

91
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<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

92
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<i>She had a cleaning company.</i>

93
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<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

94
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<i>She obviously loved animals.</i>

95
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<i>She had two dogs, a cat...</i>

96
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<i>-[clicks mouse]
-...and a big snake.</i>

97
00:04:49,122 --> 00:04:51,916
<i>It turns out that we had a lot in common.</i>

98
00:04:52,834 --> 00:04:56,587
<i>We both liked sci-fi action movies,
heavy metal.</i>

99
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<i>She liked motorcycles, I had a motorcycle.
It was a match made in heaven.</i>

100
00:05:02,218 --> 00:05:03,219
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

101
00:05:03,761 --> 00:05:06,180
<i>We both had a son and a daughter.</i>

102
00:05:06,764 --> 00:05:08,850
<i>We were both lonely.</i>

103
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<i>[pleasant synth music stops]</i>

104
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<i>This was my first real date
in years and years.</i>

105
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<i>I was pretty nervous,</i>

106
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<i>but we really hit it off.</i>

107
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<i>[indistinct chatter]</i>

108
00:05:21,404 --> 00:05:24,157
<i>["Funnel of Love" by Wanda Jackson plays]</i>

109
00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,283
<i>♪ Here I go ♪</i>

110
00:05:25,366 --> 00:05:27,618
<i>♪ Fallin' down, down, down... ♪</i>

111
00:05:28,453 --> 00:05:30,330
<i>[Dave] She was very smiley, energetic.</i>

112
00:05:30,413 --> 00:05:31,664
<i>♪ My head is spinning around... ♪</i>

113
00:05:31,748 --> 00:05:32,707
<i>Full of life.</i>

114
00:05:32,790 --> 00:05:35,752
<i>♪ As I go deep into the funnel of love... ♪</i>

115
00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:38,504
<i>We would go downtown and hit the bars.</i>

116
00:05:38,588 --> 00:05:39,964
<i>♪ It's such a crazy ♪</i>

117
00:05:40,048 --> 00:05:41,341
<i>♪ Crazy feeling ♪</i>

118
00:05:41,424 --> 00:05:42,842
<i>♪ I get weak in the knees ♪</i>

119
00:05:42,925 --> 00:05:46,637
<i>♪ My poor old head is a-reelin' ♪</i>

120
00:05:46,721 --> 00:05:50,475
<i>♪ As I go deep into the funnel of love... ♪</i>

121
00:05:52,935 --> 00:05:56,272
<i>Ya know, it'd been a long time for me,
and I guess once I got the green flag,</i>

122
00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:57,565
<i>I was in.</i>

123
00:05:57,648 --> 00:05:59,192
<i>♪ I tried and I tried ♪</i>

124
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<i>♪ To run and hide ♪</i>

125
00:06:01,527 --> 00:06:04,781
<i>♪ I even tried to run away-yay-yay ♪</i>

126
00:06:04,864 --> 00:06:08,701
<i>♪ You just can't run
From the funnel of love ♪</i>

127
00:06:08,785 --> 00:06:11,954
<i>-[camera shutter clicking]
-♪ It's bound to get you some day... ♪</i>

128
00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:14,457
<i>[Dave] It was exactly the right mix.</i>

129
00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:16,709
<i>Ya know, I still had my personal space,</i>

130
00:06:16,793 --> 00:06:20,505
<i>but there was someone around
when I wanted to chat or hang out.</i>

131
00:06:22,590 --> 00:06:25,343
<i>It was, I would say, just what I needed
at that time in my life.</i>

132
00:06:26,636 --> 00:06:28,679
<i>♪ It's bound to get you some day ♪</i>

133
00:06:28,763 --> 00:06:29,806
<i>[song ends]</i>

134
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<i>As early as our first date,</i>

135
00:06:34,310 --> 00:06:36,354
<i>I had made it clear to Liz</i>

136
00:06:36,437 --> 00:06:39,232
<i>that I was absolutely not
going to be tied down.</i>

137
00:06:39,315 --> 00:06:42,276
<i>-[mysterious music plays]
-[vehicle approaches]</i>

138
00:06:43,444 --> 00:06:44,654
<i>And then, one day...</i>

139
00:06:46,072 --> 00:06:48,116
<i>Cari Farver came into my life.</i>

140
00:06:56,749 --> 00:06:59,752
<i>My initial thought was,
"Dang, she's good-lookin'."</i>

141
00:07:05,133 --> 00:07:06,926
<i>[Cari] Hey! You look like a car mechanic.</i>

142
00:07:07,009 --> 00:07:07,844
<i>[Dave] Like one, but...</i>

143
00:07:07,927 --> 00:07:09,262
<i>We just smiled at each other.</i>

144
00:07:09,345 --> 00:07:11,431
<i>[Cari] Are you busy,
or can you take a look at my car?</i>

145
00:07:11,514 --> 00:07:13,182
<i>[Dave] Yeah, sure. I can do that.</i>

146
00:07:14,684 --> 00:07:17,061
<i>She was a customer,
I was the manager, that was it.</i>

147
00:07:19,814 --> 00:07:21,315
<i>[Cari] Every car is a little...</i>

148
00:07:23,234 --> 00:07:24,861
<i>For all I knew, I'd never see her again.</i>

149
00:07:26,237 --> 00:07:27,989
<i>[Cari] All right, thank you so much.</i>

150
00:07:35,538 --> 00:07:37,540
<i>[mysterious music continues]</i>

151
00:07:38,749 --> 00:07:39,750
<i>[typing]</i>

152
00:07:42,670 --> 00:07:44,338
<i>[Dave] A couple weeks later,</i>

153
00:07:44,422 --> 00:07:47,675
<i>I'm goin' through the profiles
on a dating site,</i>

154
00:07:47,758 --> 00:07:50,678
<i>and I run across one
I absolutely recognize.</i>

155
00:07:50,761 --> 00:07:51,721
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

156
00:07:53,598 --> 00:07:56,726
<i>It was the girl from the shop,
a couple weeks ago, Cari Farver.</i>

157
00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:02,273
<i>And of course, I made contact.</i>

158
00:08:02,857 --> 00:08:04,358
<i>-[clicks mouse]
-"Hey, I know you."</i>

159
00:08:04,442 --> 00:08:06,819
<i>[mysterious music continues]</i>

160
00:08:06,903 --> 00:08:10,740
<i>She messaged me back and said,
"I know you too," and that was it.</i>

161
00:08:13,493 --> 00:08:15,161
<i>Our first date was pretty good.</i>

162
00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:19,123
<i>She told me a little bit about her life.</i>

163
00:08:19,999 --> 00:08:22,543
<i>She had grown up locally in a small town.</i>

164
00:08:26,589 --> 00:08:29,217
<i>She had had a child
when she was quite young.</i>

165
00:08:31,552 --> 00:08:33,804
<i>But had gone back to college to study.</i>

166
00:08:37,558 --> 00:08:39,352
<i>She had a... a career job.</i>

167
00:08:41,020 --> 00:08:42,522
<i>Computers were her thing.</i>

168
00:08:44,148 --> 00:08:47,652
<i>Her spirit and her drive definitely
marked her out differently</i>

169
00:08:47,735 --> 00:08:49,737
<i>from the rest of the women I had met.</i>

170
00:08:50,404 --> 00:08:54,492
<i>She was smart and sexy,
not in my league all the way around.</i>

171
00:08:54,575 --> 00:08:57,912
<i>But I asked her if she wanted to come back
to my place, and she said sure.</i>

172
00:08:58,496 --> 00:09:00,039
<i>[dog barks]</i>

173
00:09:04,168 --> 00:09:06,128
<i>We haven't even taken our coats off...</i>

174
00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:07,213
<i>[doorbell rings]</i>

175
00:09:08,005 --> 00:09:09,924
<i>...and there's somebody outside.</i>

176
00:09:10,007 --> 00:09:11,300
<i>[intriguing music plays]</i>

177
00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:12,343
<i>It's Liz.</i>

178
00:09:14,428 --> 00:09:17,431
<i>She's like, "I need to get somethin'
outta your apartment."</i>

179
00:09:19,267 --> 00:09:21,602
<i>This is going to be very difficult.</i>

180
00:09:25,815 --> 00:09:28,025
<i>I explain to Cari what's goin' on.</i>

181
00:09:29,443 --> 00:09:31,946
<i>To have this conversation,
yeah, it was a little fuckin' awkward.</i>

182
00:09:36,742 --> 00:09:41,247
<i>Cari and Liz made eye contact
for all of three seconds, maybe.</i>

183
00:09:43,457 --> 00:09:44,959
<i>[intriguing music fades]</i>

184
00:09:47,712 --> 00:09:49,589
<i>After Liz left the apartment...</i>

185
00:09:49,672 --> 00:09:52,091
<i>[intriguing music plays]</i>

186
00:09:52,174 --> 00:09:55,136
<i>...I gave Cari a call and she said,
"Look, I'm halfway home."</i>

187
00:09:55,219 --> 00:09:57,138
<i>"Why don't you just come
over to my place?"</i>

188
00:10:01,767 --> 00:10:02,977
<i>She lived in Macedonia,</i>

189
00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:05,980
<i>which is a tiny town
over the border, in Iowa.</i>

190
00:10:10,401 --> 00:10:13,988
<i>When I get there, she says,
"Look, we're not boyfriend-girlfriend,</i>

191
00:10:14,071 --> 00:10:15,948
<i>we're not monogamous,
we're not gettin' married."</i>

192
00:10:16,032 --> 00:10:17,283
<i>"This is just fun."</i>

193
00:10:17,366 --> 00:10:20,036
<i>And I was like,
"Oh my God. What the hell?"</i>

194
00:10:20,745 --> 00:10:22,204
<i>Yes! I'm in.</i>

195
00:10:23,664 --> 00:10:25,166
<i>[intriguing music ends]</i>

196
00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:27,293
<i>[birds chirp]</i>

197
00:10:29,128 --> 00:10:31,797
<i>Cari worked three blocks
from my apartment,</i>

198
00:10:31,881 --> 00:10:35,635
<i>so we immediately started
spending a ton of time together.</i>

199
00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:39,847
<i>She stayed a lot of nights,
but it wasn't all sex.</i>

200
00:10:39,930 --> 00:10:42,558
<i>We spent a fair amount
of time just talkin'.</i>

201
00:10:43,601 --> 00:10:45,811
<i>And of course,
I was happy to have her there.</i>

202
00:10:50,650 --> 00:10:53,944
<i>And then one mornin',
I got up at six to go to work.</i>

203
00:10:54,904 --> 00:10:57,490
<i>I gave her a little kiss,
I'm out the door.</i>

204
00:10:58,991 --> 00:11:01,327
<i>I didn't know at the time,</i>

205
00:11:01,869 --> 00:11:04,997
<i>but that day would change my life forever.</i>

206
00:11:09,502 --> 00:11:11,337
<i>About ten, ten-thirty...</i>

207
00:11:12,004 --> 00:11:13,005
<i>[phone chimes]</i>

208
00:11:13,714 --> 00:11:15,383
<i>...I get a text from Cari.</i>

209
00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:17,510
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

210
00:11:18,302 --> 00:11:20,429
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

211
00:11:21,013 --> 00:11:23,724
<i>And I'm thinkin',
"I've been seeing you for two weeks."</i>

212
00:11:23,808 --> 00:11:26,811
<i>"Yes, it's been hot and heavy,
it's also been two weeks."</i>

213
00:11:27,311 --> 00:11:28,688
{\an8}<i>[phone ticks]</i>

214
00:11:29,188 --> 00:11:30,189
{\an8}<i>[phone chirps]</i>

215
00:11:33,192 --> 00:11:35,861
<i>I felt like I no sooner said "send,"</i>

216
00:11:35,945 --> 00:11:38,781
<i>and I'm getting a barrage of texts back.</i>

217
00:11:38,864 --> 00:11:40,449
<i>[phone chimes, chirps]</i>

218
00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:41,867
<i>[ominous music playing]</i>

219
00:11:41,951 --> 00:11:43,077
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

220
00:11:45,079 --> 00:11:46,205
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

221
00:11:47,289 --> 00:11:48,666
<i>It was a total shock.</i>

222
00:11:49,417 --> 00:11:52,378
<i>We were involved, but we weren't tryin'
to get thatinvolved.</i>

223
00:11:54,171 --> 00:11:55,381
<i>At this point, I'm thinkin',</i>

224
00:11:55,464 --> 00:11:57,341
<i>"No matter how well
you hit it off with somebody,</i>

225
00:11:57,425 --> 00:11:59,260
<i>you don't really know who they are."</i>

226
00:12:02,304 --> 00:12:05,516
<i>When I went home at lunch,
there was no sign of Cari.</i>

227
00:12:05,599 --> 00:12:08,853
<i>Her bags were gone,
her toothbrush was gone, she was gone.</i>

228
00:12:11,647 --> 00:12:14,650
<i>I felt kinda sad that it didn't work out,</i>

229
00:12:15,151 --> 00:12:17,945
<i>but I tried to get on with my life
like nothin' happened.</i>

230
00:12:25,494 --> 00:12:28,205
<i>I didn't hear from Cari
for a couple of days,</i>

231
00:12:28,289 --> 00:12:31,584
<i>and then outta the blue,
I started receiving texts from her again.</i>

232
00:12:31,667 --> 00:12:32,793
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

233
00:12:33,878 --> 00:12:35,004
{\an8}<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

234
00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:39,008
{\an8}<i>The messages started slowly,</i>

235
00:12:39,091 --> 00:12:40,551
<i>but it ramped up.</i>

236
00:12:41,260 --> 00:12:42,303
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

237
00:12:42,386 --> 00:12:44,096
<i>Meaner, ruder...</i>

238
00:12:44,180 --> 00:12:45,431
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

239
00:12:45,514 --> 00:12:47,516
<i>...more threatening as time went on.</i>

240
00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:52,104
<i>Why she would be harassing me,
I... I just didn't get it.</i>

241
00:12:59,612 --> 00:13:01,614
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

242
00:13:03,908 --> 00:13:05,034
<i>[woman 3] At that time,</i>

243
00:13:05,868 --> 00:13:08,913
<i>Cari was very much her own person.</i>

244
00:13:09,914 --> 00:13:12,374
<i>She'd let you know her opinion.</i>

245
00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:20,090
<i>I knew that she had met somebody.</i>

246
00:13:20,591 --> 00:13:23,010
<i>It was a new relationship,</i>

247
00:13:23,093 --> 00:13:26,597
<i>and those are always,
ya know, interesting at the beginning.</i>

248
00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:31,101
<i>He lived just a couple blocks
from where she was working, which helped,</i>

249
00:13:31,894 --> 00:13:33,437
<i>and she could stay there.</i>

250
00:13:33,979 --> 00:13:37,316
<i>So I didn't think too much
about the fact that I didn't talk to her.</i>

251
00:13:37,858 --> 00:13:41,570
<i>But after a while,
I still couldn't get a hold of her.</i>

252
00:13:42,988 --> 00:13:46,283
<i>Ya know, mothers and daughters
always have their ups and downs,</i>

253
00:13:46,367 --> 00:13:47,284
<i>and we did,</i>

254
00:13:47,910 --> 00:13:52,540
<i>but it was just so puzzling
when I couldn't get through to her.</i>

255
00:13:56,669 --> 00:14:00,381
<i>[Dave] So I'm at work,
and my front counter guy comes back</i>

256
00:14:00,464 --> 00:14:03,175
<i>and says, "Dave, there's sheriffs
up front lookin' for you."</i>

257
00:14:06,178 --> 00:14:08,180
<i>[menacing music plays]</i>

258
00:14:09,265 --> 00:14:10,474
<i>How you doin', guys?</i>

259
00:14:11,392 --> 00:14:14,895
<i>What could I have possibly done
that the sheriffs are lookin' for me?</i>

260
00:14:14,979 --> 00:14:17,773
<i>Ya know, I don't know
what's goin' on here, but it's not funny.</i>

261
00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,611
<i>The first thing they ask is,
"Do you know Cari Farver?"</i>

262
00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:23,988
<i>And of course, I did.</i>

263
00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:28,576
<i>They told me Cari's mother
had filed a missing person's report.</i>

264
00:14:29,159 --> 00:14:31,662
<i>I'm on the hot seat now.
Ya know, they're lookin' at me like,</i>

265
00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:34,373
<i>"Why don't you know where she's at?
You're her boyfriend."</i>

266
00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,835
<i>So I pulled my phone out</i>

267
00:14:37,918 --> 00:14:42,006
<i>and I showed 'em all these nasty messages
I'd been gettin' from her.</i>

268
00:14:43,716 --> 00:14:46,135
<i>After that, their whole demeanor changed.</i>

269
00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:49,722
<i>The sheriffs implied that,</i>

270
00:14:49,805 --> 00:14:52,391
<i>"Here's a bad breakup,"
something they see all the time.</i>

271
00:14:52,474 --> 00:14:55,811
<i>It's not a big deal,
and it should stop pretty shortly.</i>

272
00:14:55,895 --> 00:14:58,647
<i>Nobody stays around that long
harassing people.</i>

273
00:15:04,987 --> 00:15:07,740
<i>[Nancy] Shortly after
we reported her missing,</i>

274
00:15:07,823 --> 00:15:11,452
<i>I started getting these messages
from Cari on her Facebook page.</i>

275
00:15:12,119 --> 00:15:13,037
<i>[typing]</i>

276
00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,122
<i>[eerie music plays]</i>

277
00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:18,959
<i>[typing]</i>

278
00:15:21,086 --> 00:15:22,087
<i>[mouse clicks]</i>

279
00:15:23,130 --> 00:15:25,507
<i>She texted me on Mother's Day,
and said, "Happy Mother's Day",</i>

280
00:15:26,508 --> 00:15:31,305
<i>but it got to the point where I was
getting one- to two-word messages</i>

281
00:15:31,388 --> 00:15:35,601
<i>that just got steadily nastier
and nastier.</i>

282
00:15:35,684 --> 00:15:36,644
<i>[birds chirp]</i>

283
00:15:36,727 --> 00:15:37,895
<i>[scraping sound]</i>

284
00:15:48,572 --> 00:15:51,241
<i>[buzzes]</i>

285
00:15:52,201 --> 00:15:54,370
<i>I hadn't seen Liz for quite a while,</i>

286
00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:57,581
<i>but then she comes
to the apartment one day.</i>

287
00:15:58,415 --> 00:16:01,001
<i>She says she's,
ya know, got somethin' to show me.</i>

288
00:16:01,085 --> 00:16:03,087
<i>[dog barks in distance]</i>

289
00:16:03,587 --> 00:16:05,798
<i>I look at the side of her vehicle,</i>

290
00:16:06,298 --> 00:16:09,510
<i>and it's very obviously been keyed deeply.</i>

291
00:16:09,593 --> 00:16:11,595
<i>-[disturbing music plays]
-[phone buzzes]</i>

292
00:16:16,225 --> 00:16:18,143
<i>[phone chirps, buzzes]</i>

293
00:16:18,227 --> 00:16:19,228
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

294
00:16:22,523 --> 00:16:23,649
<i>[phone chirps, buzzes]</i>

295
00:16:25,567 --> 00:16:28,654
<i>It turns out that Liz
is being harassed by Cari</i>

296
00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:30,572
<i>in the same ways as... as I was,</i>

297
00:16:31,156 --> 00:16:32,574
<i>by text and email.</i>

298
00:16:34,868 --> 00:16:37,246
<i>Cari was clearly jealous of Liz.</i>

299
00:16:37,329 --> 00:16:39,665
<i>[menacing music plays]</i>

300
00:16:39,748 --> 00:16:40,749
<i>[phone chimes]</i>

301
00:16:43,293 --> 00:16:44,294
{\an8}<i>[phone chirps]</i>

302
00:16:46,672 --> 00:16:50,467
<i>We were afraid that somethin' bad
could happen at any time.</i>

303
00:16:50,551 --> 00:16:54,013
<i>[phone chimes, chirps]</i>

304
00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:03,605
<i>[train horn blows distantly]</i>

305
00:17:09,111 --> 00:17:11,697
<i>[man 3] I was an officer
with the Omaha Police Department</i>

306
00:17:11,780 --> 00:17:13,741
<i>for 22 and a half years.</i>

307
00:17:15,367 --> 00:17:17,619
<i>The last ten to 12 years of my career,</i>

308
00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:20,164
<i>I worked
as a Special Victims Unit detective,</i>

309
00:17:20,748 --> 00:17:23,625
<i>specializing in domestic violence
and stalking.</i>

310
00:17:32,926 --> 00:17:36,221
<i>Dave Kroupa came to see me
at the end of 2012.</i>

311
00:17:37,723 --> 00:17:40,934
<i>The case was something we see often.
It was very routine.</i>

312
00:17:41,518 --> 00:17:45,272
{\an8}<i>We were dealing
with some kind of jealous ex-girlfriend,</i>

313
00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:48,609
<i>possibly at the initial phases
of stalking.</i>

314
00:17:48,692 --> 00:17:49,610
<i>[mouse clicks]</i>

315
00:17:49,693 --> 00:17:51,403
<i>The implication, when you look through</i>

316
00:17:51,487 --> 00:17:53,947
<i>all the different
text messages and emails,</i>

317
00:17:54,031 --> 00:17:56,742
<i>was, "If I can't have you, nobody will."</i>

318
00:17:56,825 --> 00:17:57,993
<i>[mouse clicks]</i>

319
00:17:58,077 --> 00:17:59,828
<i>But this turned out to be</i>

320
00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:04,333
<i>one of the strangest,
most unpredictable cases I'd ever worked.</i>

321
00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:05,918
<i>[traffic sounds]</i>

322
00:18:10,255 --> 00:18:11,465
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

323
00:18:14,510 --> 00:18:16,512
<i>[lonely whistle plays]</i>

324
00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:17,805
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

325
00:18:18,305 --> 00:18:21,683
<i>[chiming, buzzing continue]</i>

326
00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:23,102
<i>[sounds distort]</i>

327
00:18:23,185 --> 00:18:26,855
<i>The texts from Cari,
for the first several days,</i>

328
00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:30,901
<i>came from her original phone,
but after that, they changed.</i>

329
00:18:31,944 --> 00:18:36,615
<i>It was multiple
other phone numbers, 20, 30, 40.</i>

330
00:18:37,324 --> 00:18:39,201
<i>You couldn't block 'em fast enough.</i>

331
00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:43,705
<i>[chiming, buzzing]</i>

332
00:18:43,789 --> 00:18:46,792
<i>[sounds distort]</i>

333
00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:51,797
<i>I can tell they were all Cari
because the verbiage was all the same.</i>

334
00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:57,177
<i>[distorted chiming, buzzing]</i>

335
00:18:57,261 --> 00:18:59,638
<i>The same happened with the emails.</i>

336
00:18:59,721 --> 00:19:03,892
<i>The emails were under
all different kinds of aliases,</i>

337
00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:08,063
<i>or just random names,
and upwards of 125 a day.</i>

338
00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:10,149
<i>[disturbing music plays]</i>

339
00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:12,317
<i>[distortion intensifies]</i>

340
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,322
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

341
00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:25,789
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

342
00:19:32,796 --> 00:19:37,301
<i>Dave had made a report
of Cari messaging him</i>

343
00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:41,805
<i>with particular details
of customers he was talking to,</i>

344
00:19:41,889 --> 00:19:44,850
<i>standing right outside of his workplace.</i>

345
00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:46,643
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

346
00:19:48,645 --> 00:19:49,771
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

347
00:19:56,153 --> 00:19:57,279
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

348
00:19:58,030 --> 00:19:59,156
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

349
00:20:04,369 --> 00:20:07,206
<i>[Chris] I thought, "Okay, if she could see
what he was doing...</i>

350
00:20:09,666 --> 00:20:12,085
<i>she's gotta be hiding around his place."</i>

351
00:20:14,671 --> 00:20:19,593
<i>So, I scan the area for every place
where someone could see what he was doing.</i>

352
00:20:27,684 --> 00:20:33,023
<i>I was doing a reverse stakeout
to find out where she was watching from.</i>

353
00:20:38,153 --> 00:20:40,656
<i>I took Cari's picture, knocked doors.</i>

354
00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:43,242
<i>Nobody had seen her.</i>

355
00:20:43,742 --> 00:20:47,162
<i>I knew that before I could get
anything done, I had to find her.</i>

356
00:20:49,164 --> 00:20:50,666
<i>[mysterious music ends]</i>

357
00:20:50,749 --> 00:20:51,875
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

358
00:20:52,417 --> 00:20:54,795
<i>[Dave] What happened next
was a total shock.</i>

359
00:20:54,878 --> 00:20:55,879
{\an8}<i>[phone chirps]</i>

360
00:20:55,963 --> 00:20:58,382
{\an8}<i>[intriguing music plays]</i>

361
00:20:58,465 --> 00:21:02,135
{\an8}<i>Cari told me she was livin'
a couple buildings away from me,</i>

362
00:21:02,219 --> 00:21:03,804
<i>in the same apartment complex.</i>

363
00:21:04,388 --> 00:21:05,472
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

364
00:21:05,973 --> 00:21:07,224
{\an8}<i>[phone chirps]</i>

365
00:21:07,307 --> 00:21:09,309
{\an8}<i>[disturbing music plays]</i>

366
00:21:28,912 --> 00:21:30,914
<i>[dog barks distantly]</i>

367
00:21:34,584 --> 00:21:36,169
<i>[Dave] One, two, three...</i>

368
00:21:36,253 --> 00:21:38,422
<i>I'm hopin' that I catch her.</i>

369
00:21:38,505 --> 00:21:40,799
<i>[wind chimes tinkle]</i>

370
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:45,387
<i>But the closer I get, five, six, seven,</i>

371
00:21:46,346 --> 00:21:48,015
<i>now I wanna call the cops.</i>

372
00:21:54,813 --> 00:21:57,274
<i>I'm workin' myself up into a frenzy.</i>

373
00:21:59,067 --> 00:22:02,821
<i>I don't wanna call the cops.
Now, I wanna hurt her bad.</i>

374
00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:04,948
<i>[police siren blares distantly]</i>

375
00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:09,703
<i>And then I hit ten,</i>

376
00:22:10,954 --> 00:22:12,372
<i>and then I hit 11,</i>

377
00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:15,334
<i>and of course, I'm lookin' for 12.</i>

378
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:17,919
<i>[disturbing music crescendoes]</i>

379
00:22:20,797 --> 00:22:21,923
<i>And there's no 12.</i>

380
00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:23,967
<i>Doesn't exist.</i>

381
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,763
<i>It's just one more part of the mindfuck.</i>

382
00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:31,641
<i>[eerie singing]</i>

383
00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:33,685
<i>As I'm walkin' back to my apartment,</i>

384
00:22:34,311 --> 00:22:36,563
<i>I'm lookin'
at all the apartments everywhere,</i>

385
00:22:36,646 --> 00:22:38,732
<i>I'm wonderin' which one
she's watchin' me out of.</i>

386
00:22:42,069 --> 00:22:44,112
<i>She did it purely to mess with my head.</i>

387
00:22:53,205 --> 00:22:56,291
<i>But then, things only got worse.</i>

388
00:22:59,086 --> 00:23:00,295
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

389
00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:02,172
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

390
00:23:02,255 --> 00:23:03,090
<i>Oh fuck.</i>

391
00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:06,802
<i>Cari's inside Liz's house.</i>

392
00:23:06,885 --> 00:23:08,095
{\an8}<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

393
00:23:12,849 --> 00:23:13,975
{\an8}<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

394
00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:17,687
{\an8}<i>I mean, seriously, how... What the hell?</i>

395
00:23:17,771 --> 00:23:19,773
<i>[mysterious music continues]</i>

396
00:23:21,191 --> 00:23:23,485
<i>This is definitely a big escalation.</i>

397
00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:30,117
<i>[mysterious music crescendoes]</i>

398
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,703
<i>We find that not only has she keyed
Liz's car in the garage,</i>

399
00:23:33,787 --> 00:23:35,497
<i>but she's spray-painted on the wall.</i>

400
00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:36,581
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

401
00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:39,793
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

402
00:23:40,877 --> 00:23:43,880
<i>The cops were called
and a police report was filed,</i>

403
00:23:44,881 --> 00:23:48,927
<i>but I can tell how much stress
this is puttin' on Liz and her kids.</i>

404
00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:55,267
<i>I felt like Liz was being harassed
because I dated this woman,</i>

405
00:23:55,976 --> 00:23:58,103
<i>who's now makin' her life hell too.</i>

406
00:24:00,730 --> 00:24:01,731
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

407
00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:04,526
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

408
00:24:09,531 --> 00:24:12,868
<i>I felt like she was
the real victim in all of this,</i>

409
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,538
<i>and I wanted to try and protect her.</i>

410
00:24:18,331 --> 00:24:19,666
<i>We felt safe together,</i>

411
00:24:20,584 --> 00:24:22,878
<i>and our relationship rekindled.</i>

412
00:24:36,933 --> 00:24:38,435
<i>[mysterious music fades out]</i>

413
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,191
{\an8}<i>[Amy] Dave and I were still pretty close.</i>

414
00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:47,277
<i>The kids went to his house
on the weekends,</i>

415
00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:51,323
<i>so they knew some
of what was going on with Cari</i>

416
00:24:51,406 --> 00:24:53,742
<i>and her threatening Dave.</i>

417
00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:55,994
<i>[spooky whistling]</i>

418
00:24:56,077 --> 00:24:59,748
<i>After he had told me of all
the text messages and the vandalizing,</i>

419
00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:04,169
<i>I told him that I didn't want
the kids goin' over to his house.</i>

420
00:25:04,252 --> 00:25:06,338
<i>If he wanted to see them,
he had to come to my house.</i>

421
00:25:08,381 --> 00:25:09,883
<i>It made me very nervous.</i>

422
00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:11,968
<i>[eerie music plays]</i>

423
00:25:14,721 --> 00:25:15,931
<i>[glass shatters]</i>

424
00:25:18,141 --> 00:25:21,186
<i>[Dave] I'm at work,
and I get a call from Liz.</i>

425
00:25:21,269 --> 00:25:23,438
<i>One of my windows is smashed out,</i>

426
00:25:23,522 --> 00:25:25,857
<i>and it looks like somebody's
been in my apartment.</i>

427
00:25:32,239 --> 00:25:33,240
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

428
00:25:34,074 --> 00:25:36,868
<i>Over the top of the bed in red lipstick,</i>

429
00:25:36,952 --> 00:25:39,162
<i>it was written, "Go away, whore."</i>

430
00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:44,501
<i>On the bed was some clothes
that belonged to Liz.</i>

431
00:25:44,584 --> 00:25:48,171
<i>They had been stabbed
and slashed with a knife.</i>

432
00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:50,715
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

433
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:54,177
<i>Like, murder style.</i>

434
00:25:56,012 --> 00:25:57,264
<i>I don't know how much more</i>

435
00:25:57,347 --> 00:26:01,309
<i>of a direct physical violent threat
there could be.</i>

436
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:02,394
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

437
00:26:03,311 --> 00:26:04,312
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

438
00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:09,985
<i>In my mind, I'm thinkin', "What if Liz
was there when Cari broke in?"</i>

439
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,821
<i>Would Liz have actually gotten stabbed?</i>

440
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:17,325
<i>This is a real threat.
This isn't bullshit.</i>

441
00:26:20,453 --> 00:26:21,663
<i>[phone buzzes, chimes]</i>

442
00:26:23,373 --> 00:26:24,583
{\an8}<i>[phone buzzes, chimes]</i>

443
00:26:30,630 --> 00:26:31,673
<i>[eerie music ends]</i>

444
00:26:31,756 --> 00:26:35,010
<i>[train horn blows distantly]</i>

445
00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,430
<i>At this stage in the investigation,</i>

446
00:26:38,513 --> 00:26:41,308
<i>given all the things that happened,
the crimes that had been committed,</i>

447
00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:45,770
<i>I had felt I had sufficient probable cause
for an arrest warrant for Cari.</i>

448
00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:48,690
<i>Unfortunately, this is all
I can do right now,</i>

449
00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:50,233
<i>because I can't find her.</i>

450
00:26:50,317 --> 00:26:51,776
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

451
00:26:51,860 --> 00:26:54,195
<i>In a stalking case, that's not unusual.</i>

452
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:57,824
<i>But the longer you investigate
these types of cases,</i>

453
00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:01,536
<i>the more you see
the effect it has on your victims.</i>

454
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,919
<i>[Dave] The stalking had been goin' on
for over a year.</i>

455
00:27:10,837 --> 00:27:13,381
<i>Ya know, it wasn't uncommon for me
to go to dinner with my kids</i>

456
00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:16,426
<i>and get a message, "You're at so-and-so,
eatin' with your kids."</i>

457
00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:18,094
<i>Well, fuck you!</i>

458
00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:20,138
<i>Leave me the fuck alone.</i>

459
00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:24,768
<i>[dog barks distantly]</i>

460
00:27:29,064 --> 00:27:33,943
<i>Slowly, your normal
kinda devolves into abnormal.</i>

461
00:27:34,778 --> 00:27:36,404
<i>[dog continues barking]</i>

462
00:27:38,198 --> 00:27:39,866
<i>The paranoia isyour life.</i>

463
00:27:39,949 --> 00:27:42,243
<i>[distant police siren]</i>

464
00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:43,453
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

465
00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:45,413
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

466
00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:47,415
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

467
00:27:49,876 --> 00:27:51,419
<i>[door creaks, closes]</i>

468
00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:53,797
<i>You're thinkin' about all the what-ifs,
all the time.</i>

469
00:28:00,136 --> 00:28:02,180
<i>-[breathing]
-[slicing sound]</i>

470
00:28:02,889 --> 00:28:03,890
<i>[phone chimes]</i>

471
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:08,770
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

472
00:28:17,195 --> 00:28:18,196
<i>[phone chimes]</i>

473
00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:20,949
<i>[door slams]</i>

474
00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:25,161
<i>[Dave] It was hard to know sometimes
what was real</i>

475
00:28:25,245 --> 00:28:27,038
<i>and what I might be imagining.</i>

476
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:30,083
<i>[dog barks distantly]</i>

477
00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:34,879
<i>[mysterious music continues]</i>

478
00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:41,428
<i>As the months went on,</i>

479
00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:44,472
<i>I ended up spending
more and more time at the bar.</i>

480
00:28:46,307 --> 00:28:48,893
<i>I had a drink, but you know,
it took the edge off.</i>

481
00:28:50,019 --> 00:28:53,273
<i>My brain could just shut the fuck up
for a little bit.</i>

482
00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:56,234
<i>[threatening music plays]</i>

483
00:29:00,321 --> 00:29:02,949
<i>I was on a road
to havin' a mental breakdown.</i>

484
00:29:05,702 --> 00:29:06,703
<i>[match strikes]</i>

485
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:15,086
<i>[intense, suspenseful music plays]</i>

486
00:29:18,923 --> 00:29:20,133
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

487
00:29:20,216 --> 00:29:21,301
<i>[tense music playing]</i>

488
00:29:21,384 --> 00:29:22,385
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

489
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:28,308
<i>My stomach just drops.
I'm like, "Oh shit."</i>

490
00:29:28,391 --> 00:29:30,727
<i>[intense, suspenseful music continues]</i>

491
00:29:33,688 --> 00:29:36,316
<i>Cari has set Liz's fuckin' house on fire.</i>

492
00:29:40,653 --> 00:29:41,863
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

493
00:30:00,298 --> 00:30:02,300
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

494
00:30:02,383 --> 00:30:05,220
<i>[fireman 1] Try and give 'em...
They moved everybody outta here.</i>

495
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:11,851
<i>[fireman 2] That way, move that way.
Come on. Move, that way.</i>

496
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:20,610
<i>[Dave] Liz was by herself, just cryin'.</i>

497
00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:28,827
<i>Fortunately, Liz's kids
weren't in the house,</i>

498
00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:32,038
<i>but all of her pets died.</i>

499
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:39,295
<i>She's lost her residence
and everything she owns.</i>

500
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,180
<i>I'm thinking, "This is now
a complete different investigation."</i>

501
00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:52,976
<i>I contacted the fire investigator.</i>

502
00:30:55,061 --> 00:30:58,189
<i>We met at the scene,
walked through the house.</i>

503
00:30:59,732 --> 00:31:00,733
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

504
00:31:02,193 --> 00:31:03,194
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

505
00:31:04,612 --> 00:31:05,613
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

506
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:10,910
<i>There was still water,
there... the horrible smell of a fire.</i>

507
00:31:12,328 --> 00:31:13,329
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

508
00:31:14,455 --> 00:31:15,415
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

509
00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:19,127
<i>The red flags are just going up
all around me.</i>

510
00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:20,128
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

511
00:31:20,628 --> 00:31:22,881
<i>And I'm thinking,
"This could get to the point</i>

512
00:31:22,964 --> 00:31:25,842
<i>where someone gets
seriously injured, murdered."</i>

513
00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:29,095
<i>And in the back of my head, I'm thinking,
"I've got to catch this person!"</i>

514
00:31:31,973 --> 00:31:35,977
<i>Our investigation at the scene
included, of course, speaking to Liz.</i>

515
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:39,522
<i>The interview was recorded on tape.</i>

516
00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:43,443
<i>I understand there's been
some problems going on.</i>

517
00:31:43,526 --> 00:31:45,236
<i>-Why don't you tell me about that?
-[Liz]Uh...</i>

518
00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:47,113
<i>The guy that I'm seeing,</i>

519
00:31:47,196 --> 00:31:49,407
<i>he has a girlfriend
he dated for two weeks,</i>

520
00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:51,492
<i>and she's been stalking me since November.</i>

521
00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:54,287
<i>-[Chris]Do you know her name?
-[Liz]It's Cari.</i>

522
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:58,041
<i>She kept texting me telling me
she wanted to kill me and my kids.</i>

523
00:31:58,124 --> 00:32:02,295
<i>[Chris] Okay. It's pretty obvious
this is an intentionally-set fire.</i>

524
00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:05,632
<i>[Liz] What about my, uh, animals?</i>

525
00:32:06,507 --> 00:32:09,594
<i>-[Chris]The animals are...
-[Liz]I know that they're all dead, but...</i>

526
00:32:09,677 --> 00:32:14,766
<i>[Chris] The Humane Society is going
to take care of the animals. Sorry.</i>

527
00:32:16,517 --> 00:32:18,311
<i>[Liz] I just wish she would go away.</i>

528
00:32:19,812 --> 00:32:21,814
<i>[sad music plays]</i>

529
00:32:25,318 --> 00:32:27,320
<i>[indistinct chatter]</i>

530
00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:35,954
<i>After the fire, Liz took what little
she could scavenge from the house,</i>

531
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:37,080
<i>and moved.</i>

532
00:32:37,163 --> 00:32:40,708
<i>She didn't tell me where,
and I didn't blame her one bit.</i>

533
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:43,920
<i>She did not want Cari
to come along after her.</i>

534
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:49,550
<i>At that point, I felt alone.</i>

535
00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:54,889
<i>I didn't know
whether to be mad, or sad, or cry.</i>

536
00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:58,393
<i>I had lost my partner,</i>

537
00:32:58,476 --> 00:33:01,604
<i>or the one person who understood
what I was goin' through.</i>

538
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:08,945
<i>I felt like the only thing I could do
was also pack up and move.</i>

539
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:12,073
<i>I changed phones,</i>

540
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:13,950
<i>and got a new job.</i>

541
00:33:16,828 --> 00:33:20,081
<i>I wanted to rebuild my life
away from Cari.</i>

542
00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:23,751
<i>But in the back of my mind,</i>

543
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:27,005
<i>I knew that she was still out there.</i>

544
00:33:29,757 --> 00:33:31,259
<i>[sad music crescendoes]</i>

545
00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:38,599
<i>[train horn blows distantly]</i>

546
00:33:49,277 --> 00:33:52,530
<i>[man 4] Pottawattamie County
Sheriff's Office is a small agency.</i>

547
00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:58,244
<i>So two years earlier, I had heard
that there's another couple detectives</i>

548
00:33:58,327 --> 00:34:01,998
<i>lookin' into somebody named Cari Farver
as a missing person.</i>

549
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:06,544
<i>I'd heard that she was a single mom
that kinda just vanished.</i>

550
00:34:07,503 --> 00:34:09,338
<i>Nobody had physically seen her,</i>

551
00:34:09,422 --> 00:34:12,800
<i>but she was still communicating
via emails and text messages.</i>

552
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:17,305
<i>At the same time,
detectives from Omaha Police Department</i>

553
00:34:17,388 --> 00:34:22,268
{\an8}<i>had been investigating arson,
and harassment, and vandalism,</i>

554
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:25,938
<i>but after a long time,
the case had kinda gone cold</i>

555
00:34:26,022 --> 00:34:28,316
<i>for the investigators
who were lookin' into it.</i>

556
00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:31,652
<i>[upbeat fiddle music plays]</i>

557
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:37,533
{\an8}<i>The case had always perked my interest,
like, it had always intrigued me.</i>

558
00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:43,247
<i>I remember talkin' to Jim,</i>

559
00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:46,084
<i>saying, ya know, "We should ask
if we can take the case."</i>

560
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,676
<i>[Jim] Me and Ryan, we're best friends.</i>

561
00:34:57,804 --> 00:34:59,430
<i>That was a good shot there, Ryan.</i>

562
00:35:00,723 --> 00:35:03,309
<i>[Ryan] Jim's the most metro cowboy
I've ever met.</i>

563
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,563
<i>I don't think he's ever ridden a horse,
but he pulls off the look.</i>

564
00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:13,569
<i>[Jim] Ryan is more
of a shoot-from-the-hip kinda guy.</i>

565
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:17,031
<i>[Ryan] Never mind.</i>

566
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,033
<i>[Ryan and Jim laugh]</i>

567
00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:21,994
<i>[Jim] I'm a little bit more organized.</i>

568
00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:27,750
<i>Our skills and abilities
really complement each other.</i>

569
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:32,547
<i>And so Avis and I went to our... our boss,</i>

570
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,967
<i>and asked if we could take over
in the Cari Farver case,</i>

571
00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:37,718
<i>and he gave us the go-ahead.</i>

572
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:41,722
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

573
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:50,148
<i>We went to visit Nancy Raney,
who's Cari's mother.</i>

574
00:35:50,231 --> 00:35:51,858
<i>She lived out in Macedonia, Iowa.</i>

575
00:35:53,067 --> 00:35:55,069
<i>And she told us
how this whole case got started.</i>

576
00:35:58,781 --> 00:36:00,032
<i>[Nancy] It'd been several years</i>

577
00:36:00,116 --> 00:36:02,535
<i>since we'd talked
to an investigator face-to-face,</i>

578
00:36:02,618 --> 00:36:04,495
<i>and, uh, I was skeptical.</i>

579
00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:06,539
<i>I probably was a little short with him...</i>

580
00:36:06,622 --> 00:36:10,710
<i>[inhales] ...when he came in,
because I didn't have much faith in him.</i>

581
00:36:11,544 --> 00:36:14,672
<i>[Jim] Now, what day was the last time
you guys saw her?</i>

582
00:36:14,755 --> 00:36:18,342
<i>[Nancy] We haven't seen her
since the 11th of November 2012.</i>

583
00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:19,886
<i>[Jim] So, couple years ago.</i>

584
00:36:22,263 --> 00:36:25,224
<i>[Nancy] Shortly after she left,
I started getting messages,</i>

585
00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:28,019
<i>saying, "I've taken a job in Kansas</i>

586
00:36:28,102 --> 00:36:30,813
<i>and I'm going to be making
$100,000 a year."</i>

587
00:36:31,939 --> 00:36:34,400
<i>And Max, her son, had to stay with us.</i>

588
00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:39,322
<i>[Jim] I'm curious about how she was
before she left.</i>

589
00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:41,699
<i>What was goin' on,
if she mentioned anything?</i>

590
00:36:41,782 --> 00:36:43,868
<i>[Nancy] She was tired
because she'd been working a lot.</i>

591
00:36:43,951 --> 00:36:44,952
<i>[Jim] Mm-hmm.</i>

592
00:36:45,703 --> 00:36:47,872
<i>Granted, there's probably
some things she didn't tell me...</i>

593
00:36:47,955 --> 00:36:51,500
<i>[chuckling] ...but I have some things
that I didn't tell my mother.</i>

594
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,503
<i>But, she'd always call home.</i>

595
00:36:57,298 --> 00:37:01,844
<i>I couldn't make sense of it,
and that's when we reported her missing.</i>

596
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:07,183
<i>If she's just decided she doesn't want
to be around here anymore,</i>

597
00:37:07,266 --> 00:37:08,726
<i>that's her decision,</i>

598
00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:11,395
<i>but I'd like to know if she's okay,</i>

599
00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:13,940
<i>if she's sick, if she's hurt.</i>

600
00:37:16,692 --> 00:37:18,694
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

601
00:37:23,074 --> 00:37:27,203
<i>When I first got involved in the case,
it was because it sounded interesting.</i>

602
00:37:27,286 --> 00:37:28,454
<i>Once I met Nancy...</i>

603
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:32,833
<i>it turned for me,
I wanted to get her answers.</i>

604
00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:39,340
<i>Lookin' through the case file,</i>

605
00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:45,263
<i>the original reports noted that Cari
had a history of bipolar disorder.</i>

606
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:54,021
<i>[Nancy] Yeah, she had depression problems.</i>

607
00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:57,608
<i>I presumed
she would've taken medication with her,</i>

608
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:00,111
{\an8}<i>but she hadn't.</i>

609
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:06,117
{\an8}<i>[Ryan] If Cari wasn't taking
her medication,</i>

610
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,786
{\an8}<i>it might suggest
her change in personality,</i>

611
00:38:08,869 --> 00:38:12,915
<i>to start the harassment,
the messaging, the stalking, all of that.</i>

612
00:38:15,501 --> 00:38:17,920
<i>[Jim] The original investigators
came to the conclusion</i>

613
00:38:18,004 --> 00:38:20,965
<i>that her vanishing
was a symptom of a mental-health crisis.</i>

614
00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:25,678
<i>[Nancy] I had hope</i>

615
00:38:26,971 --> 00:38:28,180
<i>that she'd be back.</i>

616
00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:39,317
<i>[thunder rumbles]</i>

617
00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:49,618
<i>[Dave] I had moved
and was just tryin' to start over.</i>

618
00:38:49,702 --> 00:38:51,370
<i>Liz is outta the picture.</i>

619
00:38:51,454 --> 00:38:53,998
<i>So, of course, I wanna try to date again.</i>

620
00:38:54,081 --> 00:38:55,666
<i>-[typing]
-[hopeful music plays]</i>

621
00:38:58,961 --> 00:38:59,879
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

622
00:38:59,962 --> 00:39:02,465
<i>I hop back online
onto another dating site.</i>

623
00:39:05,009 --> 00:39:05,968
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

624
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:08,512
<i>Made some profiles,
start talkin' to people.</i>

625
00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:09,555
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

626
00:39:09,638 --> 00:39:12,099
<i>End up talking to a particular woman.</i>

627
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:13,351
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

628
00:39:13,434 --> 00:39:17,396
<i>Things are goin' well,
we're chatting, set up a date.</i>

629
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,649
<i>[thunder rumbles]</i>

630
00:39:26,238 --> 00:39:27,281
<i>[hopeful music ends]</i>

631
00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:32,661
<i>I've been there an hour.</i>

632
00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:35,581
<i>Waiter comes over and says,
"Bein' stood up?" Or whatever.</i>

633
00:39:35,664 --> 00:39:37,291
<i>And I was like, "Ah, looks like it."</i>

634
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:38,584
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

635
00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:40,878
{\an8}<i>[phone chirps]</i>

636
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:44,882
<i>So I sit there for a little while longer.</i>

637
00:39:48,803 --> 00:39:49,929
<i>And sit there...</i>

638
00:39:51,889 --> 00:39:52,848
<i>and sit there...</i>

639
00:39:54,266 --> 00:39:55,267
<i>and sit there.</i>

640
00:39:57,269 --> 00:39:59,855
<i>And about the time
I decide she's not comin',</i>

641
00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:01,482
<i>she sends another message.</i>

642
00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:02,691
<i>[dramatic sting plays]</i>

643
00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:05,778
<i>[phone ticks]</i>

644
00:40:06,278 --> 00:40:07,363
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

645
00:40:10,282 --> 00:40:13,244
<i>I had fucked up
and let Cari back into my life.</i>

646
00:40:14,787 --> 00:40:17,248
<i>[police siren blares distantly]</i>

647
00:40:17,331 --> 00:40:19,333
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

648
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:23,462
<i>But this time,
it started to get so much worse.</i>

649
00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:30,469
<i>All of a sudden,
Amy, my ex, became a target.</i>

650
00:40:30,553 --> 00:40:32,263
<i>[eerie singing]</i>

651
00:40:32,346 --> 00:40:33,556
<i>[phone buzzes, chimes]</i>

652
00:40:37,935 --> 00:40:40,938
<i>[Amy] I started getting messages
from Cari,</i>

653
00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:44,442
<i>telling me I needed
to stay away from Dave.</i>

654
00:40:45,693 --> 00:40:47,027
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

655
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:48,112
<i>[phone chirps]</i>

656
00:40:51,532 --> 00:40:52,533
<i>I was terrified.</i>

657
00:40:52,616 --> 00:40:55,995
<i>-[spooky whistling]
-[eerie singing]</i>

658
00:40:57,246 --> 00:41:01,250
<i>But then, the text messages
started involving my children.</i>

659
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:06,881
<i>[birds chirp]</i>

660
00:41:06,964 --> 00:41:08,966
<i>[children playing]</i>

661
00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:16,265
<i>One weekend, me and the kids went
to the park to play for a while.</i>

662
00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:25,441
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

663
00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:30,821
<i>[typing on phone]</i>

664
00:41:31,405 --> 00:41:32,531
<i>[phone chimes, buzzes]</i>

665
00:41:34,783 --> 00:41:36,911
<i>[Amy] She knew exactly what we were doing.</i>

666
00:41:47,213 --> 00:41:52,551
<i>[spooky whistling]</i>

667
00:41:52,635 --> 00:41:55,221
<i>[eerie singing]</i>

668
00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:58,891
<i>I was thinking,
"Is this lady following me all the time?"</i>

669
00:41:58,974 --> 00:42:02,895
<i>[eerie singing]</i>

670
00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:06,941
<i>One night, I got a text message from Cari,</i>

671
00:42:07,024 --> 00:42:09,360
<i>saying she was going to...</i>

672
00:42:10,945 --> 00:42:14,990
<i>slit my kids' throats in their sleep.</i>

673
00:42:18,118 --> 00:42:21,413
<i>I found my son sleeping
on the couch with a baseball bat.</i>

674
00:42:22,289 --> 00:42:24,625
<i>I woke him up to tell him
to go into his own room,</i>

675
00:42:24,708 --> 00:42:27,419
<i>and when I asked him
why he was sleeping on the couch,</i>

676
00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:30,756
<i>he said that he was going to protect us.</i>

677
00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:33,592
<i>It was heartbreaking.</i>

678
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:38,097
<i>No kid should have to feel that way.</i>

679
00:42:38,597 --> 00:42:43,727
<i>[spooky whistling]</i>

680
00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:45,938
<i>[man] I'm lookin' for a... a handgun.</i>

681
00:42:46,021 --> 00:42:48,607
<i>Are you lookin' for somethin'
that is a target...</i>

682
00:42:48,691 --> 00:42:51,151
<i>[Dave] I did feel
that it was only a matter of time</i>

683
00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:53,279
<i>till somebody gets hurt for real.</i>

684
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:56,949
<i>There was a need to protect my family.</i>

685
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,036
<i>So, my father got me a pistol.</i>

686
00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:06,000
<i>It was a Smith and Wesson,
nine-millimeter automatic.</i>

687
00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:08,127
<i>[clerk] Come out back,
we'll get you taken care of.</i>

688
00:43:11,046 --> 00:43:13,841
<i>[Dave] I'm not a gunslinger.
It's not gonna hang off my hip.</i>

689
00:43:13,924 --> 00:43:17,136
<i>So it was up in the top
of the closet in the bedroom,</i>

690
00:43:17,219 --> 00:43:19,930
<i>well outta reach of my children,
but I could reach up there</i>

691
00:43:20,014 --> 00:43:23,642
<i>and grab the pistol
if I felt like I needed to.</i>

692
00:43:24,351 --> 00:43:26,645
<i>I didn't want to have to use it.</i>

693
00:43:34,945 --> 00:43:36,864
<i>[Jim] There's a lot of mystery
in this case.</i>

694
00:43:37,823 --> 00:43:39,992
<i>But the biggest thing that stuck out to us</i>

695
00:43:40,075 --> 00:43:44,371
<i>is that Cari had not physically been seen
or heard from for two years at this point.</i>

696
00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:45,706
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

697
00:43:45,789 --> 00:43:49,418
<i>[Ryan] The emails and the messages
and the social media alone</i>

698
00:43:49,501 --> 00:43:51,420
<i>were not proof that Cari Farver was alive.</i>

699
00:43:53,714 --> 00:43:56,842
<i>[Jim] In those messages,
Cari said she was quittin' her job,</i>

700
00:43:56,925 --> 00:43:59,303
<i>movin' to Kansas,
and just needed some space.</i>

701
00:44:01,513 --> 00:44:05,559
{\an8}<i>But when we looked at the original
investigators' photographs of Cari's home,</i>

702
00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:08,771
<i>we found that her closet
was still full of clothes.</i>

703
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:12,191
<i>All of her belongings
were still in that house.</i>

704
00:44:12,691 --> 00:44:14,735
<i>It was just like
she was coming back tomorrow.</i>

705
00:44:14,818 --> 00:44:16,862
<i>She was coming back this afternoon.</i>

706
00:44:16,945 --> 00:44:18,489
<i>Nothing was changed.</i>

707
00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:23,911
<i>[Ryan] The bed was made,
the coat was still hanging on a chair.</i>

708
00:44:25,162 --> 00:44:28,832
<i>Nothing there suggested she had packed up
and moved to a different city.</i>

709
00:44:30,918 --> 00:44:32,544
<i>We got Cari's bank records,</i>

710
00:44:32,628 --> 00:44:34,713
<i>and what we saw then were two transactions</i>

711
00:44:34,797 --> 00:44:37,508
<i>that happened just a couple days
after she went missing,</i>

712
00:44:38,717 --> 00:44:40,636
<i>and after that, there's nothing.</i>

713
00:44:41,136 --> 00:44:43,555
<i>And of course,
it's hard to exist without money.</i>

714
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:45,641
<i>[birds chirp]</i>

715
00:44:48,894 --> 00:44:52,773
<i>Right at the time she went missing,
Cari's father was dying.</i>

716
00:44:53,774 --> 00:44:55,484
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

717
00:44:55,567 --> 00:44:59,488
<i>In my mind, she would never have left,
because her dad was so sick.</i>

718
00:45:02,366 --> 00:45:07,496
<i>Two weeks, three weeks after he passed,
I had this very vivid dream about him.</i>

719
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,373
<i>And in that dream, he'd said,</i>

720
00:45:09,957 --> 00:45:12,501
<i>"Nance, she's with me, it's okay."</i>

721
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,130
<i>[dark music plays]</i>

722
00:45:16,213 --> 00:45:17,715
<i>I can still see his face.</i>

723
00:45:19,842 --> 00:45:22,136
<i>But I had to be there for Max,</i>

724
00:45:23,262 --> 00:45:24,638
<i>to give him a stable life.</i>

725
00:45:25,806 --> 00:45:27,015
<i>He was only 14.</i>

726
00:45:28,684 --> 00:45:31,478
<i>I don't know if it's a mother's thing
or what, but I just knew.</i>

727
00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:33,188
<i>Cari's not with us anymore.</i>

728
00:45:33,939 --> 00:45:35,941
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

729
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,782
<i>When Jim came out to talk to us a... again,</i>

730
00:45:44,867 --> 00:45:47,286
<i>I said, "I don't think
she left on her own."</i>

731
00:45:47,369 --> 00:45:50,581
<i>And... he looked at me and said,</i>

732
00:45:50,664 --> 00:45:53,292
<i>"I don't think she left,
either, on her own."</i>

733
00:45:53,375 --> 00:45:55,586
<i>And I hugged him, and I cried,</i>

734
00:45:55,669 --> 00:45:59,590
<i>because nobody with authority
had ever told me that.</i>

735
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:07,306
<i>[Jim] If Cari wasn't alive,
this case takes a big turn.</i>

736
00:46:11,268 --> 00:46:13,270
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

737
00:46:14,897 --> 00:46:17,274
<i>It was all just theories and speculation,</i>

738
00:46:18,066 --> 00:46:19,943
<i>but we continued the case,</i>

739
00:46:20,027 --> 00:46:23,238
<i>lookin' at it through the lens
of a death investigation.</i>

740
00:46:27,117 --> 00:46:30,037
<i>We knew Dave and Liz
had been gettin' these harassing emails</i>

741
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,748
<i>and text messages from Cari for years now.</i>

742
00:46:34,374 --> 00:46:37,669
<i>But if Cari was dead,
clearly she hadn't sent the messages.</i>

743
00:46:38,921 --> 00:46:40,839
<i>So in order to figure out
what happened to Cari,</i>

744
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:43,091
<i>we needed to figure out
who was sending these messages.</i>

745
00:46:46,678 --> 00:46:48,180
<i>We needed an IT guy.</i>

746
00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:54,144
<i>[man 2] Just a second.</i>

747
00:46:54,228 --> 00:46:56,230
<i>[whimsical music plays]</i>

748
00:46:59,274 --> 00:47:01,944
{\an8}<i>I've got Soylent,</i>

749
00:47:02,945 --> 00:47:04,279
{\an8}<i>which has caffeine in it,</i>

750
00:47:04,363 --> 00:47:06,281
{\an8}<i>and I've got coffee,
which has caffeine in it,</i>

751
00:47:06,365 --> 00:47:08,242
<i>and then I've got the remnants
of my last coffee,</i>

752
00:47:08,325 --> 00:47:10,536
<i>which has caffeine in it. Ah...</i>

753
00:47:10,619 --> 00:47:12,871
<i>Tony Kava worked for our IT department,</i>

754
00:47:12,955 --> 00:47:16,291
<i>and he was also a volunteer
for our sheriff's office as a deputy.</i>

755
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:18,418
<i>-Soylent.
-[producer] What's Soylent?</i>

756
00:47:18,919 --> 00:47:22,840
<i>It's, um... It's what nerds drink
instead of eating.</i>

757
00:47:22,923 --> 00:47:25,509
<i>For the most part,
I just drink two or three of these a day,</i>

758
00:47:25,592 --> 00:47:27,636
<i>and then eat some hummus.</i>

759
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,514
<i>[Ryan] As a reserve deputy,</i>

760
00:47:30,597 --> 00:47:34,810
<i>Tony was paid a dollar a year to help
with digital forensics investigations.</i>

761
00:47:34,893 --> 00:47:39,231
<i>I don't know if it's clear, but I'm also,
uh, apparently on the, uh, spectrum.</i>

762
00:47:39,314 --> 00:47:40,274
<i>[laughs]</i>

763
00:47:40,357 --> 00:47:42,484
<i>That does, uh, make sense when you see</i>

764
00:47:42,568 --> 00:47:44,945
<i>that I eat and drink
the same thing every day.</i>

765
00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:47,739
<i>I think it actually helps
with the investigations and all that.</i>

766
00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:59,084
{\an8}<i>In the Cari Farver case, there were
hundreds of thousands of email messages,</i>

767
00:47:59,167 --> 00:48:01,169
<i>hundreds of thousands of text messages.</i>

768
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:04,464
<i>Over two years of digital evidence.</i>

769
00:48:04,965 --> 00:48:07,259
<i>If we could figure out
where the messages were coming from,</i>

770
00:48:07,342 --> 00:48:09,469
<i>we may be able to find out
what happened to Cari.</i>

771
00:48:13,181 --> 00:48:15,434
<i>Every computer on the Internet
has an IP address.</i>

772
00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:16,518
{\an8}<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

773
00:48:17,311 --> 00:48:18,979
{\an8}<i>It stands for Internet Protocol.</i>

774
00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:23,483
<i>It's like, uh, the address on your house,
except for your computer.</i>

775
00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:26,778
<i>And so if we can find
an IP address for an email,</i>

776
00:48:26,862 --> 00:48:28,822
<i>or that was used to send a text message,</i>

777
00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:32,576
<i>we can use that to try
to trace that back to an actual location.</i>

778
00:48:34,494 --> 00:48:36,997
<i>But it seemed like whoever
was sending these messages</i>

779
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,667
<i>was using a lot of different services
to hide their real IP address.</i>

780
00:48:41,543 --> 00:48:45,339
<i>VPNs, proxies,
sometimes even the Wi-Fi at McDonald's.</i>

781
00:48:48,342 --> 00:48:51,803
<i>I was just certain that there's going
to be an IP address in there somewhere</i>

782
00:48:51,887 --> 00:48:54,389
<i>that would be key in trying to solve this.</i>

783
00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:56,934
<i>The solution was
to write the program that I needed.</i>

784
00:48:57,017 --> 00:48:59,019
<i>[intriguing music plays]</i>

785
00:49:06,693 --> 00:49:07,986
<i>I called it Dex.</i>

786
00:49:10,781 --> 00:49:14,493
<i>Once I have Dex available,
I start asking it questions.</i>

787
00:49:17,996 --> 00:49:22,042
<i>I was tryin' to find a pattern, um,
in the chaos of all this information.</i>

788
00:49:27,172 --> 00:49:29,257
<i>We had millions of IP addresses.</i>

789
00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:31,969
<i>I asked it,
"How many of those are unique?"</i>

790
00:49:38,475 --> 00:49:40,894
<i>That narrowed it down to 13,000.</i>

791
00:49:42,396 --> 00:49:44,231
<i>Then I asked the follow-on question,</i>

792
00:49:44,314 --> 00:49:48,610
<i>"Show me the top ten IP addresses
we've seen everywhere in this case."</i>

793
00:49:52,614 --> 00:49:56,326
<i>Out of the top ten IP addresses
seen everywhere in this case,</i>

794
00:49:56,410 --> 00:49:57,619
<i>eight of them are VPN services.</i>

795
00:49:57,703 --> 00:49:59,246
<i>We won't be able to do much with that.</i>

796
00:50:01,373 --> 00:50:03,917
<i>But the very top one,
the one that we see the most,</i>

797
00:50:05,210 --> 00:50:11,550
<i>that IP address was 174.71.6.113.</i>

798
00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:24,980
<i>The IP address was connected
to a house in Council Bluffs, Iowa.</i>

799
00:50:26,106 --> 00:50:30,193
<i>It was the home of a man
named Todd Butterbaugh.</i>

800
00:50:31,153 --> 00:50:32,821
<i>This was a huge shock because...</i>

801
00:50:32,904 --> 00:50:33,864
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

802
00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:36,199
<i>...Todd works at Pottawattamie County,</i>

803
00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:38,744
<i>and, uh... I'm his boss.</i>

804
00:50:38,827 --> 00:50:40,829
<i>[disturbing music plays]</i>

805
00:50:42,372 --> 00:50:45,625
<i>Obviously, this was an awkward situation.</i>

806
00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:47,210
<i>[rapidly typing]</i>

807
00:50:50,255 --> 00:50:51,423
<i>[typing continues]</i>

808
00:50:51,506 --> 00:50:54,384
<i>The first step was to hide
where our case file was,</i>

809
00:50:54,468 --> 00:50:57,304
<i>'cause as an IT person,
he would have access to all these files.</i>

810
00:50:59,306 --> 00:51:03,185
<i>At that point, we had to present him
with a search warrant to search his house.</i>

811
00:51:06,772 --> 00:51:08,273
<i>[Ryan] We were suspicious of Todd.</i>

812
00:51:08,774 --> 00:51:10,525
<i>He's an IT computer guy,</i>

813
00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:14,112
<i>and this case is hugely digital.</i>

814
00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:18,992
<i>But we also asked if anyone else
had been living there with him,</i>

815
00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:20,452
<i>using his Wi-Fi.</i>

816
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,540
<i>He told us that he had
an on-again, off-again girlfriend.</i>

817
00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:30,587
<i>That girlfriend had been livin' at Todd's
ever since her house was burned down.</i>

818
00:51:30,670 --> 00:51:32,672
<i>[menacing music plays]</i>

819
00:51:37,677 --> 00:51:40,764
<i>Todd's on-again,
off-again, live-in girlfriend</i>

820
00:51:41,681 --> 00:51:43,683
<i>was called Liz Golyar.</i>

821
00:51:43,767 --> 00:51:45,769
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

822
00:51:47,187 --> 00:51:48,647
<i>[Ryan] I was floored.</i>

823
00:51:49,231 --> 00:51:52,567
<i>The case took a 180-turn, just like that.</i>

824
00:51:55,570 --> 00:52:00,242
<i>Todd had told us that Liz Golyar
had been using his Wi-Fi for years.</i>

825
00:52:00,742 --> 00:52:02,869
<i>[Tony types]</i>

826
00:52:03,995 --> 00:52:05,997
<i>[Tony] We piece together
the digital evidence</i>

827
00:52:06,081 --> 00:52:08,166
<i>in all of the, uh,
email accounts and everything else,</i>

828
00:52:08,250 --> 00:52:11,628
<i>it... it's clear that all roads
lead to Liz.</i>

829
00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:17,217
<i>Everything suggested
Liz had been impersonating Cari</i>

830
00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:19,177
<i>from the moment Cari went missing.</i>

831
00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:25,350
<i>Every message that was sent
to Dave, to Liz, to Nancy, to Max,</i>

832
00:52:25,433 --> 00:52:26,768
<i>came from Liz herself.</i>

833
00:52:27,602 --> 00:52:30,230
<i>We believed that Liz was the victim.</i>

834
00:52:30,313 --> 00:52:31,356
<i>It's not true.</i>

835
00:52:31,439 --> 00:52:33,900
<i>In fact, Liz is the stalker.</i>

836
00:52:33,984 --> 00:52:40,991
<i>[spooky whistling]</i>

837
00:52:44,953 --> 00:52:46,955
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

838
00:52:49,749 --> 00:52:54,045
<i>[Dave] The sheriffs came and told me
Liz was the one behind all of it.</i>

839
00:52:57,048 --> 00:52:59,050
<i>My brain was spinning.</i>

840
00:53:00,886 --> 00:53:04,181
<i>I went to the back of the shop
where my toolbox was,</i>

841
00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:07,100
<i>and I just leaned on it and cried.</i>

842
00:53:08,977 --> 00:53:10,854
<i>["Funnel of Love" echoes]</i>

843
00:53:10,937 --> 00:53:13,064
<i>♪ We go round and round ♪</i>

844
00:53:13,148 --> 00:53:15,901
<i>♪ Deep into the funnel of love... ♪</i>

845
00:53:16,818 --> 00:53:18,236
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

846
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,406
<i>I'm tryin' to go
through the pieces of the puzzle</i>

847
00:53:21,489 --> 00:53:22,991
<i>and put 'em together.</i>

848
00:53:23,074 --> 00:53:24,492
<i>♪ Round and round... ♪</i>

849
00:53:25,285 --> 00:53:27,287
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

850
00:53:28,496 --> 00:53:33,001
<i>Cari was never the one
outside my house messaging me.</i>

851
00:53:35,378 --> 00:53:37,881
<i>Cari wasn't the one that keyed my car,</i>

852
00:53:37,964 --> 00:53:40,008
<i>or burned down Liz's house,</i>

853
00:53:40,091 --> 00:53:42,010
<i>or smashed my fucking windows.</i>

854
00:53:42,093 --> 00:53:44,095
<i>["Funnel of Love" echoes]</i>

855
00:53:45,847 --> 00:53:48,350
<i>♪ It's gonna get you some day ♪</i>

856
00:53:48,433 --> 00:53:49,392
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

857
00:53:49,476 --> 00:53:52,520
<i>It was Liz stalking me this whole time.</i>

858
00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:56,274
<i>I mean, it was such a mindfuck.</i>

859
00:53:58,318 --> 00:54:00,153
<i>It didn't take me long,</i>

860
00:54:00,862 --> 00:54:02,739
<i>checkin' the boxes in my head,</i>

861
00:54:02,822 --> 00:54:06,534
<i>to come to the conclusion
that Cari was probably dead,</i>

862
00:54:07,452 --> 00:54:09,120
<i>and that's tough to swallow.</i>

863
00:54:09,204 --> 00:54:10,997
<i>[sad piano music plays]</i>

864
00:54:11,081 --> 00:54:12,290
<i>That's beyond tough.</i>

865
00:54:26,388 --> 00:54:28,932
<i>At this point,
we believe Liz was responsible</i>

866
00:54:29,015 --> 00:54:30,767
<i>for whatever happened to Cari,</i>

867
00:54:30,850 --> 00:54:33,895
<i>but we could only prove
that Liz was posing as Cari.</i>

868
00:54:33,979 --> 00:54:34,896
<i>That's about it.</i>

869
00:54:34,980 --> 00:54:36,982
<i>We couldn't tell you
what happened to Cari,</i>

870
00:54:37,065 --> 00:54:39,109
{\an8}<i>we couldn't tell you
that Liz was involved,</i>

871
00:54:39,192 --> 00:54:41,695
{\an8}<i>and so we couldn't just arrest Liz.</i>

872
00:54:41,778 --> 00:54:44,614
{\an8}<i>But she became our primary suspect
on what happened to Cari.</i>

873
00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:47,325
<i>So now we needed to look back</i>

874
00:54:47,409 --> 00:54:49,494
<i>through all the evidence
that'd been collected</i>

875
00:54:49,577 --> 00:54:50,870
<i>in a whole different light.</i>

876
00:54:50,954 --> 00:54:52,956
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

877
00:54:54,165 --> 00:54:57,085
<i>The original investigators
had believed Liz was the victim...</i>

878
00:54:57,168 --> 00:54:58,128
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

879
00:54:58,211 --> 00:55:00,005
<i>...and so they downloaded her phone</i>

880
00:55:00,088 --> 00:55:02,549
<i>just a month and a half
after Cari went missing.</i>

881
00:55:03,049 --> 00:55:04,050
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

882
00:55:04,134 --> 00:55:05,218
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

883
00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:08,763
<i>When looking
through Liz's phone downloads...</i>

884
00:55:09,264 --> 00:55:10,140
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

885
00:55:10,223 --> 00:55:12,726
<i>...I found somethin' that was
missed by the original investigators.</i>

886
00:55:14,477 --> 00:55:15,478
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

887
00:55:16,479 --> 00:55:17,480
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

888
00:55:18,523 --> 00:55:21,067
<i>There was a picture of Cari's vehicle,</i>

889
00:55:21,151 --> 00:55:23,778
<i>taken on Christmas Eve of 2012.</i>

890
00:55:23,862 --> 00:55:24,863
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

891
00:55:27,615 --> 00:55:29,034
<i>[Ryan] Looking at the case file,</i>

892
00:55:29,117 --> 00:55:32,829
{\an8}<i>we see the car was not recovered
by police until January 8th.</i>

893
00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:37,500
{\an8}<i>This photo suggests that Liz knew
where the car was the whole time.</i>

894
00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:41,880
{\an8}<i>That fact revealed
a totally new aspect of our investigation.</i>

895
00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:46,801
<i>[Jim] When a vehicle was recovered
in January of 2013,</i>

896
00:55:46,885 --> 00:55:48,219
<i>it was then processed.</i>

897
00:55:51,598 --> 00:55:56,394
<i>When I'm lookin' through that report,
I found that a fingerprint was discovered.</i>

898
00:55:56,478 --> 00:55:57,896
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

899
00:55:57,979 --> 00:55:59,856
<i>The fingerprint was inside the vehicle,</i>

900
00:55:59,939 --> 00:56:02,442
<i>on a mint container
that was on the center console.</i>

901
00:56:04,194 --> 00:56:08,239
<i>We had that fingerprint directly compared
to Liz's known fingerprints.</i>

902
00:56:12,744 --> 00:56:15,747
<i>It's a match.
That's Liz's print on the mint container.</i>

903
00:56:15,830 --> 00:56:17,332
<i>[intense music plays]</i>

904
00:56:17,415 --> 00:56:21,503
<i>[Ryan] This was solid evidence
that shows Liz was in Cari's car</i>

905
00:56:21,586 --> 00:56:25,131
<i>prior to January 8th
when we recovered that vehicle in 2013.</i>

906
00:56:26,591 --> 00:56:28,259
<i>[Jim] It was a huge break for us,</i>

907
00:56:28,843 --> 00:56:31,262
<i>but at the same time,
it... it doesn't answer any questions</i>

908
00:56:31,346 --> 00:56:34,015
<i>of what happened to Cari,
or where Cari's even at.</i>

909
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,019
{\an8}<i>[intriguing music fades out]</i>

910
00:56:38,103 --> 00:56:40,438
{\an8}<i>At this point, the stakes were high,</i>

911
00:56:40,522 --> 00:56:43,566
{\an8}<i>because we just didn't know
what Liz was capable of.</i>

912
00:56:44,859 --> 00:56:46,861
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

913
00:56:52,492 --> 00:56:54,702
<i>[Ryan] As we were looking
for more evidence,</i>

914
00:56:55,245 --> 00:56:58,498
<i>we decided to put in a tracker
on Liz's vehicle.</i>

915
00:57:00,875 --> 00:57:02,877
<i>[intriguing music plays]</i>

916
00:57:07,715 --> 00:57:10,593
{\an8}<i>We were monitoring
her GPS location at all times.</i>

917
00:57:27,569 --> 00:57:31,614
{\an8}<i>[Jim] We find out that she's driving
and circling around Amy's house</i>

918
00:57:31,698 --> 00:57:33,199
<i>on a daily basis.</i>

919
00:57:40,832 --> 00:57:44,294
<i>So at this point, we're becoming
very concerned about Amy's safety.</i>

920
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:47,589
<i>[eerie music plays]</i>

921
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:58,600
<i>[Dave] I'd been visiting my kids
on a Sunday night.</i>

922
00:57:59,267 --> 00:58:02,896
<i>I get back home,
it's probably 8:30, nine o'clock.</i>

923
00:58:03,897 --> 00:58:06,149
<i>I go into my bedroom to change.</i>

924
00:58:07,275 --> 00:58:11,696
<i>As soon as I open my closet door,
I notice my gun had been moved.</i>

925
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:19,120
<i>The gun's gone.</i>

926
00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:20,413
<i>It is not there.</i>

927
00:58:23,708 --> 00:58:25,752
<i>My stomach drops. I'm like, "Oh fuck."</i>

928
00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:27,837
<i>[line rings]</i>

929
00:58:39,182 --> 00:58:40,183
<i>[gunshot]</i>

930
00:58:42,060 --> 00:58:43,937
<i>[Liz breathes anxiously]</i>

931
00:58:44,020 --> 00:58:46,022
<i>[phone dialling]</i>

932
00:58:46,105 --> 00:58:47,315
<i>[line rings]</i>

933
00:58:47,398 --> 00:58:48,525
<i>[Liz pants]</i>

934
00:58:48,608 --> 00:58:50,902
<i>[operator] 911, what's the address
of your emergency?</i>

935
00:58:51,402 --> 00:58:54,280
<i>-[Liz] I've been shot.
-[operator] Okay, where are you at?</i>

936
00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:58,326
<i>[Liz] I'm at, uh, the park
by the sheriff's department.</i>

937
00:58:58,409 --> 00:59:00,203
<i>[pants, weeps]</i>

938
00:59:00,286 --> 00:59:03,456
<i>[Tony] The night of December 5th, 2015,</i>

939
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:07,210
<i>I was out directing traffic, uh,
at a nativity scene.</i>

940
00:59:07,293 --> 00:59:09,671
<i>As I'm doing that, I heard a radio call,</i>

941
00:59:09,754 --> 00:59:12,757
<i>um, said that there had been
a shooting in Big Lake Park.</i>

942
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:14,801
<i>[intriguing music plays]</i>

943
00:59:14,884 --> 00:59:17,303
<i>[operator] Okay.
Is there any serious bleeding?</i>

944
00:59:17,804 --> 00:59:20,682
<i>[Liz] Um, my... my feet and leg
are soaked with blood.</i>

945
00:59:21,432 --> 00:59:24,602
<i>[operator] Okay.
Is the assailant still nearby?</i>

946
00:59:25,436 --> 00:59:27,814
<i>[Liz] I don't think so.
They took off running.</i>

947
00:59:27,897 --> 00:59:29,107
<i>[police siren blares]</i>

948
00:59:29,190 --> 00:59:31,025
<i>[Ryan] Woman shot at Big Lake Park.</i>

949
00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:35,989
<i>When I heard that, my heart
immediately just dropped to my stomach.</i>

950
00:59:36,072 --> 00:59:37,407
<i>I mean... [slaps table] Like that.</i>

951
00:59:37,490 --> 00:59:42,120
<i>I was convinced Dave's ex-wife Amy Flora
had just been shot at Big Lake Park.</i>

952
00:59:42,203 --> 00:59:43,204
<i>[Liz cries]</i>

953
00:59:43,788 --> 00:59:46,374
<i>-[operator]Do you know who did it?
-[Liz gasps]No.</i>

954
00:59:46,457 --> 00:59:47,959
<i>[Liz whimpers]</i>

955
00:59:48,459 --> 00:59:50,545
<i>[operator] Do you know
if it was a male or a female?</i>

956
00:59:50,628 --> 00:59:51,629
<i>[Liz] A female.</i>

957
00:59:52,130 --> 00:59:53,131
<i>[Liz weeps]</i>

958
00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:56,134
<i>Later on, there's a news report</i>

959
00:59:56,217 --> 00:59:59,262
<i>that says, uh, there's a woman shot
and her name is Liz Golyar.</i>

960
00:59:59,345 --> 01:00:00,346
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

961
01:00:00,430 --> 01:00:02,181
<i>[disturbing music plays]</i>

962
01:00:02,265 --> 01:00:03,266
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

963
01:00:04,183 --> 01:00:06,352
<i>The question that's
running through our heads is...</i>

964
01:00:06,436 --> 01:00:07,437
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

965
01:00:08,313 --> 01:00:10,106
<i>..."Who would want to shoot Liz?"</i>

966
01:00:10,189 --> 01:00:11,190
<i>[projector clicks]</i>

967
01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:15,612
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

968
01:00:15,695 --> 01:00:19,574
<i>[anchor 1] Shock and concern tonight
surrounding a shooting in a local park.</i>

969
01:00:19,657 --> 01:00:21,618
<i>[anchor 2] So far,
police can't find the woman</i>

970
01:00:21,701 --> 01:00:23,745
<i>who shot another woman in the leg.</i>

971
01:00:23,828 --> 01:00:25,955
<i>The circumstances appear strange.</i>

972
01:00:26,789 --> 01:00:28,916
<i>[Amy] All I heard was, "Open up, police."</i>

973
01:00:30,501 --> 01:00:32,211
<i>I opened the door,</i>

974
01:00:32,295 --> 01:00:36,507
<i>and there were two officers
with guns drawn.</i>

975
01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:38,551
<i>I was freaked out.</i>

976
01:00:39,636 --> 01:00:42,680
<i>I felt like,
"What is gonna happen to my kids?"</i>

977
01:00:43,973 --> 01:00:45,183
<i>"I'm goin' to jail."</i>

978
01:00:52,523 --> 01:00:54,442
<i>[Jim] Once she had recovered
from the shooting,</i>

979
01:00:55,193 --> 01:00:57,487
<i>we invited Liz to the sheriff's office
for an interview.</i>

980
01:00:57,570 --> 01:00:58,571
<i>[door opens]</i>

981
01:00:59,697 --> 01:01:03,284
<i>I'm Investigator Doty, I work here
for the Sheriff's Office, okay?</i>

982
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:08,665
<i>I'm aware of that whole deal that happened
right over there in Big Lake.</i>

983
01:01:08,748 --> 01:01:10,875
<i>-[Liz]Okay.
-Uh, I've read the initial police report.</i>

984
01:01:10,958 --> 01:01:14,754
<i>And it ID'd Amy
as the prime suspect. Okay?</i>

985
01:01:15,338 --> 01:01:17,632
<i>-I mean, I wouldn't put it past her.
-[Jim]Mm-hmm.</i>

986
01:01:18,424 --> 01:01:21,260
<i>[Jim] In truth, I did not suspect Amy
of shootin' Liz.</i>

987
01:01:23,137 --> 01:01:27,225
<i>It sounded crazy,
but we suspected Liz did this herself.</i>

988
01:01:27,308 --> 01:01:29,310
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

989
01:01:31,896 --> 01:01:35,233
<i>We believe that Liz stole the gun
outta Dave's apartment,</i>

990
01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:40,071
<i>and then Liz used that gun
to shoot herself.</i>

991
01:01:40,154 --> 01:01:41,364
<i>[gunshot]</i>

992
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:43,574
<i>[Liz pants] I've been shot in the leg.</i>

993
01:01:46,661 --> 01:01:48,955
<i>[Jim] It seemed like
she was tryin' to set up Amy,</i>

994
01:01:49,038 --> 01:01:52,208
<i>not only for the shooting,
but also for Cari's murder.</i>

995
01:01:54,836 --> 01:01:57,797
<i>I know that there's been
some hostility between you and Amy.</i>

996
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,050
<i>And it's the same hostility
that she has towards, uh, Cari too.</i>

997
01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:03,386
<i>-Yeah, has she ever...
-She's out flat told Dave that.</i>

998
01:02:03,469 --> 01:02:04,387
<i>She's told me that.</i>

999
01:02:04,470 --> 01:02:06,139
<i>What's the hostility
she's had towards Cari?</i>

1000
01:02:06,222 --> 01:02:09,058
<i>That she wants to beat the crap
out of her, like, all the time.</i>

1001
01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:13,521
<i>We knew the game Liz was playing,
and we'd play along with her theory.</i>

1002
01:02:14,105 --> 01:02:15,314
<i>In my head, I'm thinkin',</i>

1003
01:02:15,398 --> 01:02:19,444
<i>if she was bold enough
to go and then shoot you,</i>

1004
01:02:19,527 --> 01:02:22,822
<i>okay, she could easily be bold enough
to have done somethin' to Cari.</i>

1005
01:02:24,615 --> 01:02:28,077
<i>We were hoping she was gonna help us out
any way she could,</i>

1006
01:02:28,161 --> 01:02:29,787
<i>if she thought we were gonna lock up Amy.</i>

1007
01:02:29,871 --> 01:02:33,166
<i>So we used that to try
to turn the tables on Liz,</i>

1008
01:02:33,249 --> 01:02:34,834
<i>and deploy a bit of a ruse on her.</i>

1009
01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:37,336
<i>If you would kinda go back through the...</i>

1010
01:02:37,420 --> 01:02:41,299
<i>if you have any type of history
of contacts with Amy,</i>

1011
01:02:41,382 --> 01:02:44,927
<i>and just make sure there's nothin'
where she said somethin' more threatening</i>

1012
01:02:45,011 --> 01:02:46,929
<i>than, "Hey, I wanna beat up Cari."</i>

1013
01:02:47,013 --> 01:02:49,599
<i>If she made anything...
Real threatening statements,</i>

1014
01:02:49,682 --> 01:02:52,435
<i>or inferred that she ever did
anything to Cari,</i>

1015
01:02:52,518 --> 01:02:55,688
<i>'cause that's like gold to me
if we had somethin' like that.</i>

1016
01:02:55,772 --> 01:02:58,316
<i>Because then we could
start buildin' a case.</i>

1017
01:02:59,066 --> 01:03:02,653
<i>Hopefully Liz would write to herself
posing as Amy,</i>

1018
01:03:02,737 --> 01:03:04,822
<i>and hopefully we'd get enough details</i>

1019
01:03:04,906 --> 01:03:07,784
<i>that we'd be able
to build that case against Liz.</i>

1020
01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:12,538
<i>[eerie singing]</i>

1021
01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:14,624
<i>[Ryan] Liz thought
she was smarter than us,</i>

1022
01:03:14,707 --> 01:03:17,043
<i>but she was playing checkers,
we were playing chess.</i>

1023
01:03:17,126 --> 01:03:21,339
<i>[typing]</i>

1024
01:03:22,673 --> 01:03:23,674
<i>[mouse clicks]</i>

1025
01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:25,718
<i>[Jim] A couple days
after the interview with Liz,</i>

1026
01:03:25,802 --> 01:03:27,804
<i>she started forwarding us
some messages from Amy.</i>

1027
01:03:29,347 --> 01:03:33,142
<i>Confessing, "I shot you at Big Lake Park
because you wouldn't stay away from Dave."</i>

1028
01:03:35,686 --> 01:03:38,231
<i>We knew this was Liz writing to herself</i>

1029
01:03:38,314 --> 01:03:40,107
<i>usin' Amy's name.</i>

1030
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:42,610
<i>It was a good start,</i>

1031
01:03:43,861 --> 01:03:46,197
<i>but I knew we were gonna need
more details from Liz</i>

1032
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,115
<i>of what actually happened to Cari.</i>

1033
01:03:48,866 --> 01:03:50,868
<i>[tense music plays]</i>

1034
01:03:55,331 --> 01:03:58,251
<i>[Dave] I know the police
couldn't just go and arrest Liz,</i>

1035
01:03:58,334 --> 01:04:00,711
<i>'cause they just didn't have
the evidence to convict her.</i>

1036
01:04:02,421 --> 01:04:06,133
<i>But myself and the kids and Amy,
I mean, we're under threat.</i>

1037
01:04:06,217 --> 01:04:10,805
<i>Not knowing what, if anything, may come,
or what kinda craziness might happen.</i>

1038
01:04:10,888 --> 01:04:12,890
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

1039
01:04:15,893 --> 01:04:18,646
<i>If she could shoot herself,
what else is she capable of?</i>

1040
01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:22,483
<i>I was terrified at that point.</i>

1041
01:04:27,446 --> 01:04:30,700
{\an8}<i>[Ryan] There was concern
about Amy and her children,</i>

1042
01:04:31,951 --> 01:04:33,411
{\an8}<i>so I developed a plan.</i>

1043
01:04:35,663 --> 01:04:37,373
<i>[phone rings]</i>

1044
01:04:38,624 --> 01:04:40,334
<i>[ringing continues]</i>

1045
01:04:40,418 --> 01:04:41,252
<i>[phone beeps]</i>

1046
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:45,298
<i>I got in touch with Dave,
and recorded the conversation.</i>

1047
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:48,426
<i>Just speaking father to father,
man to man,</i>

1048
01:04:48,509 --> 01:04:52,221
<i>I would do whatever I could
to be around my kids as much as possible.</i>

1049
01:04:58,936 --> 01:05:02,064
<i>I'd be damn near moved in
with Amy if I were you.</i>

1050
01:05:02,148 --> 01:05:02,982
<i>[Dave] Okay.</i>

1051
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,447
<i>[Ryan] If I had to get back with my ex
and move in with her,</i>

1052
01:05:09,530 --> 01:05:12,158
<i>so be it,
as long as I know my kids are safe.</i>

1053
01:05:12,658 --> 01:05:14,577
<i>[Dave] {\an8}Okay. I'll take your advice.</i>

1054
01:05:23,502 --> 01:05:26,047
<i>Did my plan have an ulterior motive to it?</i>

1055
01:05:26,547 --> 01:05:27,381
<i>Yes.</i>

1056
01:05:27,465 --> 01:05:29,884
<i>We knew that as soon as Liz found out</i>

1057
01:05:29,967 --> 01:05:31,928
<i>that Dave was moving in with Amy,</i>

1058
01:05:32,595 --> 01:05:37,350
<i>we were gonna start seein'
some real raw emotion coming from her.</i>

1059
01:05:38,851 --> 01:05:41,103
<i>[eerie singing]</i>

1060
01:05:41,187 --> 01:05:42,521
<i>[phone rings]</i>

1061
01:05:44,273 --> 01:05:45,775
<i>[ringing continues]</i>

1062
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:50,029
<i>This is Investigator Doty.</i>

1063
01:05:50,112 --> 01:05:50,988
<i>[Liz] Yeah.</i>

1064
01:05:51,072 --> 01:05:53,366
<i>-[Jim] Who am I speakin' to here?
-Liz.</i>

1065
01:05:53,449 --> 01:05:54,951
<i>[Jim] Liz, what... what's goin' on?</i>

1066
01:05:55,451 --> 01:05:57,662
<i>[Liz] She's still not arrested.</i>

1067
01:05:57,745 --> 01:05:59,038
<i>She gets to shoot somebody,</i>

1068
01:05:59,121 --> 01:06:02,208
<i>and then she gets to kill another person,
and then she gets to move in with Dave,</i>

1069
01:06:02,291 --> 01:06:05,628
<i>and she gets to be free,
and you guys aren't arresting her.</i>

1070
01:06:06,545 --> 01:06:09,840
<i>[Jim] There's only so much I can do
if Amy's not talkin' to us.</i>

1071
01:06:11,717 --> 01:06:14,136
<i>-You still there?
-[Liz]Yeah. Uh-uh.</i>

1072
01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:18,182
<i>[Jim] If she does let you know
some more specifics,</i>

1073
01:06:18,265 --> 01:06:20,184
<i>that's the kinda stuff that makes a case.</i>

1074
01:06:20,267 --> 01:06:21,102
<i>[Liz] Okay.</i>

1075
01:06:21,686 --> 01:06:22,979
<i>[Jim] All right. Bye.</i>

1076
01:06:23,062 --> 01:06:24,063
<i>[line clicks]</i>

1077
01:06:26,649 --> 01:06:29,443
<i>[Ryan] That phone call with Jim
was the tipping point.</i>

1078
01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:31,779
<i>The plan was actually working.</i>

1079
01:06:31,862 --> 01:06:33,864
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

1080
01:06:36,409 --> 01:06:39,078
<i>[Jim] That night,
there was a huge break for us.</i>

1081
01:06:39,161 --> 01:06:40,162
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1082
01:06:40,997 --> 01:06:43,791
<i>Liz starts forwardin' us
more messages from Amy.</i>

1083
01:06:47,670 --> 01:06:51,507
<i>But this time, details about Cari's murder
begin pouring in.</i>

1084
01:07:00,099 --> 01:07:01,225
<i>[computer chimes]</i>

1085
01:07:01,308 --> 01:07:02,309
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1086
01:07:02,893 --> 01:07:05,813
<i>The emails seemed like a descriptor
from the killer of what happened.</i>

1087
01:07:05,896 --> 01:07:06,897
{\an8}<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1088
01:07:10,985 --> 01:07:13,362
<i>-[clicks mouse]
-We knew this wasn't Amy.</i>

1089
01:07:13,446 --> 01:07:16,699
<i>We knew this was Liz writing to herself,
posing as Amy.</i>

1090
01:07:22,079 --> 01:07:25,666
<i>The emails described
how she'd parked in an abandoned lot,</i>

1091
01:07:26,208 --> 01:07:28,544
<i>and covered Cari with a tarp
and burned her.</i>

1092
01:07:32,465 --> 01:07:34,592
<i>As detectives, there's some excitement,</i>

1093
01:07:34,675 --> 01:07:38,054
<i>because maybe we're gettin' the evidence
we've been looking for for years.</i>

1094
01:07:38,137 --> 01:07:39,138
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1095
01:07:39,638 --> 01:07:40,723
<i>But at the same time,</i>

1096
01:07:40,806 --> 01:07:44,018
<i>what they're describing
is such a horrible thing.</i>

1097
01:07:44,101 --> 01:07:45,102
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1098
01:07:48,814 --> 01:07:50,066
<i>These confessional emails,</i>

1099
01:07:50,149 --> 01:07:53,027
<i>if true, were a huge break to us,
'cause up to this point,</i>

1100
01:07:53,110 --> 01:07:54,987
<i>we had no idea what happened to Cari.</i>

1101
01:07:55,071 --> 01:07:59,158
<i>We believed Liz was involved,
but we had no idea what she had done.</i>

1102
01:08:00,242 --> 01:08:01,202
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1103
01:08:01,702 --> 01:08:03,287
<i>[Ryan] Reading all these emails,</i>

1104
01:08:03,370 --> 01:08:07,249
<i>the common theme was there was a stabbing
that occurred in Cari's car.</i>

1105
01:08:07,333 --> 01:08:08,167
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

1106
01:08:08,250 --> 01:08:10,503
<i>And that led us back to the vehicle again,</i>

1107
01:08:10,586 --> 01:08:13,130
<i>but this time,
we were looking for traces of blood.</i>

1108
01:08:13,214 --> 01:08:15,216
<i>[hopeful music plays]</i>

1109
01:08:18,677 --> 01:08:20,262
<i>[aerosol sprays]</i>

1110
01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:25,142
<i>[Jim] We processed the vehicle
with the blood reagent.</i>

1111
01:08:27,937 --> 01:08:30,606
<i>[Ryan] We just sprayed everywhere
we could think of.</i>

1112
01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:36,195
<i>This chemical, when it hits blood,
will glow under a black light.</i>

1113
01:08:41,575 --> 01:08:44,578
<i>The black light was taken
over the front seat, the passenger seat,</i>

1114
01:08:44,662 --> 01:08:46,580
<i>throughout the back seats,</i>

1115
01:08:46,664 --> 01:08:47,873
<i>the back hatch area.</i>

1116
01:08:50,501 --> 01:08:51,752
<i>And we saw nothing.</i>

1117
01:08:53,879 --> 01:08:55,673
<i>There were no traces of blood.</i>

1118
01:08:57,716 --> 01:08:59,176
<i>But it was Cari's vehicle.</i>

1119
01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:02,388
<i>There's a good chance maybe
she was driving when she was stabbed.</i>

1120
01:09:03,389 --> 01:09:06,058
<i>[machine whirs]</i>

1121
01:09:15,276 --> 01:09:17,611
<i>So I pulled the fabric
off the driver's seat,</i>

1122
01:09:18,863 --> 01:09:21,615
<i>and there's nothin' under there.
It was just normal foam.</i>

1123
01:09:30,291 --> 01:09:33,335
<i>Then I moved to the passenger seat,
I pulled the fabric off of that.</i>

1124
01:09:42,928 --> 01:09:44,680
<i>-[shutter clicks]
-[dramatic sting]</i>

1125
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:47,641
<i>[shutter clicks]</i>

1126
01:09:48,601 --> 01:09:51,270
<i>On the bottom of that seat
was a big red stain.</i>

1127
01:09:51,770 --> 01:09:53,606
<i>-[shutter clicks]
-[sinister sting]</i>

1128
01:09:59,153 --> 01:10:00,946
<i>I think, "We found our crime scene."</i>

1129
01:10:01,030 --> 01:10:03,032
<i>[police siren blares]</i>

1130
01:10:09,371 --> 01:10:12,625
<i>-[Ryan] Who you goin' with? Ambrose?
-[Jim] Yeah, I'm gonna ride with him.</i>

1131
01:10:12,708 --> 01:10:14,710
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

1132
01:10:26,931 --> 01:10:28,933
<i>[Dave] Investigator Avis called me,</i>

1133
01:10:29,016 --> 01:10:31,352
<i>said, "We just wanted to let you know
she's been arrested."</i>

1134
01:10:37,775 --> 01:10:41,987
<i>In that moment, it did feel
like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.</i>

1135
01:10:42,988 --> 01:10:44,198
<i>But not all of it.</i>

1136
01:10:49,536 --> 01:10:52,539
<i>You can't wind up slowly over four years
and then just turn it off.</i>

1137
01:10:53,916 --> 01:10:55,668
<i>That's not the way it works.</i>

1138
01:11:05,844 --> 01:11:12,518
<i>[spooky whistling]</i>

1139
01:11:12,601 --> 01:11:14,603
<i>[crickets chirp]</i>

1140
01:11:17,648 --> 01:11:21,235
<i>Now, the reason
why you're in this chair right now today,</i>

1141
01:11:21,318 --> 01:11:24,863
<i>is because you have a lot of questions
that you need to answer for me.</i>

1142
01:11:25,489 --> 01:11:27,866
<i>Did you ever see Cari's car?</i>

1143
01:11:30,411 --> 01:11:32,121
<i>-You ever seen it?
-Nope.</i>

1144
01:11:32,705 --> 01:11:35,541
<i>A picture of her car
with her plates, her Explorer,</i>

1145
01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:36,750
<i>was on your phone.</i>

1146
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:41,213
<i>-I've never seen her car. Ever.
-You've been in her car.</i>

1147
01:11:41,297 --> 01:11:43,424
<i>-You drove her car.
-No, I didn't.</i>

1148
01:11:43,507 --> 01:11:45,426
<i>I've never been inside her car.</i>

1149
01:11:45,509 --> 01:11:47,386
<i>I've never even been around her car.</i>

1150
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:49,138
<i>Ever.</i>

1151
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:53,475
<i>-Your fingerprints are in there.
-No, I haven't.</i>

1152
01:11:53,559 --> 01:11:56,061
<i>I'm not lying.
I've never been around her car.</i>

1153
01:11:56,145 --> 01:11:57,479
<i>I've never even seen it.</i>

1154
01:11:58,147 --> 01:12:00,983
<i>This is where I...
I want you to think hard, okay,</i>

1155
01:12:01,066 --> 01:12:04,236
<i>about... what direction
you're gonna go in here.</i>

1156
01:12:04,862 --> 01:12:09,533
<i>Are you gonna sit in this chair
and be remorseful or be cold-blooded?</i>

1157
01:12:09,616 --> 01:12:12,244
<i>Because right now, after four years,</i>

1158
01:12:13,162 --> 01:12:15,497
<i>this... this family's been lookin'
for answers.</i>

1159
01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:18,459
<i>For years and years,</i>

1160
01:12:18,959 --> 01:12:24,089
<i>people have been, um, sending emails
under Cari's fictitious accounts.</i>

1161
01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:27,217
<i>The IP addresses show up to whose house?</i>

1162
01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:29,219
<i>Your house.</i>

1163
01:12:31,096 --> 01:12:33,223
<i>Why would you create all these emails?</i>

1164
01:12:33,724 --> 01:12:35,768
<i>I haven't created any emails.</i>

1165
01:12:37,478 --> 01:12:38,771
<i>They're coming from you.</i>

1166
01:12:38,854 --> 01:12:39,897
<i>No, they're not.</i>

1167
01:12:42,900 --> 01:12:45,694
<i>I'm not gonna be accused
of something that I didn't do.</i>

1168
01:12:47,905 --> 01:12:49,907
<i>The finger's pointin' right at you.</i>

1169
01:12:50,866 --> 01:12:53,327
<i>Then I'm done talking,
and I'm gonna have my attorney.</i>

1170
01:12:55,788 --> 01:12:57,790
<i>[menacing music plays]</i>

1171
01:12:59,166 --> 01:13:01,794
<i>Just into our newsroom tonight,
word of an arrest.</i>

1172
01:13:02,378 --> 01:13:04,254
<i>[anchor] Golyar charged
with first-degree murder,</i>

1173
01:13:04,338 --> 01:13:06,757
<i>and is being held
at the Pottawattamie County Jail.</i>

1174
01:13:08,008 --> 01:13:10,803
<i>Once Liz was arrested, that doesn't mean
the investigation was over.</i>

1175
01:13:11,845 --> 01:13:13,472
<i>This trial was gonna be tough.</i>

1176
01:13:14,056 --> 01:13:17,017
<i>We needed brilliant prosecutors
workin' the case with us.</i>

1177
01:13:20,938 --> 01:13:22,523
<i>[woman 4] Looking from the outside,</i>

1178
01:13:23,023 --> 01:13:25,651
<i>this case truly came across
as far-fetched.</i>

1179
01:13:27,111 --> 01:13:28,362
<i>I'm wondering to myself,</i>

1180
01:13:28,445 --> 01:13:31,865
<i>how am I gonna get a court
to believe that this is true?</i>

1181
01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:38,372
<i>This was somebody keying their own car,
stabbing their own clothes.</i>

1182
01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:42,000
<i>This person had even burned
their own home.</i>

1183
01:13:43,043 --> 01:13:46,004
<i>I mean, who's gonna shoot themselves
in the leg, for cryin' out loud?</i>

1184
01:13:47,005 --> 01:13:49,174
<i>But my biggest concern, honestly,</i>

1185
01:13:49,258 --> 01:13:51,635
<i>was "How do you prove a murder
without a body?"</i>

1186
01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:57,433
<i>We needed to prove that, A, Cari's dead,</i>

1187
01:13:57,516 --> 01:14:00,144
<i>and, B, Liz killed her.</i>

1188
01:14:00,227 --> 01:14:02,229
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

1189
01:14:04,773 --> 01:14:07,526
<i>It was all-consuming work, day and night,</i>

1190
01:14:07,609 --> 01:14:11,196
<i>in search of some kind of smoking gun
to prove Cari was dead.</i>

1191
01:14:14,741 --> 01:14:17,578
<i>[Tony] Avis and I were leaving
no stone unturned.</i>

1192
01:14:17,661 --> 01:14:21,915
<i>Anything that could potentially help us
with this case, we wanted.</i>

1193
01:14:23,917 --> 01:14:25,169
<i>[Ryan] It was exhausting.</i>

1194
01:14:25,919 --> 01:14:28,255
<i>Twelve, sometimes 14, 16 hours a day,</i>

1195
01:14:28,755 --> 01:14:32,593
<i>going through the same old phone dumps
that we had reviewed a thousand times,</i>

1196
01:14:32,676 --> 01:14:34,845
<i>making sure we didn't miss something.</i>

1197
01:14:34,928 --> 01:14:35,929
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1198
01:14:36,472 --> 01:14:40,225
<i>All those emails, all the email accounts,
make sure we didn't miss another one.</i>

1199
01:14:43,103 --> 01:14:45,022
<i>It took a toll on my life.</i>

1200
01:14:45,105 --> 01:14:46,773
<i>-[sniffs]
-[clicks mouse]</i>

1201
01:14:48,066 --> 01:14:49,902
<i>My marriage was failing.</i>

1202
01:14:50,819 --> 01:14:55,032
<i>I knew that I wasn't bein' a good dad
at the time, which broke my heart.</i>

1203
01:14:59,286 --> 01:15:02,456
<i>[Tony] A year or so before I started
workin' on this case,</i>

1204
01:15:02,539 --> 01:15:05,209
<i>I'd been diagnosed
with having a brain tumor.</i>

1205
01:15:07,336 --> 01:15:11,089
<i>At this point in the case,
as it was really starting to... to heat up,</i>

1206
01:15:11,173 --> 01:15:13,967
<i>the tumor got bigger,
and that meant surgery.</i>

1207
01:15:14,468 --> 01:15:15,511
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1208
01:15:15,594 --> 01:15:17,346
<i>And so I asked the question,</i>

1209
01:15:17,429 --> 01:15:20,557
<i>"Is it gonna impair
my ability to do work?"</i>

1210
01:15:21,058 --> 01:15:23,435
<i>And the answer that I got was yes.</i>

1211
01:15:24,853 --> 01:15:28,524
<i>So I said right away, "I'm not doin'
the surgery, not till this case is done."</i>

1212
01:15:30,901 --> 01:15:33,195
<i>[Ryan] We were both 100% dedicated,</i>

1213
01:15:33,987 --> 01:15:37,699
<i>just hoping to find
whatever that missing piece was.</i>

1214
01:15:43,580 --> 01:15:45,082
<i>[Tony] We were going back to everyone,</i>

1215
01:15:45,165 --> 01:15:48,210
<i>asking them, "Is there anything else
that you haven't told us?"</i>

1216
01:15:48,293 --> 01:15:50,754
<i>[tense music plays]</i>

1217
01:15:50,837 --> 01:15:54,341
<i>We interviewed Dave for what had
to have been, you know,</i>

1218
01:15:54,424 --> 01:15:56,134
<i>the 13th, 14th, umpteenth time.</i>

1219
01:15:56,843 --> 01:15:59,388
<i>[Dave] They turn around to leave,
but they kinda stop.</i>

1220
01:15:59,471 --> 01:16:02,975
<i>Then Kava turned around
and said, just really offhandedly,</i>

1221
01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:06,353
<i>"Just one more thing.
Do you have any electronics</i>

1222
01:16:06,436 --> 01:16:09,773
<i>from around November, December 2012
that we could take a look at?"</i>

1223
01:16:09,856 --> 01:16:11,316
<i>"Anything you haven't given us?"</i>

1224
01:16:11,900 --> 01:16:15,445
<i>[Dave] I went to my storage unit
and did a little diggin' around.</i>

1225
01:16:15,529 --> 01:16:16,530
<i>[newspaper crinkles]</i>

1226
01:16:18,615 --> 01:16:20,492
<i>And I found this old tablet,</i>

1227
01:16:20,576 --> 01:16:23,745
<i>and it was buried, and it was dusty,
and it was dead as a doornail.</i>

1228
01:16:23,829 --> 01:16:25,831
<i>[hopeful music plays]</i>

1229
01:16:28,875 --> 01:16:33,505
<i>There's nothing interesting about it,
but it does have a memory card.</i>

1230
01:16:33,589 --> 01:16:36,466
<i>It has this micro SD card
inserted into it.</i>

1231
01:16:44,683 --> 01:16:46,476
<i>When I examine that micro SD card...</i>

1232
01:16:47,269 --> 01:16:48,270
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1233
01:16:49,104 --> 01:16:51,023
<i>...it didn't show any files at all.</i>

1234
01:16:51,106 --> 01:16:53,066
<i>Nothing's on it.
Like, it's been wiped clean.</i>

1235
01:16:53,150 --> 01:16:55,611
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

1236
01:16:58,030 --> 01:16:59,698
<i>[Tony] But we can look deeper,</i>

1237
01:16:59,781 --> 01:17:03,285
<i>and we can look for deleted information,
and so that's what I did.</i>

1238
01:17:04,119 --> 01:17:05,454
<i>And then all of a sudden...</i>

1239
01:17:05,537 --> 01:17:06,538
<i>[hits key]</i>

1240
01:17:07,497 --> 01:17:11,126
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

1241
01:17:11,209 --> 01:17:14,963
<i>...I found about 11,000
thumbnail-size photographs on there.</i>

1242
01:17:16,423 --> 01:17:20,260
<i>As I started to look through these images,
I see that there are a lot of selfies</i>

1243
01:17:20,344 --> 01:17:21,637
<i>of Liz in here.</i>

1244
01:17:24,181 --> 01:17:25,265
<i>[Ryan] A selfie of Liz.</i>

1245
01:17:25,766 --> 01:17:28,101
<i>-[clicks mouse]
-Another selfie of Liz.</i>

1246
01:17:29,019 --> 01:17:29,895
<i>Another one.</i>

1247
01:17:31,188 --> 01:17:32,189
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1248
01:17:33,231 --> 01:17:35,025
<i>-[clicks mouse]
-My heart rate starts to go up.</i>

1249
01:17:36,193 --> 01:17:37,653
<i>-[clicks mouse]
-[scrolls mouse]</i>

1250
01:17:38,195 --> 01:17:40,489
<i>From the dates on these photos,</i>

1251
01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:46,662
<i>we're realizing this is
the SD card from Liz's phone,</i>

1252
01:17:46,745 --> 01:17:48,455
<i>back when Cari went missing.</i>

1253
01:17:49,456 --> 01:17:50,332
<i>This is huge.</i>

1254
01:17:50,415 --> 01:17:52,417
<i>[hopeful music plays]</i>

1255
01:17:56,046 --> 01:17:57,214
<i>[moves mouse]</i>

1256
01:17:57,297 --> 01:18:00,175
<i>[Tony] I started to look
through the thousands of photographs.</i>

1257
01:18:00,759 --> 01:18:02,010
<i>[double clicks mouse]</i>

1258
01:18:02,094 --> 01:18:03,178
<i>[clicks mouse]</i>

1259
01:18:03,261 --> 01:18:07,474
<i>Is there any information here from 2012</i>

1260
01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:10,102
<i>that would help us with this case?</i>

1261
01:18:10,185 --> 01:18:12,104
<i>-[clicks mouse]
-[scrolls mouse]</i>

1262
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:17,484
<i>-[scrolls mouse]
-Among the thousands of photos,</i>

1263
01:18:17,567 --> 01:18:19,653
<i>there was one that caught my eye.</i>

1264
01:18:19,736 --> 01:18:20,654
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

1265
01:18:20,737 --> 01:18:22,155
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>

1266
01:18:24,199 --> 01:18:27,786
<i>-[scrolls mouse]
-I thought it was a piece of rosewood.</i>

1267
01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:31,081
<i>I didn't think
it would have any bearing on this case,</i>

1268
01:18:31,164 --> 01:18:34,000
<i>but it w... I was curious,
because it... it... it looked different.</i>

1269
01:18:34,084 --> 01:18:37,045
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

1270
01:18:37,129 --> 01:18:40,298
<i>When I took a look at it
from a couple different angles,</i>

1271
01:18:40,382 --> 01:18:42,551
<i>I thought, "This looks like a foot."</i>

1272
01:18:42,634 --> 01:18:44,052
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

1273
01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:48,765
<i>You know, I'm not a pathologist.
I do have a copy of Gray's Anatomy,</i>

1274
01:18:48,849 --> 01:18:50,308
<i>so I... I went to the bookshelf.</i>

1275
01:18:50,392 --> 01:18:53,145
<i>And there is a drawing
right there that shows</i>

1276
01:18:53,228 --> 01:18:55,230
<i>that this is where
the veins are in the foot.</i>

1277
01:18:55,313 --> 01:18:57,983
<i>And there is a...
Something that happens postmortem</i>

1278
01:18:58,066 --> 01:19:01,778
<i>called venous marbling,
where, uh, these veins become visible.</i>

1279
01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:05,949
<i>And I thought, you know, all of a sudden,</i>

1280
01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:09,536
<i>we're seeing a picture of a dead body.</i>

1281
01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:14,291
<i>This might be Cari's foot.</i>

1282
01:19:16,626 --> 01:19:17,961
<i>[dials number]</i>

1283
01:19:18,545 --> 01:19:20,839
<i>[line rings]</i>

1284
01:19:21,465 --> 01:19:24,092
<i>It was Presidents' Day weekend
when I got a phone call.</i>

1285
01:19:24,676 --> 01:19:26,052
<i>[mouse scrolls]</i>

1286
01:19:26,136 --> 01:19:28,805
<i>You really had to squint to see.</i>

1287
01:19:30,557 --> 01:19:34,811
<i>But there was hope that we now had
more evidence going into the trial.</i>

1288
01:19:35,854 --> 01:19:36,938
<i>[scrolls mouse]</i>

1289
01:19:37,022 --> 01:19:39,691
<i>We also felt that we had a way of proving</i>

1290
01:19:40,275 --> 01:19:42,819
<i>that it was Cari's foot,
because it had a tattoo on it.</i>

1291
01:19:42,903 --> 01:19:44,613
<i>[mouse scrolls]</i>

1292
01:19:45,489 --> 01:19:47,032
<i>We got a hold of Nancy,</i>

1293
01:19:47,115 --> 01:19:50,368
<i>and we had to ask,
"Did Cari have this tattoo?"</i>

1294
01:19:50,452 --> 01:19:52,454
<i>[sad piano music plays]</i>

1295
01:19:52,537 --> 01:19:53,914
<i>And the answer was yes.</i>

1296
01:19:53,997 --> 01:19:56,208
<i>Cari had the tattoo on her foot.</i>

1297
01:19:57,417 --> 01:19:59,628
<i>It was the Chinese symbol for "mother."</i>

1298
01:20:12,057 --> 01:20:14,559
<i>New tonight in Omaha,
woman on trial for murder.</i>

1299
01:20:14,643 --> 01:20:17,479
<i>Prosecutors allege
a love triangle turned fatal,</i>

1300
01:20:17,562 --> 01:20:21,358
<i>but the defense is arguing
a murder might not have even happened.</i>

1301
01:20:26,112 --> 01:20:29,074
<i>[Brenda] The first day of court,
I went in a little nervous.</i>

1302
01:20:29,157 --> 01:20:31,159
<i>[disturbing music plays]</i>

1303
01:20:33,787 --> 01:20:36,790
<i>This was never going
to be the slam-dunk case,</i>

1304
01:20:37,582 --> 01:20:40,794
<i>because we had to prove
not only was Cari dead,</i>

1305
01:20:41,294 --> 01:20:43,713
<i>but the way she was killed,</i>

1306
01:20:44,422 --> 01:20:46,633
<i>the manner, the premeditation.</i>

1307
01:20:46,716 --> 01:20:48,343
<i>Those were gonna be some big challenges.</i>

1308
01:20:48,426 --> 01:20:49,427
<i>[elevator dings]</i>

1309
01:20:55,308 --> 01:20:59,104
<i>This is a bizarre and twisted case
of a fatal attraction.</i>

1310
01:21:02,107 --> 01:21:06,486
<i>I really didn't know
what happened to Cari until the trial.</i>

1311
01:21:06,570 --> 01:21:09,489
<i>[Brenda] There isn't any question,
Your Honor, that Cari's dead,</i>

1312
01:21:09,573 --> 01:21:11,950
<i>and the evidence shows
she was killed in Omaha.</i>

1313
01:21:12,033 --> 01:21:14,286
<i>I wish it wasn't the case for this family.</i>

1314
01:21:16,413 --> 01:21:21,042
<i>Having to hear that Cari
had been stabbed, for one thing, just... Uh...</i>

1315
01:21:22,711 --> 01:21:25,088
<i>Uh... It's your...
your child, you just don't...</i>

1316
01:21:26,381 --> 01:21:28,341
<i>It's not something that you ever...</i>

1317
01:21:28,842 --> 01:21:30,010
<i>Uh...</i>

1318
01:21:30,093 --> 01:21:31,469
<i>Guess it's a nightmare.</i>

1319
01:21:32,095 --> 01:21:33,889
<i>[Brenda] These are trophy pictures.</i>

1320
01:21:34,598 --> 01:21:37,017
<i>They memorialize the heinous acts</i>

1321
01:21:37,100 --> 01:21:39,603
<i>as if it were some kind
of an accomplishment.</i>

1322
01:21:39,686 --> 01:21:41,938
<i>Of course, they tried to warn me
what was coming,</i>

1323
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:44,941
<i>but I don't think you can warn anybody...
[inhales]</i>

1324
01:21:45,025 --> 01:21:48,194
<i>...when you've found out you...
your daughter's been mutilated,</i>

1325
01:21:49,029 --> 01:21:49,988
<i>and...</i>

1326
01:21:51,156 --> 01:21:51,990
<i>thrown away.</i>

1327
01:21:52,574 --> 01:21:56,202
<i>Not one person on this Earth
has seen or heard from her</i>

1328
01:21:57,537 --> 01:22:00,165
<i>since November 13th, 2012.</i>

1329
01:22:01,708 --> 01:22:03,335
<i>That just tears me apart.</i>

1330
01:22:05,962 --> 01:22:06,963
<i>[elevator dings]</i>

1331
01:22:07,047 --> 01:22:09,049
<i>[dramatic music plays]</i>

1332
01:22:12,469 --> 01:22:15,013
<i>[Brenda] The worst time
is waiting for the verdict.</i>

1333
01:22:16,097 --> 01:22:17,390
<i>You don't get much sleep.</i>

1334
01:22:18,975 --> 01:22:22,520
<i>You go over the evidence.
Did you do everything you could?</i>

1335
01:22:34,574 --> 01:22:38,078
<i>I remember walking into the courtroom.
It was... tense.</i>

1336
01:22:40,455 --> 01:22:43,166
<i>There was media and family.</i>

1337
01:22:46,086 --> 01:22:48,296
<i>We waited for the judge to take the bench.</i>

1338
01:22:52,509 --> 01:22:53,885
<i>Part of me wanted to believe</i>

1339
01:22:53,969 --> 01:22:56,888
<i>that it was a foregone conclusion
that she was guilty,</i>

1340
01:22:57,389 --> 01:23:01,017
<i>but we were all worried
that there was every possibility</i>

1341
01:23:01,101 --> 01:23:02,602
<i>she could walk outta there.</i>

1342
01:23:04,437 --> 01:23:05,897
<i>[Jim] The stakes were high.</i>

1343
01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:09,275
<i>If Liz is found not guilty,
Cari's name isn't cleared.</i>

1344
01:23:09,359 --> 01:23:13,029
<i>There will always be a shadow
over Nancy and Max,</i>

1345
01:23:13,113 --> 01:23:14,447
<i>and the entire family.</i>

1346
01:23:22,372 --> 01:23:24,749
<i>[Ryan] I stood up. I remember, like,</i>

1347
01:23:24,833 --> 01:23:27,961
<i>my hands were just shaking
'cause I was that nervous.</i>

1348
01:23:29,671 --> 01:23:31,631
<i>[inhales deeply] The court finds,</i>

1349
01:23:31,715 --> 01:23:34,259
<i>after careful consideration
of the evidence,</i>

1350
01:23:34,884 --> 01:23:36,720
<i>the contention by the defense</i>

1351
01:23:37,345 --> 01:23:39,347
<i>that the state has not met its burden</i>

1352
01:23:39,431 --> 01:23:43,059
<i>because the body of Cari Farver
has not been recovered... [echoes]</i>

1353
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:46,855
<i>My stomach dropped,
everything in me just dropped.</i>

1354
01:23:46,938 --> 01:23:48,565
<i>The things he's saying</i>

1355
01:23:49,107 --> 01:23:51,526
<i>sound like it's gonna be
a not-guilty verdict.</i>

1356
01:23:52,193 --> 01:23:55,780
<i>[judge] ...has been overcome
by the overwhelming amount of evidence</i>

1357
01:23:55,864 --> 01:23:58,241
<i>presented by the state during this trial.</i>

1358
01:23:58,324 --> 01:24:00,744
<i>But then, the way he was speaking changed.</i>

1359
01:24:01,536 --> 01:24:05,206
<i>Cari Farver did not voluntarily disappear</i>

1360
01:24:05,290 --> 01:24:07,375
<i>and drop off the face of the Earth.</i>

1361
01:24:08,084 --> 01:24:09,711
<i>Very sadly, she was murdered.</i>

1362
01:24:12,297 --> 01:24:14,841
<i>The court finds beyond a reasonable doubt</i>

1363
01:24:14,924 --> 01:24:18,511
<i>that the defendant
intentionally killed Cari Farver</i>

1364
01:24:19,179 --> 01:24:21,723
<i>with deliberate and premeditated malice</i>

1365
01:24:21,806 --> 01:24:25,560
<i>on or about November 13th, 2012,</i>

1366
01:24:25,643 --> 01:24:27,520
<i>here in Douglas County, Nebraska.</i>

1367
01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:29,606
<i>[sad piano music plays]</i>

1368
01:24:37,655 --> 01:24:41,576
<i>[Jim] There was crying,
and hugs with all the family members.</i>

1369
01:24:48,374 --> 01:24:51,711
<i>For Nancy and Max,
I felt a lot of sadness for them</i>

1370
01:24:51,795 --> 01:24:54,964
<i>because they had lost
their daughter, their mother,</i>

1371
01:24:55,465 --> 01:24:57,342
<i>and we could never give that back.</i>

1372
01:24:57,842 --> 01:24:59,928
<i>The little bit we could give back was</i>

1373
01:25:00,011 --> 01:25:03,473
<i>restoring Cari's reputation
in that small community.</i>

1374
01:25:05,809 --> 01:25:09,104
<i>People had the assumption
Cari was goin' crazy,</i>

1375
01:25:09,187 --> 01:25:10,939
<i>and that's obviously very hurtful.</i>

1376
01:25:11,022 --> 01:25:13,233
<i>That cuts pretty deep
on the... on the family.</i>

1377
01:25:18,863 --> 01:25:21,866
<i>We got really close to Nancy and Max
throughout this whole thing.</i>

1378
01:25:22,492 --> 01:25:23,910
<i>Push, push, push, push...</i>

1379
01:25:23,993 --> 01:25:26,371
<i>[Jim] We really got to know
who Cari was too.</i>

1380
01:25:27,330 --> 01:25:28,206
<i>Oh my gracious.</i>

1381
01:25:28,289 --> 01:25:29,374
<i>[girl] Go, go, Mom.</i>

1382
01:25:29,916 --> 01:25:33,419
<i>Okay, come on, let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.</i>

1383
01:25:33,962 --> 01:25:36,172
{\an8}<i>Hold on. I gotta get the cookie.
See the cookie?</i>

1384
01:25:36,256 --> 01:25:38,466
{\an8}<i>[Jim] We grew to see
that she was a great mother.</i>

1385
01:25:38,550 --> 01:25:39,843
{\an8}<i>Look what got into it.</i>

1386
01:25:39,926 --> 01:25:41,344
{\an8}<i>[Jim] That she was a good person.</i>

1387
01:25:41,427 --> 01:25:43,138
{\an8}<i>-Oh man!
-Oh! He took the...</i>

1388
01:25:43,888 --> 01:25:46,182
{\an8}<i>-[man] He did, though.
-Oh, okay.</i>

1389
01:25:46,766 --> 01:25:48,101
{\an8}<i>Oh my goodness.</i>

1390
01:25:48,184 --> 01:25:50,812
{\an8}<i>You have to... Just turn him off, you...</i>

1391
01:25:50,895 --> 01:25:53,606
{\an8}<i>[Dave] The woman that I'd dated had goals,</i>

1392
01:25:53,690 --> 01:25:58,695
{\an8}<i>and... was smiley,
and wanted to be somethin'.</i>

1393
01:26:01,573 --> 01:26:03,491
<i>She was just tryin'
to make her way in this world.</i>

1394
01:26:09,247 --> 01:26:11,249
<i>[sad piano music continues]</i>

1395
01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:14,419
<i>I'm very sorry for what happened.</i>

1396
01:26:15,587 --> 01:26:17,130
<i>If I hadn't have met Cari,</i>

1397
01:26:17,213 --> 01:26:20,133
<i>she wouldn't have met Liz,
and this all wouldn't have happened.</i>

1398
01:26:22,218 --> 01:26:24,971
<i>If I'd have known
the choice was this craziness</i>

1399
01:26:25,054 --> 01:26:29,767
<i>or tell Cari I'm not interested,
I would've told Cari I'm not interested.</i>

1400
01:26:33,104 --> 01:26:35,440
<i>But you don't get that choice.</i>

1401
01:26:36,649 --> 01:26:37,483
<i>Ya know.</i>

1402
01:26:40,528 --> 01:26:41,988
<i>[hopeful music plays]</i>

1403
01:26:42,071 --> 01:26:44,407
<i>All right, so which ones am I again?</i>

1404
01:26:44,490 --> 01:26:47,493
<i>-[Ryan] Six through ten.
-Oh, man, this is not looking good.</i>

1405
01:26:47,577 --> 01:26:48,828
<i>[Ryan] Here's the ten, six.</i>

1406
01:26:48,912 --> 01:26:51,706
<i>Well, yeah, I don't like
any of my options, really.</i>

1407
01:26:52,248 --> 01:26:54,459
<i>-[Ryan] Just hit 'em all, then.
-Oh, I'm about to.</i>

1408
01:26:57,837 --> 01:27:00,882
<i>I will forever be grateful</i>

1409
01:27:02,050 --> 01:27:03,176
<i>to Jim Doty,</i>

1410
01:27:04,052 --> 01:27:05,303
<i>and Ryan Avis,</i>

1411
01:27:06,930 --> 01:27:08,681
<i>and Tony Kava.</i>

1412
01:27:08,765 --> 01:27:11,517
<i>-It's my turn again?
-[Ryan] You really don't know how to play?</i>

1413
01:27:11,601 --> 01:27:13,019
<i>Well, I've seen it done.</i>

1414
01:27:14,938 --> 01:27:15,897
<i>Okay.</i>

1415
01:27:15,980 --> 01:27:16,981
<i>[strikes ball]</i>

1416
01:27:19,150 --> 01:27:21,527
<i>[laughs]</i>

1417
01:27:21,611 --> 01:27:24,989
<i>They saved my sanity. [chuckles]</i>

1418
01:27:27,075 --> 01:27:27,909
<i>And...</i>

1419
01:27:29,452 --> 01:27:31,079
<i>they'll always be my boys.</i>

1420
01:27:32,163 --> 01:27:34,165
<i>They're fantastic at what they do.</i>

1421
01:27:35,333 --> 01:27:39,128
<i>Tsk. And hadn't been for them,
I would still be in the dark now.</i>

1422
01:27:50,181 --> 01:27:52,183
<i>[hopeful music fades out]</i>

1423
01:28:03,778 --> 01:28:05,780
<i>[mysterious music plays]</i>


