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Episode 71, Season 4 - Cari Farver and Dave Kroupa – Blood Simple

  • Bianca Sloane
  • Jul 21
  • 2 min read

Updated: 5 days ago

Fresh out of a long-term relationship, Dave Kroupa joins an online dating site not looking for love, but for a little excitement and occasional companionship.


Dave thinks he’s hit the jackpot when smart and easygoing Cari Farver enters the chat and says she doesn’t want anything serious with him and the two embark a fun, no-strings relationship.


But then, after just two weeks of dating, out of nowhere, Cari says she wants more than just a good time with Dave and when he turns her down, she goes ballistic, making it her personal mission to turn Dave’s life into a living hell.


However, if you think you know where this story is going next, you’d be dead wrong.


Listen to the episode HERE.


Photo caption (L-R): Newly single dad, Dave Kroupa, signed up for a dating site in the summer of 2012 looking for a little fun and a little companionship. He had no idea doing so would change his life forever (credit: IMDB; Dave thinks he's hit the jackpot when he meets single mom, Cari Farver, who says she doesn't want anything serious with him. He's flabbergasted when after he turns down her offer to move in together, she goes ballistic and begins stalking him for over two years (credit: IMDB); Liz Golyar was one of many women Dave met online (credit: ABC News/20/20) Dave and Liz attending a Halloween party dressed in matching togas. A few days later, Liz and Cari would meet, changing both of their lives forever (credit: Oxygen/Snapped via YouTube); Dave and his ex-Amy Flora with their kids. It wouldn't be long before Cari turned her ire onto Dave's family (credit: The US Sun); Cari would claim to her mother that Dave proposed to her and she had accepted; he hadn't (credit: Dateline); Cari's son, Max, asked his MIA mom to answer three simple questions to prove who she was. She never responded (credit: Dateline); A fingerprint on a container of breath mints found in Cari' car. That fingerprint would be a major clue in helping investigators crack the case of Cari's mysterious disappearance (credit: Dateline); Liz Golyar supposedly bought some bedroom furniture from Cari for $5,000. Or did she? (credit: Dateline); Pottawattamie County (Iowa) Sgt. Jim Doty interviewing Liz (credit: Dateline); Todd Butterbaugh, Liz's ex would unknowingly provide critical information that blew the case of Cari's disappearance and stalking wide open (credit: Daily Mail)



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