Liz Golyar spent years texting and harassing Dave Kroupa after killing a woman he briefly dated, then impersonating her during a terror campaign
A Nebraska mechanic thought he had found a great match when a “gorgeous” woman walked into his shop — he would never see her in person again after they dated for two weeks, but for years he associated her name with vandalism, arson and tens of thousands of threatening calls and texts.
When Dave Kroupa brought single mother Cari Farver back to his apartment after getting drinks in 2012, the pair passed Kroupa’s then ex-girlfriend Liz Golyar, who was collecting some of her things. Golyar met Kroupa on a dating site and they saw each other for six months.
This chance meeting would change the course of their lives — unbeknownst to Kroupa, Golyar would be charged with Farver’s murder four years later, after her bizarre campaign to impersonate the dead woman to harass Kroupa was exposed.
At the time, Farver told him the awkward run-in “wasn’t a big deal,” and that she wasn’t looking for anything serious, according to the new Netflix documentary “Lover, Stalker, Killer.”
It came as a shock to Kroupa when, hours after saying goodbye to Farver after spending a night together, he received a text from her number asking if they could “move in together now.”
Kroupa, now 47, told filmmakers he was busy at work and sent a dismissive reply.
In response, he received a deluge of text messages that were “pinging, pinging, pinging” throughout the morning.
“I hate you,” read text messages he assumed were from Farver. “You ruined my life… I never want to see you again.”4