From the dust jacket- In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story for our time--as she exposes the years-long trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer at the dark heart of a real-life fatal attraction . . .
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Cari, thirty-seven, was a devoted mother, reliable employee, and loyal friend--not the type to shirk responsibilities, abandon her son, and run off on an adventure while her dying father took his last breaths. Yet, the many texts from her phone indicated she had done just that.
It appeared that Cari had dumped her new boyfriend, quit her job, and relinquished custody of her son to her mother--all by text. While Cari's boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, and her supervisor were bewildered by her abrupt disappearance, they accepted the texts at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, was alarmed and reported Cari missing. Police were skeptical of her claims that a cyber impostor had commandeered her daughter's phone and online identity.
While Nancy was afraid for Cari, Dave Kroupa was growing afraid of her, for he believed Cari was stalking him. Never seen or heard, the stalker was aware of his every move and seemed obsessed by his casual girlfriend, Shanna "Liz" Golyar, often calling her "a fat whore" in the twelve thousand emails and texts he received in a disturbing three-year deluge.
How did the stalker know Dave's phone numbers immediately after he changed them, the names of his lady friends, even what he wore as he watched TV? He and Liz reported death threats, vandalism, and burglaries, but the stalker remained at large. The threats were vicious, vile and often obscene, sent mostly via text and always in Cari's name. There was some truth in the messages, but all of them contained one big lie. The culprit was not Cari -- but had killed and planned to kill again.
With mesmerizing detail and compelling narrative skill, Leslie Rule tracks every step of the heart-pounding path to long-awaited justice--from a sociopath's twisted past to the deadly deception and the high-tech forensics that condemned the killer to prison, where the tangled web of manipulations still draws trusting souls into danger.
Review- An interesting and twisted true crime story that Rule handles very well. This is a very horrifying story with a real psychopath as the killer. Dave Kroupa is newly single and just wants to have fun. So he turns to the internet to meet ladies who want the same thing. Unfortunately he meets Shanna ‘Liz’ Golyar and she becomes obsessed with him. The writing is very well done, Rule has access to the people who are still dealing with the crimes Golyar committed, and she handles the victims with care and respect. My only complaint with this book is whenever Rule introduces a person to the reader she does a full bio on them, by that I mean she discusses their family back to grandparents, their early life, everything. I, personally, did not feel like I needed all that information for every person we met over the course of the book. It distracted from the story. But in the end it is a good true crime book about a very twisted killer and the people she harmed along the way, so if you like true crime then you should read this one.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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