A Nebraska mechanic thought he’d found his perfect match when a “gorgeous” woman walked into his shop. After dating her for two weeks, he never saw her in person again, but over the years he linked her name to vandalism, arson, and dozens of crimes. Thousands of threatening phone calls and text messages.
In 2012, when Dave Krupa brought single mother Kari Farber back to her apartment after buying her a drink, they passed Krupa’s ex-girlfriend at the time, Liz Golyal, who was gathering her belongings. Ta. Golyal met Krupa on his girlfriend’s dating site and they dated for six months.
This chance encounter changes their lives – unbeknownst to Krupa, her bizarre activities of harassing Krupa by pretending to be dead women are exposed, and Goriyal is forced to spend four years in prison. He would later be charged with Farver’s murder.
According to Netflix’s new documentary Lover, Stalker, Killer, Farber said at the time that the awkward confrontation was “no big deal” and that she wasn’t looking for anything serious.
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A few hours after spending the night together and saying goodbye to Farber, Krupa was shocked when she received a message from Farber’s phone number asking if she could move in with him now.
Krupa, now 47, responded negatively to the filmmakers, telling them she was busy with work.
In response, I received a barrage of text messages throughout the morning: “ping, ping, ping.”
“I hate you,” he read a text message believed to be from Farber. “You ruined my life…I never want to see you again.”
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In a documentary released Friday, Krupa recalled thinking he had “dodged a bullet.” But despite the finality of the message, it wouldn’t be the last he heard from “Farber.”
Farber’s family reported her missing to police within the next few months. Her bank account remained intact, her teenage son was left in the care of her mother, she showed no signs of returning, and even missed her brother’s wedding.
Farber’s mother, Nancy Rainey, also told ABC News that she also received strange text messages from her “daughter.” Among them was one who claimed to have taken a new job in Kansas. But Rainey said her daughter refused to talk to her on her phone.
According to the documentary, Detectives Ryan Avis and Jim Doty of the Pottawatomie County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office later said that Farber may have been killed on the November 2012 date the threatening text messages began. The conclusion was reached that it was high.
Farber’s body has not yet been recovered, but during a search of her car in 2016, police found dried blood matching her DNA profile under the driver’s seat upholstery.
In the four years before Golyal’s arrest in 2016, Krupa received 18,000 threatening emails and 50,000 text messages from accounts she believed belonged to Farber.
His ex-partner and child’s mother, Amy Flora, and her two children were also threatened via text message.
Golyal, who Krupa had been dating intermittently throughout his terrorist activities without his knowledge, impersonated Farber and made threats against himself.
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“We were together on Saturday, and both of our emails started blowing up at the same time,” Krupa said.
Detectives later learned that Golyal used communication software to hide his identity, pre-scheduled messages and emails, and frequently sent threatening messages from “Farber” to her and Krupa while they were spending time together. It turned out that he was sending a message.
Golyal went a step further and reported suspected vandalism at his garage to Omaha police several weeks after the harassment began.
“When she pulled into the garage, she noticed someone had spray-painted ‘Dave’s Whore’ on the inside,” Krupa said. ABC News.
Krupa and Golyal’s home and car were vandalized several more times that year, during which emails from Krupa’s “Farber” indicated she was nearby.
“My favorite thing to do is stand outside and stare at you,” the message read, according to the documentary.
“On one particular occasion, I was sitting in my La-Z-Boy with my feet up, watching TV and trying to relax, and the night came and I said, ‘I see you, you’re sitting in a chair. ” I received a text. Put your feet up and put on your blue shirt. ‘And they were true,” Krupa told ABC News.
However, police were unable to determine the source of the messages, the documentary noted.
In August 2013, Golyal’s house burned down, killing his pet dog, cat and snake. Krupa’s apartment was also burglarized that year. Fearing for his safety, Krupa picked up his car and drove to a new town.
But the harassment continued even after he posted his photos on an online dating site in hopes of meeting women.
With the help of digital forensics expert Anthony Cava, detectives were finally able to trace thousands of messages to a single IP address belonging to Goriyal in 2015. However, although her detectives suspected her, they still did not have enough evidence to arrest her for Farber’s murder.
But in December 2015, Golyal contacted police, claiming that Flora, the mother of Krupa’s children, had shot him in the leg and had been harassing him.
However, according to the documentary, detectives quickly deduced that Golyal may have shot himself to entrap Flora.
Curiously, when Golyal tried to file a harassment complaint against Flora the day before he was shot, he willingly signed a consent form allowing police to view his cell phone, which would allow them to file charges against her. Valuable evidence was found in the lawsuit.
Meanwhile, Kroupa’s 9mm Smith & Wesson recently disappeared. In an interview with detectives the day before he suffered the self-inflicted gunshot wound, Golyal pinpointed the make and model of Krupa’s gun and said he believed Flora had stolen it.
“I found it very suspicious that the day before she felt the need to tell me that Dave Krupa’s gun had been stolen…and less than 24 hours later she was shot. ” Avis told ABC. “It quickly became clear that Liz Golyal most likely shot herself.”
Doty and Avis hatch a plan to implicate Golyar in Faber’s disappearance. They told the woman they believed Flora shot her and that she was also involved in Farber’s disappearance.
Detectives asked Golyal to contact Flora for information that might implicate her. Almost immediately, detectives said, Golyal began forging emails from Flora confessing to shooting Golyal. Eventually, “Flora” claimed in a fabricated email that he stabbed her Farber “three or four times” and stuffed her in a garbage bag.
When detectives told Ms. Golyal they needed more information, she provided further emails from “Flora” in which she detailed killing Mr. Farber with her car. Detectives searched the car and eventually found Farber’s blood.
After Mr. Golyal was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in 2016, investigators found photos of Mr. Farber’s body (including tattoos matching Mr. Farber’s) on an SD card in Mr. Golyal’s cell phone. The human foot that entered the building was recovered.
Later that year, Golyal was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. She is being held at the Nebraska Women’s Correctional Center. According to the documentary, she still maintains her innocence and Farber’s culprit remains at large.
