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 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 Farver, thirty-seven, vanished
from Omaha, Nebraska.Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother
had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with
everyone--including her dying father. Though Cari's boyfriend, Dave
Kroupa, was hurt, he accepted the breakup-text at face value. Her
mother, Nancy Raney, however, doubted that kind-hearted Cari had sent
the rude texts she received. I need to hear your voice, Nancy begged.
When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing.
While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and
texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police were skeptical
of Nancy's claim that an impostor had stolen her daughter's identity,
but they believed Dave and his girlfriend, Shanna Liz Golyar, when they
reported the missing woman was cyberstalking them. The tormentor was
eerily aware of Dave's every move, knew when Liz visited and threatened
to slit the fat whore's throat. It never occurred to Dave that Cari was
a victim--that the real stalker had killed before, and was planning to
kill again.
Now Leslie Rule tracks the heart-pounding path to long-awaited
justice--from a twisted past to the deadly deception and the high-tech
forensics that condemned the killer to prison.
