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Cari Lea Farver, 37, was last seen in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on November 13, 2012. Her mother reported her missing on November 16, days before a half-brother’s wedding where her son was to take part; Farver also missed her father’s funeral a month later. She had been a reliable employee at West Corp. and did not notify work before she stopped showing up.

Farver’s vehicle was found abandoned in Omaha, Nebraska, on January 10, 2013, near her boyfriend’s apartment complex. For years after her disappearance, thousands of messages appeared to come from Farver’s accounts, harassing her boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, and his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Shanna Liz Golyar. Investigators later determined Golyar had sent the messages, found her fingerprints in Farver’s vehicle, and recovered a memory card with photos that included what appeared to be a decomposing human foot bearing a tattoo matching one Farver had; one photo showed Farver’s vehicle taken after her disappearance.

Authorities charged Shanna Liz Golyar with first-degree murder in December 2016, alleging Farver was stabbed in her SUV within 24 hours of going missing and that Golyar burned the body. Golyar was convicted of first-degree murder in August 2017 and received life without parole, plus an 18-to-20-year sentence for arson.

Did anyone in Council Bluffs or Omaha remember seeing Cari or her vehicle around November 2012?