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Remember, another part of their investigation involved this basic question. was cari farver alive or dead? >> her father died. >> reporter: yeah. >> and she didnt go to the funeral. missed her sons birthday. all these things. i mean, it didnt take ryan very long at all to come to a dead end where he -- he couldnt find anything to show that -- >> no. >> -- she was alive. >> reporter: suddenly cari farver looked not like a villain but like the real victim. and the woman who claimed she was the vic...

Here, in this tiny, sweet farming town called macedonia, iowa. >> i think theres only around 250 people that live there now. its very -- its just home. >> reporter: home to cari. cari farver. and where she was raised by her step-father mark and her mother nancy, who would stick with cari through it all. but of course, theyd always known there was something different about cari. >> she felt like she wanted to do her own thing. and sometimes that -- >> that doesnt always go well? >> always go well...

Cause of death from a medical examiner. what we have is their belief, their speculation, their notion that this is what happens, but thats -- that cant convict. >> reporter: and then the judge retired to think about it, and returned to an anxious courtroom. max, inside the courtroom, waited for the words. >> it -- it was nerve-racking. >> reporter: and then finally, an answer. >> the court finds, and it judges the defendant guilty, guilty of 1st degree murder for killing cari farver, and 2nd deg...

>> reporter: long as he could remember, max farver believed he knew his mom, cari as well as anybody possibly could. >> we were definitely really close. i was her second opinion on most things. >> reporter: so when cari was a no show at the wedding, max knew something was way off. >> i wasnt sure what was going on but that i just knew something was wrong. >> i could just feel it in my bones. there was something-- something wasnt right here. >> reporter: nancy didnt tell her grandson about the tr...

In their new place, but she went back to the old place saturday morning to pick up some of her things. instead she had to call the omaha fire department. so did detective lagroe. >> liz had two dogs, one cat and a pet snake. all were still in the house. all of them were found dead. neighbors across the street said they saw a woman in a car parked outside lizs house a few weeks before the fire. detective lagreau showed them a photo of cari. they said they couldnt be sure but she had the same gene...

I just had heard of a dave. that was about it. >> she didnt talk about him? >> no. usually, things like that she didnt really talk to me about. >> reporter: "dave," thats all her family knew. >> she was -- she was in a very good place. i mean, she had been for a long time, and i didnt think too much about it. >> reporter: and so that weekend, nancy picked up max and later cari drove off to omaha. to spend the week with dave. >> she didnt text me or anything that -- that monday. and then i starte...

It appeared cari unfriended dave. >> the fact that they had the temerity to actually be facebook friends. this is one of the very first acts the defendant takes to actually eliminate that facebook friendship. >> reporter: and from then on in cyperspace liz became cari. >> all for the purpose -- for the reason of convincing people, her friends, her family relatives, everyone, that she was still alive. >> reporter: nancy went to court every day for the trial, heard the details for the very first t...

Golyar. county detectives made sure to do a phone dump from both of their devices to preserve the evidence and perhaps figure out where cari was. there was even a link to a fake obituary for liz. >> "go see what i made for the whore. i will kill her and i already made her obituary so its done." then minutes later -- >> "i am trying to hire someone to get rid of that whore liz for us. you told me before you wanted her gone. do we want to pay just for the whore or her two kids too? i hope to see y...

She just -- she had a brain on her. >> reporter: different than the women you had dated before? >> the majority of em, yeah. yeah, she -- well, for instance, what she did for a living -- programming. i considered myself a little bit of a computer nerd. but compared to her i didnt even know what a computer was. >> reporter: dave reconsidered ob his "no commitment" rule. a rule hed broken before with a woman named amy flora. they had two kids together. but it didnt last. >> after 12 years, you wou...

Went to her garage, and there, scrawled on the wall, she found the words, whore from dave. had to have been cari. all of it was so strange thought the detectives. >> very out of the ordinary. >> reporter: like maybe shed had a breakdown or something, like a psychotic episode, and -- >> that would be the only answer. >> reporter: to the police in omaha, cari was now a suspected stalker, but back home in pottawattamie county, iowa, she was still a missing person with a very worried family. caris m...