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that was surreal, kind of, just an ache in the heart. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it was one of the most baffling cases investigators had ever seen. >> this tops the charts for most bizarre. >> no one can believe that this actually happened. >> a single mom and a smart computer whiz who seemed to disappear. >> i am starting to get text messages saying that she which her job. >> she had something down in kansas. >> left behind a puzzling computer trail. >> emails, text messages, so active on social ...

messages saying that she which her job. >> she had something down in kansas. >> left behind a puzzling computer trail. >> emails, text messages, so active on social media. nobody can locator. >> she did not want to be found. >> exactly. >> a mom turned ghost. was she missing? or hiding? >> i wanted to know. taunts, threats, violence -- >> my leg is soaked with blood. oh, jesus. >> a deadly mystery that would lead three moms and one man. >> you were the last one to see her? >> it was as...

Caris mother heard about the threatening texts, the harassment, the police reports filed against her daughter. to her, didnt seem like cari at all. and it made her wonder. how serious were the police about finding her daughter? >> i got a little callous towards the authorities. i was thinking that, i didnt think they were doing what they should have been doing. >> do you get the feeling, they just want to get in there, and stormed the barricades, and make something happen? >> yeah. again, i didn...

Nancys ex husband, caris father, died of cancer. cari didnt come to the funeral. instead, she sent a message on facebook, i am sorry i missed the funeral! im just a few days before that, she posted on facebook, david kroupa proposed to me. i said, yes. what in heavens name was going on! nancy called the detectives who called dave, who swore, no way he was engaged with cari. he said he hadnt even seen her, but still heard from her constantly, a hail of texts and emails that was only getting thick...

Drive. so she asked her brother to take her. >> i was so tense. and it was just trying to catch a breath, and just -- >> did you rehearse what you would say when you saw her? >> where have you been? yeah, and you know, do you want to come back home? >> and investigator met naci at the shelter. he had a photo of cari with him. >> when we went into the shelter, and investigators showed me the picture, and wanted to know if there is been anybody there like her. and i said, she hasnt been here. >> w...

Responded with a nonstop staccato of angry, often misspelled texts. cari, now, that name sounded like his personal horror show. >> she is the woman from hell now. >> all of a sudden, yeah. in the course of a couple of hours. >> wow. >> maybe to dave omaha, thats how it would seem. but an hours drive away, there was quite a different story. >> here in this tiny sweet farming town called macedonia, iowa. >> i think there is only around 250 people that live there now. it is very -- it is just home....

>> did it come as a surprise? >> yes, yeah. i was just, i knew which was gonna have to go through, because i had been divorced with children, young children. and its hard. >> its not easy. >> she moved home, took computer courses, and she named the baby maxwell. everyone called him max. >> she was such a good mother, that i know she had so much on her plate too at that time, going to school and everything else. but she did very well. she held up very well. >> except that is, for mood swings, the...

The shelter. he had a photo of cari with him. >> when we went into the shelter, and investigators showed me the picture, and wanted to know if there is been anybody there like her. and i said, she hasnt been here. >> what is that like? >> well, you know, your hopes are dashed again. it just, i think, where can she? >> its a feeling that comes with realizing her -- >> yes, i went home and i thought, i cant live with this anymore. this is just too much. >> again nancy message gary. cari, we were a...

Was quite a different story. >> here in this tiny sweet farming town called macedonia, iowa. >> i think there is only around 250 people that live there now. it is very -- it is just home. >> home to cari. cari farver, and where she was raised by her stepfather mark, and her mother nancy, who would stick with cari through it all. but of course, if they have always known there is something different about cari. >> she felt she wanted to do her own thing, and sometimes -- >> that doesnt always go w...

Depressions. >> she just would go under the covers and sleep, you know, she just hibernate. she would close herself off from everything. >> it is hard for a mother to watch her daughter go through that. >> yeah, it is. trying to get it out of her, you know, what can i do? and there is really nothing that i can do or say. >> but it got better, once cari was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, medication, even things out, and cari and max set it into an apparently happy and successful life. and then,...