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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 if i had already done something, and he already knew it. he was a drilling me with the ironies. >> ...

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, that inexplicable turn. cari i just started that high tech job of hers in omaha. >> she didn't real...

Right back to liz golyar. meanwhile, detectives doty and avis busied themselves with good old fashioned earth-bound evidence. remember that one unidentified fingerprint found in a mint container in cari's otherwise spotless s.u.v.? >> we asked our -- crime scene tech, "hey, can you compare that fingerprint to the known prints of liz. see what you come up with." >> reporter: it was a match. >> this lady who should have had very little interaction with cari should -- had no reason to ever be in her vehicle. it -- >> only met her in passing one time. >> reporter: yeah? >> but now, her fingerprint...

Remember, another part of their investigation involved this basic question. was cari farver alive or dead? >> her father died. >> reporter: yeah. >> and she didn't go to the funeral. missed her son's birthday. all these things. i mean, it didn't take ryan very long at all to come to a dead end where he -- he couldn't 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 victim -- liz golyar -- looked like the prime suspect in cari's disappearance. because, why else wo...

Cause of death from a medical examiner. what we have is their belief, their speculation, their notion that this is what happens, but that's -- that can't 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 degree arson, for setting fire to her own house, and killing her pets. >> reporter: she was sentenced...