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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 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...

Here, in this tiny, sweet farming town called macedonia, iowa. >> i think there's only around 250 people that live there now. it's very -- it's 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, they'd always known there was something different about cari. >> she felt like she wanted to do her own thing. and sometimes that -- >> that doesn't always go well? >> always go well, yeah. >> reporter: thing is, cari was smart. super smart. school was easy. but then, so were ...

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...

>> 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 wasn't 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 wasn't right here. >> reporter: nancy didn't tell her grandson about the truly disturbing text she'd received from cari. this one didn't say anything about a new job. inste...

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 liz's house a few weeks before the fire. detective lagreau showed them a photo of cari. they said they couldn't be sure but she had the same general appearance. he made no secret of who did it. >> i will not lie, i set the