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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...

>> i'm done talking and i'm going to have my attorney, because i didn't do anything. >> by the end of the night, she bonded out and the county attorney wanted more time to review the evidence. >> what was it like waiting for that? was it frustrating? >> it was. >> months went by. max, who hadn't heard about any of that recent investigation, graduated from high school without his mom. >> that was a real kind of stake in the heart. >> reporter: god knows if there was any occasion she was going to attend, it certainly would have been your graduation. >> yeah. >> reporter: summer came and went. an...

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...

I just had heard of a dave. that was about it. >> she didn't talk about him? >> no. usually, things like that she didn't really talk to me about. >> reporter: "dave," that's all her family knew. >> she was -- she was in a very good place. i mean, she had been for a long time, and i didn't 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 didn't text me or anything that -- that monday. and then i started getting text messages, saying that she -- had quit her job. she was going to kansas to live. ...

Cari farver, and all those jealousy-fueled texts, and emails, and threats and arson, cari's son max was getting ready for high school graduation. he hadn't seen his mom in three years. but, always the optimist, he decided to try one more time to reach her on facebook. >> i was at that point. it was just a last-ditch effort. just hoping something would happen. "if this is really you, please come back. i want you to be at my graduation..." >> reporter: when she didn't respond, how did that feel? >> it-- i-- i wasn't really surprised. 'cause, like i said, i knew it wasn't her. >> reporter: max an...