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Dave Kroupa thought he\u2019d hit the jackpot. He\u2019d just met Cari Farver, a beautiful, intelligent woman who wasn\u2019t looking for a long-term commitment. The two dated casually for a little while, but all of a sudden, Cari became much less easy going. She dumped him, via text and abruptly left town, leaving her son to fend for himself. For years afterward, she sent Dave countless verbally abusive texts. But over time, Cari\u2019s family became suspicious. Had she really up and left?\xa0\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells us about an old timey kidnapping that took the state of California by storm. Brooke Hart had it all. At 22 years old, he was good looking, athletic, and wealthy. Really wealthy. His family owned the beloved Hart\u2019s Department store. He was next in line to run the family business, but that all changed on November 9, 1933.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\nThe book \u201cSwift Justice\u201d by Harry Farrell\n\u201cBay Area mob lynched kidnappers 75 years ago,\u201d by Carl Nolte for the San Francisco Chronicle\n\u201cBrooke Hart\u201d entry on wikipedia.com\n\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cScorned\u201d episode Dateline\n\u201cHow investigators used technology to solve the mysterious disappearance, murder of a Macedonia woman\u201d by Brian McCormack, Daily Nonpareil\n\u201cCari Lea Farver\u201d iowacoldcases.org\n\n\u201cCari Lea Farver\u201d charleyproject.org\n\n
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