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 is in her car. reporter: liz in cari s s.u.v. liz impersonating cari online. there was no logical explanation for it, unless we think liz may have been involved with making cari disappear. reporter: a case about to dive right through the looking glass.
reviewing all the old material. reading the reports, looking at the phone downloads, listening to the interviews that had been recorded, just diving in. of course, they spoke to dave kroupa. no doubt in his mind cari was alive and crazy. he gave us access to his e-mail account. 11,000 e-mails he had saved over the years. could be more. and right there was a whole dump tale from liz galway. in the office one day, pure coincidence. i was in the hallway talking to a district attorney, and another officer was walking down the hall with liz to his office.
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 to life in prison. 1122just a few rows behind liz, cari s mother nancy finally heard the longed-for words from the judge. saying that cari did not vanish off the face of the earth, and she just didn t vanish into thin air. it was just total relief to me, and i just started crying.
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
and then she wrote this so when i met crazy cari she wold not stop taling about dave and him bing her husband. she tried to attack me but i stalked her a knife. i stabbed her three to four times in the chest and stomach area. i then took her out and burned her. i stuffed her body in a garage bag with crap. sort of detail a killer would know. reporter: to see that it was working must have been enormously exciting? it felt good. reporter: a couple of days later, dave kroupa called detective avis to say he d just had a disturbing conversation with liz. she told me that the sheriffs had found remains, like somebody s dead. and that, uh, and that they thought that it was this cari. and, uh, and that supposedly they had all this evidence against amy.