Book Review: A Tangled Web

A Tangled Web

A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice.

by Leslie Rule

Kensington Books

Citadel

Nonfiction (Adult) |. True Crime

Pub Date 28 Apr 2020

Leslie Rule is the daughter of “America’s Best Crime Writer.” Ann Rule, and now we are going to get to meet her daughter, and the heiress of her legacy.

Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska, on a bleak day in November of 2012. She was a thirty seven year old woman, who was a Mother devoted to her children, a reliable employee and a loyal friend. She was not one to shirk her responsibilities, abandon her son, and run off on an adventure while her dying father took his last breaths.Yet, the many texts from her phone indicated she had done just that.

From appearances, it seemed that Cari, had decided to dump her boyfriend and quit her new job as well as to give custody of her son to her Mom, and all by text, but from the start something felt off. Cari’s boyfriend, Dave Kroupa as well as her boss took the texts as legit, despite the fact they felt a little odd about them. And they were bewildered about her sudden disappearance. Nancy Raney (Cari’s Mother) however was alarmed and was the one who reported her missing. Police were…