Lovers
5/20/202631 min
In November 2012, freshly divorced auto shop manager Dave Kroupa thought he was navigating the casual dating scene in Omaha, Nebraska until one short relationship ended and the stalking began. For the next three years, the messages grew more violent, more personal, and more terrifying, all coming from a woman who refused to let him go. But as detectives dug into the case, they uncovered a truth that forced Dave to confront a chilling possibility: the nightmare stalking him had been much closer than he ever imagined.
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Modern dating comes with an ugly reality, in case you haven't figured it out. You can give a stranger access to your life faster than you can figure out who they really are. It starts with sharing a first name, then a last name, and soon enough, you're handing out birth dates and your kids' names and all sorts of password reminders. They're hanging out at your house. They know your address. Who the hell is this person anyway? Most of the time it's harmless. Online connections do occasionally turn into real love. But sometimes all it takes is one polite text like, "Hey, I don't think this is gonna work out." And then suddenly the person on the other end doesn't hear goodbye. To them, it's a challenge. Thirty-five-year-old David Krupa was freshly divorced and having a great time keeping things casual on the dating scene. In fact, he'd found more than one woman he was interested in, except one of them didn't really believe in the whole casual thing.