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For roughly four years, David A. Kroupa was harassed daily by a steady barrage of texts and emails, seemingly from a woman he had dated for just two weeks.

Some threatened him or the people he knew. Others would claim that the woman was outside his apartment or workplace, with photos to prove it.

The intimidation affected him physically. He gained 30 pounds and drank every night.

It affected him at work. One day someone called the business phone at his Jensen Tire store every minute, but said nothing. No one could work, and his boss was aggravated.

It affected him emotionally. The mother of his two young children and the other women he started to date were also scared. He would circle his home or work, looking for any trace of the alleged harasser, Cari Farver.

“It made it very difficult to be social,” said Kroupa, 40, in a calm and unwavering voice during his daylong testimony. “I couldn’t even use my phone, it’d be beeping all day long.”

Kroupa unwittingly had found himself at the center of an obsession. But it wasn’t Farver who had become obsessed. It was another woman he had dated, authorities allege, Shanna Golyar.