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My name is John O'Hare. I am a police officer with the Broomfield Police Department.
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>> Officer, how did this case begin for you? >> On December 14th of 2023. I was dispatched to a welfare check at
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the Krug household. >> Frontfield dispatchers meeting. >> Hi there. Uh my name is Dan Krug.
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>> Dan Krug was calling and asked that we check on his wife, Christile. my wife isn't responding uh to text
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messages or phone calls. >> Said that he had not been able to reach her for about 3 hours.
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>> We've had threats against us. We have both been targeted by a stalker. >> Dan said that this alleged stalker had
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made threats to both him and his wife Christile, >> which is why I'm >> Yeah. >> I'm nervous that she's not answering me.
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>> Yeah. The first thing I did was walk right to the front door. Kind of peek inside.
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Everything looked orderly, quiet. I gave it a wild knock. My thinking at the time was it's very
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possible she's not even home. So, I wanted to see if I could peek into the garage.
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Quickly realized that I'm not tall enough to see in those windows. I went back to my patrol car and I
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pulled it into the driveway so that I could get my push bumper close to the garage and use it as a as a step up. I
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stepped up on it and looked in the window. I immediately see Christile apparently
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lifeless. She had some type of wound to the head. >> 151 send medical. I got a female down in
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the garage. Roomfield police. Romefield police. >> Immediately I just checked for any signs
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of life at that point. Does she have a pulse? She does not. >> 151. >> I immediately started CPR. There was a
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stab wound on her chest. >> Send the next unit eent, please. >> As the paramedics arrived, I opened the
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garage door and a woman came up and I believe this woman was Christile's mother.
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>> I arrived. I need you to stay out, please. >> I said, "That's my daughter." >> She came running up to me and said,
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"Cristile is dead." >> It's just shocking. >> Oh my god. Oh my god. >> You don't want that to be your reality.
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>> Oh my god. This can't be true. This can't be true, can it? >> It was chaos. I heard screaming coming from the top of
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the hill. >> My house. Hey, stay back. Stay back. Stay back. Stay back. >> This is my house.
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>> I understand. >> They see a man come running down the hill. >> This is Dan. This is her husband.
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This man just lost his wife and he is beside himself. I'm with Dan and he's on the floor and
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he's crying. They all just kind of said, "I can't believe this happened. He did it. The
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stalker did it." >> We were on heightened alert. We were very, very concerned for Dan's safety.
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>> This is after Christile was murdered. You're worried that Dan may be next in this in this stalker's sights.
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>> Correct. We thought Dan Krug was next. >> The community was very alarmed. Is this
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a murder? >> There's a killer out there and we're going to go after him.