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Dean County Sheriff's Office shared this photo of Bart and Krista halderson instead spending today interviewing
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neighbors there are too many unanswered questions on July 2nd 2021 Dan croninger
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drove over to the home of Barton Krista halderson in Windsor Wisconsin after Krista didn't show up for work how
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unusual was it for number one for Kristen not to show up for work not to call and just not show up how unusual
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extremely unusual Dan A co-worker and close friend of christas arrived at the hulderson home knocked on the door and
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peered through the window then Dan says he walked over to the garage window it looked in both cars were there I was
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like why are both cars here and I was starting to go around the back of the house and then Chandler came out the
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side door and he came out in a towel saying oh I just got out of the shower you know hey what's going on I was like
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oh we're just looking for Bart and Krista and he said oh yeah they went had to go up North this morning for uh
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emergency up at the cabin Dan says he was relieved to hear that Bart and Krista were up at their family cabin for
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Fourth of July weekend but Krista didn't show up for work on Monday or Tuesday which he thought was weird and by
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Wednesday July 7th Dan pushed Chandler to file a missing person report so now it's all out concern right you know
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something's happened to him right right Chandler filed a missing person report on Wednesday July 7th and the very next
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day his brother Mitchell and his fiance drove three hours to Northern Wisconsin to see if they could find any signs of
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their parents langlade County deputies met them there when they got inside the cabin it was
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dark there was no sign of Bart and Krista halderson they checked the shed and their canoe was there it became
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obvious that no one had been there for a very long time as authorities looked into Barton
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Christa's mysterious disappearance Chandler went door to door in his neighborhood asking if anyone had seen
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his parents at that point you know what do we really have we don't know what we have then investigators received a tip
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they desperately needed from the owner of a farm outside of town we received information from someone
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that yes Chandler had been out to my property over Fourth of July weekend and I saw him coming from the Woodline
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his car was parked backed up to the field so of course right from that interview well we want to go search that
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property on Thursday July 8 2021 police announced that the remains of an adult male had been found on a farm 20 miles
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from Barton Crystal halderson's home the grass had been matted down and they followed it to Trail which led
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to the discovery of a male torso that was concealed with sticks and twigs that was really the moment right it was
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huge police turned their full attention to Chandler he was now a person of interest and the prime suspect in his
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parents disappearance while tests were being done to confirm the victim's identity police arrested
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Chandler and charged him with lying to them Krista's cousin Barbie Townsend couldn't believe the news what did you
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think they arrested him for giving false information about a missing person that was the first day
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that I started to suspect Foul Play from their own son two days after the discovery the victim was identified as
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Bart halderson but questions remained where was Krista as investigators compiled evidence against Chandler for
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the murder of his father they asked his girlfriend Catherine cat mellender if they could search through her phone
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she actually consented to a download of her phone so that was a breakthrough because cat believed Chandler had
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cheated on her before she had convinced him a while ago to let her track his movements using Snapchat and that was an
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agreement that yes you will have your locations on so I can see where you're going on July 3rd cat noticed her
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boyfriend's Avatar named hubby on her screen about 25 miles from home it was a Snapchat screenshot
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of Chandler almost nine in the morning out by the Wisconsin River see here 45 minutes I believe just keep in mind
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in July but it's definitely far thicker than what you're seeing here now search team scoured the area and after hours of
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searching they discovered human remains DNA tests confirmed it was in fact Krista halderson
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you couldn't write this it just wasn't anything that you could possibly come up with in your head
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how do you make sense of it we don't and that's the hard part we don't have a why
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