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foreign [Music] duckster I am a local news reporter and in the summer of 2021 I was working as a
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multimedia journalist for wisc news 3. news 3 now in Madison Wisconsin Madison is not New York City it's not La where
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there's news happening all the time a missing person especially a husband and wife
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that would be news the dean County Sheriff's Office shared this photo spending today
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doing neighbors are too many unanswered questions you know cars go off the road um things happen you know there's a
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storm or there's a crash or XYZ you just don't know my boss was calling her or emailing her
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or texting her I was doing the same I was texting Bart and there was just never any response I met Krista through
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work at Zimbrick body shop and then I met her husband through her obviously and then you know they just did anything
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for anybody like even people they didn't know so I'm on the Christa side we are related through my dad's side of the
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family and we mostly saw each other in Wisconsin at our family Cottage cabin during Summers and family reunions
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they both gave 100 to raising their boys Mitchell was a little more outgoing very
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easy going Chandler was a little more sensitive a little quieter her whole goal for her being a mom was
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and I'm quoting her she said I want my children to be the best men they can be the biggest concern for me was just
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figuring out where they are police say the couple had planned to go to their cabin in langlade County
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our investigation began on July 7th when Chandler reported his parents missing we
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knew exactly what Chandler had told us we knew that his two parents were gone they had left for the Fourth of July
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weekend supposedly to go to their cabin in northern Wisconsin I've never been assigned to a case where
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a couple is gone we ask even more questions to try to get a story and get a timeline of when did the halthersons
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go missing and everything was just happening so fast in those first couple of days when we first got the email
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saying that Bart and Crystal were missing it didn't compute like what do you mean they're missing like they went
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up to the cabin and then it didn't come back uh-huh did you think possibly they've
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been in a car accident and just hadn't been found I thought about that or I did think
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about the boat did something happen out on the lake all these stories are swirling around and not making any sense
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and it's you know taking weirder and weirder turns and we needed to search this area
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because of how remote it is and what it is and the access to water to see if we could find any evidence
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no way I would have ever ever guessed what was about to be revealed never nobody saw this coming
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foreign [Music] foreign [Music] Crystal halderson had everything a couple could want a beautiful home in
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Windsor Wisconsin and two sons they adored 24 year old Mitchell who worked in Tech and 23 year old Chandler a
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college student living at home Chandler had big Ambitions he talked of getting his I.T degree of his promising
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internship at an insurance company and was especially excited about a new job he landed at SpaceX founded by one of
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the richest people in the world Elon Musk everything seemed to be going well for
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the halderson's so on Friday morning July 2nd when Krista just didn't show up at the office Dan croninger remembers
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becoming concerned how unusual was it for number one for Kristen not to show up for work not to
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call and just not show up how unusual extremely unusual Dan and Kristen not only worked together they were close
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friends so when she hadn't said anything to me I was like well that's kind of weird it wasn't something that she would
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ever do Dan says he texted and called her several times but got no response later that afternoon
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he and his girlfriend drove over to the holderson home a neighbor's security camera shows them arriving
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you know knocked on the door didn't hear anything appeared through the window the
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only thing that seemed weird was there was a coffee table on its side if you look through the door it was kind of off
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to the right over by they had a fireplace over there then Dan says he walked over to the garage window I
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looked in both cars were there I was like why are both cars here and I was starting to go around the back of the
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house and then Chandler came out the side door and he came out in a towel saying oh I just got out of the shower
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you know hey what's going on I was like oh we're just looking for Bart and Krista and he said oh yeah they went had
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to go up North this morning for uh emergency up at the cabin Dan says he was relieved to know that
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Barton Christo were at the family cabin over the holiday weekend he kept in touch with Chandler to see if he had
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heard from his mom and dad but he said yeah they don't have very good service up there so you kind of
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have to wait till the clouds clear before they get a message on Sunday July 4th Dan says Chandler called him and
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said he was bored and needed something to do so Dan invited him over to watch the fireworks and asked Chandler about
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his parents he mentioned that he talked to them and they're going to be back Monday all right when he said that he
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had talked to them did he say he talked to both his parents or just his mom what
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did he say do you remember I don't think he was specific I mean I was asking about his mom because I knew she had a
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doctor's appointment coming up that she was really wanted to be at I think it had been rescheduled before but Krista
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didn't show up for work on Monday and again on Tuesday by Wednesday July 7th when there was still no word Dan knew
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something was wrong and now she's missed her appointment so now it's all out concern right you know something's
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happened to her right right Dan pushed Chandler to file a missing person's report that morning
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Chandler halderson walked into one of our precincts to report his parents missing detective Sabrina Sims and Brian
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Shunk with the Dane County Sheriff's Office would lead the team to track down the missing couple we had a lot of
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detectives assisting us with the with the caseload the holderson home on Oak Springs Circle
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Drive so when you first got there who was home it was just Chandler we're inside the
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house with him and detectives are getting information outside and so we're either getting you know phone calls or
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text messages of you know hey maybe ask about this we're walking around the house with him
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he's pointing out things at the house things that were missing that his parents took when they traveled to the
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cabin while deputies began interviewing neighbors and Friends Barbie Townsend Chris's first cousin who lives in
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Southern California knew only what she had seen on the news that the halderson's 23 year old son Chandler had
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gone to the police telling them his parents were missing what does that mean what does missing
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mean and that they had gone up to our cabin family Cottage and didn't return Bart and Chrissa had
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not mentioned to co-workers or their older son Mitchell that they have been planning to go to the cabin that weekend
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but according to Chandler another couple we didn't know picked up his parents and
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drove them there the cabin was a remote rustic Lakeside Retreat and a treasured family heirloom
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Barbie and Chris's grandparents built it in the 1940s you know you start to think
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of crazy things because our cabin's up in the woods and so that's we were worried that are they being held hostage
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somewhere are they tied up somewhere the day after Chandler reported them missing his brother Mitchell and his
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fiancee drove three hours up north to see if he could find any sign of his parents why would they not call why
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wouldn't there be a text or something you know your mind just starts to go down really murky Trails because you're
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trying to figure out what's going on far affiliated with them yes the police met Mitchell and his fiancee at the
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cabin I thought maybe we could just take a walk around and see you wouldn't know
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the property probably better than we would prepared for the worst Sheriff's Office anybody inside no it's
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presents make yourself known [Music] [Music] when the holdersons Disappeared it stunned everyone who knew them Barbie
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Townsend said neither her cousin Krista nor her husband Bart would just leave on
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a whim he was more structured she was the more nurturing you know indulging mom it was a wonderful combination
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she worked as a customer service representative for an auto body shop and loved art projects He was a managing
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director for an international accounting firm and enjoyed woodworking they were 100 about the family he was very
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involved in The Scouting and all the things they did the holdersons worked together on Father's Day in June 2021
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less than a month before Bart disappeared Mitchell is smiling and Chandler who had a mild concussion from
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a fall is wearing a neck brace foreign ERS anxious to find out what had happened to Bart and Krista halterson
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asked deputies from the Langley County Sheriff's Office to help Mitchell who brought along his fiancee searched the
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family's cabin a three-hour Drive North of the family home when they got inside it was dark there
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were no signs of Kristen Bart they also checked a shed the canoe was there it was obvious no one had been to
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the cabin in a very long time they're believed to be with another couple someone else at least okay when Mitchell
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was with the police searching the family's cabin Chandler was on his own heart throughout the neighborhood
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here he is seen on video doorbell cameras going door to door asking homeowners if they had seen or heard
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from his parents it's kind of difficult [Music] [Applause] Adam duxter now with the CBS station
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WCCO in Minneapolis worked in Madison Wisconsin at the time he immediately started calling his sources
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SO waiting to hear back from the Sheriff's Office and my boss at the time he was like well you can't just sit
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around you know you gotta go start shooting something and so packed my gear in my car and drove out there to their
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street in Windsor he knocked on the halderson's front door the missing couple's son Chandler answered and so
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I'm like if you'd be willing I'd love to do a quick interview and he was like yeah I'll do that but I don't want you
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to film me I don't want to be shown but you can record my voice so my last message I got from them they
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were going to White Lake for the Fourth of July and then that their plan or from to my
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knowledge they were going to langlade County to a cabin uh their cabin at the time I got this sense like he was
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in shock this is someone who's roughly my age and so I'm thinking like yeah my parents just went missing he probably
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hasn't slept he's probably really nervous Alex garage knew Chandler well I was roommates with Chandler for a little
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while I called him Chaz the two friends shared an apartment from 2019 to 2020. we grew up together and we played soccer
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together did Cub Scouts together um and just hung out together he was a great swimmer so I know that the swim
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team really got along with him Alex says his friend Chandler who went by the name
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Chaz could be a playful guy he was a a goon a hooligan in a lot of Senses what do you mean by that yeah I mean he would
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so he would play pranks and he'd make lots of jokes or poke fun at people Alex described Chaz as popular with women
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college student Catherine malander known as cat was his longtime girlfriend he was a relatively attractive guy I mean
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he looked good he had great hair he kept up on appearances according to Alex when
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they were roommates Chaz often bragged friends about hooking up with different women behind cat's back when she found
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out about it she grilled him she was like are you seeing other people and he just kept denying it but cat remained
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suspicious and began tracking her boyfriend on social media Alex says Chaz became more secretive and moved back
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home with his parents and now those parents were missing detective Shunk and Sims began follow-up interviews at that
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point you know what do we really have we don't know what we have then they got a tip they desperately
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needed from the owner of a farm outside town we received information from someone that
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yes Chandler had been out to my property over Fourth of July weekend the owner was a friend of Chandler's
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girlfriend Kat the owner said she was with the couple at her Farm on July 4th she told deputies she was surprised to
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see Chandler again the very next day and this time he was alone 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 as deputies began searching detectives wanted to know why Chandler had never
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mentioned he had gone back to the farm by himself police picked up Chandler and took him
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to the station what's going on detective Brian Shunk asked him to once again describe the
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last time he had seen his parents it's Thursday morning I wake up what time is it
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six Chandler said his dad Bart was at home working and that later he had dinner with both parents
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that's where they told me while we were eating it they they were going to go with their friends and I was like oh
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cool um and they said they were going cabin yeah we're going up north while detectives questioned Chandler
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deputies were out searching the farm and made a discovery that quickly changed the tone of the interview listen to me
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this is the only chance you're gonna have to tell us the truth okay what we listen listen I can't tell
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you what we know but we know you're not telling us the truth you need to tell the truth there's listen listen you need
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to tell the truth about what happened just tell us why it happened I'm not BSN yet
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okay so can we do that okay we're okay um Chandler's request for a lawyer ended that interview detective Sims remembers
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the moment she learned what deputies told her they had found near that field you know Brian and I were in the command
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post together and but I said um what did you say you know I just couldn't believe
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what I was hearing they had discovered human remains on Thursday July 8 2021 in the village of Windsor Wisconsin the
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community struggled to make sense of the disturbing news the remains of an adult male have been
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found on a farm 20 miles from Barton Christa holderson's home at this point it's very early in our
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investigation Dane County Sheriff Calvin Barrett warned residents not to jump to
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conclusions I don't want to make any uh un corroborated speculations at this time
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the gruesome Discovery was made the day after Bart and Krista have been reported
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missing by their son and it was something detectives Brian Shunk and Sabrina Sims had never encountered the
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grass had been matted down and they followed it to a trail which led to the discovery of a male torso
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that was concealed with sticks and twigs that was really the moment right it was
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huge I think of other death investigations or homicide cases we've worked and I don't remember a time that
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I've worked a dismemberment case and what other evidence was found out there we found some cutting instruments some
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that were hidden in a an old oil drum um some scissors pruning shears a broken bow saw
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where the holders and Son Chandler have been seen earlier in the week detective Sims had a pretty good idea
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who the victim was knowing him I got that that was most likely Bart halderson and his son was seen in that area
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police turned their full attention to Chandler halderson he was now a person of interest and the
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prime suspect while tests were being done to confirm the victim's identity detectives arrested Chandler and charged
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him with lying to them the arrest was based on him providing false information in regards to a missing person Krista
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holderson's cousin Barbie Townsend what did you think they arrested him for giving
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false information about a missing person that was the first day that I started to suspect Foul Play from
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their own son I checked my phone and I saw that and it was that he had been arrested and
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it was pretty wild Alex cravat his childhood friend learned about it on social media my eyes got
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wide I kind of just sat there for a second reading it my first thought was if he's being arrested for giving
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misinformation to the police I didn't think that there was really much of a chance that he wasn't involved
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somehow but there's someone hard time imagining Chandler was involved his girlfriend cat
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she spoke to police just before his arrest you don't think he had anything to do
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with his mom and dad being unheard from no I just no that'd be crazy but I just don't see him killing Mr Mrs
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holderson like he had SpaceX like why would he jeopardize something he like would dream
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of you know yeah like there's parents for Christmas they got him and his brother matching tool sets like come on
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he cooks dinner for them they have root beer floats together they played Mario Kart whenever his parents want to
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but on Saturday July 10 2021 the victim found in the woods was identified as Bart halderson
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it just changed everything like that moment changed everything preliminary autopsy results would reveal
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Bart had been shot at least two times in the back and there was still the troubling
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question where was Krista Krista holderson remains a missing person and we continue
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to ask for citizen involvement Chris's co-worker Dan cronier ran through all the different possibilities
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did you at that moment Wonder like maybe Chris it was involved in this too it had
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definitely crossed my mind start to wonder well why is Chandler lying is he covering for himself or is he covering
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for perhaps his mother is she involved but the more investigators looked it seemed the only person Chandler
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halderson was covering for was himself you know he just lied to everybody and in his lies police started
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to believe they found a motive for murder for months he had been telling everyone including his childhood friend
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Alex cravat that he was enrolled at Madison College during the 2021 spring semester
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did you have any idea he had flunked out he didn't tell you no it was surprising did detectives believe
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his parents had no idea he wasn't in school they say when his parents questioned him
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about his transcripts the computer savvy Chandler halderson crafted a chain of emails that seemed to come from the
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college Chandler creates people that work for Madison College and communicates via email with them you
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know Barts on some of those as well talking to who he believes as employees of the school and do any of those people
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actually exist no foreign 2021 Bart halderson called Madison College pretending to be Chandler and
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got an answer he wasn't expecting so I don't see that you were admitted in any program he said they were you know the
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I.T degrees in there right no those are just classes you might have just took the classes but not be in the program
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Bart learned that not only had his son been lying about that I T degree but there was no internship with an
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insurance company either and remember that big job with SpaceX turns out that was just another elaborate lie
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the delusional reality that he concocted that is shocking to me according to detectives Bart was
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planning to meet at the college with his son on Thursday July 1st around 2PM Bart was working from home
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sent his son this text I'm ready whenever you are that text is believed to be the last message Bart sent
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seven days later Bart's remains were found investigators got a search warrant for the halderson home
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no weapon was found there but a shell casing was discovered in the basement and several areas inside the house
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tested positive for blood Chandler middle initial M last name halderson age 23 of Windsor is now being
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charged with first degree homicide hiding the corpse and mutilating a corpse [Music]
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on July 15 2021 Chandler halderson was formally charged with his father's murder
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Chandler is currently being held in the Dane County Jail I mean I don't know what else to say like how how could you
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do that to your father but where was his mother Krista chandlerhalderson had lawyered up and
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wasn't talking but someone very close to him was she had communicated with him that whole weekend that loyal girlfriend
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Catherine malander had a potentially damning piece of evidence about her boyfriend on the social media app
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Snapchat she actually consented to a download of her phone so that was a breakthrough
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how do you feel about allowing people to track you on social media apps chat now
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with Aaron Moriarty on Twitter Chandler halderson was charged with his father's murder but his mother's
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whereabouts were still unknown lead detective Sabrina Sims and Brian chunk knew if Krista was alive they
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needed to find her fast at that point we were hoping for the best it was one of those things where we
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just needed to to push on Detectives and for help she had given them permission to
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download information from her phone Chandler had lied to her before and had cheated on her before and so she
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um you know would track his location cat had convinced halderson to let her track
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his movement using SnapChat the popular social media app which allows users to send messages and share
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their location in real time and that was an agreement that yes you will have your
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locations on so I can see where you're going detectives were most intrigued by messages posted early on the morning of
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July 1st the day Chandler holderson and his father were supposed to meet with Madison college officials Alderson whose
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online name was chazzle Dazzle message cat at 7 30 a.m I hardly slept I'm sorry B why I don't know stuff hasn't really
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been going well for me lately so I'm trying to plan for the next thing to expletive me over B it's gonna be okay
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yeah I just had a great future planned and it's falling apart foreign [Music] to detectives the tone of those messages
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worried cat so two days later when cat checked Snapchat and noticed her boyfriend's Avatar that's hubby on her
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screen indicated that he was nearly 25 miles from home cat saved the image to her phone it was a Snapchat screenshot
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of Chandler almost nine in the morning out by the Wisconsin River detective Sims and Shunk took us to that
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location on the River where they had hoped to find Krista so where are we exactly what would you call this area
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it's the Wisconsin State lower Riverway it's a familiar place to the former High
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School 's Chandler holderson this is him at the same place in a photo taken a year earlier holding a large
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knife law enforcement throughout Dane County searched the wooded area and how long
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was he here 45 minutes I believe just keep in mind in July but it was definitely far
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thicker than what you're seeing here now no sign of Krista halder said but search
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teams refused to give up let's go hit one more area and that was where they ended up discovering the remains and
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what exactly did they find there they ended up finding two legs cut into different sections DNA tests
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confirmed it was Krista holderson the concerned son who had reported his mom and dad missing
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was now charged with both of their murders Christa's cousins were horrified you couldn't write this it just wasn't
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anything that you could possibly come up with in your head how do you make sense of it we don't and
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that's the hard part we don't have a why in January of 2022 at the Dane County Courthouse Chandler halterson went on
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trial for the murder of his parents he was also facing charges for lying to the police and for mutilating and hiding
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their bodies our job is to over the course of the next couple of weeks present evidence
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to show you the path of what we believe happens a William Brown chandler-halverson
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killed his parents dismembered their bodies and hid them around southern Wisconsin
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prosecutors laid out a motive they say chandler murdered his parents when his lies were about to be exposed and that
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for months he had been trying to hide the truth from them among the evidence those fake email accounts he created
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no one uses the Gmail account as their official Madison College email no and as fictitious internship with an insurance
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company I found no record of that person working for American family [Music] investigators believe the murder weapon
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was a semi-automatic rifle that had been hidden in a barn at that farm where Bart's remains were discovered good
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afternoon sir could you please state your name and then spell it out Andrew Smith how do you spell it Alpha November
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Delta Romeo Echo whiskey the rifle came from this man Andrew Smith who testified that he was in the
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military when he met halterson online how did you meet Chandler Alderson playing video games while I was
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stationed in Germany sir Alderson had wanted a gun smith testified he had no idea what Alderson wanted to do with the
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weapon and in June 2021 he gave him that semi-automatic rifle as a gift I'm going
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to give it to someone who might actually appreciate this weapon and take care of
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it and nearly 480 rounds of ammunition how did Chandler react when he gave him the gun oh he was happy what do you mean
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but how do you know he was happy or how do you how do you know that because he had a big smile on his face when I had
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given it to him as a gift [Music] but the most anticipated witness in this trial good morning would be halderson's
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girlfriend did you verbally answer yes to the oath yes who gave police that Snapchat screenshot what is that
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screenshot of Chandler by the Wisconsin River what do you make of the prosecution's
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case against Chandler Alderson see more evidence at 48hours.com [Music] could you please State and spell your
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name for us uh Catherine melander for three hours cat mallander sat on the stand telling the jury about the young
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man she thought she knew Chandler Alderson did you go on a lot of dates together
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uh yeah we would um grab dinners um have movie dates just sit at home and watch movies go on walks quite often
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Kat told the jury that she was working on July 1st when authorities believe the murders happened and didn't see her
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boyfriend in person that day but you weren't with them I was not with him did you know
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that Bart and Crystal Alderson had died no according to investigators Alderson asked Kat to bring a few cleaning
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supplies to his home the following day he told her he had stepped on some broken glass from the fireplace she
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brought him a Swiffer mop and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide did you have absolutely anything to do with cleaning
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anything up or their disappearance no investigators say there's no evidence that cat had any involvement in the
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murders they believed Chandler halderson acted alone prosecutors showed the jury police video
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from inside the halderson home these walk-through videos will document the home as is at first glance it seemed
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neat and clean but test results revealed what appeared to be blood is that all blood that it's reacting to this could
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be blood that it's reacting to yes and that appears that there's been some wiping or cleanup for Barbie Townsend
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the most disturbing part was when the jury was shown a view of the halderson home from a neighbor's security camera I
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was talking to one of my cousins we said one of the images that is going to be seared in our minds
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is when they showed that video of the window flickering window from July 2nd and it was the flickering glow from the
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fireplace for like hours that is haunting knowing what was happening a forensic expert testified that more
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than 200 bone fragments were discovered in the fireplace there's a white area in the middle of
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that burnt based on my training experience that appeared to be bone palderson's defense attorney Catherine
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Doyle did not address the bone and blood evidence found in the home but insisted
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that did not mean her client was the killer Chandler holderson did not murder his parents
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he is not guilty of those crimes she reminded the jury there were too many unanswered questions what happened
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to the holdersons what happened in that halderson's home you just aren't going to know what happened
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Chandler halderson himself didn't testify and his defense didn't call any Witnesses you have to go back and look
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at everything instead attorney Crystal Vera closed the case and urged jury to find reasonable doubt she admits
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halderson told a lot of lies but she argues there isn't enough direct evidence to tie him to the murders I
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guarantee you that the 12 of you that are going to go back and deliberate are all going to have 12 different theories
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on what's happened and that's a problem I'm asking you to find him not guilty a first degree intentional homicide
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prosecutors had the final word this is a first degree intentional homicide you cannot shoot someone in the back you
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cannot chop them up you cannot scatter their remains and come to any other conclusion
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and there is only one person who did those things here and that is Chandler holders
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and we're asking you to find him guilty thank you it didn't take long for the jury to decide
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[Music] breaking news in just about a little over two hours a jury has reached a
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verdict in the chandler-halderson case we the jury find the defendant Chandler M halterson guilty of first degree
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intentional homicide as to bardet halderson guilty of providing false information ability of mutilating
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accordance guilty of hiding a corpse guilty on all eight charges I think it was just overwhelming from
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all the work that we put in on it in March 2022 at his sentencing hearing good afternoon halderson who have been
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silent during his trial surprised Everyone by indicating he finally had something to say Mr halderson wishes to
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make a statement your honor I want to take this opportunity to State my intent to appeal
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my convictions if there are any lawyers listening and willing to take on my appeal take a
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moment to please reach out to me it's not that I do not have feelings is that I was warned to not show them
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due to the scrutiny of this case thank you what was your reaction when he had the
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chance to speak in all he did was ask for a lawyer to take an appeal what was your name I was actually disgusted
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I just couldn't believe it you're like you can't even say I'm sorry we are adjourned thank you
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Alderson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole foreign
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do you miss them well I think about them just about every day really yeah we're building a pond in our backyard
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you know they would love to see that and love to be a part of it Mitchell halderson Bart and Chris's
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oldest son is now living with an unimaginable loss Barbie shared a text and this photo that Krista sent to the
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family just three months before she died happy Easter yes the boys and their women Mitchell is still at Epic Systems
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and will turn 25 this year yikes Chandler is currently interning with American Family Insurance as an I.T
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administrator but his other degree sustainability management has given him an edge you see in her text
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how proud she was of her boys and how 100 completely believing Chandler she can't help but wonder what
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would have happened if halterson had just been honest with everyone if he had just gone and thrown himself at the
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mercy of his parents what do you think Chris and Bart would have done they would have helped him they definitely
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would have confronted him on it but after the confrontation and the truth telling would have come the grace
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how do we go forward how do we help you how do we get your life back on track they would have helped him
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foreign [Music] Ed unsolvable prior to my involvement very small amount of DNA just a speck of
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a speck decades later can it help this expert catch the Killer and I scream today is your day Rock 48 hours Saturday
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