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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 of Bart and Krista halderson today
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interviewing neighbor are too many unanswered questions you know cars go off the road
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um things happen you know there's a storm or there's a crash or XYZ you just don't know
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my boss was calling her or emailing her or texting her I was doing the same I was texting Bart and there was just
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never any response I met Krista through work at Zimbrick body shop and then I met her husband through her obviously
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and then um you know they just did anything for anybody like even people they didn't
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know so I'm on the Christa side we are related through my dad's side of the family and we mostly saw each other in
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Wisconsin at our family Cottage cabin during Summers and family reunions they both gave 100 to raising their boys
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Mitchell was a little more outgoing very easy going Chandler was a little more sensitive a little quieter her whole
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goal for her being a mom was and I'm quoting her she said I want my children to be the best men they can be the
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biggest concern for me is just figuring out where they are police say the couple
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had planned to go to their cabin in langlade County our investigation began on July 7th when
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Chandler reported his parents missing we knew exactly what Chandler had told us we knew that his two parents were gone
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they had left for the Fourth of July weekend supposedly to go to their cabin in northern Wisconsin
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I've never been assigned to a case where a couple is gone we ask even more questions to try to get a story and get
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a timeline of when did the halthersons go missing and everything was just happening so fast in those first couple
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of days when we first got the email saying that Bart and Krista were missing didn't compute like what do you mean
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they're missing like they went up to the cabin and then it didn't come back huh did you think possibly they've been
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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 happened out on the lake and 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 wooded 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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