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when Chandler halderson reported his parents missing on July 7 2021 Barton Krista halderson had not been seen for
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nearly a week detective Sabrina Sims and Brian shonk led the team to find the missing couple
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their first stop the couple's home so when you first got there who was home it was just Chandler the 23 year old told
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detectives an unknown couple had picked up his parents and drove them to the family cabin for the July 4th weekend
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but the haldersons never mentioned to co-workers nor their oldest son Mitchell that they would be going to the cabin
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the cabin was a remote rustic Lakeside Retreat built in the 1940s by their grandparents says Krista's cousin Barbie
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why would they not call why wouldn't there be a text or something you know your mind just starts to go down really
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murky Trails because you're trying to figure out what's going on the day after Chandler reported his mom and dad
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missing his brother Mitchell and his fiance decided to drive three hours to the cabin to see if they could find any
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sign of his parents langlade County deputies met them there hi there are you guys um
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okay you are affiliated with them yes okay [Music] it was clear no one had been to the
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cabin for a long time Bart and Krista were nowhere to be found and then police got a tip Chandler had been seen on a
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farm about 20 miles away while his parents were missing deputies began searching the area and a gruesome
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Discovery was quickly made remains of an adult male had been found and police turned their full attention to Chandler
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listen to me this is the only chance you're gonna have okay what we listen listen I can't tell
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you what we know but we know you didn't tell us the truth you need to tell the truth while they work to confirm the
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identity of their remains as well as the whereabouts of Christa detectives arrested Chandler and charged him with
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lying to them the arrest was based on him providing false information in regards to a
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missing person two days later authorities identified the remains as Bart halderson he had been shot twice in
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the back detectives would later find Krista's remains in a remote area near the Wisconsin River where Chandler liked
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to swim Chandler was arrested and charged with his parents murder dismemberment and
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lying to police why would Chandler kill his mother and father investigators say it's because he was
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afraid his parents would learn he had been lying to them you know he just lied to everybody for
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months he'd been telling everyone including his childhood friend Alex gravatt that he was enrolled at Madison
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College during the 2021 spring semester did you have any idea he had flunked out
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he didn't tell you it was surprising he told people about his I.T degree his promising internship at an insurance
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company and said he was excited about a new job he landed at SpaceX but it seems his parents became
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suspicious when his parents questioned him about his transcripts investigators found that
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Chandler halderson crafted a chain of emails that seemed to come from the college Chandler creates people that
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work for Madison College and communicates via email with them you know Barts on some of those as well
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talking to who he believes as employees of the school and do any of those people
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actually exist no in June 2021 Bart hulderson called Madison College pretending to be
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Chandler and got an answer he wasn't expecting but I don't see that you were admitted
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in any so you said they were you know the I.T degrees in there right no those are just classes you might have
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just the password [Music] Bart learned that not only had his son been lying about that I.T degree but
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there was no internship with an insurance company either and remember that big job with SpaceX
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another lie the delusional reality that according to detectives Bart was planning to meet at the college with his
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son on Thursday July 1st around 2PM Bart who was working from home sent his son this text
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I'm ready whenever you are that text was believed to be the last message Bart sent before he was murdered