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♪♪ -My name is John O'Hayre,
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 the Krug household.
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Dan Krug was calling and asked that we check
on his wife, Kristil. ♪♪ Said that he had not
been able to reach her
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for about three hours. ♪♪ Dan said that this alleged
stalker had made threats to
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both him and his wife, Kristil. ♪♪ The first thing I did was
walk right to the front door,
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kind of peek inside. Everything looked
orderly, quiet. I gave it a loud knock. My thinking at the time was,
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it's very 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. [ Police radio chatter ]
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I went back to my patrol car, and I pulled it
into the driveway so that I could get
my push bumper
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close to the garage
and use it as a -- as a step up. I stepped up on it
and looked in the window.
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I immediately see Kristil,
apparently lifeless. She had some type of
wound to the head.
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♪♪ [ Metal clangs ] ♪♪ Immediately I just check for any
signs of life at that point.
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-Does she have a pulse?
-She does not. I immediately started CPR. There was a stab wound
on her chest.
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As the paramedics arrived,
I opened the garage door and a woman came up. And I believe this woman
was Kristil's mother.
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-I arrived. I said that's my daughter. -She came running up to me
and said, Kristil is dead.
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-It's just shocking. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. [ Sobbing ] 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 the hill.
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-Hey! Stay back, stay back,
stay back, stay back. -This is my house.
-I understand.
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-They see a man come
running down the hill. This is Dan. This is her husband. -[ Dan weeps ]
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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 he's crying.
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-[ Dan cries ] -They all just kind of said, "I can't believe this happened.
He did it. The stalker did it."
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-We were on heightened alert. We were very, very concerned
for Dan's safety. -This is after
Kristil was murdered?
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You're worried that Dan
may be next in this -- in this stalker's sights? -Correct.
We thought Dan Krug was next.
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-The community was very alarmed. There's a killer out there,
and we're going to go after him.
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♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -[ Dan cries ] -It's a weird feeling
standing there when somebody is being told,
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"I'm sorry but your
loved one has died." -Victim's advocate
Heather Aites is trained
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to comfort those
in emotional agony. Like Dan Krug, who dashed home from work and learned his wife Kristil
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had been found murdered
in their garage in suburban Broomfield,
Colorado, on December 14th, 2023.
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-This man has been
going through a stalking case with his wife. He's being stalked as well,
and now she's gone.
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-As investigators searched
the crime scene for clues... Heather drove Dan
to the police station.
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An officer's body camera
recorded the ride. -He was crouched over to
the side of the passenger door,
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and it was very much... [ Mimics sobbing ] -I'm comforting Dan
by rubbing his back.
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-Dan and Kristil had been
married for 16 years. The couple, both 43,
had three young children.
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-What did he say in the car? -In the car he was
pretty focused on the kids. He was very adamant
about wanting to be the one
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to tell his children. -Under the command of Broomfield
Police Chief Enea Hemplelmann,
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investigators were doing
everything in their power to find the killer. -We immediately started
doing interviews,
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talking to neighbors,
canvassing. -Several hours had passed since
Dan Krug's emotional ride
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to the police station. He had settled down and he told
detectives there was nothing
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out of the ordinary
that morning. ♪♪ He said they got
the kids to school, and Kristil seemed fine
when he left for his job
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at the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment. ♪♪ -Dan said Kristil
texted him asking
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if he could pick up one
of the kids after school. But when he texted back
and asked what time,
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he said,
Kristil never responded. -So weird. So out of character for Kristil, Dan called police
and asked them to check on her.
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-There are not words
that can describe what you feel
as a parent at that point. -It's probably some
parent's worst nightmare.
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-These are some memories,
aren't they? -Kristil's parents,
Lars and Linda Grimsrud.
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-She was an engineer. She had incredible skills
in math, sciences, chemistry, physics,
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but she also had the talents
in the arts. -She loved to just get out
and live life.
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-Throughout her life,
Kristil spent countless hours working with her dad on classic muscle cars
in his colorful garage.
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[ Engine revving ] -We'd work on the cars.
We'd race the cars. Kristil always felt very
comfortable coming over here
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if we needed to talk
or whatever. This is where we would sit and
just enjoy each other's company.
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-But those fun,
casual conversations suddenly turned disturbing
in the fall of 2023,
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when Kristil first told
her father that she was living
with intense fear. -She sat here and told me
that she was being stalked,
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and that just shocked me. When I asked her, "Well,
have you talked to the police?"
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-Kristil had called the police and met with Broomfield
Detective Andrew Martinez.
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-She came
into the interview room and just kind of took over and just told me everything
without hesitation.
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-Their conversation
was recorded. Kristil told Martinez
that on October 2, 2023,
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she received an unsettling text
from someone named Anthony, who said he would be coming
to the area
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and asked
if Kristil wanted to hook up. And how does she respond
to that? -She did not respond.
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-The following day, Kristil told Martinez
she got more texts from Anthony that included obscenities
and said,
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"you should kill urself
Dont waste my time" Somebody wants to hook up now
is saying, "Go kill yourself."
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How do you interpret that --
that second text? -It's a pretty extreme reaction
to not getting a response.
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-Kristil told Martinez she
knew an Anthony from her past -- Anthony Holland,
a boyfriend she dated
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for about a year after
high school and into college. The two broke up
in the fall of 2000.
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Lars and Linda say back then,
Anthony made a good impression. -Very friendly,
very courteous.
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He always had good manners. -In 2002, out of the blue,
Anthony contacted Kristil.
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According to Kristil, Anthony never seemed
to take no for an answer, contacting her again in 2005,
2010, and 2016 via Facebook.
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Kristil deleted Facebook and thought she'd heard
the last of Anthony Holland. But then came the texts in 2023.
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Over the next two months, Kristil said she received
alarming message after message
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through text and email. They included threats
to her and Dan, including this disturbing photo
of Dan
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getting out of his car at work, which prompted Kristil to first
come forward and call police.
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A few days later,
this text to her. That suggests he might be
surveilling them both.
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Right?
-Correct. The harassment
is just constant, and she's just believing
that every corner
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presents some sort of danger
for her. -To gather evidence
and locate Anthony Holland,
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Detective Martinez was required
to file search warrants with the phone and email
companies -- a slow process.
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Getting that information
takes time. Sometimes those companies
are reluctant or they slow-walk getting
that information to you.
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Correct?
-Yes. -Kristil had been searching for Holland on her own. She hired a private investigator
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and eventually located
him living in Utah about 500 miles away. Kristil shared her discovery
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with Detective Martinez, who
chose not to contact Holland. -I explained to Kristil
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that we wanted to gather
as much evidence as possible and ideally obtain
an arrest warrant,
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so when law enforcement
does go to Anthony's door, we can take him into custody
and not have to walk away.
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-But Lars says Kristil had been losing patience
with the investigation. -She made the comment that
she felt they had abandoned her,
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that they weren't doing things
aggressively enough. -Kristil had taken steps to
protect herself and her family,
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including installing
security cameras. -She was scared. I said, "Well,
this sounds serious enough
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that you need to start carrying. You'll use one of my guns
for right now." -Is this the very gun
that she took?
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-That is the actual gun
that she initially then carried. -Dan was also interviewed.
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The threats were taking
a toll on him as well. Dan told Martinez
the stalker had a nickname.
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Where did that name
come from? -Kickman Dan had told me
it was because the suspect email
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that was initially contacting
Kristil was [email protected]. -As the weeks went by
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and Martinez's
investigation continued, Lars and Linda
say the constant threats were ruining
their daughter's life.
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-It was just heartbreaking.
She was just in tears. She was just like,
"What am I gonna do?
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How am I gonna live?" -Did she feel she was
being hunted down by Anthony? -Yes.
-Yeah.
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-Kristil also shared her fears with siblings
Jenna Erickson and Josh Adamson. -She was terrified.
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-Did she ever express
to either of you the fear that "this man,
I think, is gonna kill me"?
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-Yes, she said, "It's either
gonna be me or him that's dead, and I'm gonna do
everything in my power
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to make sure it's not me." ♪♪ ♪♪ -When Kristil Krug
was found dead in her garage,
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Detective Martinez had only
one suspect in mind. -My initial assumption
was that Anthony Holland
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had gone to her home
and murdered her. -Within hours, local police
descended on Holland's home
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in Eagle Mountain
near Salt Lake City. So you were alone in the house.
What do you hear?
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-Pounding at the door.
-Like [pounds table] -Yeah.
-Big time. -So I go to the door.
I see like eight cops.
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I had no idea what was going on. They asked me
if I knew Kristil Krug, and I told them I did know her.
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-When was the last time
you had reached out to Kristil? -It was around 2014, 2016.
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-Anthony says he'd reached
out to Kristil on Facebook years before. What are you thinking?
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Why would they come all the way
here to ask me about Kristil? -I thought it was
for that message
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where I said I missed her. That's the only thing I could
think of 'cause I was like,
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I haven't contacted her
since then. -They didn't tell you that
Kristil Krug had been murdered?
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-No, they did not tell me. -Police were there to gather
information from their suspect,
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not give it. -They asked me,
where was I that day? Can I prove where I was? -Anthony had made
a purchase just hours earlier
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at a Kohl's store near his home. What'd you buy? -A sweatshirt.
This one right here.
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-And he still had the receipt. The purchase was made
at 12:16 p.m. Investigators say Kristil
was attacked around 8:00 a.m.
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Turns out that was one
of the most important purchases you have ever made. -'Cause it was my alibi.
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'Cause there's no way I
could have made it from Colorado back to Utah
to buy the sweatshirt.
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It was an eight-hour drive. -Anthony also showed police
some of his employment records.
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They proved he'd been in Utah
all along, never traveling to Colorado, as the messages from Kristil's
stalker led cops to believe.
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-I had a bunch of receipts
from my work showing the days that I worked,
and they took those,
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took my receipt from Kohl's,
and went to the squad car and made a phone call. Came back in
and told me I was free to go.
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-Back in Colorado, Dan was still face to face
with investigators. He told them his theory
of the crime.
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Earlier in the interview, Dan requested he tell
the children what had happened
to their mother.
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-Watching their response
is just heartbreaking. -Investigators
were working every angle.
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They checked
those security cameras Kristil had installed
on the house. -The doorbell camera,
the side camera,
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and the side house camera
were all manually turned off. -Except for that
one Nest camera near the garage.
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Police canvassed Dan
and Kristil's neighbors in search of anything their home security cameras
might have recorded.
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-I saw you had
a Ring doorbell camera. You mind reviewing that camera?
-Oh, goodness. Absolutely.
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-If possible, if you guys can
review the last 3 to 5 hours. -They also enlisted
Randy Pihlak,
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a digital forensic examiner with the Broomfield
Police Department, to take a closer look at those
disturbing messages to Kristil.
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-I think it was
probably four hours, five hours after the murder
was reported to us.
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-Now that
the stalking case had become a murder investigation,
Pihlak was able to file
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new expedited requests
for information. He quickly discovered
that messages from two accounts
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used to harass Kristil had been
sent from the same location. -Both came back
to the same IP address.
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That IP address was the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment, which is where Dan worked.
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-The messages to Kristil
threatening her, threatening her husband, had been sent using the Wi-Fi
system at Dan's office.
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For the first time, detectives
believed Kristil's stalker could be sitting
right in front of them.
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Could he be her killer as well? -The entire air was
just kind of evacuated out of our investigations room,
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and we realized
that we need to focus on Dan and where he's been
and what he's been doing.
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-Martinez, along with Detective
Jennifer King Sullivan, confronted Dan. But even
as Dan claimed ignorance,
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the detective saw that his body
language told a different story. What were you seeing with Dan?
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-He took a defensive posture. He sat back in the couch
a little bit. He crossed his arms, kind of
like, I have nothing to explain.
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-I think his head is spinning, thinking about what else
are they gonna find? ♪♪ ♪♪
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-Moments after detectives
told Dan Krug they had eliminated
Anthony Holland as a suspect,
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Dan calmly insisted he was
not the one who stalked and murdered his wife, Kristil.
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Martinez and King Sullivan
didn't believe a word of it and were struck by how stoic,
how unmoved Dan was.
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-He had no reaction
and really no explanation. -Within minutes, Dan Krug had gone
from sympathetic victim
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to murder suspect. -It's a pretty frightening idea that the biggest threat to you
and your safety
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is actually living
in the same house as you. He knows that we're on to him. We just didn't have
enough evidence
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at that point to take him
into custody. -On his way out,
Dan kept insisting the real killer
was still on the loose,
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and he made a desperate plea. -When did you find out that Dan was now a person
of -- of interest in this case?
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-I think in his interview. So that same day
when they held him and they held him pretty late.
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-An autopsy revealed
what happened to Kristil. She had been attacked
from behind with a blunt object.
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-Bludgeoned to death
in the head and rolled over
and then stabbed in the heart. -With Dan now
the prime suspect,
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the detectives wanted to know
more about his relationship
with Kristil. According to Kristil's parents,
it wasn't good.
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-She said, "Well,
I'm sleeping on the couch, Mom." -But you knew there was
trouble in paradise, right?
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-Yeah, and especially in
those last few months. -Kristil's family says
those troubles were caused
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by Dan's fiery temper.
-What set him off? -It could be --
It could be anything. But it was usually
if he was losing control.
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-Kristil's sister,
Jenna Erickson, says she could always tell
when Dan was angry.
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-His face would get really red
when he was getting frustrated. I vividly remember
seeing his face get red.
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-They had a thing where
they'd go, okay, walk away. You need to walk away. And so, you know,
they were trying to manage it.
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-But in the weeks
before her death, according to her parents, Kristil was getting ready
to leave Dan.
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-She didn't want to have
this marriage anymore. -She had decided that
she needed to get a divorce.
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-As the detectives
methodically built their case, more evidence was uncovered
on Dan and Kristil's cellphones
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by digital forensic expert
Randy Pihlak, including texts
from the morning of the murder.
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-So, on Kristil's phone,
we see text messages to Lars, Detective Martinez,
and then a text message to Dan.
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-The one Dan said he received
while driving to work about picking up one
of the kids at school.
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But Pihlak discovered those
texts had been set on a timer. It was a new feature
on the phone Kristil had.
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Who do you believe
pre-programmed those messages? -Dan Krug. -And he did it to do what?
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-To hide his actions. -Pihlak says the messages
were pre-programmed before Dan left the house.
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-And we believe
Kristil was deceased. -That, for him, then
would establish an alibi that,
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"Well, I had already left
and my wife is alive." Right?
"She's texting me." -Correct.
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-All while Dan casually arrived
at work. Pihlak discovered more damning
evidence from Dan's phone.
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Internet searches like... -All searches were
the day before the murder. It was rather damning.
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-Just two days
after Kristil had been murdered, Detectives Martinez
and King Sullivan
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felt they had enough evidence
to charge Dan Krug with stalking
and murdering his wife.
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-We begin following him. -Coming up to the stop sign
now. -How many cars are
we talking about?
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-Probably eight cars. We're, like, that's him.
He's alone in the car. -Hey, be ready to pop that
once he gets it into park.
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-We follow him all the way
to the grocery store. -Pulling into
King Soopers parking lot.
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-We wait for him to park. We quickly converge on his car. -Go, go, go, go, go, go.
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-Show us your hands!
-Hands! Hands! -Show us your hands.
-Hands on your face! Hands on your face!
Hands on your face!
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-So we surround him. Pull him out of his car
and tell him he's being arrested for the murder of his wife.
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-Under arrest. -I asked him
just one question. -Do you want me
to tell your kids
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that you killed their mother,
or do you want somebody else to? -That's quite a line.
00:28:02
That goes back to when he said
he wanted to tell his kids that their mother was dead.
00:28:15
-After I asked that question,
he just said that he wanted to speak with his attorney
and then looked away from me.
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All right. Good luck. And I shut the door
and he went to the county jail. -Get one leg up
and then kind of swing around.
00:28:31
-I felt a huge relief. They got him. It felt like a burden
had been lifted, that he had been arrested.
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-And soon, Kristil's family
would come face to face with the man detectives say
murdered her...
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-He looked right at me
and smiled at me. -...and hear, for the first
time, Dan's side of the story.
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♪♪ ♪♪ -When Deputy District
Attorneys Kate Armstrong and Stephanie Fritz were assigned
to prosecute Daniel Krug,
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they say they were struck
by his downright stupidity in believing he could get away
with murdering his wife
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by impersonating
her ex-boyfriend. -The audacity with which he thought he could
manipulate not only his family,
00:29:37
his loved ones,
but also the police department. -And some of this
is sophisticated, is it not?
00:29:44
-It's sophisticated, but not too sophisticated because we were
able to figure it out.
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-The trial began
in April 2025. -When he first came in, he smiled at me
like he was saying,
00:30:01
"Hey,
thanks for being here for me." I believe my facial
expression made it very clear
00:30:07
that I was not on his side. -The prosecution laid
out Kristil's final hours of life
for the jury.
00:30:16
-On December 14th of 2023, Kristil Krug started her day
like any other day. She took her younger
two children to school.
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-And when she returned... -Kristil pulled back
into her garage. She gets out of the car when
she is attacked from behind.
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-And did she ever see him
approaching, do you think? Or was this an ambush? -It was an ambush.
00:30:38
She had two or three
skull fractures. As she's laying on the floor
bleeding, he pushes her over,
gets over her,
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and stabs her
just above her heart. -And why do you suppose he had
to do that vicious last stab?
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-I think it was rage.
I think it was control and power that he wanted to exert
over Kristil.
00:31:01
-Dan had been losing
that control for a long time, say prosecutors. Their theory of the crime
00:31:08
is that Dan sent Kristil
those disturbing messages in an attempt to drive her
closer to him and not leave,
00:31:16
hoping she'd see him
as her heroic protector. -It was not working. The stalking was not leading
her back to him.
00:31:25
I think it then turned to
"I'm still losing her." Kind of a "If I can't have you,
nobody can."
00:31:35
-The prosecution says that
in the last days of her life, Kristil had begun to suspect
00:31:41
that her stalker was
possibly her husband. -We know from Dan's
own interview that she confronted him
and said,
00:31:51
"I can't rule you out
as the stalker." -He felt the walls closing in.
-Closing in.
00:32:02
He was going to
lose Kristil anyway. He was going to be exposed
as the stalker. So he did that last fatal act
and murdered her.
00:32:12
-Prosecutors say Dan tried
to outsmart investigators, pre-programming those text
messages on Kristil's phone
00:32:20
before he left the house,
assuming he wouldn't be caught. -Were we not able to discover
00:32:28
that that was
a delayed send text, it would have appeared as though
Kristil was still alive
00:32:32
when he left the house. -At trial, the long list
of digital evidence against Dan was laid out.
00:32:40
The threatening texts,
the e-mails, the Internet searches. Also included -- that photograph
of Dan arriving at his office,
00:32:50
attached to a menacing e-mail
seemingly sent by Anthony Holland to Kristil. But there was one problem,
00:32:59
according to
the state's digital expert. Who took this picture,
do you believe? -Dan.
Dan took this picture.
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-Pihlak discovered
that the phone which snapped that photo was
in selfie mode using a timer,
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a fact that Kate Armstrong
reminded the jury about in her closing argument. That's when the judge allowed
cameras into the courtroom.
00:33:25
-The phone was propped on the back of this vehicle
next to him. The defendant took
this photograph,
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and then he sent it to his wife. -We respectfully disagree with
the prosecution in this case.
00:33:35
-Defense attorney
Philip Geigle argued the murder investigation
was poor. The blunt object used
on Kristil's head
00:33:44
and the knife used to stab her
were never recovered by police. The defense also
zeroed in on the fact
00:33:51
that Kristil's phone was not
tested for fingerprints or DNA. -Why not the phone?
00:33:57
The prosecution
wants to believe "Well, you know, there may not
be a lot to be found there."
00:34:02
Well, you won't know
if you won't try. -Geiggle said
other forensic tests supported
00:34:07
his claim that Dan is innocent. -They submitted the chest swabs. And you know whose DNA
wasn't there?
00:34:15
The person who lived
in the house. The person who ate
in the kitchen with them. The person who
shared the living room.
00:34:21
That idiot right there. There is absolutely
no physical evidence on Mr. Krug's clothing.
00:34:27
There's no blood found
on that car, inside or out. It's searched three times. -In week three of the trial,
the jurors began deliberations.
00:34:39
After a day and a half,
verdicts were reached. -Please rise for the jury. -Judge Priscilla Loew
read the verdicts.
00:34:47
-"We, the jury, find the defendant guilty
of murder in the first degree. We, the jury, find the defendant
guilty of count number two,
00:34:57
stalking, extreme
emotional distress." -Krug was also found guilty
of stalking with credible threat
00:35:05
and criminal impersonation. -Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. And at that point, I think
I started breathing again.
00:35:13
-Krug was later sentenced
to life in prison without the possibility
of parole on the murder charge,
00:35:19
and an additional 9 1/2 years for the stalking and
impersonation counts. But right after his conviction,
in a video call from jail...
00:35:32
-How are you? -Uh, been better. -...Daniel Krug told his family
that the jury got it wrong,
00:35:40
saying the real killer
remained at large and that his children
could be the next targets.
00:35:46
-I need them safe. I don't know
where or who did this, where he is or who he is.
00:36:00
I need my children
out of Colorado. ♪♪ ♪♪ -As Daniel Krug began
serving his life sentence,
00:36:24
he continued making video calls
to his parents and brother in the days immediately
after his conviction.
00:36:32
The man who
viciously murdered his wife, terrorized his own children,
and lied to everyone
00:36:38
was seeking sympathy
from his side of the family. -I'm probably sleeping
like 16 hours a day
00:36:45
because of the depression. -Mm-hmm.
-I sleep, I read, and I cry. That's about it.
-Okay.
00:36:52
-Despite overwhelming
digital evidence against him, Krug fell back
to his old ways --
00:36:58
lying to his loved ones, now claiming he was
wrongly convicted. -They never produced
a single piece of hard evidence.
00:37:11
-His brother Jeremy gave Krug
a much-needed reality check that the foundation
of the family's loyalty
00:37:19
had started to crack. -Support is dwindling. You know, Mom and Dad
want to believe you very much.
00:37:28
I want to believe you very much. There's a lot that's come out.
Um... And as imaginative
as I can be
00:37:37
with finding explanations
and ways to theorize how, you know, this or that could
have been the reality,
00:37:45
some of it
is beyond even my creativity. -The case that ended with
a murder had begun with stalking
00:37:56
and criminal impersonation
of Anthony Holland. Which begs the question, what if Detective Martinez
had acted on the information
00:38:05
Kristil and the private
investigator had uncovered? -They should have found me
right away.
00:38:11
They should have found me. They should have came
to my house. They should have approached me.
They should have talked to me.
00:38:16
-But Detective Martinez
chose not to call, telling us he didn't have
enough evidence to do so,
00:38:23
and was concerned a phone call
could exacerbate the situation. Is this something where you've
kicked yourself about this?
00:38:32
-This case has haunted me
since it occurred. And the outcome of this case has haunted me
for the past two years.
00:38:44
-And if you could get in
a time machine, perhaps you'd make
that call today. -Absolutely.
00:38:51
-And Kristil's parents
sympathize with Martinez and believe
their daughter was doomed
00:38:56
no matter what the outcome
of his investigation. -Inevitably, I think
he was going to kill her.
00:39:06
When someone sets their mind
to do something like that, and that's what the plan was,
00:39:10
I don't think that
would have stopped the murder from happening. -Kristil's death has left
a hole in the lives of those
00:39:19
who experienced her love
and joy for life. -I've had lots
of other girlfriends, and I've never been in love
with anybody else like her.
00:39:29
-She was the love
of your life. -Yeah. -Jenna hopes her sister
Kristil's story will serve
00:39:37
as a cautionary tale. -If it can help
just one other person who's in a dangerous situation
like she was in,
00:39:44
that it gives them
the strength to make a move,
because it can escalate and it can escalate
really, really fast.
00:39:54
-What was lost
when she was taken from us? -Her light, you know?
Her light. -That's a tough one
to talk about
00:40:08
because there's so much. I want her to jump out of that
car and say, "Hey, Papa."
00:40:19
-Lars still passes his time
restoring parts for vintage cars. That father-daughter hobby
is now being passed
00:40:28
down to Kristil's children. -They're in here. They run that same
electric screwdriver
00:40:35
and they can tear
a carburetor apart. -So in that way, you're
honoring her memory, aren't you?
00:40:38
-Well, that's the whole idea. Yeah. Yeah,
that's the whole idea. She would get such a kick out of
seeing the kids doing the stuff
00:40:46
that she was involved in. -I look at my grandkids, and I find a moment of peace
because I see her.
00:40:53
♪♪