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This is the mother of 43-year-old Crystal Krug. In a few seconds, she's going to find Crystal's lifeless body
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inside this very garage. >> Hello. And this is Daniel Krug, the man who killed her. He's heading in for another
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normal workday just minutes after leaving his wife's lifeless [music] body hidden in the garage of their own
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home. Oh [ __ ] Holy [ __ ] For the last 4 months, this man has been engineering
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the most calculated homicide plot Colorado has ever seen. Creating fake identities, manipulating Crystal's
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children, and setting up the perfect scapegoat to take the blame. He believes his plan is bulletproof, that police
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will spend weeks chasing a ghost and eventually arrest someone else for the murder he committed. And despite nearly
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perfect detective work, his plan works exactly the way he intended. >> Husband said there was a dude who's been
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stalking her and threatened to kidnap her. >> Oh my god. [laughter] This can't be
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true. I was here before. [screaming] >> Henry. >> Yeah. Nice to meet you. Good to meet
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you. Talk to you. I kind of have an idea what's going on. >> Yes. [snorts] >> This is Crystal Kug months before her
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murder. She lives here with her husband Daniel Kug and their three children. Both Crystal and her husband are well
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educated and seem to have built a comfortable life together with their kids. But behind closed doors, something
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dark is happening that will destroy this beautiful family. All because Crystal's
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been dealing with a stalker obsessed with her, sending her constant threats and claiming to watch her every move.
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This officer is here to check her car for GPS trackers or anything that could explain how this stalker keeps finding
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her. In reality, the stalker is much closer than anyone could have imagined. >> Um, you can see like it's all the dirty
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segments and flood marks, but >> like my street looks like this all the time. There's no one out there. Like I
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know the normal cars, >> so I don't know where he's following it from. >> Okay. >> I only assume a tracker.
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>> Nothing jumps out at me. >> I know there I'm hoping it's just going to mess with me. The officer continues
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searching the vehicle top to bottom, but finds nothing suspicious. So before leaving, he offers Crystal a few safety
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recommendations and reassures her that they'll keep looking into her case. Not long in the course of the
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investigation, Broomfield police receive another call. This time from Crystal's husband, Daniel, reporting a [music]
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break-in at his home. An officer is dispatched to check things out. Unknowingly, this [music] encounter will
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be the start of one of the most calculated murders the United States has ever seen.
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>> How's it going? >> Yeah, definitely. I'm Officer Johnson. >> I'm Dan. >> Nice to meet you,
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>> Johnson. Nice to meet you. >> So, as [music] I pulled in, uh, I saw someone run out, jump over my gate,
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[music] okay, >> and take off that way. >> Got it. I didn't think to call you until
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my my wife got home recently and we realized the spare key that we keep in the garage isn't there.
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>> Okay. >> According to Daniel, the only thing that's gone is their spare house key. If
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someone stole that, it means they aren't done and might have plans to come back at some point. The officer advises
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Daniel to change their locks immediately while police look into who this intruder
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might be. What no one realizes tonight is that this is no random incident. It's the [music] opening move in a plan
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that's been forming for months. And this break-in is just step one. 9 days after Daniel reports the breakin,
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his wife Crystal [music] wakes up to another uneasy morning. For weeks now, she's been receiving strange anonymous
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messages and a growing sense that someone [music] out there has an eye on her. Until now, none of it had a name
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attached, but a faceless presence that kept getting closer. But today, that changes. As Crystal gets the kids ready
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for school, makes her morning coffee, and heads out for work, her phone buzzes. She glances at the screen and
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sees a name she hasn't thought about in more than 20 years. Jack Anthony Holland, a man she dated briefly as a
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teenager. The message is short, crude, completely out of nowhere. Hi Crystal, it's Anthony. Hope it's okay. I looked
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you up. I go to Boulder every few weeks and thought we could hook up. You game? At first, she didn't think much of it.
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The two last spoke years ago, [music] and even then, he was harmless. So, she ignores it and moves on. But the next
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day, everything changes. Are you there? You should say yes [music] when I offer pity. Whatever. I
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saw your pics. You got fat. You should yourself. Saw you at the dentist today. Your license plate expired. Got to fix
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that. Suddenly, Crystal's fear becomes reality. And she begins living with the terrifying possibility that she's being
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watched. And now she's certain is the one who's been harassing her for weeks. She becomes hypervigilant,
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installs cameras around the home, dash cams in her car, and starts carrying a concealed handgun everywhere she goes.
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By late October, Crystal's barely sleeping. She keeps a spreadsheet of her stalker log documenting every message
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she gets. Then, almost a month later, a new email from Anthony confirms her worst fears. This your husband? Drives
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like slow old lady. He needs to drive safe. The email comes with an attached photo showing her husband, Daniel, at
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his workplace. Now, the stalker isn't just targeting Crystal. He's coming after her family. Crystal realizes she
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can't handle this alone, so she hires a private investigator to track down Anony's addresses and digital history.
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Then, on Halloween night, she calls the police. >> So, how can I help you tonight? What's
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going on? Yeah. So, I have an ex from a very long time ago who has occasionally down me on social media and it's never
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been an issue until this month. So, this month I have received numerous text messages and then today I got an email
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that is very threatening and it escalated to the point that he took a recent picture of my husband at his work
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location. So, the stocking is getting a little too aggressive at this point in time. So, my last contact with this
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individual was 5 years ago where I told him I was happily married. I had no interest in what he kept contacting me.
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He kind of blew things up and then blocked me. I blocked him. Haven't heard from him since. [music]
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>> After explaining everything to the officer, she documents each detail and forwards the case to the department's
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investigative unit. Within hours, the file lands on the desk of Detective Andrew Martinez, a seasoned investigator
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who's worked some of Broomfield's toughest cases, including abductions and violent crimes. Martinez schedules a
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formal meeting with Crystal for the following week, hoping to get a clearer picture of what exactly is happening and
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who this Anthony really is. When she sits down with Martinez, the situation has already escalated far beyond what
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Crystal first reported. So, I mean, like he saw like full pictures of my family,
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of my kids. Like, I locked down my protocol real fast um after this because it was pretty alarming, right? Where
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he's like, "We're meant to be together." And my family loves that we're talking.
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I'm like, "Wo, you think that we're like in a relationship?" So, I shut it down real hard. I said, "This is really
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creepy for me. You need to stop." And he got like real emotional and then blocked
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me. I'm like, "Good." And I blocked him and like I'm like And then I shut down Facebook entirely. Um, the one
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development that I have, um, I did get the full-blown report from the PI. The problem, and you'll see this in this
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report, there are tons of phone numbers associated with him. There are tons of addresses. He moves everywhere and
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between like three different states. >> As Crystal walks the detective through her evidence, two details immediately
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stand out. First, her stalker isn't just texting her from random numbers. He's using multiple phone lines and different
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digital identities, finding ways to reach her even after she changes her information. Whoever this is, they're
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persistent, resourceful, and frighteningly determined. Second, her ex-boyfriend Anthony Holland is tied to
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several addresses and multiple phone numbers. Whether it's instability or an attempt to stay off the grid, it
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convinces Martinez that Crystal is dealing with someone who either doesn't want to be found or someone who's
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planning something far worse. With all of this in mind, Martinez wraps the interview with Crystal and begins the
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digital side of the investigation. He sends warrants to service providers requesting phone records, email logs,
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and account information to track down the stalker. Unfortunately for Martinez, these companies will make a mistake that
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will soon prove deadly. While waiting for the digital evidence to come back, Martinez decides to follow up on
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something else. The garage break-in Daniel reported back in September when a stranger supposedly stole their spare
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house key. He brings Daniel in for a formal interview, wanting to know whether he's noticed anyone following
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him. But instead of clarifying things, Martinez is about to learn something far more unsettling about the Krug
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let's get back to Daniel's interview where the detective is about to learn something troubling about the couple's
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marriage. >> And I guess at what point did she tell you that he reconted her this last time?
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>> Uh, it was either November 1st or November second. It was it was after she had gotten uh a picture
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of me at work that she brought me up to speed on >> that. Gotcha. Okay. And the first
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contact that he initially made with her was back on October 2nd, I guess. Why that month gap, do you think before she
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told you? I'm sure she has mentioned to you that um she and I are going through a rough
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patch kind of on the rocks. Uh so probably didn't seem that pressing until until I was
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>> sure and she didn't mention that to me that you guys were having a rough time
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currently. Are you guys in the process of separating, getting divorced or working through things?
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>> Should be determined. My my brother Matthew is a cop. Uh so I have a uh retractable ASP uh steel baton.
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>> Yeah. >> Uh as I said, not right now, but otherwise it's on me all the time. I
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sleep with it next to me. I've bought some additional security cameras for the house. So what am I doing? I'm panicking
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and I'm doing a [ __ ] job of protecting my wife. So, I'm not I'm not doing good.
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>> Yeah, I can see that. So, with that being I know that Christile, we put her car on a lift on Tuesday afternoon um to
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see if there's any sort of GPS tracking or anything like that. >> We couldn't find anything on the car. If
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Anthony is watching you guys, it's going to be in person from a distance or nearby or however.
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Um, so that poses an interesting issue in of itself. >> From Daniel's reactions, it's clear the
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stalking is taking a toll on him, too. His wife is terrified, his family feels haunted, and he's struggling to
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understand how any of this is happening. Detective Martinez wraps up the interview, but something Daniel said
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lingers in the back of his mind. He revealed that he didn't know about the stalking for almost a month. Not until
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Crystal finally showed him the email with the photo taken outside his workplace. So, Martinez decides to look
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deeper into the family dynamic. And what he finds is concerning. He learns that the couple have been going through a
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rough patch recently. Nothing hostile or dangerous, but they were trying to work
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things out, doing what they believed was best for their kids and holding their family together the best they could.
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with how much the stalker seems to know about their lives. Martinez briefly wonders if someone inside the home might
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be manipulating the situation. And for a moment, he even considers the possibility that Daniel might be messing
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with his wife as some twisted way of trying to fix their marriage. But that idea is quickly [music] dismissed. There
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is no evidence backing any of it, and all signs still point to Anthony. Not to mention, Crystal herself is fully
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convinced her ex is behind the stalking campaign. Throughout November, the harassment continues to escalate with
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more messages and threats. Crystal continues documenting everything and constantly monitors her cameras. By
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early December, she finally receives a message that gives her the smallest breath of air. Hey, gorgeous. I can't
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visit you anymore. No more Colorado time. My girlfriend doesn't want us talking without her. She says, "You'll
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let the cops get me after you get rid of him." For the first time in weeks, Crystal and her family feel a brief
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sense of relief. [music] It sounds like Anthony is backing off, maybe even leaving the state. But in reality, this
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is just the stalker's final move to make them drop their guard before he strikes.
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The day starts like every other day. Daniel leaves for work while Crystal heads out to drop the kids off at
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school. During those minutes, someone approaches the front door, tapes over the Ring doorbell camera, and slips
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inside the house. Minutes later, Crystal drives back home, pulls into the garage,
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and steps out of the car. She has no idea. Someone is waiting for her inside, and the moment she closes the car door,
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he attacks. The stalker strikes Crystal in the head, stabs her, and leaves her bleeding on
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the floor. After months of plotting, this is the moment he'd been waiting for. Later that morning, Daniel tries
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calling [music] Crystal from his office, but she doesn't answer or respond to texts.
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Hours pass and there's still no sign of her. So, Daniel finally decides to call police.
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>> Dispatch meeting. >> Uh, hi there. Uh, my name is Dan Krug. I don't think this is an emergency, but
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this feels really weird. Okay. >> Uh my wife isn't responding uh to text messages or phone calls.
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>> Okay. >> We've had threats against us. We have both been targeted uh by a stalker.
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>> Uh [music] threats have been made against my life. Okay. >> Uh and and threatening to like kidnap
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her, which is why I'm >> Yeah. >> nervous that she's not answering me. Within minutes of Daniel's call, an
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officer is dispatched to the Krug residence to check on Crystal. At the same time, Daniel also calls Crystal's
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mother, asking her to go check on her daughter, sending her straight into the worst moment of her life. While she
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makes her way there, the officer reaches the house first. >> Hello. >> Oh, I was just on their neighbor and
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they called, "Can you go see if she'll answer the >> Oh, yeah. He sent us as well. So
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>> just next door. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. Well, you got this. >> All righty, man. Appreciate it.
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The house looks quiet and the officer doesn't notice anything wrong from the outside. But before he clears the call
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and drives off, something nags at him. So, he brings his patrol car a little closer to check the garage where he's
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about to uncover a tragic, horrifying sight. As the officer leans in for a closer
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look, he spots a body lying on the floor, motionless with [music] blood smeared across the wall.
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151 send medical and 110. I need a 4 cent. I got a female down in the garage. >> Roomfield police. Romefield police.
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>> Oh [ __ ] [sighs] Holy [ __ ] The officer steps into the garage to find Crystal with what looks like a
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severe head injury. So, he immediately begins performing CPR, working on her for several moments with no success
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before opening the garage door to give medics access. But instead of paramedics, someone else soon arrives.
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>> Garage is open now. >> Hello. Hello, ma'am. >> I need you to stay out, please.
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Tragically, as the garage door is lifted to get [music] medics in, Crystal's mother catches a brief glimpse inside,
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just long enough to see an officer performing [music] CPR on her daughter. Before she can process what she's
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seeing, another officer quickly arrives to shield her from this nightmare. >> Pam,
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I need you to come over here for a minute, okay? So, we can work. I understand. I need you to come on over
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here. Okay. >> She's okay. >> I know. I know. Do me a favor. Go and sit inside so we can work on her. Okay.
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So, we can try to get her to help. Okay. What's your name? >> Linda. >> Linda. Okay. My name's Officer Zamora.
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Okay. I'll come out here. I'll give you some news as soon as I can. Please. >> I I have no idea just yet, but I know
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that they're working on her. The officer in there has been working CPR on her, and I think she's doing okay. Okay.
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>> He did. He's the [music] one that called us and let us know. Okay. Do go ahead.
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Take a seat for a minute. I'll be right back here. Okay. I need to dag out, man.
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She's got a head wound. I don't know if it's from falling [music] or something else, but probably falling, but I don't
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know, man. It's a good one. >> Said there was a stalker threatening to kidnap [music] her, so
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I don't know. >> Oh, she's not. >> No, she's unresponsive. >> Decent head where we have more room.
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While medics continue working on Crystal inside the garage, an officer stands outside reassuring a distressed woman
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who's just arrived. Unaware that this is Crystal's mother, she's shaken and terrified by the horrors she witnessed
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inside the garage. Linda would later learn that none of this was random, and finding her daughter like this was
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always [music] part of a twisted plan. Back inside the garage, medics keep working, still trying to revive Crystal,
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not yet aware of the fatal wound hidden beneath her clothing. >> Guys, you see anything other than a a
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fall type of wound? >> Look at this [ __ ] What's that? Gas on the chest. >> Oh [ __ ]
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>> Oh [ __ ] Yeah, that's a stab. >> Damn it. [sighs] >> Yeah, get it. Did you have you help?
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>> Her dispatch could tell us the husband called in to check on her. >> I don't know right now, but dispatch
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should have it. >> So, we have a visible stab wound, you guessed. Yes. >> Right above her right above her heart.
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>> Okay. Then let's [ __ ] >> We are ali. >> Gerine, are you good with this or are
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you >> How recent is this drama? This is >> husband said he couldn't reach her for
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transport. >> We don't know if it's within 10 minutes, man. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Husband has not been able to reach her
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by any means for a few hours. >> For a few hours. Yeah. >> Stab in the chest. Let Henry know that.
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>> Medics work for only a few minutes before realizing there's nothing more they can do. Beside Crystal's body
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tucked inside her purse, the officer notices a handgun she never even had time to reach for. With the immediate
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area secure, officers spread out throughout the house, searching every room for the attacker, but no one is
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inside. [music] And as officers step outside the home, they start noticing small details that don't line up with an
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impulsive crime. >> Yeah, I don't know the backstory. Husband said there was a >> a dude who's been stalking her and
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threatened to kidnap her >> and Martinez was involved and Martinez just said, "Hey, this is your big old
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>> I don't know, dude. I don't know the history on that part. >> Martinez does though and he said he's
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coming in. So other than that, we're just kind of securing the scene and waiting for detectives, you know.
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>> See what they need. Um >> I kicked that. Yeah, that's interesting. >> That is very interesting. Almost like
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dude might have stuck around from this way. And >> I wonder if maybe the door was unlocked.
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That's how he got in. >> Camera located on the back. Yeah. You know what, dude? >> Deadbolted when
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>> You know what? I don't know. I kicked it and it went pretty easy. So, I'm going
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to say no deadbolt. >> It wasn't deadbolted. It was just handle was locked. >> I saw her came around and booted it.
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>> Officers quickly confirmed the door was unlocked and a strip of blue tape had
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been placed over the Ring doorbell camera. Whoever did this clearly planned it and came prepared. As police continue
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searching the scene, more family members begin arriving one by one. Each of them
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unknowingly walking into the worst moment of their lives while officers prepare to deliver the news no family
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ever wants to hear. >> They revive her. >> I don't know anything just yet, ma'am. I
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don't know anything just yet. Are you >> so family friend? >> Family friend. >> Family friend from the blue house.
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>> Can we ask her to come knock on the door? >> Okay. Is her husband almost here?
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Is he gone? Is she gone? >> We want to give you guys all the information all together, okay? We don't
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want to have to repeat the information over and over for you guys to continue anything. So,
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>> he said he was on. [laughter] >> So, what did we do to her? >> They won't say they won't say
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figure it out. Oh my gosh. Who's in charge of the doctor? We can know what happened.
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>> Absolutely. And as soon as someone frees up who can tell you, I'll send him your
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way. Okay. >> Our son's on his way. >> Is this Is this your daughter, sir? Or your daughter-in-law?
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>> Those my daughter? >> This your daughter? And so her brother is on his way. >> Yeah.
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With Crystal's father and brother now at the scene, the weight of what's happened
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settles over the family, and it grows heavier by the minute. The only person missing is Crystal's husband, Daniel.
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The man who feared he wouldn't be able to protect her for weeks. Now he's on his way to find out those fears have
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come true. As they wait for him, detectives arrive at the scene and begin coordinating their next steps to hunt
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down whoever did this. Little do they know, the killer they're looking for is still in the area, much closer than they
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think. >> So, I pulled my car around to the garage just to see if her car was in the
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garage, and I immediately saw her at the base of the stairs, a blood smear on the
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wall, and I came around and booted the front door. It turns out it wasn't locked. There's also a piece of masking
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tape over the ring cabin. Almost like somebody approached from the side and taped it
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>> and then maybe she opened the door for somebody. >> First thing I noticed was an obvious
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head wound. They noticed after tearing the shirt and everything off. She got a good stab wound right [music]
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right there. So that's what we got. Husband should be here any minute. >> Okay. So I need another detective up
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here to start working with uh canvasing. I need you to stay here and Martinez is
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coming here. So, he'll be good >> with that. I want you and Martinez to work on this. I'm going to give
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>> Well, we got to be careful of We have to be careful. >> We don't know. Anybody that's here is still, [music]
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>> so we need to be sure that we stay focused on that. >> Yep. As investigators discuss plans to
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interview Crystal's family and her husband Daniel, he arrives on scene, cutting the conversation short. And
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right away, he makes it clear to everyone that he's nothing more than a devastated victim overwhelmed by what's
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happened to his wife. >> Okay, I need you to stay back, sir. >> My house. >> I understand. I need you to stay back
00:28:06
here. Family's over here. Family's over here. Oh woman, please. I know there's a lot of
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questions right now. Fortunately, we don't have a lot of answers for you, but [clears throat] I know what you want
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to do right now. together. >> Or could you have someone leave me over there? >> At this time, officers have no reason to
00:29:09
suspect Daniel of anything. So they treat him with care as he goes through this traumatic moment. But beneath that
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devastation lies a cold, heartless man because Daniel knows exactly [music] what happened inside that garage. And
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Daniel is the killer himself. Every tear and shaking breath is part of his act. One he will continue selling to
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police and Crystal's family standing just a few feet away. Oh my god. I didn't protect her.
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>> I was the person. >> Let them know about They're never going to talk to her. They're not going to say
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nobody says anything. We're just going to tell her we are going to tell her. >> We don't tell this is this is a family
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matter. We're just going to figure out a reunification. careful. So, make sure that she's
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>> As this tragedy unfolds, Crystal's mother embraces Daniel, trying to comfort him, having no idea the man
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she's holding is the one who murdered her daughter. Unfortunately for officers, the hardest part of the job
00:30:27
still isn't over. As the family grieavves [music] outside the home, a detective is sent to the school to pick
00:30:33
up Crystal's children, who still have no idea what happened to their mother. When
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the detective finds Crystal's eldest daughter, she's already shaken. She's been watching the live camera feed on
00:30:45
her phone and saw enough to know something terrible happened. But what she tells the detective next is what
00:30:51
truly alarms her. Her mother's stalker has been hinting at something far darker recently, and he might have deadly plans
00:30:59
for the rest of the family. >> My phone notified me on my house cameras [music] going off. There was police at
00:31:06
my house and an ambulance and there was there was a stretcher. I couldn't bring myself to see who was on the stretcher.
00:31:13
So, I called I called my mom and dad. My dad picks up and he's he's crying. >> They're they're probably about 7 minutes
00:31:20
away. Okay. Um I'm not going to lie. Something happened. Okay. That's why we That's why you're here. Okay.
00:31:26
>> Do you know what's going on? >> I do, but I can't I'm not going to tell you. Okay. Um because we're still
00:31:30
actively investigating what's going on out there. Um, so I don't want to give you wrong information. That's the last
00:31:36
thing I want to do. Okay. Um, what has been going on at home? >> Um, so this dude has been threatening my
00:31:44
mom. Um, stalking her, uh, taking photos of my dad, saying that he's going to kill him. Uh, he
00:31:53
>> who do we know who this person is? >> One of her ex. I don't know his name. >> Like an ex-boyfriend or
00:32:00
>> Yeah. Okay. Um, and they broke up a while ago and they ended it as friends. So, this has all come to a really big
00:32:08
shock to her. Um, and then so he's been contacting her from different numbers, sending pictures of my dad saying he's
00:32:17
going to kill them. He hasn't mentioned anything about me and my siblings yet, which is good. Um but he's like he
00:32:25
posted something to a website u trying to recruit guys to like help him with whatever plan he's doing. Um and then
00:32:32
he's like >> how did you guys learn about that? >> Um he's been contacting my mom through
00:32:37
all of this and so my mom has contacted the police and she has like a whole bunch of people on the case but the
00:32:43
thing is he's making it sound like she's helping him and she's not. And so >> helping him like try to kill your dad.
00:32:53
>> Yeah. And so like we're afraid that the police are going to turn on us. >> Okay.
00:32:58
>> And Okay. So she's been trying to protect herself. >> What Crystal's daughter reveals isn't
00:33:05
just alarming, it's sickening. Because this so-called stalker isn't just threatening the family, he's twisting
00:33:13
the narrative inside their home. He's making it look like Crystal was secretly working with him to kill Daniel,
00:33:19
manipulating the kids into believing their own mother is dangerous while positioning Daniel as the helpless
00:33:26
target who needs protection. To the kids, their mother starts to look untrustworthy. To detectives, Daniel
00:33:33
starts to look like a victim, and to the stalker, everything is going exactly according to plan. It's a disturbing,
00:33:41
genius level of premeditation carried out by a man willing to use anyone, even his own children. The detective logs
00:33:50
this information and coordinates with Crystal's sister-in-law, Kate, to get the children safely out of the school.
00:33:56
Back at the crime scene, detectives continue their work. They canvas the neighborhood, speak with neighbors, and
00:34:02
begin collecting every CCTV clip they can find to reconstruct the killer's movements. By this point, there's enough
00:34:08
evidence tying Crystal's ex-boyfriend, Anthony, to months of harassment, allowing police to obtain a nationwide
00:34:13
arrest warrant for stalking. Departments across the country are notified to be on
00:34:18
the lookout for him. Additionally, with a homicide on their hands and a killer on the loose, investigators can escalate
00:34:24
the case and issue exigent circumstance warrants to service providers to finally
00:34:28
speed up the digital data they've been waiting on. If Martinez received those files weeks earlier, things might have
00:34:34
been very different. In the meantime, Daniel, along with the rest of the family, is taken to the police station
00:34:41
for formal interviews. At this stage, it's standard procedure, and investigators are simply looking to
00:34:46
collect statements. But about 2 hours later, when detectives finally sit down with Daniel, his routine interview will
00:34:53
begin to take a very different turn. [music] So your your home security system, you access that through your personal
00:35:06
phone. Google Google Nest. >> It's Google Nest. Okay. >> Uh-huh. I see. >> Okay. Um just a home.
00:35:18
>> Home. Okay. So I have your permission to to operate this phone and get what we
00:35:22
need? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, so how many different cameras do you have? >> Floor. Um,
00:35:32
doorbell. Um, side of the house, driveway, back door. How long have you had it? A
00:35:42
couple years. The others all since September. Wait. We had a uh [snorts] we had an intruder. I I called the
00:35:56
police. He came when we had a garage intruder. >> A month after Daniel reported the garage
00:36:03
intruder back in September is when the stalking first began. And by then, the couple had already installed multiple
00:36:10
cameras around the house, plus their Ring doorbell. But even with all that security and after police confirmed they
00:36:16
had no GPS trackers on their cars, the stalker still found a way to follow them. Sending Crystal a photo of Daniel
00:36:23
walking into work and texting her about seeing her at the dentist. So, as the detective scrolls through the
00:36:28
surveillance footage to understand the timeline, he notices something strange that catches Daniel off guard.
00:36:36
>> So, when do your uh cameras go off? Do you ever have them set off? 24/7. >> Okay.
00:36:42
>> They don't turn off. You um if you lose internet or or in the app, you can turn them off.
00:36:52
And who has the ability to turn off the cameras? Who has the ability to go in the app and turn these off?
00:36:57
>> Uh Christile, me, and um um um >> It's all right. It's all right. Tal. Oh, damn it.
00:37:13
>> I can settings. Settings settings. Okay. >> Oh, just just just us. >> Just a guess. Okay.
00:37:21
>> The detective's question here isn't by chance. It's prompted by something peculiar he noticed on the surveillance
00:37:27
app. All of the home's cameras shut off at 8:15 a.m. and they stay off until 10:15 a.m. Only the camera pointed
00:37:38
outside the garage remains active during that entire 2-hour window. This instantly narrows the murder time frame
00:37:45
to those 2 hours. Just then, Martinez finally arrives at the interview room. He's the lead detective who's been
00:37:52
handling Crystal's stalking case for months. And now that case has become something far worse. He sits down with
00:37:58
her devastated husband, feeling the weight of the loss they both couldn't prevent. They didn't save Crystal. They
00:38:05
couldn't protect her. And now they're here mourning her loss, trying to piece together what happened.
00:38:15
It's not your fault. stupid. It's not your fault. >> I'm sorry I didn't answer. I actually
00:38:33
wasn't in today. >> Mhm. >> As Daniel breaks down, something catches Martinez's attention. Daniel is crying,
00:38:41
but there are no tears. The detective finds it strange and more than a little concerning. Wanting to probe deeper,
00:38:49
Martinez asks for a moment alone with Daniel to see what's really going on beneath the surface. And the moment he
00:38:55
starts asking questions, things get heated fast. >> I know you said that you don't think
00:39:04
that there was somebody else. She said, >> "Okay, why do you keep asking? I'm just trying
00:39:12
to put everything together to kind of get a bigger picture because you said that she's been acting kind of weird
00:39:18
lately and, you know, being very secretive and withholding of information for you. So, I'm just trying to
00:39:25
understand, I guess, so we can backtrack what she's been doing this past month. >> Martinez's question here is telling of
00:39:32
what he's thinking. He's not ruling out Daniel as a possible suspect. After all,
00:39:37
the couple were going through a separation period, and this is meant to probe whether jealousy or something else
00:39:43
could have played a role in Crystal's death. Sensing the tension in Daniel's response, the detective decides not to
00:39:49
press any further. But as they step out for a quick break, Daniel says something
00:39:54
that makes it obvious he struck a nerve. >> I've seen enough to the husband. I can't. After
00:40:04
detectives [music] collect the initial information from Daniel, his children finally arrive at the police department.
00:40:10
They still don't know what happened to their mother, only that something is very, very wrong. Daniel is notified of
00:40:18
their arrival and given a choice. Should he be the one to tell them or leave it to officers and Crystal's family?
00:40:25
Instead of letting someone else deliver the news, Daniel insists on telling them
00:40:30
himself. A decision that appears compassionate on the surface, but underneath it's a way for him to control
00:40:37
the narrative [music] and shape how his children see him, even in a moment of tragedy. Following this, investigators
00:40:46
sit down with Crystal's family to begin their interviews. And this is where things start to take a concerning turn.
00:40:52
Up until now, the case seems straightforward. Crystal has a stalker, her ex-boyfriend Anthony. That stalker
00:40:59
killed her. find Anthony and you find Crystal's killer. But once detectives start speaking to Crystal's parents,
00:41:06
brother, and sister-in-law, things become far more complicated. And what they learn next will force them to
00:41:12
reconsider everything they think they know about Crystal, her marriage, and even her stalker.
00:41:18
>> So, you're stating, I guess, of their It's the exhusband who's been kind of >> It's not about having a husband. It's a
00:41:27
it's an ex-boyfriend >> from when she was 18 years old. >> Okay. Gotcha. Can you think of anything
00:41:32
I guess recent? Is he reached out to you? Have you seen any >> No, he's never contacted me.
00:41:38
Told you that he had messaged her again 2 days ago or so. Let her know that uh he was ready to
00:41:47
come back and so she can go ahead and off her husband now. make it look a little bit like she was
00:41:55
in this whole deal with killing her husband, I guess. >> Kate, do you think there's anything
00:42:01
doesn't feel right, doesn't seem right, something that I don't know. You just feel like might be important to our
00:42:07
investigation. >> I don't know. Like I just I know that Christ was like very concerned and
00:42:13
worried about this guy and I just always felt like it was like there was something weird about it like but I
00:42:20
can't put my finger on it. I just feel like she had said that that it was like this Anthony guy that that it seemed
00:42:27
very different than past behavior in him, like that he was never sexual in the past and that these were like very
00:42:34
like hypersexual things. And so I think even at one point she was like questioning whether it was actually him.
00:42:43
I don't know if you necessarily know anything um in more about that, but they just also just kind of meant you guys
00:42:48
were kind of close and just see if you had some sort of [music] insight on that at all.
00:42:52
>> Insight on their marriage >> or just was there issues going on? Were they having problems? Was there, you
00:42:57
know, kind of anything? It was kind of >> She had shared with me that they had separated,
00:43:04
>> okay, >> but were still living together a year ago. And I had asked her if she over
00:43:10
text if she had um that she believed that it was Anthony, but she didn't believe at the time that I was asking
00:43:15
her that it was anybody but Anthony. She was fully convinced that it was Anthony.
00:43:19
>> Okay. >> My mom has always been like suspicious and I just like don't know where that
00:43:24
comes from. >> Okay. >> Um >> can you elaborate on that? Like suspicious how or >> my mom?
00:43:30
>> Yeah. >> Suspicious. I don't know cuz she like the difficulty finding Anthony like
00:43:37
why is it so hard to find Anthony? why can't there you know cell phone records or IP stuff or [music] so my mom had
00:43:44
that frustration and so I think her mind starts to wander towards like conspiracy
00:43:50
type things right of like oh maybe it's my husband or maybe it's Dan and and I I
00:43:56
don't know I don't see it there just because I don't know Dan just seems so incapable of doing something like that
00:44:03
to me >> why do you see that just >> I don't know I talked to him and him and I just hung out and tal talked for like
00:44:09
two hours and he was like very concerned about [music] like getting his family together and talking about being
00:44:14
vigilant but not paranoid. >> Even though Crystal's brother Lars sounds skeptical of his mother's
00:44:20
suspicions, she isn't exactly wrong as on the surface it makes no sense that Anthony couldn't be tracked down for
00:44:27
months. Lars would also go on to explain that Crystal and Daniel saw their marriage very differently. Crystal
00:44:33
wanted out, Daniel didn't. And the family seemed to view their relationship as dysfunctional but not violent. But
00:44:41
listening to these statements, one thing becomes very clear. Every family member
00:44:46
felt that something about the stalker was off. There was a shared intuition they couldn't quite articulate. And when
00:44:53
detectives sit down with Crystal's mother, she makes that suspicion very clear. Um I know you said and I kind of
00:45:00
learned on scene that um she was married, had three children. Her life was hell and slept months and last year.
00:45:09
[snorts] Her husband and her were not in good terms. He was in complete denial. She tell me how he was.
00:45:20
Did she ever give you insight on what kind of led her to feel like her marriage was over or it was explosive?
00:45:30
But I've never seen him, you know, hurt her. He would hurt the kids, but you know,
00:45:37
some people think the corporal punishment is paying the kids, but he would hurt the kids. She was
00:45:45
worried about that, but I don't want to say it again. But he was in she told me he was in
00:45:52
denial that she told him his marriage was over but she would stay until graduated. I have this I just got I
00:46:04
can't shake him. >> What's that feeling telling you? >> I just I can't I can't shake this
00:46:11
question. Is he the one that's been doing this with empty? Needless to say, hinting that Daniel might somehow be
00:46:18
involved with the stalker is an alarming accusation, and it makes things even more complicated for the detectives. At
00:46:24
this point, the family itself is split. [music] Crystal's brother, Lars, completely dismisses the idea that
00:46:31
Daniel could be involved, calling it nothing more than a conspiracy. But others felt that there was something off
00:46:36
about Anthony and the entire stalking agenda. With all statements collected, detectives wrap the family interviews
00:46:42
and regroup to make sense of everything they've gathered. By combining everything they've learned, detectives
00:46:48
[music] land on a clearer picture of where the investigation now stands. The family
00:46:52
interviews raised enough concern, and there was enough tension in the marriage that detectives decide they can't rule
00:46:58
out Daniel yet, and he officially becomes a potential suspect. But even with Daniel now on the radar, Anthony
00:47:04
remains as the obvious prime suspect in Crystal's homicide. His threats and weeksl long stalking campaign still
00:47:12
place him at the center of the investigation. With that in mind, detectives know their next move. It's
00:47:18
time to find Anthony. At around 3:00 p.m. that afternoon, police finally get their first real
00:47:24
break in months. After digging through everything they have on Anthony Holland, investigators land on a possible address
00:47:30
in Utah. Because they can't reach him themselves, Broomfield detectives coordinate with Utah County Sheriff's
00:47:36
Office, sharing his name, photo, and the address where he's believed to be staying. Up until now, Anthony has only
00:47:43
existed as a name in emails and threats. A distant figure who no one has actually
00:47:47
seen. So, when officers finally get a hit on his location, it becomes the first real chance to confront the man
00:47:54
they've been hunting for months. >> I'm going to ask you a couple names to see if you recognize any names. [music]
00:48:00
Okay. >> Do you have you ever heard of the name Crystal Krug? She may have been Grimsrod
00:48:06
when you knew her. >> Yeah. >> And do you know a Daniel Krug? >> No. >> No. How do you know Crystal?
00:48:13
>> She was an ex-girlfriend. >> She's an ex-girlfriend. >> How long's your ex? Like how long ago?
00:48:18
>> Um 1999. >> Oh, so like a like a long while ago. >> She's my very first girlfriend ever.
00:48:24
>> Oh, okay. >> Um when was the last time you talked to Crystal? Has it been a while a minute?
00:48:29
Um, it's been Yeah. >> Like since you moved from from Durango? >> Yeah. [clears throat]
00:48:35
>> Yeah. So that would have been what back in 2014? >> Yeah. >> Have you had any contact with anybody in
00:48:41
that area since? Anybody? Or have they contacted you at any time? >> No. >> I'm going to give you a phone number
00:48:49
>> and it's to a sergeant [music] with the Broomsfield Police Department. >> All right.
00:48:55
>> He would like you to reach out and talk to him. All right. Um, they have an incident. I don't know the full details
00:49:01
of their incident out there and so I'll let him talk to you about that aspect. Um, he had asked us to come out here to
00:49:07
your house uh and and talk with you. Um, they were debating on you do have an active warrant out of uh Broomsfield
00:49:18
Police Department. Um, and they were debating on if they were going to have us arrest you or not. They are not going
00:49:24
to have us arrest you on it. I'm going to advise you of the fact that you do have a warrant out of Colorado and you
00:49:29
can talk to this sergeant about the details of it, if that makes sense. >> As officers speak with Anthony, he
00:49:37
appears intoxicated and confused. After being briefed on the situation, he gives
00:49:41
his timeline, insisting he never left Utah and spent the morning with family nowhere near Colorado. Once they collect
00:49:49
Anony's statement, Utah officers leave to begin verifying every part of his story. In the meantime, detectives back
00:49:56
in Colorado regroup to reassess the investigation. With Anthony still denying involvement, Detective Martinez
00:50:02
turns back to the one angle he hasn't fully explored yet, Crystal's husband, Daniel. Since he never ruled out
00:50:10
jealousy or affairs as a possible motive, he decides to dig deeper into Daniel's past. And that's when he
00:50:16
stumbles onto something interesting and very unsettling. While searching old reports, Martinez finds a closed but
00:50:24
unresolved stalking complaint from years earlier. The victim who filed it is a woman named Carrie. And as it turns out,
00:50:32
she was Daniel's exgirlfriend. The more Martinez reviews, the more disturbing the pattern becomes. The
00:50:39
report claims she was stalked for weeks by an obsessed man who impersonated multiple people, manipulating her
00:50:45
through fake identities. Detectives quickly locate Carrie and bring her in for an interview. When they sit down
00:50:51
with her, they uncover a story so disturbingly similar to Crystal's, it opens up an entirely new theory.
00:50:59
>> I think it was, you know, like I said, a couple months I broke up, I broke up
00:51:03
with him a couple months into my freshman year. Um, and uh, he, you know, didn't he was pretty emotional, I would
00:51:12
say. um sort of desperation would maybe be a word I would use to describe after the
00:51:20
breakup of please don't do this kind of you know crying that sort of thing um that I can recall um and then I started
00:51:29
to get messages from um [clears throat] his roommate and that person's name is Tom um on AOL Instant Messenger um and I
00:51:38
know Tom is real because they were roommates if I called him. Um Tom would sometimes pick up the phone and they
00:51:45
each had a joint room and a joint phone. Tom, his role, I would say, was sort of
00:51:49
to gain sympathy um from me for Dan and continue to encourage me to communicate with Dan. There was perhaps some
00:52:00
indication that he was or was because of the breakup just really not doing well.
00:52:06
So I this, you know, made me keep communication up with Dan. And Tom ended up being Dan, right? So all these people
00:52:13
I'm going to tell you about end up being Dan Krug, not um Tom. Yeah. Even though
00:52:19
Tom is a real person. This is he was not sending me these messages. >> Suffice it to say, what Carrie tells
00:52:26
detectives sounds all too familiar. Everything she describes echoes the same pattern detectives have been seeing with
00:52:34
Crystal. But the parallels don't stop there. >> Things I remember is I we uh a group of
00:52:40
my friends from our dorm had met I don't even know how um some cadets from the Air Force Academy.
00:52:47
>> Sure. >> And so we all went to I think we went to a movie something super innocuous and
00:52:51
there was like a group of us. I must have told Dan about that. And I think it was 2 or 3 days later, I got a message
00:52:59
from someone named Nick Clark. And uh Nick basically said, "I'm a cadet at the Air Force Academy. I know you went out
00:53:07
with these people and I want you to know that he came back or these people came back and said that you slept with him.
00:53:14
So now there's this rumor going around the whole academy that you're an easy target kind of thing." Um and Nick I
00:53:20
think served the purpose of um sabotaging anyone I was meeting um if they were associated with the Air Force
00:53:28
Academy. >> Of course the person that I met and went to the movies with was like I want
00:53:33
nothing to do with you weirdo. And so shortly I I don't know a while after that I started actually more
00:53:40
seriously dating uh Air Force cadet named Mark Hansen. Then of course like Clark made a reappearance and I was
00:53:48
getting pretty consistent messages from him and so he um said you know we need to find out who's doing this and he got
00:53:55
me a meeting with the office of special investigations at the Air Force Academy.
00:53:59
I sat with them and they kind of laid the emails out on the table and they said, "We've had like a forensic
00:54:07
psychologist sort of professional look at all these emails." Um, and we've it's damn is what they said.
00:54:16
>> Carrie would go on to explain that despite their suspicions, there was never enough evidence tying Daniel back
00:54:22
to the messages she received. Then everything had been sent from a public library. And because of that, her
00:54:28
accusations remained just that, suspicions. But even without proof, the similarities between the two women's
00:54:36
experiences are impossible to ignore. And for the first time, detectives begin considering a fourth possibility they
00:54:44
never imagined. [music] What if Daniel has been playing everyone? What if he's been impersonating Anthony? What if he's
00:54:52
always been the architect behind the entire stalking campaign? Detective Martinez receives the intel
00:55:00
from Car's interview. And with that, Daniel officially becomes an equal prime suspect alongside Anthony. At this
00:55:08
point, the only thing that can give them [music] a definitive answer is the digital evidence. So, while they wait
00:55:14
for that, Martinez receives something he can work with immediately. The full set
00:55:19
of surveillance footage collected from the neighborhood and Daniel's workplace. Investigators sit down and begin
00:55:25
reconstructing the full picture of what happened before Crystal was killed. Shortly before 8:00 a.m., Crystal
00:55:33
arrives home after dropping off the kids. She pulls into the garage, closes the door, and everything looks normal.
00:55:41
Minutes later, at 8:15 a.m., the entire security system goes offline. [music] Every camera except the outside garage
00:55:50
camera is taken down for the next 2 hours. At 8:25 a.m., that lone camera records
00:55:57
something deeply concerning. Daniel leaves the house to go to work later than he normally does, and shortly after
00:56:05
the time medical examiners believe [music] Crystal was killed. From there, workplace footage shows Daniel moving
00:56:11
through the building around 9:00 a.m., greeting co-workers and appearing completely normal, as if nothing had
00:56:17
happened at home. And when investigators check footage from surrounding houses, they find no one approaching the
00:56:24
property all morning. Everything about the timeline makes Daniel look more suspicious by the
00:56:32
minute. With all these new developments, detectives bring Daniel back in for another interview. He walks in expecting
00:56:39
routine procedural follow-ups, completely unaware of how much has changed since the last time he sat in
00:56:46
this room. This is when Daniel's monthsl long, carefully crafted plan begins to crumble. This time, Detective Martinez
00:56:55
walks in with a completely different energy than before. He's no longer feeling Daniel out. He's here with one
00:57:02
clear objective. Confront him with what's been uncovered and see if his version of events finally breaks.
00:57:10
[snorts] >> All right. How you feeling right now? Just kind of about everything.
00:57:17
No, everything hurts. I don't feel anything. I I have two different voices going
00:57:25
through my head right now. I have uh my brother Matthew, again, I've mentioned him. He's
00:57:34
uh the sheriff's lieutenant, and I have his voice saying uh talk to the police. And a typical cop fashion married a
00:57:46
prosecutor. So I have Lynn's voice in my head going, "Get a [ __ ] lawyer. I just want this to be done. I want I
00:58:00
don't want I just don't want." Right away, Daniel doesn't open the interview casually. He opens it with a
00:58:07
calculated trick. By hinting at getting a lawyer, he's warning detectives. push too hard and this interview is over.
00:58:14
That's clever, but Martinez has a counter plan. Instead of confronting him, he'll pivot the conversation to his
00:58:19
relationship with Crystal, making it feel like safer ground to get Daniel comfortable and talking. But if Daniel
00:58:26
had any motive to take Crystal out of the picture, this is where it would surface. Well, I'm sure especially you
00:58:32
guys are trying to work together to be safe, keep your family safe, keep your as as dysfunctional as as it is, you
00:58:39
still both had the common goal of keeping keeping it safe, right? I had her as a
00:58:49
partner to protect the family, but it didn't feel like a partner who valued me. >> And I and I told her at that point, I
00:59:06
told her I didn't want to die for someone who didn't care about me anymore. >> That's really hard. I
00:59:15
was hurting when I said that. And what I wanted [music] was her to say she cared about me.
00:59:23
She didn't. Although Daniel is being honest about what was going on in their marriage, to detectives, moments like
00:59:30
this only add to their suspicions. Resentment, rejection, a failing marriage. These are all things that in
00:59:39
the wrong circumstances can turn into a motive. And this is exactly where the interview takes a sharp turn. What
00:59:46
Daniel doesn't know yet is that since his last interview, detectives received something they kept secret for this
00:59:53
exact moment. One of the tech companies finally responded to their urgent warrants and provided some of the
01:00:01
digital data they needed. And as it turns out, the emails the stalker had been sending, the messages that
01:00:08
terrorized Crystal for weeks were coming from somewhere much closer to home. >> One of the things that um we [music]
01:00:15
really started looking into today in an effort in effort to find Anthony is um the Gmail. So, some of that information
01:00:24
that we've been able to receive today is uh a little bit concerning. I guess >> the Gmail account, the kickman account
01:00:32
that you guys initially received with the photo of you in it. >> Uhhuh. >> And the the phone number, those
01:00:38
originated through their IP addresses. >> Uhhuh. >> At your office. >> Doesn't make any sense.
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>> Well, he took the photo of me at my office. >> Both of those accounts originated
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[music] from IP addresses that list back to your office. There are [music] wifi access
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throughout the facility for employees and there's public Wi-Fi access throughout the entire facility. Right
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now, we're working with the director to get all of the IP information to see what devices were using that [music]
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specific address during that time. Cuz I guess the biggest concern is just the timing of everything that it just
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doesn't [music] quite make sense to have somebody create an account, take a photo, and then immediately send it off
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and then the account is no longer being used. None of this makes any sense. Daniel
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looks thrown off, unsure where Martinez is going with this. The emails tied to the stalker connect back to Daniel's
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workplace, a detail he clearly didn't expect [music] detectives to know. He seems nervous, but still cooperative.
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So, detectives decide it's time to push further because they have something else
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they withheld from Daniel until now. During the investigation into Anony's alibi, officers in Utah forwarded
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something small but important. A timestamped shopping receipt placing Anthony in Utah that morning, miles away
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from Colorado at the time Crystal was killed. Martinez and his partner decide it's the perfect [music] time to see how
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Daniel reacts when they push him directly and force him to confront the possibility that he might be the
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stalker. Also, let's let's add on top of that the fact that there's as far as we
01:02:39
know right now, there's no physical way that that Kickman could have been involved in this based on where he's at
01:02:45
right now. So, you know, the the mystery continues and >> that has to things are certainly pointing in one
01:02:55
direction right now. >> Well, and you've given us reason. Here's the other thing, Daniel, is um I
01:03:01
sympathize with the fact that you're an ext you're in an extremely frustrating situation. I know you want to be a part
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of your kids' lives, but you can also sense that's why um we're asking all these questions
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>> about infidelity and everything else. Is there some other mystery man that we
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don't know about? I have been faithful. >> You know, Anthony has reached out to her
01:03:28
in the past number of times. She's open, >> right? The last time was 2016ish. He had
01:03:36
asked her at one point if she wanted to have sex. If there's any bit of question
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about infidelity, whether it's with Anthony or anybody else, we might create an account to see if Christile's
01:03:49
actually interested in Anthony. So, we ask her, push the bounds a little bit, and see if that will confirm our
01:03:56
suspicions of infidelity. You don't get the response and the openness you once did for about 28 days from October 2nd
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to October 31st. Do you amp it up a little bit? [music] Send a photo of yourself to her and an account you
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created. >> I I I get the narrative together, but it alleges that I would do this to my
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children. >> But I think ultimately what happened today um would bring you the closest to
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your children that you probably ever ever been in your mind. >> I'm well I'm very close to my children.
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and you're afraid to lose time with him if you get the divorce. >> Clearly, detectives managed to perfectly
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articulate Daniel's reality, one he may not have even fully admitted to [music] himself. He is a man so terrified of
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losing his children, so desperate to stay in control of his family that he would do anything if he felt it slipping
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away, even if it meant murder. The detective's brutal honesty leaves Daniel speechless. He doesn't argue or deny it.
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He just sits there in quiet resignation, wearing the look of someone who's realizing everyone can see straight
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through his lies. >> If you were watching these facts unfold in front of you in a movie, what would
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you say happened? >> There has to be someone else >> that was able to turn off the cameras,
01:05:22
that was able to use your IP address from your work to create accounts, to send messages and photos, to act as a a
01:05:29
stalking suspect. I don't know. I'm not the one who does this. I'm analytical at
01:05:34
work and I read and write fiction at home. I don't do I don't do crime drama. I don't know
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what any of this is. >> Kickman is 6 and 1/2 hour drive and then in fact he was contacted in his house
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severely intoxicated. There's no way he could have made that drive. all this time that we've been
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looking for him as a protection order and you just found him today like that. >> We've been chasing the wrong dog.
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>> It sounds like you're you're accused. >> We have a lot of information that points
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your direction [music] and we were hoping that you could provide explanation other than it wasn't me. I
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don't have a narrative or a story that I can offer you because I thought we were
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at the same time. >> What would you think or what would you say if uh we told you that other people
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you talked to that are close to your wife um expressed that she had maybe told them that she suspected you of
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having >> She said that right [music] to my face that she wanted to know if it was me and
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I told her no. But I think there's more to the story. Like I don't know. It just
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doesn't it it it's not adding up. I' I'd like to know what happened this this morning. I'd like to know um [music] too
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what what caused what caused you to get so upset to hurt your wife cuz I believe
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that's what happened. >> Well, I want to know what happened to her. >> We haven't been there to know. And
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there's only one person in [music] this room that can tell us. I think you you got confirmation or found [music] out
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that she had a boyfriend this morning or something happened that pissed you off and you did something that you regret
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now because you can't go back. I've answered all your questions, but I guess you have your theory. Please
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find the right one. You're done. As calm as he's been this entire interview, Daniel finally decides he's
01:07:42
had enough and drops the act. His story has crumbled. Detectives see straight through his lies, and he knows it. With
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nothing left to cling to, Daniel quietly asks for an attorney, and the interview
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comes to an end. Even though he continues insisting he's innocent, there's one detail Daniel admits on his
01:08:01
own. One no one even knew about until now. Crystal herself confronted him about being the stalker. Hearing that
01:08:10
from Daniel's own mouth hits Martinez hard, because to him, that sounds like the kind of confrontation that could
01:08:17
have pushed everything over the edge. But without hard proof, detectives can't yet say Daniel is truly responsible. So,
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with the interview over, Daniel is processed for physical evidence and escorted out of the police station. But
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before he leaves, he turns back and tells detectives one final thing. You don't believe that?
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Fine. Just don't stop looking elsewhere. Focus on me. Okay. Find find the [ __ ]
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Are you married? You have kids? Divorce right behind you. I don't care if you capture him. I just [ __ ] pay.
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He took my children's mother for Christmas. Over the next two days, the case becomes
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the department's top priority. Every available officer is working on it. And this is when the investigation finally
01:09:34
begins to break wide open. Officers in Utah finally finish verifying Anony's alibi. They find surveillance footage
01:09:42
showing him in Utah at the time of Crystal's murder, and there are no travel records or license plate pings
01:09:49
placing him anywhere near Colorado. Then the last of the digital evidence arrives, and this time it's
01:09:56
overwhelming. The burner phones used to send the threatening messages to Crystal
01:10:00
were purchased with a Visa gift card registered under Daniel Kug's name. And cell tower records show those burner
01:10:07
phones were always in the same location as Daniel's personal phone, meaning he was carrying both devices at the same
01:10:14
time. And then comes the final blow. Detectives uncovered Daniel's Google searches from the night before the
01:10:21
murder. How hard would you have to hit someone in the head to make them unconscious? When is a head injury a
01:10:27
cause for concern? Piece by piece, the picture comes together. There's no Anthony. There's no mysterious stalker.
01:10:35
It's always been just Daniel. Detectives now understand exactly what happened. Daniel created the entire stalking
01:10:43
persona in a twisted attempt to regain control of his failing marriage. And when Crystal began to suspect the truth,
01:10:50
Daniel killed her to cover it up. On December 16th, an arrest warrant is issued for Daniel Krug. Officers are
01:10:58
dispatched immediately, finding him on his way to his daughter's dance performance. As patrol units close in,
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Daniel's movements strike them as suspicious. He appears to be heading back towards his car, and officers
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believe he may be trying to get away. Get this. This is a detective unit, go on the island.
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>> Just get right. >> All right, we're coming up in front. Just get up and pump back.
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>> [ __ ] [ __ ] Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Just go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
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go. >> Show us your hands. >> Show us your hands. >> Hands on your feet. Hands on your feet.
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>> Hands on your feet. >> Hands on your feet. Under. Daniel Kug is taken into custody without
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incident. In the weeks that follow, police finish their work. The digital forensic evidence, the surveillance
01:11:59
timeline, the phone data, all of it leads back to the same person. Investigators become certain that Daniel
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Kug acted alone. He created a fake stalker, framed an ex-boyfriend, [music] manipulated his wife, his children, and
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law enforcement.