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00:00My name is John O'Hare. I am a police officer with the Broomfield Police Department.
00:12Officer, how did this case begin for you?
00:15On December 14th of 2023, I was dispatched to a welfare check at the Krug household.
00:23Broomfield dispatches meeting.
00:24Hi there. My name is Dan Krug.
00:26Dan Krug was calling and asked that we check on his wife, Christelle.
00:32My wife isn't responding to text messages or phone calls.
00:40Said that he had not been able to reach her for about three hours.
00:43We've had threats against us. We have both been targeted by a stalker.
00:49Dan said that this alleged stalker had made threats to both him and his wife, Christelle.
00:55Which is why I'm nervous that she's not answering me.
01:01The first thing I did was walk right to the front door.
01:05Kind of peek inside. Everything looked orderly, quiet.
01:09I gave it a wild knock.
01:12My thinking at the time was it's very possible she's not even home.
01:16So I wanted to see if I could peek into the garage.
01:21Quickly realized that I'm not tall enough to see in those windows.
01:24I went back to my patrol car and I pulled it into the driveway so that I could get my push bumper
01:33close to the garage and use it as a step up.
01:36I stepped up on it and looked in the window.
01:40I immediately see Christelle, apparently lifeless.
01:43She had some type of wound to the head.
01:461-51, send medical.
01:49I got a female down in the garage.
01:53Roadfield police!
01:54Roadfield police!
01:56Oh, f***!
01:59Immediately I just checked for any signs of life at that point.
02:02Does she have a pulse?
02:03She does not.
02:041-51.
02:05I immediately started CPR.
02:07There was a stab wound on her chest.
02:10Send the next unit emergent, please.
02:11As the paramedics arrived, I opened the garage door and a woman came up, and I believe this
02:18woman was Christelle's mother.
02:19I arrived.
02:20I need you to stay out, please.
02:22I said, that's my daughter.
02:24She came running up to me and said, Christelle is dead.
02:29It's just shocking.
02:30Oh, my God.
02:31Oh, my God.
02:32Oh, my God.
02:33Oh, my God.
02:33Oh, my God.
02:34Oh, my God.
02:34Oh, my God.
02:35You don't want that to be your reality.
02:37Oh, my God.
02:38This can't be true.
02:40This can't be true, can it?
02:42It was chaos.
02:45I heard screaming coming from the top of the hill.
02:49My house.
02:50Hey, stay back.
02:50Stay back.
02:51Stay back.
02:51Stay back.
02:51This is my house.
02:52I understand.
02:53They see a man come running down the hill.
02:57This is Dan.
02:59This is her husband.
03:05This man just lost his wife.
03:08And he is beside himself.
03:12I'm with Dan.
03:13And he's on the floor.
03:14And he's crying.
03:17They all just kind of said, I can't believe this happened.
03:19He did it.
03:20The stalker did it.
03:22We were on heightened alert.
03:24We were very, very concerned for Dan's safety.
03:26This is after Christelle was murdered.
03:28You're worried that Dan may be next in this stalker's sights.
03:32Correct.
03:33We thought Dan Krug was next.
03:35The community was very alarmed.
03:37Is this a murder scene?
03:39There's a killer out there, and we're going to go after him.
03:41We're going to go after him.
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03:57We're going to go after him.
03:59I don't know.
04:29it's a weird feeling standing there when somebody's being told i'm sorry but your loved one has died
04:38victims advocate heather aids is trained to comfort those
04:42in emotional agony like dan krug who dashed home from work and learned his wife christelle
04:48had been found murdered in their garage in suburban broomfield colorado on december 14 2023.
04:56this man has been going through a stalking case with his wife he's being stalked as well and now
05:03she's gone as investigators searched the crime scene for clues
05:11heather drove down to the police station an officer's body camera recorded the ride he was
05:17crouched over to the side of the passenger door and it was very much
05:27i'm comforting dan by rubbing his back dan and christelle had been married for 16 years
05:33the couple both 43 had three young children what did he say in the car in the car he was pretty
05:39focused on the kids he was very adamant about wanting to be the one to tell his children
05:45under the command of broomfield police chief ania hempelman investigators were doing everything
05:52in their power to find the killer we immediately started doing interviews talking to neighbors
05:59canvassing several hours had passed since dan krug's emotional ride to the police station he had
06:07settled down and he told detectives there was nothing out of the ordinary that morning mornings are
06:15very routine in the house he said they got the kids to school and christelle seemed fine when
06:23he left for his job at the colorado department of public health and environment while i was driving
06:30my my phone dinged
06:35dan said christelle texted him asking if he could pick up one of the kids after school
06:41but when he texted back and asked what time he said christelle never responded and that that was
06:49weird so weird so out of character for christelle dan called police and asked them to check on her
06:56i got a female down in the garage there are not words that can describe but what you feel as a parent
07:03at that point it's probably some parents worst nightmare
07:08these are some memories aren't they christelle's parents lars and linda grimsrud she was an engineer
07:17she had incredible skills in math sciences chemistry physics but she also had the talents in the arts
07:25she loved to just get out and live life throughout her life christelle spent countless hours working
07:31with her dad on classic muscle cars in his colorful garage
07:38her dad on the street we'd work on the cars we'd race the cars christelle always felt very comfortable
07:43coming over here if we needed to talk or whatever this is where we would sit and just enjoy each
07:48other's company but those fun casual conversations suddenly turned disturbing in the fall of 2023
07:57when christelle first told her father that she was living with intense fear
08:02she sat here and told me that she was being stalked and that just shocked me when i asked her
08:09well have you talked to the police christelle had called the police and met with broomfield detective
08:15andrew martinez she came into the interview room and just kind of took over and just told me
08:21everything without hesitation their conversation was recorded i keep trying to remind myself this is
08:27intending to be terrorizing this is intending to scare me christelle told martinez that on october 2nd 2023
08:35she received an unsettling text from someone named anthony who said he would be coming to the area
08:42and asked if christelle wanted to hook up and how does she respond to that she did not respond
08:50the following day christelle told martinez she got more texts from anthony that included obscenities
08:57and said you should kill yourself don't waste my time somebody wants to hook up now is saying go
09:03kill yourself how do you interpret that's that second text it's a pretty extreme reaction to not
09:10getting a response christelle told martinez she knew an anthony from her past anthony holland a boyfriend
09:18she dated for about a year after high school and into college the two broke up in the fall of 2000
09:26lars and linda say back then anthony made a good impression very friendly very courteous he always
09:34had good manners in 2002 out of the blue anthony contacted christelle according to christelle anthony
09:42never seemed to take no for an answer contacting her again in 2005 2010 and 2016 via facebook he's like
09:53we're meant to be together i said this is really creepy for me you need to stop christelle deleted
09:59facebook and thought she'd heard the last of anthony holland but then came the text in 2023 like this
10:06was alarming he's never said this kind of stuff to me before so over the next two months christelle
10:13said she received alarming message after message through text and email they included threats to her
10:19and dan including this disturbing photo of dan getting out of his car at work which prompted
10:26christelle to first come forward and call police a few days later this text to her saw you at dentist
10:35see you soon that suggests he might be surveilling them both right correct this now is escalating the
10:43harassment is just constant and she's just believing that every corner presents some sort of danger for
10:51her to gather evidence and locate anthony holland detective martinez was required to file search
10:58warrants with the phone and email companies a slow process getting that information takes time sometimes
11:05those companies are reluctant or they slow walk getting that information to you correct yes christelle had
11:11been searching for holland on her own she hired a private investigator and eventually located him living in
11:18utah about 500 miles away christelle shared her discovery with detective martinez who chose not to
11:27contact holland i explained to christelle that we wanted to gather as much evidence as possible and ideally
11:34obtain an arrest warrant so when law enforcement does go to anthony's door we can take him into custody
11:41and not have to walk away but laura says christelle had been losing patience with the investigation
11:48she made the comment that she felt uh they had abandoned her that they weren't doing things
11:54aggressively enough christelle had taken steps to protect herself and her family including installing
12:02security cameras and she was scared i said well this sounds serious enough that uh you need to start
12:08carrying you'll use one of my guns for for right now is this the very gun that that is the the actual gun
12:15that she initially then carried dan was also interviewed the threats were taking a toll on him as well
12:24i went to the grocery store briefly on tuesday and someone behind me dropped cam panicked
12:36so what am i doing i'm panicking
12:41and i'm doing a lot of protecting my wife
12:47so i'm not i'm not doing good dan told martinez the stalker had a nickname we call him kickman where'd
12:55that name come from kickman dan had told me was because the suspect email that was initially contacting
13:03christelle was a holland kicks at gmail.com as the weeks went by and martinez's investigation continued
13:14lars and linda say the constant threats were ruining their daughter's life it was just heartbreaking
13:20she was just in tears she was just like what am i going to do how am i going to live did she feel
13:26she was being hunted down by by anthony yes christelle also shared her fears with siblings jenna erickson
13:35and josh adamson she was terrified did she ever express to either of you the fear that this man
13:43i think is going to kill me yes she said it's either going to be me or him that's dead and i'm
13:49gonna do everything in my power to make sure it's not me when christelle krug was found dead in her
14:10garage detective martinez had only one suspect in mind my initial assumption was that anthony
14:17holland had gone to her home and murdered her within hours local police descended on holland's home
14:27in eagle mountain near salt lake city so you're alone in the house what do you hear pounding out
14:35the door like yeah big time so i go to the door i see like eight cops i had no idea what was going on
14:46where's your idea have you ever heard of the name crystal krug they asked me if i knew christelle
14:55krug and i told them i did know her she was my very first girlfriend ever when was the last time you
15:01talked to crystal has it been a minute um it's been a minute yeah when was the last time you had reached
15:08out to christelle it was around 2014 2016 anthony says he'd reached out to christelle on facebook
15:16years before what are you thinking why would they come all the way here to ask me about christelle
15:23i thought it was for that message where i said i missed her that's the only thing i could think
15:27of because i was like i haven't contacted her since then they didn't tell you that christelle krug
15:32had been murdered no they did not tell me police were there to gather information from their suspect
15:38not give it they asked me where was that day can i prove where i was anthony had made a purchase just
15:45hours earlier at a coal store near his home what'd you buy a sweatshirt this one right here and he still
15:52had the receipt the purchase was made at 12 16 p.m investigators say christelle was attacked around
16:018 a.m turns out that was one of the most important purchases you have ever made because it was my alibi
16:09because there's no way i could have made it from colorado back to utah to buy the sweatshirt it was an
16:18eight-hour drive anthony also showed police some of his employment records they proved he'd been in utah
16:26all along never traveling to colorado as the messages from christelle's stalker led cops to believe i had
16:34a bunch of receipts for my work showing the days that i worked and they took those took my receipt from
16:42coals and went to the squad car and made a phone call came back in and told me i was free to go
16:55back in colorado dan was still face to face with investigators he told them his theory of the crime
17:03so in my brain the story that i have is someone came to the door
17:08maybe she went outside to get a package
17:15and they must have come in and she's she's a fighter she's she is strong she would have fought
17:30earlier in the interview dan requested he tell the children what had happened to their mother
17:36your kids do not know yet okay are they here they're here arrive in the hall
17:46you want to tell them
17:53watching their response is just
17:57heartbreaking
18:00investigators were working every angle they checked those security cameras christelle had
18:05installed on the house the doorbell camera the side camera and the side house camera were all
18:12manually turned off except for that one nest camera near the garage police canvassed dan and christelle's
18:20neighbors in search of anything their home security cameras might have recorded i saw you had a ring
18:26doorbell camera you mind looking reviewing that oh goodness absolutely if possible you guys can review the
18:31the last three to five hours they also enlisted randy pilak a digital forensic examiner with the broomfield
18:39police department to take a closer look at those disturbing messages to christelle i think it was probably
18:46four hours five hours after the murder was reported to us now that the stalking case had become a murder
18:53status ipad guy in the ting LÃ oo but now that the weed had been detected from cd
18:59WhatsApp for dams later kita
19:02in the kollero
19:03and the windshield bulbs
19:04that hoped the landscaping
19:06is really which means that victims of anything like the terrified
19:07Jane
19:08both came back to the same ip address that IP address was the colorwhat department of public health and environment
19:149
19:15which is where dan worked
19:189
19:20the messages to christelle threatening her
19:23threatening her husband, had been sent using the Wi-Fi system at Dan's office.
19:30For the first time, detectives believed Christelle Stalker could be sitting right in front of them.
19:38Could he be her killer as well?
19:42The entire air was just kind of evacuated out of our investigations room,
19:47and we realized that we need to focus on Dan and where he's been and what he's been doing.
19:53Martinez, along with Detective Jennifer King Sullivan, confronted Dan.
20:23I'm terrified to bring my children home.
20:30What are you terrified of?
20:32If it wasn't him, then was it?
20:35But even as Dan claimed ignorance, the detective saw that his body language told a different story.
20:42What were you seeing with Dan?
20:45He took a defensive posture. He sat back in the couch a little bit.
20:50He crossed his arms.
20:52Kind of like, I have nothing to explain.
20:56I think his head is spinning, thinking about what else are they going to find.
21:01The mystery continues, and...
21:23If you were watching these facts unfold in front of you in a movie, what would you say happened?
21:34There has to be some of the points.
21:37Moments after detectives told Dan Krug they had eliminated Anthony Holland as a suspect,
21:44Dan calmly insisted he was not the one who stalked and murdered his wife, Christelle.
21:50I loved her.
21:52There has to be some of the points.
21:58But I don't know who that is.
22:02Martinez and King Sullivan didn't believe a word of it,
22:06and were struck by how stoic, how unmoved Dan was.
22:11He had no reaction, and really no explanation.
22:16Help me make sense of it.
22:17I don't know. I'm not the one who does this.
22:21I don't have a narrative or a story that I can offer you.
22:29Within minutes, Dan Krug had gone from sympathetic victim to murder suspect.
22:34I get the narrative you're putting together,
22:38but it alleges that I would do this to my children.
22:41It's a pretty frightening idea that the biggest threat to you and your safety
22:51is actually living in the same house as you.
22:54We need to process you for physical evidence, okay?
23:00He knows that we're on to him.
23:03We just didn't have enough evidence at that point to take him into custody.
23:06On his way out, Dan kept insisting the real killer was still on the loose,
23:13and he made a desperate plea.
23:15He took my children's mother for Christmas.
23:28They're never going to get over that.
23:31I don't care if you capture them.
23:33I don't care if you kill them.
23:35Find them.
23:37Don't just assume it's me.
23:39Keep looking.
23:40When did you find out that Dan was now a person of interest in this case?
23:46I think at his interview.
23:48So that same day when they held him, they held him pretty late.
23:54An autopsy revealed what happened to Christele.
23:58She had been attacked from behind with a blunt object.
24:02Bludgeoned to death in the head and rolled over and then stabbed in the heart.
24:06With Dan now the prime suspect,
24:11the detectives wanted to know more about his relationship with Christele.
24:16According to Christele's parents, it wasn't good.
24:19She said, well, I'm sleeping on the couch, Mom.
24:22But you knew there was trouble in paradise, right?
24:24Yeah, and especially in those last few months.
24:28Christele's family says those troubles were caused by Dan's fiery temper.
24:32What set him off?
24:33It could be anything, but it was usually if he was losing control.
24:39Christele's sister, Jenna Erickson, says she could always tell when Dan was angry.
24:44His face would get really red when he was getting frustrated.
24:48I vividly remember seeing his face get red.
24:51They had a thing where they'd go, okay, walk away.
24:54You need to walk away.
24:56And so, you know, they were trying to manage it.
24:59But in the weeks before her death, according to her parents, Christele was getting ready to leave Dan.
25:07She didn't want to have this marriage anymore.
25:09She had decided that she needed to get a divorce.
25:11As the detectives methodically built their case, more evidence was uncovered on Dan and Christele's cell phones by digital forensic expert Randy Pilak, including texts from the morning of the murder.
25:27So on Christele's phone, we see text messages to Lars, Detective Martinez, and then a text message to Dan.
25:35The one Dan said he received while driving to work about picking up one of the kids at school.
25:41But Pilak discovered those texts had been set on a timer.
25:45It was a new feature on the phone Christele had.
25:50Who do you believe pre-programmed those messages?
25:53Dan Crude.
25:55And he did it to do what?
25:57To hide his actions.
26:00Pilak says the messages were pre-programmed before Dan left the house.
26:06And we believe Christele was deceased.
26:08That, for him, then, would establish an alibi that, well, I had already left and my wife is alive, right?
26:15She's texting me.
26:16Correct.
26:17All while Dan casually arrived at work.
26:22Pilak discovered more damning evidence from Dan's phone.
26:27Internet searches like, what happens when you're knocked unconscious?
26:31Do people really go unconscious when hit in the head?
26:35And how hard for head trauma to go unconscious?
26:40All searches were the day before the murder.
26:42It was rather damning.
26:48Just two days after Christele had been murdered,
26:52Detectives Martinez and King Sullivan felt they had enough evidence
26:56to charge Dan Crude with stalking and murdering his wife.
27:02We began following him.
27:05Cutting up to the stop sign now.
27:07How many cars are we talking about?
27:09Probably eight cars.
27:11We're like, that's him.
27:12He's alone in the car.
27:13Hey, be ready to pop that once he gets it in the park.
27:15We follow him all the way to the grocery store.
27:17Falling into King Super's parking lot.
27:19We wait for him to park.
27:22We quickly converge on his car.
27:24Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
27:29Show us your hands!
27:30Hands on your face!
27:31Hands on your face!
27:32Hands on your face!
27:33So we surround him.
27:39Pull him out of his car and tell him he's being arrested for the murder of his wife.
27:43On the road.
27:44I asked him just one question.
27:55Do you want me to tell your kids that you killed their mother or do you want somebody else to?
28:00That's quite a line.
28:01That goes back to when he said he wanted to tell his kids that their mother was dead.
28:13After I asked that question, he just said that he wanted to speak with his attorney and then looked away from me.
28:21And I shut the door and he went to the county jail.
28:26Get one leg up and then kind of swing around.
28:29I felt a huge relief when they got him.
28:34It felt like a burden had been lifted that he had been arrested.
28:39And soon, Christiel's family would come face to face with the man detectives say murdered her.
28:46He looked right at me and smiled at me.
28:51And here, for the first time, Dan's side of the story.
28:55When Deputy District Attorneys Kate Armstrong and Stephanie Fritz were assigned to prosecute Daniel Krug,
29:22they say they were struck by his downright stupidity in believing he could get away with murdering his wife by impersonating her ex-boyfriend.
29:32The audacity with which he thought he could manipulate not only his family, his loved ones, but also the police department.
29:40And some of this is sophisticated, is it not?
29:44It's sophisticated, but not too sophisticated because we were able to figure it out.
29:49The trial began in April 2025.
29:56When he first came in, he smiled at me like he was saying, hey, thanks for being here for me.
30:03I believe my facial expression made it very clear that I was not on his side.
30:10The prosecution laid out Christiel's final hours of life for the jury.
30:15On December 14th of 2023, Christiel Krug started her day like any other day.
30:22She took her younger two children to school.
30:25And when she returned?
30:27Christiel pulled back into her garage.
30:30She gets out of the car when she is attacked from behind.
30:33And did she ever see him approaching, do you think, or was this an ambush?
30:37It was an ambush.
30:39She had two or three skull fractures.
30:42As she's laying on the floor bleeding, he pushes her over, gets over her and stabs her just above her heart.
30:49And why do you suppose he had to do that vicious last stab?
30:55I think it was rage.
30:56I think it was control and power that he wanted to exert over Christiel.
31:00Dan had been losing that control for a long time, say prosecutors.
31:06Their theory of the crime is that Dan sent Christiel those disturbing messages in an attempt to drive her closer to him and not leave,
31:17hoping she'd see him as her heroic protector.
31:20It was not working.
31:23The stalking was not leaving her back to him.
31:26I think it then turned to, I'm still losing her, kind of a, if I can't have you, nobody can.
31:35The prosecution says that in the last days of her life, Christiel had begun to suspect that her stalker was possibly her husband.
31:44We know from Dan's own interview that she confronted him and said, I can't rule you out as the stalker.
31:53She said that right to my face, that she wanted to know if it was me.
31:59And I told her.
32:00He felt the walls closing in.
32:02Closing in.
32:03He was going to lose Christiel anyway.
32:05He was going to be exposed as the stalker.
32:08So he did that last fatal act and murdered her.
32:11Prosecutors say Dan tried to outsmart investigators, pre-programming those text messages on Christiel's phone before he left the house, assuming he wouldn't be caught.
32:26Were we not able to discover that that was a delayed send text, it would have appeared as though Christiel was still alive when he left the house.
32:35At trial, the long list of digital evidence against Dan was laid out.
32:40The threatening texts, the emails, the internet searches, also included that photograph of Dan arriving at his office, attached to a menacing email seemingly sent by Anthony Holland to Christiel.
32:57But there was one problem, according to the state's digital expert.
33:02Who took this picture, do you believe?
33:04Dan. Dan took this picture.
33:05Pylak discovered that the phone, which snapped that photo, was in selfie mode, using a timer.
33:15A fact that Kate Armstrong reminded the jury about in her closing argument.
33:21That's when the judge allowed cameras into the courtroom.
33:24The phone was propped on the back of this vehicle next to him.
33:29The defendant took this photograph and then he sent it to his wife.
33:31We respectfully disagree with the prosecution in this case.
33:36Defense attorney Philip Geigel argued the murder investigation was poor.
33:41The blunt object used on Christiel's head and the knife used to stab her were never recovered by police.
33:49The defense also zeroed in on the fact that Christiel's phone was not tested for fingerprints or DNA.
33:56Why not the phone?
33:58The prosecution wants to believe, well, you know, there may not be a lot to be found there.
34:02Well, you won't know if you won't try.
34:04Geigel said other forensic tests supported his claim that Dan is innocent.
34:10They submitted the chest swabs and you know whose DNA wasn't there.
34:15The person who lived in the house, the person who ate in the kitchen with them, the person who shared the living room, that idiot right there.
34:23There is absolutely no physical evidence on Mr. Krug's clothing.
34:27There's no blood found on that car inside or out.
34:30It's searched three times.
34:34In week three of the trial, the jurors began deliberations.
34:39After a day and a half, verdicts were reached.
34:43Please rise for the jury.
34:45Judge Priscilla Lowe read the verdicts.
34:48We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree.
34:51We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of count number two, stalking, extreme emotional distress.
35:01Krug was also found guilty of stalking with credible threat and criminal impersonation.
35:07Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
35:10And at that point, I think I started breathing again.
35:13Krug was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the murder charge and an additional nine and a half years for the stalking and impersonation counts.
35:25But right after his conviction, in a video call from jail...
35:32How are you?
35:33Uh, been better.
35:36Daniel Krug told his family that the jury got it wrong, saying the real killer remained at large and that his children could be the next targets.
35:46I need them safe.
35:51I don't know where or who did this.
35:57Where he is or who he is.
36:00I need my children out of Colorado.
36:04As Daniel Krug began serving his life sentence, he continued making video calls to his parents and brother in the days immediately after his conviction.
36:31The man who viciously murdered his wife, terrorized his own children, and lied to everyone, was seeking sympathy from his side of the family.
36:42I'm probably sleeping like 16 hours a day because of the depression.
36:47I sleep, I read, and I cry.
36:49That's about it.
36:51Okay.
36:51Despite overwhelming digital evidence against him, Krug fell back to his old ways, lying to his loved ones, now claiming he was wrongly convicted.
37:03They never produced a single piece of hard evidence.
37:10His brother, Jeremy, gave Krug a much-needed reality check that the foundation of the family's loyalty had started to crack.
37:21Support is dwindling.
37:25You know, Mom and Dad want to believe you very much.
37:29I want to believe you very much.
37:31There's a lot that's come out.
37:32And as imaginative as I can be with finding explanations and ways to theorize how this or that could have been the reality, some of it is beyond even my creativity.
37:49The case that ended with a murder had begun with stalking and criminal impersonation of Anthony Holland, which begs the question, what if Detective Martinez had acted on the information Chris Steele and the private investigator had uncovered?
38:09They should have found me right away.
38:11They should have found me.
38:12They should have came to my house.
38:13They should have approached me.
38:14They should have talked to me.
38:16But Detective Martinez chose not to call, telling us he didn't have enough evidence to do so and was concerned a phone call could exacerbate the situation.
38:28Is this something where you've kicked yourself about this?
38:32This case has haunted me since it occurred.
38:38And the outcome of this case has haunted me for the past two years.
38:44And if you could get in a time machine, perhaps you make that call today.
38:49Absolutely.
38:50And Chris Steele's parents sympathize with Martinez and believe their daughter was doomed no matter what the outcome of his investigation.
39:02Inevitably, I think he was going to kill her.
39:04When someone sets their mind to do something like that, and that's what the plan was, I don't think that would have stopped the murder from happening.
39:14Chris Steele's death has left a hole in the lives of those who experienced her love and joy for life.
39:24I've had lots of other girlfriends, and I've never been in love with anybody else like her.
39:29She was the love of your life.
39:31Yeah.
39:33Jenna hopes her sister Chris Steele's story will serve as a cautionary tale.
39:38If it can help just one other person who's in a dangerous situation like she was in, that it gives them the strength to make a move.
39:47Because it can escalate, and it can escalate really, really fast.
39:53What was lost when she was taken from us?
39:59Her light, you know?
40:02Her light.
40:02That's a tough one to talk about, because there's so much.
40:14I wanted to jump out of that car and say, hey, bubba.
40:19Laura still passes his time restoring parts for vintage cars.
40:24That father-daughter hobby is now being passed down to Chris Steele's children.
40:30They're in here.
40:33They run that same electric screwdriver, and they can tear a carburetor apart.
40:37So in that way, you're honoring her memory, aren't you?
40:39Well, that's the whole idea.
40:40Yeah, yeah, that's the whole idea.
40:42She would get such a kick out of seeing the kids doing the stuff that she was involved in.
40:48I look at my grandkids, and I find a moment of peace, because I see her.
40:53That's the whole idea.
41:12Transcription by CastingWords
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