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00:00My name is John O'Hare. I am a police officer with the Broomfield Police Department.
00:07Officer, how did this case begin for you?
00:10On December 14th of 2023, I was dispatched to a welfare check at the Krug household.
00:18Broomfield dispatches meeting.
00:19Hi there. My name is Dan Krug.
00:22Dan Krug was calling and asked that we check on his wife, Christele.
00:26My wife isn't responding to text messages or phone calls.
00:35Said that he had not been able to reach her for about three hours.
00:38We've had threats against us. We have both been targeted by a stalker.
00:44Dan said that this alleged stalker had made threats to both him and his wife, Christele.
00:51Which is why I'm nervous that she's not answering me.
00:56The first thing I did was walk right to the front door.
01:00Kind of peek inside. Everything looked orderly, quiet.
01:04I gave it a wild knock.
01:07My thinking at the time was it's very possible she's not even home.
01:11So I wanted to see if I could peek into the garage.
01:16Quickly realized that I'm not tall enough to see in those windows.
01:19I went back to my patrol car and I pulled it into the driveway so that I could get my push bumper close to the garage and use it as a step up.
01:31I stepped up on it and looked in the window.
01:33I immediately see Christele apparently lifeless. She had some type of wound to the head.
01:411-51, send medical. I got a female down in the garage.
01:48Roquefield police! Roquefield police!
01:51Oh, f***!
01:54Immediately I just checked for any signs of life at that point.
01:57Does she have a pulse? She does not.
01:591-51.
02:00I immediately started CPR.
02:01There was a stab wound on her chest.
02:05Send the next unit an emergent, please.
02:06As the paramedics arrived, I opened the garage door and a woman came up and I believe this woman was Christele's mother.
02:14I arrived.
02:15I need you to stay out, please.
02:17I said, that's my daughter.
02:20She came running up to me and said, Christele is dead.
02:24It's just shocking.
02:25Oh, my God.
02:26I don't know.
02:27You don't want that to be your reality.
02:32Oh, my God.
02:33This can't be true.
02:35This can't be true, can it?
02:37It was chaos.
02:40I heard screaming coming from the top of the hill.
02:44My house.
02:45Hey, stay back.
02:45Stay back.
02:46Stay back.
02:46Stay back.
02:46This is my house.
02:47I understand.
02:48I see a man come running down the hill.
02:52This is Dan.
02:54This is her husband.
02:55Woo!
02:57This man just lost his wife.
03:03And he is beside himself.
03:07I'm with Dan and he's on the floor and he's crying.
03:12They all just kind of said, I can't believe this happened.
03:14He did it.
03:16The stalker did it.
03:18We were on heightened alert.
03:19We were very, very concerned for Dan's safety.
03:21This is after Christele was murdered.
03:23You're worried that Dan may be next in this stalker's sights.
03:27Correct.
03:28We thought Dan Krug was next.
03:30The community was very alarmed.
03:32Is this a murder scene?
03:34There's a killer out there and we're going to go after him.
04:06It's a weird feeling standing there when somebody's being told,
04:30I'm sorry, but your loved one has died.
04:32Victim's advocate Heather Aids is trained to comfort those in emotional agony,
04:38like Dan Krug, who dashed home from work and learned his wife, Chris Steele,
04:43had been found murdered in their garage in suburban Broomfield, Colorado, on December 14th, 2023.
04:52This man has been going through a stalking case with his wife. He's being stalked as well and now
04:58she's gone. As investigators searched the crime scene for clues,
05:06Heather drove Dan to the police station. An officer's body camera recorded the ride.
05:12He was crouched over to the side of the passenger door and it was very much
05:17I'm comforting Dan by rubbing his back. Dan and Chris Steele had been married for 16 years.
05:28The couple, both 43, had three young children. What did he say in the car? In the car, he was
05:34pretty focused on the kids. He was very adamant about wanting to be the one to tell his children.
05:40Under the command of Broomfield police chief, Ania Hempelman, investigators were doing everything in
05:47their power to find the killer. We immediately started doing interviews, talking to neighbors,
05:54canvassing. Several hours had passed since Dan Krug's emotional ride to the police station. He had
06:02settled down and he told detectives there was nothing out of the ordinary that morning.
06:08Mornings are very routine in the house. He said they got the kids to school,
06:16and Chris Steele seemed fine when he left for his job at the Colorado Department of Public Health
06:22and Environment. While I was driving, my phone dinged. Dan said Chris Steele texted him,
06:32asking if he could pick up one of the kids after school. But when he texted back and asked what time,
06:39he said Chris Steele never responded. And that, that was weird. So weird, so out of character for
06:47Chris Steele, Dan called police and asked them to check on her. I got a female down in the garage.
06:54There are not words that can describe what you feel as a parent at that point. It's probably some
07:02parents' worst nightmare. These are some memories aren't they? Chris Steele's parents, Lars and Linda
07:10Grimmsrud. She was an engineer. She had incredible skills in math, sciences, chemistry, physics, but she
07:18also had the talents in the arts. She loved to just get out and live life. Throughout her life,
07:24Chris Steele spent countless hours working with her dad on classic muscle cars in his colorful garage.
07:31We'd work on the cars. We'd race the cars. Chris Steele always felt very comfortable coming over here.
07:39If we needed to talk or whatever, this is where we would sit and just enjoy each other's company.
07:45But those fun, casual conversations suddenly turned disturbing in the fall of 2023,
07:52when Chris Steele first told her father that she was living with intense fear.
07:57She sat here and told me that she was being stalked. And that just shocked me when I asked her,
08:04well, have you talked to the police?
08:05Chris Steele had called the police and met with Broomfield detective Andrew Martinez.
08:11She came into the interview room and just kind of took over and just told me everything without hesitation.
08:19Their conversation was recorded.
08:21I keep trying to remind myself this is intending to be terrorizing. This is intending to scare me.
08:26Chris Steele told Martinez that on October 2nd, 2023, she received an unsettling text from someone
08:33named Anthony, who said he would be coming to the area and asked if Chris Steele wanted to hook up.
08:40And how does she respond to that? She did not respond.
08:45The following day, Chris Steele told Martinez she got more texts from Anthony that included obscenities
08:52and said, you should kill yourself. Don't waste my time.
08:56Somebody who wants to hook up now is saying, go kill yourself. How do you interpret that second text?
09:03It's a pretty extreme reaction to not getting a response.
09:06Chris Steele told Martinez she knew an Anthony from her past. Anthony Holland, a boyfriend she dated for
09:14about a year after high school and into college. The two broke up in the fall of 2000. Lars and Linda say
09:23back then, Anthony made a good impression. Very friendly, very courteous. He always had good manners.
09:30In 2002, out of the blue, Anthony contacted Chris Steele. According to Chris Steele, Anthony never
09:38seemed to take no for an answer, contacting her again in 2005, 2010, and 2016 via Facebook.
09:47He's like, we'll have to be together. I said, this is really creepy for me. You need to stop.
09:53Chris Steele deleted Facebook and thought she'd heard the last of Anthony Holland. But then came
09:58the texts in 2023. Like this was alarming. He's never said this kind of stuff to me before. So
10:06Over the next two months, Chris Steele said she received alarming message after message
10:11through text and email. They included threats to her and Dan, including this disturbing photo of Dan
10:18getting out of his car at work, which prompted Chris Steele to first come forward and call police.
10:25A few days later, this text to her, saw you at dentist. See you soon.
10:32That suggests he might be surveilling them both. Right? Correct.
10:35This now is escalating. The harassment is just constant. And she's just believing that every
10:43corner presents some sort of danger for her. To gather evidence and locate Anthony Holland,
10:50Detective Martinez was required to file search warrants with the phone and email companies. A slow
10:57process. Getting that information takes time. Sometimes those companies are reluctant or they
11:02slow walk getting that information to you, correct? Yes.
11:05Chris Steele had been searching for Holland on her own. She hired a private investigator and
11:11eventually located him living in Utah, about 500 miles away. Chris Steele shared her discovery with
11:19Detective Martinez, who chose not to contact Holland.
11:23I explained to Chris Steele that we wanted to gather as much evidence as possible and ideally
11:29obtain an arrest warrant. So when law enforcement does go to Anthony's door, we can take him into
11:35custody and not have to walk away. But Laura says Chris Steele had been losing patience with the
11:42investigation. She made the comment that she felt they had abandoned her, that they weren't doing
11:48things aggressively enough. Chris Steele had taken steps to protect herself and her family, including
11:56installing security cameras. She was scared. I said, well, this sounds serious enough that you need
12:03to start carrying. You'll use one of my guns for right now. Is this the very gun that she took with her?
12:08That is the actual gun that she initially then carried. Dan was also interviewed. The threats were
12:16taking a toll on him as well. I went to the grocery store briefly on Tuesday.
12:28And someone behind me dropped a can and I panicked. So what am I doing? I'm panicking.
12:37And I'm doing a lot of protecting my wife.
12:40Dan told Martinez the stalker had a nickname. We call him Kickman. Where'd that name come from?
12:51Kickman, Dan had told me, was because the suspect email that was initially contacting Chris Steele
12:59was ahollandkicks at gmail.com. As the weeks went by and Martinez's investigation continued,
13:09Lars and Linda say the constant threats were ruining their daughter's life.
13:14It was just heartbreaking. She was just in tears. She was just like, what am I going to do?
13:19How am I going to live? Did she feel she was being hunted down by Anthony? Yes.
13:26Chris Steele also shared her fears with siblings Jenna Erickson and Josh Adamson.
13:31She was terrified. Did she ever express to either of you the fear that this man,
13:38I think, is going to kill me? Yes. She said it's either going to be me or him
13:43that's dead. And I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure it's not me.
13:56When Chris Steele Krug was found dead in her garage, Detective Martinez had only one suspect in mind.
14:10My initial assumption was that Anthony Holland had gone to her home and murdered her.
14:16Within hours, local police descended on Holland's home in Eagle Mountain near Salt Lake City.
14:26So you're alone in the house. What do you hear?
14:29Pounding at the door. Like, big time. So I go to the door. I see like eight cops.
14:39I had no idea what was going on. Where's your ID at?
14:42It's in my room.
14:45Have you ever heard of the name Crystal Krug?
14:49They asked me if I knew Crystal Krug and I told them I did know her.
14:53She was my very first girlfriend ever. When was the last time you talked to Crystal?
14:57Has it been a minute? It's been a minute, yeah.
15:01When was the last time you had reached out to Chris Steele?
15:05It was around 2014, 2016.
15:08Anthony says he'd reached out to Chris Steele on Facebook years before.
15:13What are you thinking? Why would they come all the way here to ask me about Chris Steele?
15:18I thought it was for that message where I said I missed her.
15:21That's the only thing I could think of because I was like, I haven't contacted her since then.
15:24They didn't tell you that Chris Steele Krug had been murdered?
15:27No, they did not tell me.
15:29Police were there to gather information from their suspect, not give it.
15:34They asked me where I was that day. Can I prove where I was?
15:38Anthony had made a purchase just hours earlier at a coal store near his home.
15:43What'd you buy?
15:44A sweatshirt, this one right here.
15:46And he still had the receipt. The purchase was made at 12.16pm. Investigators say Chris Steele was attacked around 8am.
15:57Turns out that was one of the most important purchases you have ever made.
16:01Because it was my alibi. Because there's no way I could have made it from Colorado back to Utah to buy the sweatshirt. It was an eight hour drive.
16:14Anthony also showed police some of his employment records.
16:19They proved he'd been in Utah all along, never traveling to Colorado as the messages from Chris Steele's stalker led cops to believe.
16:28I had a bunch of receipts for my work, showing the days that I worked.
16:33And they took those, took my receipt from Kohl's, and went to the squad car and made a phone call.
16:42Came back in and told me I was free to go.
16:44You had a better day, okay?
16:50Back in Colorado, Dan was still face to face with investigators.
16:55He told them his theory of the crime.
16:58So, in my brain, the story that I have is someone came to the door.
17:05Maybe she went outside to get a package.
17:10And they must have come in.
17:14And she's, she's a fighter.
17:15She's, she's strong.
17:21She would have fought.
17:25Earlier in the interview, Dan requested he tell the children what had happened to their mother.
17:31Your kids do not know yet, okay?
17:34Are they here?
17:35They're here.
17:35They're right in the hall from the rest.
17:39I, I, I should tell them a joke.
17:41You want to tell them?
17:43I just don't know.
17:46Okay.
17:48Watching their response is just heartbreaking.
17:55Investigators were working every angle.
17:58They checked those security cameras Christeele had installed on the house.
18:02The doorbell camera, the side camera, and the side house camera were all manually turned off.
18:09Except for that one nest camera near the garage.
18:13Police canvassed Dan and Christeele's neighbors in search of anything their home security cameras
18:19might have recorded.
18:20I saw you had a ring doorbell camera.
18:21Do you mind reviewing that camera?
18:23Oh goodness, absolutely.
18:24If possible, you guys can review the last three to five hours.
18:28They also enlisted Randy Pilak, a digital forensic examiner with the Groomfield Police Department,
18:35to take a closer look at those disturbing messages to Christeele.
18:39I think it was probably four hours, five hours after the murder was reported to us.
18:46Now that the stalking case had become a murder investigation,
18:50Pilak was able to file new expedited requests for information.
18:54He quickly discovered that messages from two accounts used to harass Christeele had been sent
19:01from the same location.
19:03Both came back to the same IP address.
19:05That IP address was the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment,
19:09which is where Dan worked.
19:15The messages to Christeele threatening her, threatening her husband, had been sent using the wi-fi system
19:23at Dan's office.
19:26For the first time, detectives believed Christeele's stalker could be sitting right in front of them.
19:33Could he be her killer as well?
19:35The entire air was just kind of evacuated out of our investigations room,
19:42and we realized that we need to focus on Dan and where he's been and what he's been doing.
19:49Martinez, along with Detective Jennifer King Sullivan, confronted Dan.
19:54Who do you think killed her?
19:56I think it's Kate.
19:58I think it's Anthony.
20:00What if I told you better?
20:01We had already spoken with Anthony, and there's no way that he was in town today.
20:13And I have nothing.
20:15And I'm terrified to bring my children home.
20:25What are you terrified of?
20:27If it wasn't him, how was it?
20:29But even as Dan claimed ignorance, the detective saw that his body language told a different story.
20:37What were you seeing with Dan?
20:40He took a defensive posture.
20:41He sat back in the couch a little bit.
20:45He crossed his arms.
20:48Kind of like, I have nothing to explain.
20:51I think his head is spinning, thinking about what else are they going to find.
21:04The mystery continues at the end.
21:22If you were watching these facts unfold in front of you in a movie, what would you say happened?
21:26There has to be someone else.
21:32Moments after detectives told Dan Krug they had eliminated Anthony Holland as a suspect,
21:39Dan calmly insisted he was not the one who stalked and murdered his wife, Christelle.
21:45I loved her.
21:46There has to be someone else.
21:53But I don't know who that is.
21:57Martinez and King Sullivan didn't believe a word of it and were struck by how stoic, how unmoved Dan was.
22:06He had no reaction and really no explanation.
22:11Help me make sense of it.
22:13I don't know. I'm not the one who does this.
22:16I don't have a narrative or a story that I can offer you.
22:24Within minutes, Dan Krug had gone from sympathetic victim to murder suspect.
22:29I get the narrative you're putting together.
22:34But it alleges that I would do this to my children.
22:38I love and adore my children.
22:41It's a pretty frightening idea that the biggest threat to you and your safety is actually living
22:47in the same house as you.
22:50We need to process you for physical evidence, okay?
22:55He knows that we're on to him.
22:58We just didn't have enough evidence at that point to take him into custody.
23:01I walked down to the lobby.
23:03On his way out, Dan kept insisting the real killer was still on the loose.
23:08And he made a desperate plea.
23:10Might as well...
23:13He took my children's mother for Christmas.
23:20They're never going to get over that.
23:26I don't care if you capture him.
23:27I don't care if you kill him.
23:31Find him.
23:32Don't just assume this may keep looking.
23:35When did you find out that Dan was now a person of interest in this case?
23:41I think at his interview.
23:43So that same day when they held him, they held him pretty late.
23:47An autopsy revealed what happened to Christeele.
23:53She had been attacked from behind with a blunt object.
23:57Bludgeoned to death in the head and rolled over and then stabbed in the heart.
24:01With Dan now the prime suspect, the detectives wanted to know
24:08more about his relationship with Christeele.
24:11According to Christeele's parents, it wasn't good.
24:14She said, well, I'm sleeping on the couch, Mom.
24:17But you knew there was trouble in paradise, right?
24:19Yeah, and especially in those last few months.
24:22Christeele's family says those troubles were caused by Dan's fiery temper.
24:27What set him off?
24:28It could be anything, but it was usually if he was losing control.
24:34Christeele's sister, Jenna Erickson, says she could always tell when Dan was angry.
24:39His face would get really red when he was getting frustrated.
24:43I vividly remember seeing his face get red.
24:46They had a thing where they'd go, okay, walk away.
24:49You need to walk away.
24:51And so, you know, they were trying to manage it.
24:55But in the weeks before her death, according to her parents,
24:58Christeele was getting ready to leave Dan.
25:02She didn't want to have this marriage anymore.
25:04She had decided that she needed to get a divorce.
25:08As the detectives methodically built their case,
25:11more evidence was uncovered on Dan and Christeele's cell phones by digital forensic expert Randy
25:18Pilack, including texts from the morning of the murder.
25:22So on Christeele's phone, we see text messages to Lars, Detective Martinez,
25:27and then a text message to Dan.
25:29The one Dan said he received while driving to work about picking up one of the kids at school.
25:36But Pilack discovered those texts had been set on a timer.
25:41It was a new feature on the phone Christeele had.
25:44Who do you believe pre-programmed those messages?
25:48Uh, Dan Krug.
25:49And he did it to do what?
25:51To hide his actions.
25:54Pilack says the messages were pre-programmed before Dan left the house.
26:01And we believe Christeele was deceased.
26:03That for him then would establish an alibi that, well, I had already left and my wife is alive,
26:09right? She's texting me.
26:11Correct.
26:12All while Dan casually arrived at work.
26:17Pilack discovered more damning evidence from Dan's phone.
26:22Internet searches like, what happens when you're knocked unconscious?
26:26Do people really go unconscious when hit in the head?
26:30And how hard for head trauma to go unconscious?
26:35All searches were the day before the murder. It was rather damning.
26:44Just two days after Christeele had been murdered, detectives Martinez and King Sullivan
26:50felt they had enough evidence to charge Dan Krug with stalking and murdering his wife.
26:58We began following him.
26:59We're coming up to the stop site now.
27:01How many cars are we talking about?
27:04Probably eight cars.
27:06We're like, that's him. He's alone in the car.
27:07Hey, be ready to pop that once he gets it in the park.
27:10We follow him all the way to the grocery store.
27:12Pulling into King Super's parking lot.
27:15We wait for him to park.
27:17We quickly converge on his car.
27:19Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
27:24Show us your hands!
27:24Hands on your face!
27:25Show us your hands!
27:26Hands on your face!
27:27Hands on your face!
27:28Hands on your face!
27:30So we surround him.
27:34Pull him out of his car and tell him he's being arrested for the murder of his wife.
27:38I asked him just one question.
27:50Do you want me to tell your kids that you killed their mother or do you want somebody else to?
27:54That's quite a line.
27:57That goes back to when he said he wanted to tell his kids that their mother was dead.
28:08After I asked that question, he just said that he wanted to speak with his attorney and then
28:15looked away from me.
28:16All right.
28:18Good luck.
28:19And I shut the door and he went to the county jail.
28:21Get one leg up and then kind of swing around.
28:26I felt a huge relief.
28:28They got him.
28:29It felt like a burden had been lifted that he had been arrested.
28:34And soon, Christiel's family would come face to face with the man detectives say murdered her.
28:42He looked right at me and smiled at me.
28:46And here, for the first time, Dan's side of the story.
28:51When Deputy District Attorneys Kate Armstrong and Stephanie Fritz were assigned to prosecute
29:16Daniel Krug, they say they were struck by his downright stupidity in believing he could get
29:22away with murdering his wife by impersonating her ex-boyfriend.
29:28The audacity with which he thought he could manipulate not only his family, his loved ones,
29:33but also the police department.
29:35And some of this is sophisticated, is it not?
29:38It's sophisticated, but not too sophisticated because we were able to figure it out.
29:47The trial began in April 2025.
29:51When he first came in, he smiled at me like he was saying, hey, thanks for being here for me.
29:58I believe my facial expression made it very clear that I was not on his side.
30:05The prosecution laid out Christiel's final hours of life for the jury.
30:10On December 14th of 2023, Christiel Krug started her day like any other day.
30:17She took her younger two children to school.
30:20And when she returned?
30:22Christiel pulled back into her garage.
30:24She gets out of the car when she is attacked from behind.
30:27And did she ever see him approaching, do you think, or was this an ambush?
30:32It was an ambush. She had two or three skull fractures. As she's laying on the floor bleeding,
30:39he pushes her over, gets over her and stabs her just above her heart.
30:44And why do you suppose he had to do that vicious last stab?
30:49I think it was rage. I think it was control and power that he wanted to exert over Christiel.
30:56Dan had been losing that control for a long time, say prosecutors.
31:01Their theory of the crime is that Dan sent Christiel those disturbing messages
31:06in an attempt to drive her closer to him and not leave, hoping she'd see him as her heroic protector.
31:17It was not working. The stalking was not leading her back to him.
31:20I think it then turned to, I'm still losing her, kind of, if I can't have you, nobody can.
31:30The prosecution says that in the last days of her life,
31:34Christiel had begun to suspect that her stalker was possibly her husband.
31:42We know from Dan's own interview that she confronted him and said,
31:46I can't rule you out as the stalker. She said that right to my face.
31:51That she wanted to know if it was me. And I told her no.
31:55You felt the walls closing in? Closing in. He was going to lose Christiel anyway.
32:00He was going to be exposed as the stalker. So he did that last fatal act and murdered her.
32:07Prosecutors say Dan tried to outsmart investigators,
32:11pre-programming those text messages on Christiel's phone before he left the house,
32:17assuming he wouldn't be caught.
32:21Were we not able to discover that that was a delayed send text,
32:25it would have appeared as though Christiel was still alive when he left the house.
32:30At trial, the long list of digital evidence against Dan was laid out. The threatening texts,
32:37the emails, the internet searches. Also included, that photograph of Dan arriving at his office,
32:45attached to a menacing email seemingly sent by Anthony Holland to Christiel.
32:52But there was one problem, according to the state's digital expert.
32:56Who took this picture, do you believe? Dan. Dan took this picture.
33:03Pylak discovered that the phone, which snapped that photo, was in selfie mode, using a timer.
33:09A fact that Kate Armstrong reminded the jury about in her closing argument. That's when the judge
33:17allowed cameras into the courtroom. The phone was propped on the back of this vehicle next to him.
33:24The defendant took this photograph and then he sent it to his wife. We respectfully disagree
33:28with the prosecution in this case. Defense attorney Philip Geigel argued the murder investigation
33:35was poor. The blunt object used on Christiel's head and the knife used to stab her were never
33:41recovered by police. The defense also zeroed in on the fact that Christiel's phone was not tested for
33:49fingerprints or DNA. Why not the phone? The prosecution wants to believe, well, you know,
33:55there may not be a lot to be found there. Well, you won't know if you won't try. But Geigel said
34:00other forensic tests supported his claim that Dan is innocent. They submitted the chest swabs and you
34:08know whose DNA wasn't there. The person who lived in the house, the person who ate in the kitchen with
34:14them, the person who shared the living room, that idiot right there. There is absolutely no physical
34:20evidence on Mr. Krug's clothing. There's no blood found on that car inside or out. It searched three times.
34:26In week three of the trial, the jurors began deliberations. After a day and a half,
34:35verdicts were reached. Please rise for the jury. Judge Priscilla Lowe read the verdicts. We,
34:43the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree.
34:48We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of count number two, stalking extreme emotional distress.
34:54Krug was also found guilty of stalking with credible threat and criminal impersonation.
35:02Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. And at that point, I think I started breathing again.
35:08Krug was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the murder charge and
35:15an additional nine and a half years for the stalking and impersonation counts.
35:20But right after his conviction, in a video call from jail, Daniel Krug told his family that the jury
35:34got it wrong, saying the real killer remained at large and that his children could be the next targets.
35:42I need them safe. I don't know where or who did this, where he is or who he is.
35:54As Daniel Krug began serving his life sentence, he continued making video calls to his parents and
36:22brother in the days immediately after his conviction. The man who viciously murdered his wife,
36:30terrorized his own children and lied to everyone, was seeking sympathy from his side of the family.
36:37I'm probably sleeping like 16 hours a day because of the depression.
36:41Despite overwhelming digital evidence against him, Krug fell back to his old ways,
36:53lying to his loved ones, now claiming he was wrongly convicted.
36:58They never produced a single piece of hard evidence.
37:05His brother, Jeremy, gave Krug a much needed reality check that the foundation of the family's
37:13loyalty had started to crack. Support is dwindling.
37:21You know, mom and dad want to believe you very much. I want to believe you very much.
37:25There's a lot that's come out. And as imaginative as I can be with finding explanations and ways to
37:37theorize how this or that could have been the reality, some of it is beyond even my creativity.
37:48The case that ended with a murder had begun with stalking
37:51and criminal impersonation of Anthony Holland, which begs the question,
37:57what if Detective Martinez had acted on the information
38:00Cristio and the private investigator had uncovered?
38:04They should have found me right away.
38:06They should have found me. They should have came to my house.
38:08They should have approached me. They should have talked to me.
38:12But Detective Martinez chose not to call, telling us he didn't have enough evidence to do so
38:18and was concerned a phone call could exacerbate the situation.
38:24Is this something where you've kicked yourself about this?
38:27This case has haunted me since it occurred. And the outcome of this case has haunted me for
38:37the past two years.
38:40And if you could get in a time machine, perhaps you make that call today?
38:43Absolutely.
38:44And Cristio's parents sympathize with Martinez and believe their daughter was doomed,
38:52no matter what the outcome of his investigation.
38:57Inevitably, I think he was going to kill her.
39:02When someone sets their mind to do something like that, and that's what the plan was,
39:06I don't think that would have stopped the murder from happening.
39:09Cristio's death has left a hole in the lives of those who experienced her love and joy for life.
39:19I've had lots of other girlfriends, and I've never been in love with anybody else like her.
39:24She was the love of your life?
39:25Yeah.
39:28Jenna hopes her sister Cristio's story will serve as a cautionary tale.
39:33If it can help just one other person who's in a dangerous situation like she was in,
39:40that it gives them the strength to make a move because it can escalate and it can escalate really,
39:46really fast.
39:49What was lost when she was taken from us?
39:52That's a tough one to talk about because there's so much.
40:09I wanted to jump out of that car and say, hey, Papa.
40:15Laura still passes his time restoring parts for vintage cars.
40:20That father-daughter hobby is now being passed down to Cristio's children.
40:27They're in here. They run that same electric screwdriver and they can tear a carburetor apart.
40:32So in that way, you're honoring her memory, aren't you?
40:34Well, that's the whole idea. Yeah, yeah, that's the whole idea.
40:37She would get such a kick out of seeing the kids doing the stuff that she was involved in.
40:43I look at my grandkids and I find a moment of peace because I see her.
41:10Transcription by CastingWords
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