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How Police Captured Colorado's Smartest Killer · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: This is the mother of forty three year old Crystal Krug.
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  Speaker 1: In a few seconds, she's going to find Crystal's lifeless
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  Speaker 1: body inside this very garage. And this is Daniel Krugg,
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  Speaker 1: the man who killed her. He's heading in for another
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  Speaker 1: normal workday, just minutes after leaving his wife's lifeless body
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  Speaker 1: hidden in the garage of their own home sit For
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  Speaker 1: the last four months, this man has been engineering the
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  Speaker 1: most calculated homicide plot Colorado has ever seen, creating fake identities,
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  Speaker 1: manipulating Crystal's children, and setting up the perfect scapegoat to
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  Speaker 1: take the blame. He believes his plan is bulletproof that
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  Speaker 1: police will spend weeks chasing a ghost and eventually arrests
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  Speaker 1: someone else for the murder he committed, and despite nearly
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  Speaker 1: perfect detective work, his plan works exactly the way he intended.
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  Speaker 2: My husband said there was a dude who's been stalking
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  Speaker 2: her and threatened to kidnap her.
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  Speaker 3: True, I was a postpact. Still, yeah, that's to make
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  Speaker 3: sure I kind of have an idea what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: This is Crystal Krug months before her murder. She lives
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  Speaker 1: here with her husband, Daniel Krugg, and their three children,
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  Speaker 1: both Crystal and her husband are well educated and seem
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  Speaker 1: to have built a comfortable life together with their kids.
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  Speaker 1: But behind closed doors, something dark is happening that will
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  Speaker 1: destroy this beautiful family, all because Crystal has been dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a stalker obsessed with her, sending her constant threats
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  Speaker 1: and claiming to watch her every move. This officer is
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  Speaker 1: here to check her car for GPS trackers or anything
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  Speaker 1: that could explain how this stalker keeps finding her. In reality,
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  Speaker 1: the stalker is much closer than anyone could have imagined.
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  Speaker 4: You can see it's all of the dirty Seconds club marks,
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  Speaker 4: But on my street looks like this Altech. There's no
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  Speaker 4: one out like I know the normal cars, so I
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  Speaker 4: don't know where he stalled her from Holy Sumer tracker.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing jumps, and it's just to test me.
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  Speaker 1: The officer continues searching the vehicle top to bottom, but
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  Speaker 1: finds nothing suspicious, so before leaving, he offers Crystal a
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  Speaker 1: few safety recommendations and re assures her that they'll keep
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  Speaker 1: looking into her case. Not long in the course of
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  Speaker 1: the investigation, Broomfield Police receive another call, this time from
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  Speaker 1: Crystal's husband Daniel, reporting a break in at his home.
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  Speaker 1: An officer is dispatched to check things out. Unknowingly, this
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  Speaker 1: encounter will be the start of one of the most
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  Speaker 1: calculated murders the United States has ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: How's the go ahead?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, I'm awesome, johncey.
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  Speaker 3: I'm damned nice to Meetia Johnson, ask Mitya.
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  Speaker 7: So as I pulled in, I saw someone run out,
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  Speaker 7: jump over my gate and take.
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  Speaker 8: Off that way.
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  Speaker 9: Got it.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't think call you until my my wife got
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  Speaker 7: home recently and we realized the spare key that we
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  Speaker 7: keep in the garage isn't there, okay.
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  Speaker 1: According to Daniel, the only thing that's gone is their
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  Speaker 1: spare house key. If someone stole that, it means they
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  Speaker 1: aren't done and might have plays to come back at
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  Speaker 1: some point. The officer advises Daniel to change their locks
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  Speaker 1: immediately while police look into who this intruder might be.
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  Speaker 1: What no one realizes tonight is that this is no
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  Speaker 1: random incident. It's the opening move in a plan that's
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  Speaker 1: been forming for months, and this break in is just
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  Speaker 1: step one. Nine days after Daniel reports the break in,
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Crystal, wakes up to another uneasy morning. For
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  Speaker 1: weeks now, she's been receiving strange, anonymous messages, and a
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  Speaker 1: growing sense that someone out there has an eye on her.
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  Speaker 1: Until now, none of it had a name attached, but
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  Speaker 1: a faceless presence that kept getting closer. But today that changes.
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  Speaker 1: As Crystal gets the kids ready for school, makes her
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  Speaker 1: morning coffee, and heads out for work, her phone buzzes.
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  Speaker 1: She glances at the screen and sees a name she
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  Speaker 1: hasn't thought about in more than twenty years. Jack An
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  Speaker 1: me Holland, a man she dated briefly as a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: The message is short, crude, completely out of nowhere. Hi, Crystal,
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  Speaker 1: It's Anthony Hope. It's okay. I looked you up. I
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  Speaker 1: go to Boulder every few weeks and thought we can
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  Speaker 1: hook up you game. At first, she didn't think much
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  Speaker 1: of it. The two last spoke years ago, and even
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  Speaker 1: then he was harmless. So she ignores it and moves on.
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  Speaker 1: But the next day everything changes. Are you there? You
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  Speaker 1: should say yes when I offer pity whatever. I saw
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  Speaker 1: your pigs, you got fat? You should herself saw you
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  Speaker 1: at the dentist today. Your license plate expired. Got to
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  Speaker 1: fix that. Suddenly, Crystal's fear becomes reality, and she begins
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  Speaker 1: living with the terrifying possibility that she's being watched, and
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  Speaker 1: now she's certain Anthony is the one who's been harassing
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  Speaker 1: her for weeks, she becomes hypervigilant, installs cameras around the home,
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  Speaker 1: dash cams in her car, and starts carrying a concealed
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  Speaker 1: handgun everywhere she goes. By late October, Crystal's barely sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: She keeps a spreadsheet of her stalker log, documenting every
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  Speaker 1: message she gets. Then, almost a month later, a new
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  Speaker 1: email from Anthony confirms her worst fears. This your husband
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  Speaker 1: drives like slow, old lady. He needs to drive safe.
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  Speaker 1: The email comes with an attached photo showing her husband Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: at his workplace. Now the stalker isn't just targeting Crystal,
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  Speaker 1: He's coming after her family. Crystal realizes she can't handle
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  Speaker 1: this alone, so she hires a private investigator to track
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  Speaker 1: down Anthony's addresses and digital history. Then on Halloween night,
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  Speaker 1: she calls the police.
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  Speaker 3: So how can I hope you tonight? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: YEA?
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  Speaker 10: So I have an ex from a very long time
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  Speaker 10: ago who has occasionally down me on social media and
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  Speaker 10: it's never been an issue this month, So this month
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  Speaker 10: I have received more text messages and then today I
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  Speaker 10: got an email that is very threatening and it escalated
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  Speaker 10: to the point that he took a recent picture of
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  Speaker 10: my husband at his work location.
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  Speaker 3: So the stocking is getting a little.
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  Speaker 10: Too aggressive at this sporting times. So my last contact
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  Speaker 10: with this individual was five years ago, where I told
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  Speaker 10: him I was happily married. I had no interest in
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  Speaker 10: what he kept contacting me. He kind of blew things
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  Speaker 10: up and then blocked me. I blocked him. Haven't heard
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  Speaker 10: from him since.
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  Speaker 1: After explaining everything to the officer, she documents each detail
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  Speaker 1: and forwards the case to the department's investigative unit. Within hours,
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  Speaker 1: the file lands on the desk of Detective Andrew Martinez,
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  Speaker 1: a seasoned investigator who's worked some of Broomfield's toughest cases,
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  Speaker 1: including abductions and violent crimes. Martinez schedules a formal meeting
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  Speaker 1: with Crystal for the following week, hoping to get a
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  Speaker 1: clearer picture of what exactly is happening and who this
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  Speaker 1: anthony really is. When she sits down with Martinez, the
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  Speaker 1: situation has already escalated far beyond what Crystal first reported.
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  Speaker 11: So, I mean, like he saw like full pictures of
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  Speaker 11: my family, of my kids, Like I locked up quote
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  Speaker 11: all real fast after this, because it was pretty learning
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  Speaker 11: right where he's like, we'll have to be together and
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  Speaker 11: my family loves that we're talking.
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  Speaker 12: And I'm like, whoah, you think that we're like in
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  Speaker 12: our relationship, so I shouldn't down real herd.
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  Speaker 8: So this is really creepy for me. You need to stop.
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  Speaker 12: And he got like real emotional and then blocked me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, good, and I watched him and I'm.
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  Speaker 12: Like and then I shut down Facebook entirely. The one
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  Speaker 12: development that I have. I did get the full blown
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  Speaker 12: report from the PI problem, and you'll see this in
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  Speaker 12: this report. There are tons of phone numbers associated with him.
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  Speaker 12: There are tons of addresses. He moves everywhere and between
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  Speaker 12: like three different states.
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  Speaker 1: As Crystal walks the detective through her evidence, too, details
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  Speaker 1: immediately stand out. First, her stalker isn't just texting her
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  Speaker 1: from random numbers. He's using multiple phone lines and different
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  Speaker 1: her digital identities, finding ways to reach her even after
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  Speaker 1: she changes her information. Whoever this is, they're persistent, resourceful,
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  Speaker 1: and frighteningly determined. Second, her ex boyfriend, Anthony Holland is
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  Speaker 1: tied to several addresses and multiple phone numbers, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: instability or an attempt to stay off the grid. It
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  Speaker 1: convinces Martinez that Crystal is dealing with someone who either
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to be found or someone who's planning something
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  Speaker 1: far worse. With all of this in mind, Martinez wraps
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  Speaker 1: the interview with Crystal and begins the digital side of
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. He sends warrants to service providers requesting phone records,
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  Speaker 1: email logs, and account information to track down the stalker.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Martinez, these companies will make a mistake that
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  Speaker 1: will soon prove deadly. While waiting for the digital evidence
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  Speaker 1: to come back, Martinez decides to follow up on something else,
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  Speaker 1: the garage break in Daniel reported back in September, when
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  Speaker 1: a stranger supposedly stole their spare house key. He brings
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  Speaker 1: Daniel in for a formal interview, wanting to know whether
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  Speaker 1: he's noticed anyone following him. But instead of clarifying things,
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  Speaker 1: Martinez is about to learn something far more unsettling about
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  Speaker 1: the Krug household. But before we get to that, twenty
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  Speaker 1: Daniel's interview, where the detective is about to learn something
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  Speaker 13: And I guess, at what point did she tell you
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  Speaker 13: that he recontacted her this last time?
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  Speaker 14: It is either November one or November sec it was
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  Speaker 14: it was after she had gone a picture of me
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  Speaker 14: at work as.
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  Speaker 8: She brought me up to speed on.
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  Speaker 13: That DUTCHA okay, And the first contact that he initially
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  Speaker 13: made with her was back on October second.
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  Speaker 8: I guess why that month gap?
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  Speaker 15: Do you think before she told you, I'm sure she
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  Speaker 15: has mentioned to you that she and I are going
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  Speaker 15: through a rough patch kind of on the rocks, so
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  Speaker 15: probably didn't seem.
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  Speaker 8: That pressing.
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  Speaker 13: Until it was sure, And she didn't mention that to
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  Speaker 13: me that you guys were having a rough time. Currently,
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  Speaker 13: you guys in the process of separating, getting divorced, or
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  Speaker 13: working through things.
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  Speaker 8: Should be determined.
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  Speaker 7: My my brother Matthew is a cop, so I have
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  Speaker 7: a retractable ass steal biton.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I said, not right now, but otherwise it's on
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  Speaker 14: me all the time.
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  Speaker 8: I sleep with it next to me. I've bought some
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  Speaker 8: additional security cameras in the house. So what am I doing.
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  Speaker 7: I'm panicking and I'm doing a shit talk protecting my wife.
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  Speaker 13: So I'm not doing you can see that. So with
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  Speaker 13: that being I know that Christilee. We put her car
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  Speaker 13: on a lift on Tuesday afternoon to see if there's
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  Speaker 13: any sort of GPS tracking or anything like that. We
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  Speaker 13: couldn't find anything on a car. If Anthony is watching, you, guys,
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  Speaker 13: it's going to be in person, from a distance or
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  Speaker 13: nearby or however. So that poses an interesting issue in
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  Speaker 13: of itself.
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  Speaker 1: From Daniel's reactions, it's clear that stalking is taking a
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  Speaker 1: toll on him too. His wife is terrified, his family
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  Speaker 1: feels hunted, and he's struggling to understand how any of
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  Speaker 1: this is happening. Detective Martinez wraps up the interview, but
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  Speaker 1: something Daniel said lingers in the back of his mind.
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  Speaker 1: He revealed that he didn't know about the stalking for
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  Speaker 1: almost a month, not until Krystal finally showed him the
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  Speaker 1: email with the photo taken outside his workplates. So Martinez
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  Speaker 1: decides to look deeper into the family dynamic, and what
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  Speaker 1: he finds is concerning. He learns that the couple have
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  Speaker 1: been going through a rough patch recently. Nothing hostile or dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: but they were trying to work things out, doing what
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  Speaker 1: they believed was best for their kids, and holding their
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: family together the best they could. With how much the
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  Speaker 1: stalker seems to know about their lives, Martinez briefly wonders
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  Speaker 1: if someone inside the home might be manipulating the situation,
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  Speaker 1: and for a moment he even considers the possibility that
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  Speaker 1: Daniel might be messing with his wife as some twisted
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: way of trying to fix their marriage, but that idea
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  Speaker 1: is quickly dismissed. There is no evidence backing any of it,
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  Speaker 1: and all signs still point to Anthony, not to mention
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  Speaker 1: that Crystal herself is fully convinced her ex is behind
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  Speaker 1: the stalking campaign. Throughout November, the harassment continues to escalate
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  Speaker 1: with more messages and threats. Crystal continues documenting everything and
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  Speaker 1: constantly monitors her cameras. By early December, she finally receives
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  Speaker 1: a message that gives her the smallest breath of air. Hey, gorgeous,
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  Speaker 1: I can't visit you anymore, No more Colorado time. My
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend doesn't want us talking without her, She says, you'll
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  Speaker 1: let the cops get me after you get rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in weeks. Cristal and her family
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  Speaker 1: feel a brief sense of relief, and it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: Anthony is backing off, maybe even leaving the state. But
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  Speaker 1: in reality, this is just the stalker's final move to
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  Speaker 1: make them drop their guard before he strikes. The day
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  Speaker 1: starts like every other day. Daniel leaves for work while
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  Speaker 1: Cristel heads out to drop the kids off at school.
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  Speaker 1: During those minutes, someone approaches the front door, tapes over
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  Speaker 1: the ring doorbell camera, and slips inside the house. Later,
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  Speaker 1: Crystal drives back home, falls into the garage and steps
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  Speaker 1: out of the car. She has no idea someone is
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  Speaker 1: waiting for her inside, and the moment she closes the
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  Speaker 1: car door, he attacks. The stalker strikes Crystal in the head,
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  Speaker 1: stabs her, and leaves her bleeding on the floor. After
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  Speaker 1: months of plotting, this is the moment he'd been waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: Later that morning, Daniel tries calling Crystal from his office,
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  Speaker 1: but she doesn't answer or respond to texts. Hours pass
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  Speaker 1: and there's still no sign of her, so Daniel finally
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  Speaker 1: decides to call police.
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  Speaker 16: Hi there.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Dan Kruge. I don't think this is
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  Speaker 6: an emergency, but this feels really weird. My wife isn't
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  Speaker 6: responding to text messages or phone calls. We've had threats
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  Speaker 6: against us. We have both been targeted by a stalker.
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  Speaker 6: Threats have been made against my life and threatening to
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  Speaker 6: like kidnap her, which is why I'm here. I'm nervous
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  Speaker 6: that she's not answering.
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  Speaker 1: Within minutes of Daniel's call, an officer is dispatched to
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  Speaker 1: the Krug residence to check on Crystal. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel also calls Crystel's mother, asking her to go check
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  Speaker 1: on her daughter, sending her straight into the worst moment
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  Speaker 1: of her life. Well, she makes her way there. The
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  Speaker 1: officer reaches the house first.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Oh, I was just on their neighbor and they
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  Speaker 3: called you answer. Oh yeah, you sent us as well,
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  Speaker 3: so just next door.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, alrighty man, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: The house looks quiet and the officer doesn't notice anything
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  Speaker 1: wrong from the outside, but before he clears the call
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  Speaker 1: and drives off, something nags at him, so he brings
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  Speaker 1: his patrol car a little closer to check the garage,
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  Speaker 1: where he's about to uncover a tragic, horrifying sight.
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  Speaker 17: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: As the officer leans in for a closer look, he
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  Speaker 1: spots a body lying on the floor, motionless, with blood
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  Speaker 1: smeared across the walls.
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  Speaker 3: I want that, you want that medical one?
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  Speaker 5: Ten?
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  Speaker 3: I need a fourth entry.
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  Speaker 2: I got a female down in the garage.
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  Speaker 3: Please ru pill please?
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  Speaker 18: Oh shit, oh shit.
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  Speaker 1: The officer steps into the garage to find Crystal with
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  Speaker 1: what looks like a severe head injury, so he immediately
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  Speaker 1: begins performing CPR, working on her for several moments with
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  Speaker 1: no success, before opening the garage door to give medics access.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of paramedics, someone else soon arrives.
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  Speaker 3: Garage is opened down. Hello, man, I need you to
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  Speaker 3: stay out. Please come here.
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  Speaker 1: Tragically, as the garage door is lifted to get medics in,
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  Speaker 1: Crystal's mother catches a brief glimpse inside, just long enough
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  Speaker 1: to see an officer performing CPR on her daughter. Before
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  Speaker 1: she can process what she's seeing, another officer quickly arrives
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  Speaker 1: to shield her from this nightmare.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, I needed to come over here for a minute, okay,
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  Speaker 19: so we can work. I understand. I need you to
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  Speaker 19: come on over.
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  Speaker 20: Here, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 14: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 7: Give me your favor.
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  Speaker 19: Go and sit inside so we can work on her. Okay,
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  Speaker 19: so we can try to go to the help. Okay,
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  Speaker 19: what's your name, Linda? Okay, my name's officers tomorrow. Okay,
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  Speaker 19: I'll come out here. I'll give you some news as
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  Speaker 19: soon as I can.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome. I have no idea, just see it.
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  Speaker 19: But I know that they're working on her. The officer
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  Speaker 19: in there has it been working some garner.
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  Speaker 3: I think she's doing okay.
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  Speaker 19: Okay, Oh, if he did, he's the one that called
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  Speaker 19: us and let us. Okay, go ahead, take a seat
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  Speaker 19: for a minute. I'll be right back here.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I need to tag out.
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  Speaker 17: Man.
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  Speaker 3: She's got a head wound.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's from falling or something else,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: but probably falling. But I don't know that that's a
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: good one. Usman said there was a stalker. Is there
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: need a kidnapp her or so? No, she's unresponsive.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Well, Medics continue working on Crystal inside the garage. An
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: officer stands outside, reassuring a distressed woman who's just arrived,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: unaware that this is Crystal's mother. She's shaken and terrified
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: by the harbors. She witnessed inside the garage. Linda would
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: later learn that none of this was random, and finding
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: her daughter like this was always part of a twisted plan.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Back inside the garage, medics keep working, still trying to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: revive Crystal, not yet aware of the fatal wound hidden
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: beneath her clothing.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Guys, you see anything other than a fall type of wounds?
• 22:08
  Speaker 17: I'm just.
• 22:10
  Speaker 21: So sh Yeah, that's.
• 22:16
  Speaker 22: Damn it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't forget it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: And how her?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: You just pat could tell us the husband called in
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: to check on her. I don't know right now, but
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: this best should have it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 23: So we have a sty you guys, Yes, her heart okay,
• 22:38
  Speaker 23: and then let's german, are you here with this or
• 22:45
  Speaker 23: are you how reason is this?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Husband said he couldn't reach her for transport.
• 22:53
  Speaker 23: We don't know if it's within ten minutes man, Okay, Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Husband has not been able to reach her by any
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: means for a few hours, for a few hours, stabling
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: that you just.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Let Henriette Meddick's work for only a few minutes before
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: realizing there's nothing more they can do. Beside Crystal's body
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: tucked inside her purse, the officer notices a handgun she
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: never even had time to reach for With the immediate
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: area secure officers spread out throughout the house, searching every
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: room for the attacker, but no one is inside. And
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his officers step outside the home, they start noticing small
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: details that don't line up with an impulsive crime.
• 23:33
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I don't know the backstory.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Husband said there was.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: A a dude who's been stalking her and threatened to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: kidnap her. Martinez was involved, and Martinez just said, hey,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: this is your big old thing. I don't know, dude,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know the history on that part. Martinez does, though,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and he said he's coming in. So other than that,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: we're just kind of scaring the scene and waiting for detectives,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: See what they need. I kicked that.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah that's interesting.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is very interesting.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Almost like dude might have stuck around the phone this
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: way and owner.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: Maybe the doors were locked. That's how we got in, you.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Know what, you know what, I don't know. I kicked
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: it and it went pretty easy, So I'm gonna say,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: no devil. I saw her camera ound booted it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Officers quickly confirmed the door was unlocked and a strip
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of blue tape had been placed over the ring doorbell camera.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Whoever did this clearly planned it and came prepared. As
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: police continued searching the scene, more family members begin arriving
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: one by one, each of them unknowingly walking into the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: worst moment of their lives. While officers prepared to deliver
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the news no family ever wants to hear.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know anything just yet, ma'am. I don't know
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: anything this yet.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: Are you.
• 25:00
  Speaker 20: Family friend?
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: My friend from there to come up the work?
• 25:05
  Speaker 21: Okay?
• 25:07
  Speaker 19: Is her husband almost here? We want to give you
• 25:13
  Speaker 19: guys all the information altogether. We don't want to have
• 25:16
  Speaker 19: to beat the information over and over freakays to continue anything.
• 25:20
  Speaker 18: So he was.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: They won't say, they won't say, I'm going to figure
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: it out.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Who's a Georgia doctor to know what happened?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, as soon as someone frees up who can tell you,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I'll send them your way.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Our son's on his wife? Is this your Is this
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: your daughter?
• 25:50
  Speaker 24: Sir?
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Your daughter in laws?
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Your daughter?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And so her brother is on.
• 25:54
  Speaker 18: His way.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: With Cristel's father and brother now at the scene. The
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: weight of what's happened settles over the family, and it
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: grows heavier by the minute. The only person missing is
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Crystel's husband, Daniel, the man who feared he wouldn't be
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: able to protect her for weeks. Now he's on his
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: way to find out those fears have come true. As
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: they wait for him, detectives arrive at the scene and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: begin coordinating their next steps to hunt down whoever did this.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Little do they know the killer they're looking for is
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: still in the area, much closer than they think.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: So I pulled my car around a garage to see
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: if her car was in the garage, and I immediately
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: saw her at the base of the stairs. What's mirr
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: on the wall? And I came round and booted the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: front door. Turns out it wasn't locked. There's also a
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: piece of masking tape over the ring cabin, almost like
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: somebody approached from the side and taped it, and then
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: maybe she opened the door for somebody. The first thing
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I noticed was an obvious head wound. They noticed after
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: tearing the shirt and everything.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Off right right there. So that's what we got.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Husband should be here any minute.
• 27:20
  Speaker 25: Okay, So I need another detective up here to start
• 27:22
  Speaker 25: working with canvas scene. I need you stay here and
• 27:26
  Speaker 25: Martinez is coming here.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Yep, so he'll be good with that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 25: I want you and Martinez to work on this.
• 27:31
  Speaker 26: I want to give.
• 27:35
  Speaker 25: Yeah, well, we gotta be careful of We have to
• 27:38
  Speaker 25: be careful. We don't know anybody is here. It's still yes,
• 27:43
  Speaker 25: so we need to be sure that we stay focused
• 27:46
  Speaker 25: on that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: As investigators discuss plans to interview Crystal's family and her husband, Daniel,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he arrives un scene, cutting the conversation short and right away.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: He makes it clear to everyone that he's nothing more
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: than a devastated victor. I'm overwhelmed by what's happened to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: his wife.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, I need you to stay back, sir. I understand.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I need you to stay back here.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Family's over here, family's over here.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: Question overs.
• 28:34
  Speaker 18: I questions.
• 28:36
  Speaker 17: Fortunately, you can't have a lot of answers for you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: You know what you want right now? You can.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Leave me over there.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: At this time, officers have no reason to suspect Daniel
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of anything, so they treat him with care as he
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: goes through this traumatic moment. But beneath that devastation lies
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a cold, heartless man, because Daniel knows exactly what happened
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: inside that garage, and Daniel is the killer himself. Every
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: tear and shaking breath is part of his Act one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: He will continue selling to police and Crystal's family standing
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: just a few feet away.
• 29:47
  Speaker 27: I'm a.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I was not going to say no less anything. We
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: don't tell this is a family owner. We're just going
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: through the.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Aince this tragedy unfolds. Cristel's mother embraces Daniel, trying to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: comfort him, having no idea the man she's holding is
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the one who murdered her daughter. Unfortunately for officers, the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: hardest part of the job still isn't over. As the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: family grieves outside the home, a detective is sent to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the school to pick up Cristel's children, who still have
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: no idea what happened to their mother. When the detective
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: finds Crystel's eldest daughter, she's already shaken. She's been watching
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the live camera feed on her phone and saw enough
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to know something terrible happened. But what she tells the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: detective next is what truly alarms her. Her mother's stalker
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: has been hinting at something far darker recently, and he
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: might have deadly plans for the rest of the family.
• 31:01
  Speaker 26: My home, don't find me on my host came is
• 31:04
  Speaker 26: going mom, there was police at my house and an ambulance,
• 31:09
  Speaker 26: and there's there's some stretcher. I couldn't bring myself to
• 31:12
  Speaker 26: see who is ostin, so I quote, I quote my
• 31:14
  Speaker 26: mom and dad.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: My dad picks up and cry.
• 31:18
  Speaker 28: There they're probably about seven minutes away. Okay, I'm not
• 31:22
  Speaker 28: gonna lie. Something happened. Okay, that's why that's why you're here. Okay,
• 31:27
  Speaker 28: I do, but I can't. I'm not gonna tell you, okay,
• 31:29
  Speaker 28: because we're still actively investigating what's going on out there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 28: So I don't want to give you wrong information. That's
• 31:35
  Speaker 28: the last thing I want to do. Okay. What has
• 31:39
  Speaker 28: been going on at home?
• 31:42
  Speaker 18: So the student's been threatening.
• 31:46
  Speaker 29: Talking there, taking photos of my dad, saying that he's going.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: To kill him.
• 31:54
  Speaker 30: Do we know who this person.
• 31:55
  Speaker 26: Is hurt aticts?
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: I don't know if his name like.
• 31:59
  Speaker 31: An ex boyfriend her?
• 32:00
  Speaker 29: Yeah, okay, Oh, and they broke up a while ago,
• 32:04
  Speaker 29: they ended it as friends.
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: So this has all gone to a really big shock
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: to her.
• 32:10
  Speaker 26: And then so he's been contacting her from different numbers,
• 32:13
  Speaker 26: sending pictures of my.
• 32:16
  Speaker 29: Dad saying who's gonna kill them? He hasn't mentioned anything
• 32:20
  Speaker 29: about me and vice publics.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Yet she's good.
• 32:24
  Speaker 29: He's like, he posted something to a website of trying
• 32:28
  Speaker 29: to recruit guys to like help him with whatever playing
• 32:31
  Speaker 29: he's doing.
• 32:32
  Speaker 28: And he's like, how did you guys learn about that?
• 32:35
  Speaker 29: He's been contacting my mom through all of this. So
• 32:38
  Speaker 29: my mom has contacted the police. She has like a
• 32:40
  Speaker 29: whole bunch of people on the case. But the thing is,
• 32:44
  Speaker 29: he's making it sound like she's alm him.
• 32:49
  Speaker 28: She's not helping to him, like try to kill your dad.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I just like we're afraid that the place are
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: gonna her.
• 32:57
  Speaker 29: Okay, Okay, So she's been trying to detect herself.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: What Krystal's daughter reveals isn't just alarming, it's sickening because
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: this so called stalker isn't just threatening the family. He's
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: twisting the narrative inside their home. He's making it look
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: like Crystel was secretly working with him to kill Daniel,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: manipulating the kids into believing their own mother is dangerous
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: while positioning Daniel as the helpless target who needs protection.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: To the kids, their mother starts to look untrustworthy to detectives,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Daniel starts to look like a victim, and to the stalker.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Everything is going exactly according to plan. It's a disturbing
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: genius level of premeditation carried out by a man willing
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to use anyone, even his own children. The detective logs
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: this information and coordinates with Cristel's sister in law, Kate,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to get the children safely out of the school. Back
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: at the crime scene, detectives continue their work, invist the neighborhood,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: speak with neighbors, and begin collecting every CCTV clip they
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: can find to reconstruct the killer's movements. By this point,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: there's enough evidence telling Crystal's ex boyfriend Anthony two months
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of harassment, allowing police to obtain a nationwide arrest warrant
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: for stalking. Departments across the country are notified to be
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: on the lookout for him. Additionally, with a homicide on
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: their hands and a killer on the loose, investigators can
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: escalate the case and issue exigent circumstance warrants to service
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: providers to finally speed up the digital data they've been
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: waiting on. If Martinez received those files weeks earlier, things
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: might have been very different. In the meantime, Daniel, along
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: with the rest of the family, is taken to the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: police station for formal interviews. At this stage, it's standard
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: procedure and investigators are simply looking to collect statements. But
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: about two hours later, when detectives finally sit down with Daniel,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: his routine interview will begin to take a very different turn.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: So you're your home security system. You access that through
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: your personal Google Google nests, Google nests.
• 35:09
  Speaker 24: Hm, Hi, let's sing me okay, a home home.
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: Your permission to operate this following? Get when we need Yeah? Okay,
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: So how many different cameras do you have?
• 35:29
  Speaker 31: Or bell.
• 35:35
  Speaker 32: Side of the house, driveway back.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: To follow me?
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: We had a morpell a couple of years, the others
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: all since September light.
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: We had a U.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: We had an intruder. I called the police.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: He came when we had a g.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Trooper a month after Daniel reported the garage intruder. Back
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: in September is when the stalking first began, and by
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: then the couple had already installed multiple cameras around the house,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: plus their ring doorbell. But even with all that security,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and after police confirmed they had no GPS trackers on
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: their cars, the stalker still found a way to follow them,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: sending Crystal a photo of Daniel walking into work and
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: texting her about seeing her at the dentist. So, as
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the detective scrolls through the surveillance footage to understand the timeline,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: he notices something strange that catches Daniel off guard.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: So when do your camera stole off? Send to turn
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: off twenty four.
• 36:43
  Speaker 18: Off you.
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: Or in the app you can turn the bof? And
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: who has the ability to turn off the cameras? Who
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: has the ability to go on the app? Attorneys, Uh, Chrysille.
• 37:00
  Speaker 17: And on.
• 37:05
  Speaker 24: Think it's all right, It's all right, Dan, I'll choose
• 37:09
  Speaker 24: all four Oh home, I can say its settings? Okay, oh,
• 37:18
  Speaker 24: just just just uses Okay.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: The detective's question here isn't by chance. It's prompted by
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: something peculiar. He noticed on the surveillance app all of
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the Holmes cameras shut off at eight fifteen am, and
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: they stay off until ten to fifteen am. Only the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: camera pointed outside the garage remains active during that entire
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: two hour window. This instantly narrows the murder time frame
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: to those two hours. Just then Martinez finally arrives at
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the interview room. He's the lead detective who's been handling
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Crystal's stocking case for months, and now that case has
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: become something far worse. He sits down with her devastated
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: husband and feeling the weight of the loss. They both
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: couldn't prevent. They didn't save Crystal, they couldn't protect her,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and now they're here mourning her loss, trying to piece
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: together what happened.
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: Satriful, satful. I'm sorry I didn't answer. After listening today.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: As Daniel breaks down, something catches Martinez's attention. Daniel is crying,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: but there are no tears. The detective finds it strange
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and more than a little concerning. Wanting to probe deeper,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Martinez asks for a moment alone with Daniel to see
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: what's really going on beneath the surface, and the moment
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: he starts asking questions, things get heated fast.
• 39:00
  Speaker 13: I know you said that you don't think that there
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: was somebody else, she said, Okay, why do you keep asking?
• 39:11
  Speaker 13: I'm just trying to put everything together to kind of
• 39:14
  Speaker 13: get a bigger picture, because you said she's been acted
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: kind of weird lately, you know, being very secretive.
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: And with holding of information for you.
• 39:24
  Speaker 13: So I'm just trying to understand, I guess, so we
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: can backtrack what she's been doing this past mom.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Martinez's question here is telling of what he's thinking. He's
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: not ruling out Daniel as a possible suspect. After all,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the couple were going through a separation period, and this
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: is meant to probe whether jealousy or something else could
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: have played a role in Crystal's death. Sensing the tension
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: in Daniel's response, the detective decides not to press any further,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: but as they step out for a quick break, Daniel
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: says something that makes it obvious he struck a nerve.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: I've seen enough for this to the host I can.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: After detectives collect the initial information from Daniel, his children
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: finally arrive at the police department. They still don't know
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: what happened to their mother, only that something is very,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: very wrong. Daniel is notified of their arrival and given
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: a choice. Should he be the one to tell them
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: or leave it to officers in Crystal's family. Instead of
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: letting someone else deliver the news, Daniel insists on telling
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: them himself, a decision that appears compassionate on the surface,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: but underneath, it's a way for him to control the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: narrative and shape how his children see him even in
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: a moment of tragedy. Following this, investigators sit down with
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Cristel's family to begin their interviews, and this is where
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: things start to take a concerning turn up. Until now,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the case seems straightforward. Cristel has a stalker, her ex
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: boyfriend Anthony. That stalker killed. Find Anthony, and you find
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Crystal's killer. But once detectives starts speaking to Crystal's parents, brother,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: and sister in law, things become far more complicated, and
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: what they learned next will force them to reconsider everything
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: they think they know about Crystal, her marriage, and even
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: her stalker.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: So your heating.
• 41:20
  Speaker 13: I guess there is the ex husband who has been
• 41:24
  Speaker 13: kind of it's not my husband, it's next from what
• 41:29
  Speaker 13: she was eighteen years older.
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: Okay, gotcha?
• 41:31
  Speaker 27: Can you think of any I guess recent as he
• 41:33
  Speaker 27: reached out to you, have you seen any you.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: Know he's never contacted me like that.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Message drink two days or so.
• 41:44
  Speaker 33: I don't know that he was ready to come back
• 41:47
  Speaker 33: in there, So you can go offering now make it
• 41:53
  Speaker 33: look a little like she was ill to be able
• 41:56
  Speaker 33: to kill her husband.
• 41:57
  Speaker 30: I guess do you.
• 41:59
  Speaker 18: Think there's anything doesn't feel right?
• 42:02
  Speaker 34: Don't seem right something that I don't know, you just
• 42:05
  Speaker 34: feel like might be important to our investigation.
• 42:08
  Speaker 21: I don't know, like I just I know that Christine
• 42:10
  Speaker 21: was like very concerned and worried about this guy, and
• 42:14
  Speaker 21: I just always felt like it was like there was
• 42:17
  Speaker 21: something weird about it, like that I can't put my
• 42:21
  Speaker 21: finger on it.
• 42:22
  Speaker 35: It just feel like she had said that it was
• 42:25
  Speaker 35: like this Anthony guy, that it.
• 42:27
  Speaker 16: Seemed very different than past behavior in him, like that
• 42:31
  Speaker 16: he was never sexual in the past, and that these weally.
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: Very like hyper sexual things.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: And so I think even at one point.
• 42:39
  Speaker 13: She was like questioning whether it was actually him.
• 42:43
  Speaker 31: I don't know if you necessarily know anything in worry
• 42:46
  Speaker 31: about that, but they also just gonna make you.
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: Guys are kind of close and just seebe some.
• 42:50
  Speaker 36: Sort of insight on that at all inside on their
• 42:53
  Speaker 36: marriage or just was there issues going on?
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: Were they having problems? Was there you know? Kay?
• 42:58
  Speaker 36: He was kind of She shared with me that they
• 43:02
  Speaker 36: had separated, okay, but we're still living together a year ago,
• 43:07
  Speaker 36: and I.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: Had asked her if she over texts.
• 43:10
  Speaker 31: If she had that she believed that it was Anthony,
• 43:13
  Speaker 31: but she didn't believe at the time that I was
• 43:15
  Speaker 31: answering that it was anybody but Anthony.
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: She was fully convinced that it was Anthony. Okay, my
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: mom has always been like suspicious.
• 43:22
  Speaker 27: I just like don't know where that comes from.
• 43:24
  Speaker 28: Okay, can you elaborate on that, like suspicious how or
• 43:30
  Speaker 28: my mom?
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know, because she.
• 43:35
  Speaker 31: Like the difficulty finding Anthony, Like why is it so
• 43:38
  Speaker 31: hard to find Anthony?
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: Why can't do.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: Their you know, records or IP.
• 43:42
  Speaker 31: So my mom had that frustration, and so I think
• 43:46
  Speaker 31: her mind starts to wander towards like conspiracy type things
• 43:51
  Speaker 31: right of, like oh, maybe it's the Husbin or maybe
• 43:54
  Speaker 31: it's Dan, And I don't know.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: I don't see it there just because I don't know.
• 44:01
  Speaker 24: Dan just seems so incapable of doing something like that
• 44:03
  Speaker 24: to me, Why do you see that?
• 44:05
  Speaker 17: Just I don't know.
• 44:06
  Speaker 31: I talked to him and him and I just hung
• 44:08
  Speaker 31: out and talked by two hours, and he was like
• 44:10
  Speaker 31: very concerned about like SAMMLA together and talking about being
• 44:14
  Speaker 31: vigilant but not paranoid.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Even though Cristel's brother Lars sounds skeptical of his mother's suspicions,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: she isn't exactly wrong. As on the surface, It makes
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: no sense that Anthony couldn't be tracked down for months.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Lars would also go on to explain that Cristal and
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Daniel saw their marriage very differently. Cristel wanted out, Daniel didn't,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and the family seemed to view their relationship as dysfunctional
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: but not violent. But listening to these statements, one thing
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: becomes very clear. Every family member felt that something about
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the stalker was off. There was a shared intuition they
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: couldn't quite articulate. And when detectives sit down with Cristel's mother,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: she makes that suspicion very clear.
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: I know what you said.
• 45:00
  Speaker 29: Kind of learned on seeing that she was married, had
• 45:03
  Speaker 29: three children.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Her life was hell and s looked once and last
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: year her husband and her were not the good terms.
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: He was in complete denial. She tell me how he was.
• 45:20
  Speaker 34: Did she ever give you inside on what kind of
• 45:23
  Speaker 34: led her to feel like her marriage was over?
• 45:26
  Speaker 18: Or it is explosive, but I've never seen him, you know.
• 45:32
  Speaker 24: Hurt her.
• 45:34
  Speaker 18: He would hurt the kids.
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: But you know, some people think the corporal.
• 45:39
  Speaker 37: Punishment is paying the kids, but he would hurt the kids.
• 45:45
  Speaker 38: She was worried about how I.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Don't know what to say, but he was in it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: She told me he was him.
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: Denials that she told her his marriage was over, but
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: she would stay until scud.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I hope this God can't.
• 46:06
  Speaker 15: What's that feeling telling you?
• 46:09
  Speaker 29: I just can't.
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: I can't shake this question, as see the one that's been.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Doing this with empty Needless to say, hinting that Daniel
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: might somehow be involved with the stalker is an alarming accusation,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: and it makes things even more complicated for the detectives.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: At this point, the family itself is split. Crystal's brother Lars,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: completely dismisses the idea that Daniel could be involved, calling
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: it nothing more than a conspiracy, but others felt that
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: there was something off about Anthony and the entire stalking agenda.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: With all statements collected, detectives wrap the family interviews and
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: regroup to make sense of everything they've gathered. By combining
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: everything they've learned, detectives land on a clearer picture of
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: where the investigation now stands. The family interviews raised enough
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: concern and there was enough tension in the marriage that
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: detectives decide they can't rule out Daniel yet, and he
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: officially becomes a potential suspect, But even with Daniel now
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: on the radar, Anthony remains as the obvious prime suspect
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: in Crystal's homicide. His threats and weeks long stalking campaign
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: still place him at the center of the investigation. With
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: that in mind, detectives know their next move. It's time
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: to find Anthony. At a round three pm that afternoon,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: police finally get their first reel break in months. After
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: digging through everything they have on Anthony Holland, investigators land
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: on a possible address in Utah. Because they can't reach
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: him themselves, Broomfield detectives coordinate with Utah County Sheriff's office,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: sharing his name, photo, and the address where he's believed
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: to be staying. Up until now, Anthony has only existed
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: as a name in emails and threats, a distant figure
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: who no one has actually seen, So when officers finally
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: get a hit on his location, it becomes the first
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: real chance to confront the man they've been hunting for months.
• 47:56
  Speaker 22: I'm going to ask you a couple of names to
• 47:58
  Speaker 22: see if you recognize any names. Do you have you
• 48:01
  Speaker 22: ever heard of the name Crystal Krug? She may have
• 48:04
  Speaker 22: been Grim's Rod. When you knew her. Yeah, and do
• 48:08
  Speaker 22: you know what, Daniel Krug No, No, I didn't know Crystal.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: She was a next girlfriend.
• 48:14
  Speaker 17: She next girlfriend?
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: How long the X like?
• 48:17
  Speaker 22: How long ago?
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 48:21
  Speaker 18: So like a like a long while first girlfriend?
• 48:24
  Speaker 22: Okay, when was the last time you talked to Crystal?
• 48:27
  Speaker 22: Has it been a minna? It's been like since you
• 48:32
  Speaker 22: moved from from Durango? Yeah, yeah, so that would have
• 48:36
  Speaker 22: been what back in twenty fourteen?
• 48:39
  Speaker 18: Yeah?
• 48:40
  Speaker 22: Have you had any contact with anybody in that area since? Anybody?
• 48:44
  Speaker 22: Have they contacted you at any time? I'm going to
• 48:47
  Speaker 22: give you a phone number and it's to a stargeant
• 48:51
  Speaker 22: with the Broomsfield Police Department. He would like you to reach.
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: Out and talk to him. All right.
• 48:59
  Speaker 22: They have I don't know the full details of their
• 49:01
  Speaker 22: incident out there, and so I'll let him talk to
• 49:04
  Speaker 22: you about that aspect. He had asked us to come
• 49:07
  Speaker 22: out here to your house and.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Talk with you.
• 49:13
  Speaker 22: They were debating on you do have an active warrant
• 49:17
  Speaker 22: out of Bloomfield Police Department, and they were debating on
• 49:21
  Speaker 22: it they were going to have us arrest you or not.
• 49:23
  Speaker 22: They are not going to have us arrest you on it.
• 49:26
  Speaker 22: I'm going to advise you of the fact that you
• 49:27
  Speaker 22: do have a warrant out of Colorado, and you can
• 49:29
  Speaker 22: talk to this sergeant about the details of it, if
• 49:33
  Speaker 22: that makes sense.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: As officers speak with Anthony, he appears intoxicated and confused.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: After being briefed on the situation, he gives his timeline,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: insisting he never left Utah and spent the morning with
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: family nowhere near Colorado. Once they collect Anthony's statement, Utah
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: officers leave to begin verifying every part of his story.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, detectives back in Colorado regroup to reassess
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: the investigation. With Anthony's still denying involvement, Detective Martinez turns
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: back to the one angle he hasn't fully explored yet,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Crystal's husband Daniel. Since he never ruled out jealousy or
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: affairs as a possible motive, he decides to dig deeper
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: into Daniel's past, and that's when he stumbles onto something
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: interesting and very unsettling. While searching old reports, Martinez finds
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: a closed but unresolved stalking complaint from years earlier. The
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: victim who filed it is a woman named Carrie. As
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: it turns out, she was Daniel's ex girlfriend. The more
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Martinez reviews, the more disturbing the pattern becomes. The report
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: claims she was stalked for weeks by an obsessed man
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: who impersonated multiple people, manipulating her through fake identities. Detectives
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: quickly locate Carrie and bring her in for an interview.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: When they sit down with her, they uncover a story
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: so disturbingly similar to Crystal's it opens up an entirely
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: new theory.
• 51:00
  Speaker 34: It was, you know, like a couple of months I
• 51:02
  Speaker 34: broke up. I broke up with him a couple of
• 51:04
  Speaker 34: months into my freshman year, and he, you know, didn't
• 51:10
  Speaker 34: He was pretty emotional.
• 51:11
  Speaker 30: I would say, sort of desperation would maybe.
• 51:17
  Speaker 35: It would be a word I would use to describe
• 51:19
  Speaker 35: after the breakup of please don't do this, kind of you.
• 51:23
  Speaker 13: Know, crying, that sort of thing.
• 51:26
  Speaker 32: That I can recall.
• 51:28
  Speaker 35: And then I started to get messages from his roommate.
• 51:32
  Speaker 16: And that person's name is Tom.
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: On AOL instant messenger.
• 51:38
  Speaker 16: And I know Tom is real because they were roommates.
• 51:41
  Speaker 16: If I called him, Tom would sometimes pick up the
• 51:44
  Speaker 16: phone and they should a joint room.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: And a joint phone.
• 51:47
  Speaker 35: Tom His role, I would say, was sort of to
• 51:50
  Speaker 35: gain sympathy from me for Dan and continue to encourage
• 51:56
  Speaker 35: me to communicate with Dan. There was perhaps some indication
• 52:01
  Speaker 35: that he was or was because of the breakup, just.
• 52:05
  Speaker 33: Really not doing well.
• 52:06
  Speaker 35: So this, you know, made.
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: Me keep communication up with Dan.
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: And Tom ended up being Dan.
• 52:12
  Speaker 30: Right, So all these people are going to tell you
• 52:14
  Speaker 30: about end up being.
• 52:15
  Speaker 25: Dan Kru not.
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: Tom.
• 52:19
  Speaker 35: Yeah, even though Tom is a real person, this is
• 52:21
  Speaker 35: he was not sending me these messages.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: So fun such a say, what Carrie tells detectives sounds
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: all too familiar. Everything she describes echoes the same pattern
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: detectives have been seeing with Crystal. But the parallels don't
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: stop there.
• 52:37
  Speaker 16: Things I remember is we a group of my friends
• 52:40
  Speaker 16: from our dorm had met I don't even know how
• 52:45
  Speaker 16: some that's from the Air Force Academy, and so we
• 52:48
  Speaker 16: all went to I think we went to a movie,
• 52:50
  Speaker 16: something super innocuous, and there was like a group of us.
• 52:53
  Speaker 16: I must have told Dan about that, and I think
• 52:56
  Speaker 16: it was two or three days later I got a
• 52:58
  Speaker 16: message from someone named Nick Clark, and.
• 53:02
  Speaker 35: Nick basically said, I'm a kdet.
• 53:04
  Speaker 39: At the Air Force Academy.
• 53:06
  Speaker 15: I know you went out with these.
• 53:07
  Speaker 16: People and I want you to know that he came
• 53:10
  Speaker 16: back or these people came back and said that you
• 53:13
  Speaker 16: slept with him. So now there's this rumor going around
• 53:15
  Speaker 16: the whole academy that you're an easy target kind of thing,
• 53:19
  Speaker 16: and Nick, I think started a purpose of sabotaging anyone
• 53:24
  Speaker 16: I was meeting if.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: They were associated with the Air Force Academy.
• 53:29
  Speaker 40: Of course, the person that I met in which the
• 53:31
  Speaker 40: movies with was like, I want the thing to deal
• 53:33
  Speaker 40: with you, you.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: Know, so shortly, I don't know.
• 53:38
  Speaker 15: A while after that.
• 53:39
  Speaker 16: I started actually more seriously dating Air Force kide named
• 53:44
  Speaker 16: Mark Hanson than of course, like Clark made a reappearance
• 53:47
  Speaker 16: and I was getting pretty consistent messages from him, and
• 53:50
  Speaker 16: so he said, you know, we need to find out
• 53:53
  Speaker 16: who's doing this, and he got me a meeting with.
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: The Office of Special Investigations at the Air Force Academy.
• 53:59
  Speaker 40: I sat with them and they kind of laid the
• 54:02
  Speaker 40: emails out on the table and they said, we've had
• 54:06
  Speaker 40: like a forensic psychologist, sort of professional look at all
• 54:09
  Speaker 40: these emails and we've it's.
• 54:14
  Speaker 35: Damp, is what they said.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Carrie would go on to explain that despite their suspicions,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: there was never enough evidence tying Daniel back to the
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: messages she received. Then everything had been sent from a
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: public library, and because of that, her accusations remained just
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: that suspicions. But even without proof, the similarities between the
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: two women's experiences are impossible to ignore, and for the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: first time, detectives begin considering a fourth possibility they never imagined.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: What if Daniel has been playing everyone, What if he's
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: been impersonating Anthony. What if he's always been the architect
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: behind the entire stalking campaign. Detective Martinez receives the end
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: tell from Carrie's interview, and with that, Daniel officially becomes
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: an equal prime suspect alongside Anthony. At this point, the
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: only thing that can give them a definitive answer is
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the digital evidence, So while they wait for that, Martinez
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: received something he can work with immediately, the full set
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: of surveillance footage collected from the neighborhood and Daniel's workplace.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: This case has hours of surveillance, bodycam and interrogation footage
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: we can't fully include here. If you want the extended
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: cut of this video plus the full raw interrogation in
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: bodycam videos, we've uploaded everything on our Patreon. With that
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: pool of evidence finally in their hands, investigators sit down
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and begin reconstructing the full picture of what happened before
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Crystal was killed. Shortly before eight am, Crystal arrives home
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: after dropping off the kids. She pulls into the garage,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: closes the door, and everything looks normal. Minutes later, at
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: eight fifteen am, the entire security system goes offline. Every
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: camera except the outside garage camera is taken down for
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: the next two hours. At eight twenty five am, that
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: lone camera records something deeply concerning. Daniel leaves the house
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: to go to work later than he normally does, and
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: shortly after the time medical examiners believe Crystal was killed
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: from there. Workplace footage shows Daniel moving through the building
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: around nine am, greeting co workers and appearing completely normal,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: as if nothing had happened at home, and when investigators
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: check footage from surrounding houses, they find no one approaching
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: the property all morning. Everything about the timeline makes Daniel
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: look more suspicious by the minute. With all these new developments,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: detectives bring Daniel back in for another interview. He walks
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: in expecting routine procedural follow ups, completely unaware of how
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: much is che changed since the last time he sat
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: in this room. This is when Daniel's month's long, carefully
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: crafted plan begins to crumble. This time, Detective Martinez walks
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: in with a completely different energy than before. He's no
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: longer feeling Daniel out. He's here with one clear objective,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: confront him with what's been uncovered and see if his
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: version of events finally breaks.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: Now, kind about everything, no feeling. I have two different
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: voices going through my head right now.
• 57:43
  Speaker 17: I have.
• 57:45
  Speaker 38: My love Matthew, Yeah, the chiefs. I have his voice saying, uh,
• 57:57
  Speaker 38: talk to the police. And in the goal comp fashion
• 58:01
  Speaker 38: America prosecutor.
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: So I have Lind's force in my head, going get
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: a fucking lawyer.
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: So I don't want.
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: I don't want.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Right away. Daniel doesn't open the interview casually. He opens
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: it with a calculated trick by hinting at getting a lawyer.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: He's warning detectives push too hard and this interview is over.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: It's clever, but Martinez has a counterplan. Instead of confronting him,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: He'll pivot the conversation to his relationship with Crystal, making
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: it feel like safer ground to get Daniel comfortable and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: talking but if Daniel had any motive to take Crystal
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: out of the picture, this is where it would surface.
• 58:47
  Speaker 14: Well, I'm sure, especially.
• 58:48
  Speaker 30: If you guys are trying to work together to be safe,
• 58:51
  Speaker 30: keep your family safe, keep her is as functional as
• 58:54
  Speaker 30: it as it is. You still both have the common
• 58:56
  Speaker 30: goal of keeping keeping it safe, right.
• 59:01
  Speaker 8: I had her as.
• 59:03
  Speaker 7: A partner to protect the family, but it didn't feel like.
• 59:13
  Speaker 8: A partner who value me.
• 59:20
  Speaker 7: And I and I told her at that point, I
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: told her I didn't want to die for someone who
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: didn't care about me anymore.
• 59:28
  Speaker 32: That's really hard.
• 59:29
  Speaker 38: I was hurting when I said that, and what I
• 59:34
  Speaker 38: wanted was heard to say cared about me.
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: She did.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Although Daniel is being honest about what was going on
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: in their marriage to detectives, moments like this only add
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: to their suspicions, resentment, rejection, of failing marriage. These are
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: all things that in the wrong circumstances, can turn into
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: a motive, and this is exactly where the the interview
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: takes a sharp turn. What Daniel doesn't know yet is
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: that since his last interview, Detectives received something they kept
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: secret for this exact moment. One of the tech companies
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: finally responded to their urgent warrants and provided some of
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: the digital data they needed, and as it turns out,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: the emails the stalker had been sending, the messages that
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: terrorized Crystal for weeks were coming from somewhere much closer
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: to home.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 41: One of the things that we really started looking into
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 41: today an effort and effort to find Anthony is the Gmail.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 41: So some of that information that we've been able to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 41: receive today is a little bit concerning ies.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 32: The Gmail account, the tick Man account that you guys
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 32: initially received with a photo of you in it, and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 32: that the phone number, those originated through their IP addresses
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 32: at your office.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 7: Those are technicens well, he took the photo of me
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 7: at my office.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 13: Both of those accounts originated from IP addresses that list
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 13: back to your office.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: There are.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: Wi Fi access throughout the facility for employees, and there's
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 7: public Wi Fi access throughout the entire facility.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 13: Right now, we're working with the director to get all
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 13: of the IP information to see what advice we're used
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 13: in that specific address during that time, because I guess
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 13: the biggest concern is just the timing of everything that
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 13: it just doesn't quite make sense to have somebody create
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 13: an account, take a photo, and then immediately send it off,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 13: and then the account is no longer being used.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 8: Out of this.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Makes sense, Daniel looks through off. I'm sure where Martinez
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: is going with this. The emails tied to the stalker
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: connect back to Daniel's workplace, a detail he clearly didn't
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: expect detectives to know. He seems nervous, but still cooperative,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: So detectives decide it's time to push further because they
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: have something else they withheld from Daniel until now. During
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: the investigation into Anthony's alibi, officers in Utah forwarded something
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: small but important, a time stamped shopping receipt, placing Anthony
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: in Utah that morning, miles away from Colorado at the
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  Speaker 1: time Crystal was killed. Martinez and his partner decide it's
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  Speaker 1: the perfect time to see how Daniel reacts when they
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  Speaker 1: push him directly and force him to confront the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that he might be the stalker.
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  Speaker 39: Also, let's add on top of that the fact that there's,
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  Speaker 39: as far as we know right now, there's no physical
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  Speaker 39: way that Kateman could have been in all in this
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  Speaker 39: space where he's at right now.
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  Speaker 30: So you know, the mystery continues, and.
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  Speaker 13: As things are certainly pointing in one direction right now, well.
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  Speaker 8: And you've given us reason.
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  Speaker 30: Here's the other thing, Daniel, is I sympathize with the
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  Speaker 30: fact that you're in an extremely frustrating situation.
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  Speaker 8: I know you want to be a part of your
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  Speaker 8: kids' lives, but.
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  Speaker 30: You can also sense that's why we're asking all these
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 30: questions about infidelity and everything else. Is there some other mystery,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 30: Anne that we don't know about?
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  Speaker 18: Have been faithful.
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  Speaker 8: Pure?
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  Speaker 13: You know Anthony has reached out to her in the
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  Speaker 13: past number of times, right the last time was twenty
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  Speaker 13: sixteen inch. He had asked her at one point if
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 13: she wanted to ask if there's any bit of a
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  Speaker 13: question about infidelity, whether it's with Anthony or or anybody else,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 13: we might create an account to see if Christilee's actually
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 13: interested in Anthony. So we ask her push the bounds
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  Speaker 13: a little bit and see if that will confirm our
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 13: suspicions of infidelity. You don't get the response and the
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 13: openness you once did for about twenty eight days from
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: October second to October thirty first.
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  Speaker 8: So you amp it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 13: Send a photo of yourself to her, an account you created.
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  Speaker 8: I get and I heard it together. But it alleges
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  Speaker 8: them do this.
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  Speaker 30: But I think ultimately what happened today would bring you
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  Speaker 30: the closest to your children.
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  Speaker 13: That you've probably ever ever been in your mind. Elve
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 13: a very close merchant, and you're afraid to lose time
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  Speaker 13: with her if you get the divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly, detectives managed to perfectly articulate Daniel's reality, one he
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: may not have been and fully admitted to himself. He
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: is a man so terrified of losing his children, so
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: desperate to stay in control of his family, that he
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: would do anything if he felt it slipping away, even
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: if it meant murder. The detective's brutal honesty leaves Daniel speechless.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't argue or deny it. He just sits there
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  Speaker 1: in quiet resignation, wearing the look of someone who is
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: realizing everyone can see straight through his lines.
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  Speaker 8: If you were watching these that fold in front of
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 8: you in a movie, what would you say of it?
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  Speaker 30: It was able to turn off the cameras, that was
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 30: able to use your IP address from your work to
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 30: create accounts, to send messages and photos, to act as
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 30: a stocking suspect.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know about one who does this.
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  Speaker 7: I'm analytical at work, and I read and write fiction
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  Speaker 7: at all.
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  Speaker 8: I don't too Why don't you crying drama?
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  Speaker 5: Don't know what any of this is.
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  Speaker 13: Kick Command is six and a half hour drive and
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  Speaker 13: then in fact he was contacted in his house severely intoxicated.
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  Speaker 27: There's no way he could have made that drive all
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 27: this time, that you've been looking for him as a
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 27: protection and you just found him today. Things like that
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 27: you've been chasing their own That.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 8: Sounds like you're excusing.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 13: We have a lot of information that points your direction,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 13: and we were hoping that you could provide explanation other
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 13: than it wasn't me.
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  Speaker 8: I don't have a narrative story. I hurt you because
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: I thought we were on the same time. What would
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 8: you think?
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  Speaker 37: What would you say if we told you that other
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 37: people you talk to that are close to your wife
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 37: express that she had maybe told them that she suspected you.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 7: Of that right to my face, that she wanted to
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 7: know if the day so I told her now.
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  Speaker 30: But I think there's more to the story, Like I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 30: don't know, it just doesn't it's not adding up.
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  Speaker 8: I'd like to know what happened this morning. I'd like
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 8: to know what caused what caused.
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  Speaker 30: You to get so upset to hurt your wife, because
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 30: I believe that's what happened.
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  Speaker 27: Well, I would want to know what happened.
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  Speaker 18: You haven't been there to know.
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  Speaker 13: Okay, there's only one person in this room that can
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 13: tell us.
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  Speaker 30: I think you've you got confirmation or found out that
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 30: she had a boyfriend this morning, or something happened that
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 30: pissed you off, and you did something that you regret
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 30: now because you can't go back.
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  Speaker 8: I've answered all your questions, but you have your theory.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: Fun you're dumb.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: As calm as he's been this entire interview. Daniel finally
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: decides he's had enough and drops the act. His story
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: has crumbled. Detectives sees straight through his lines, and he
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: knows it. With nothing left to cling to, Daniel quietly
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: asks for an attorney, and the interview comes to an end.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Even though he continues insisting he's innocent. There's one detail
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Daniel admits on his own, one no one even knew
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: about until now. Crystal herself confronted him about being the stalker.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Hearing that from Daniel's own mouth hits Martinez hard because
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: to him, that sounds like the kind of confrontation that
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: could have pushed everything over the edge. But without hard proof,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: detectives can't yet say Daniel is truly responsible. So with
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: the interview over, Daniel is processed for physical evidence and
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: escorted out of the police station. But before he leaves,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: he turns back and tells detectives one final things.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: Because I thought you don't believe that.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: File, Just don't stop looking elsewhere?
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  Speaker 17: Okay, find are you married of kid's divorce?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 8: Mind?
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  Speaker 17: Yet?
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  Speaker 8: I don't care capture I just the fucker he took.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: My children's mother.
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  Speaker 13: For Christmas.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Over the next two days, the case becomes the department's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: top priority. Every available officer is working on it, and
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: this is when the investigation finally begins to break wide open.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Officers in Utah finally finish verifying Anthony's alibi. They find
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: surveillance footage showing him in Utah the time of Crystal's murder,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: and there are no travel records or license plate pings
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: placing him anywhere near Colorado. Then the last of the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: digital evidence arrives, and this time it's overwhelming. The burner
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: phones used to send the threatening messages to Crystal were
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: purchased with a Visa gift card registered under Daniel Krugg's name,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: and cell tower records show those burner phones were always
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: in the same location as Daniel's personal phone, meaning he
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: was carrying both devices at the same time. And then
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: comes the final blow. Detectives uncovered Daniel's Google searches from
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: the night before the murder. How hard would you have
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: to hit someone in the head to make them unconscious?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: When is a head injury a cause for concern? Piece
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: by piece the picture comes together. There's no Anthony, there's
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: no mysterious stalker. It's always been just Daniel. Detectives now
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: understand exactly what happened. Daniel created the entire Stoking persona
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: in a time twisted attempt to regain control of his
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: failing marriage, and when Crystal began to suspect the truth,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Daniel killed her to cover it up. On December sixteenth,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: an arrest warrant is issued for Daniel Krugg. Officers are dispatched, immediately,
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  Speaker 1: finding him on his way to his daughter's dance performance.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: As patrol units close in Daniel's movements strike them as suspicious,
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  Speaker 1: he appears to be heading back towards his car, and
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: officers believe he may be trying to get away.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 42: This is a detective on the island scar all right,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 42: we're coming up from the front. Just get up and
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 42: pumped back. No fuck go goo boo boo go.
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  Speaker 20: Just gods, he got your faith.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 18: He if at your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Underrect Daniel Krugg is taken into custody without incident. In
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  Speaker 1: the weeks that follow, police finish their work. The digital
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: forensic evidence, the surveillance timeline, the phone data, all of
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: it leads back to the same person. Investigators become certain
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: that Daniel Krugg acted alone. He created a fake stalker,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: framed an ex boyfriend, manipulated his wife, his children, and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: law enforcement. Before the case reaches trial, Daniel formerly pleads
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: not guilty. In April of twenty twenty five, his case
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: moves into the courtroom. The story prosecutors present is devastatingly clear.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 43: This was about Dan losing control. He was not in
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 43: love with Cristille, and that resentment had turned to rage
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 43: by the time we get to December fourteenth. Think about
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 43: what he did to her. You don't do that to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 43: somebody you love. Think about the absolute nightmare and hell
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 43: that he made the last few months of her life.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, Daniel's defense argues that there was
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: no physical evidence placing him at the crime scene and
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: that he could not have been the kellar.
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  Speaker 17: We know the physical evidence, and there is an enormous
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 17: disconnect between that and the circumstantial picture.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: The prosecution wants you to believe. Mister Krug did not
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: kill his wife. He did not commit these crimes. After
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: both sides make their case, the jury deliberates for nearly
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: two days, and on April seventeenth, twenty twenty five, they
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: return with their verdict.
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  Speaker 41: Will the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 41: the first degree?
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Daniel is found guilty of first degree murder, stalking, and
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: criminal impersonation. He is sentenced to life in prison without
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: the possibility of parole.