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Speaker 1: Today's story is about a typical middle class American family
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Speaker 1: that had everything going for them. Mom and dad were
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Speaker 1: still totally in love twenty five years after getting married.
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Speaker 1: Their two kids were happy, successful, and poised to do
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Speaker 1: huge things in life. But then in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: it was like things just started to go so badly
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Speaker 1: for this family. It was like they had hit the
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Speaker 1: stretch of unfathomably bad luck. But their misfortunes had nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with bad luck. Their misfortunes were the result
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Speaker 1: of someone in their midst carrying around a very big secret.
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. In the early nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 1: a woman in her early twenties named Krista Frader was
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Speaker 1: working as a manager inside of a retail store called
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Speaker 1: the Boston Store in Madison, Wisconsin. Not long after she
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Speaker 1: was hired there, the Boston Store would hire another employee
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Speaker 1: to work at their Madison location. His name was Bart Halderson,
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Speaker 1: and like Christa, he was in his early twenties, although
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Speaker 1: he was three years younger than Krista, and he was
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Speaker 1: hired to be a clerk. Bart and Christa didn't know
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Speaker 1: each other before working at the same location, but their
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Speaker 1: shifts often overlapped and so in time they got to
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Speaker 1: know each other and they found they had a lot
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Speaker 1: in common. They both had grown up roughly outside of Madison, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: they both had graduated from the same college, the University
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin Madison, and they both shared a love of
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Speaker 1: home design. Christa, who had majored in art history and college,
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Speaker 1: was very passionate about interior home design. As for Bart,
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Speaker 1: he was just one of those people who naturally could
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Speaker 1: fix just about anything with his bare hands and growing up.
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Speaker 1: His favorite projects were anything to do with home repairs.
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Speaker 1: Whether it was something super simple or super complex, he
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Speaker 1: didn't care. He just found it incredibly satisfying to keep
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Speaker 1: a home in immaculate condition. And so Bart and Christa
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Speaker 1: bonded over their commonalities, and in time their working friendship
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Speaker 1: evolved into a full fledged romance, and by nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: four they had left the Boston store, they had gotten married,
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Speaker 1: and they had moved in together to their own apartment
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Speaker 1: in DeForest, Wasisconsin, which is not far from Madison. Two
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Speaker 1: years after that, in nineteen ninety six, Bart and Christa
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Speaker 1: welcomed their first child into the world. It was a
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Speaker 1: little boy who they named Mitchell, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: Mitchell was born, christ had decided she wanted to stay
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Speaker 1: home with the baby, and Bart was in full support,
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Speaker 1: and so he went out and he got a great
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Speaker 1: job as an accountant, which paid enough money to pay
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Speaker 1: for the whole family, and eighteen months after Mitchell was born,
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Speaker 1: Bart and Christa welcomed their second and final child, another boy,
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Speaker 1: who they named Chandler. A few years after Chandler was born,
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Speaker 1: Bart and Christa had saved up just enough money that
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Speaker 1: they could finally afford to buy a house of their own,
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Speaker 1: and the house they finally settled on was just this
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Speaker 1: very modest, small two story home in this very quiet
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Speaker 1: little town in Wisconsin called Windsor. Windsor is not far
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Speaker 1: from DeForest, where they had been renting an apartment. But
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Speaker 1: this little house in Windsor was perfect for Bart, Christa
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Speaker 1: and their boys. Not only did it have enough space
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Speaker 1: for the family, but because it was their own house.
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Speaker 1: As soon as they moved in, Christa got to really
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Speaker 1: lean in to her passion for interior design, and she
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Speaker 1: got to design the entire layout of the house, and
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Speaker 1: then she continued to take pride in keeping the house
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Speaker 1: perfectly tidy and beautiful at all times. As for Bart,
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Speaker 1: he immediately began doing home repair project after home repair project.
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Speaker 1: This house became his trophy, and he wanted to make
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Speaker 1: sure his trophy was polished at all times. And it
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Speaker 1: wasn't just the physical house that made this feel like
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Speaker 1: they're forever home. It was also their neighbors. As soon
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Speaker 1: as they moved in, Barton Christa made friends with all
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Speaker 1: of the people that lived on their street and they
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Speaker 1: were all so friendly and welcoming, and then before long
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Speaker 1: the Haldersons were deeply invested in community activities like the
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Speaker 1: Boy Scouts and the Kawanis Club, and they were donating
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Speaker 1: their time and money to other charities. I mean so quickly,
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Speaker 1: the Halderson family just found where they belonged. Of the
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Speaker 1: next two plus decades, life for the Haldersons in this
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Speaker 1: little home and Windsor remained perfect. Bart continued to move
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Speaker 1: up the ladder at his accounting firm, and Christa continued
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Speaker 1: to be a devoted mother and housekeeper. As for the kids,
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Speaker 1: Mitchell and Chandler, they were given every opportunity their parents
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Speaker 1: could possibly give them, and in that loving and supportive environment,
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Speaker 1: they both thrived. By twenty twenty one, the older brother, Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: who was twenty five at the time, he had moved
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Speaker 1: out and was living alone in an apartment, and he
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Speaker 1: had graduated from college. He had landed an incredible IT
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Speaker 1: job with a local, very successful company, He was engaged
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Speaker 1: to be married, and he was about to buy his
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Speaker 1: own house. As for the younger brother, Chandler, who was
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Speaker 1: twenty three at the time, he was still living at
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Speaker 1: home with Bart and Christa, but he was doing just
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Speaker 1: as well as his older brother. He was in his
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Speaker 1: final year of college, but he had already accepted a
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Speaker 1: full time job with SpaceX that was set to start
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Speaker 1: in Floorlorida as soon as he graduated, and while he
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Speaker 1: was in his final year of college. In between his studies,
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Speaker 1: he worked part time at a local insurance company to
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Speaker 1: help pay rent to his parents, and he also volunteered
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Speaker 1: the rest of his spare time with the Madison Police
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Speaker 1: Department on their rescue scuba diving team. Chandler was also
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Speaker 1: in a committed relationship with his girlfriend. But despite how
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Speaker 1: well everything was going for Bart, for Krista, for Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: for Chandler, their lives were about to take a serious
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Speaker 1: turn for the worst. It all started in June of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. That month, Chandler, who was only weeks
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Speaker 1: away from flying out to Titusville, Florida to start his
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Speaker 1: job with SpaceX, fell down an entire flight of stairs,
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Speaker 1: smashing his head in the process. Now, he immediately picked
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Speaker 1: himself up and tried to tell himself that he was okay,
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Speaker 1: but over the course of that day, he started to
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Speaker 1: feel woozy and disoriented, and his legs started to feel numb,
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Speaker 1: and so in a panic, he rushed himself to the hospital,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately, when they scanned his brain and they checked
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Speaker 1: him out, the doctor's discovered he had a severe concussion
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Speaker 1: from this fall, and he had a brain bleed that
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Speaker 1: almost certainly would require surgery at some point down the road. Also,
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Speaker 1: the numbness in his legs appeared to be the result
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Speaker 1: of permanent nerve damage. And so suddenly Chandler, who was
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Speaker 1: so excited about this opportunity in Florida, is now back
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Speaker 1: home in a neck brace with a cane to get around,
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Speaker 1: and even with the cane he can barely walk. And then,
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Speaker 1: adding insult to injury, he almost immediately lost the job
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Speaker 1: at SpaceX because he couldn't travel to Florida to start
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Speaker 1: the job, and so they filled it with someone else.
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Speaker 1: Chandler did his best to stay positive and optimistic, but
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was a crushing blow. Everything he had
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Speaker 1: worked for had just been taken away. And it was
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Speaker 1: crushing for his family too. I mean, seeing their beloved
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Speaker 1: Chaz as they called him, laying on the couch looking
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Speaker 1: totally miserable and depressed all day was awful. But despite
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Speaker 1: how bad Chandler's accident was, the trauma it inflicted on
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Speaker 1: Chandler and his family was nothing compared to what happened next.
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Speaker 1: The Haldersons owned a small cabin that was located in
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Speaker 1: a part of Wisconsin called White Lake. It was located
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Speaker 1: about three hours drive to the north of their home
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Speaker 1: in Windsor, and the cabin was situated inside of this rural,
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Speaker 1: forested area, right near a big lake called White Lake,
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Speaker 1: hence the name of the area. This cabin had been
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Speaker 1: in the Halderson family since the nineteen forties, and when
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Speaker 1: Mitchell and Chandler were little kids, bart and Christa would
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Speaker 1: take them up there all the time to go fishing,
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Speaker 1: to go swimming, or just to relax. It was like
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Speaker 1: their vacation home. But at some point Chandler and Mitchell
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Speaker 1: reached a certain age where they weren't that interested in
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Speaker 1: going to the cabin anymore, and so as a result,
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Speaker 1: bart and Christa basically stopped going. However, just two weeks
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Speaker 1: after Chandler's horrific injury, there was this huge storm that
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Speaker 1: rolled through the White Lake area, and after the storm
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Speaker 1: had passed, some people who lived permanently in White Lake
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Speaker 1: called Barton Christa and told them, Hey, I was driving
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Speaker 1: past your cabin and I saw there was some broken windows.
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Speaker 1: It looks like your cabin might have been damaged from
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Speaker 1: this storm. And so Bart and Christa they're thinking, oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness, we got to get up there as soon
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Speaker 1: as we can and patch up that window and fix
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Speaker 1: the rest of the cabin before another storm rolls through
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Speaker 1: and totally ruins the cabin. And so barton Christa pull
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Speaker 1: out their calendar and they see the next weekend coming
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Speaker 1: up is the fourth of July weekend. The fourth of
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Speaker 1: July is a very big holiday in America. It's when
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Speaker 1: we celebrate our independence. And the way White Lake celebrates
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Speaker 1: the Fourth of July is with a big parade down
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Speaker 1: Main Street and these amazing fireworks out over White Lake.
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Speaker 1: And so Bart and Christa they figure, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let's just hold off and head up to our cabin
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Speaker 1: in a couple of days to time it with the
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Speaker 1: fourth of July weekend, and we can make the necessary
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Speaker 1: repairs and we can enjoy the festivities of the holiday
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Speaker 1: and kind of have a mini vacation up there. And
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Speaker 1: so that was all fine and good, but right before
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Speaker 1: they left for this trip up to White Lake, Bart
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Speaker 1: and Christa started acting a little weird. On the evening,
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Speaker 1: of Thursday, July first, the day before Barton and Christa
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Speaker 1: are supposed to leave for this trip. They begin packing
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Speaker 1: up their things, and since Chandler lives with them, he's
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Speaker 1: at home he sees them doing this, and at some
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Speaker 1: point he kind of got up and hobbled over and
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Speaker 1: tried to help them pack, but that was short lived
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Speaker 1: because his legs were so weak, and so he sat
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Speaker 1: down and just kind of watched them pack. And what
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Speaker 1: he saw is they were packing lots and lots of
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Speaker 1: cash and silver bars into their luggage. Although this was
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Speaker 1: kind of odd to Chandler, he decided not to say
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Speaker 1: anything because he figured, you know what, maybe they want
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Speaker 1: to stash their cash and silver in the cabin like
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Speaker 1: a keepsake. I don't know, but it's their business, it's
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Speaker 1: not mine. And so bart and Christa they continue to
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Speaker 1: pack up their things, and Chandler, because he can't go anywhere,
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Speaker 1: just continues to kind of watch them pack. And at
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Speaker 1: some point Chandler asks his parents, so, how are you
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Speaker 1: getting up to White Lake? And his parents would say, oh,
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Speaker 1: we're just getting a ride from our friends, another couple.
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Speaker 1: They're driving us up, but they didn't tell him who
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Speaker 1: the couple was They basically just said, it's our friends.
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Speaker 1: And so again Chandler's sitting there thinking, Okay, this whole
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Speaker 1: thing is a little bit weird, but you know what,
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Speaker 1: it's their business. I'm not going to ask about it.
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Speaker 1: They obviously don't want to tell me, and so he
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Speaker 1: just kind of let it go. And so at some
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Speaker 1: point Bart and Christa they finish packing, and they move
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Speaker 1: all their luggage to the front of the house, right
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Speaker 1: near the front door, and then a little while later
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Speaker 1: they and Chandler would retreat to their rooms and they
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Speaker 1: would go to sleep. The next morning, July second, Friday,
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Speaker 1: Chandler got up early at about six am, and when
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Speaker 1: he got up, he began slowly hobbling his way down
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Speaker 1: the stairs, expecting to see his mom and dad having
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Speaker 1: breakfast and you know, getting ready to leave, because they
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Speaker 1: certainly wouldn't have left without telling him. But he gets
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Speaker 1: downstairs and the house is dark and totally empty, and
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Speaker 1: all of the bags that his parents had packed the
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Speaker 1: night before and put near the front door, they were
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Speaker 1: all gone. And so Chandler's thinking, did my parents get
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Speaker 1: up at like five am and leave without telling me?
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Speaker 1: So he goes to the door and he looks out
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Speaker 1: the window, thinking, you know, maybe they're out there waiting outside.
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Speaker 1: But when he looked outside, his parents weren't out there,
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Speaker 1: and sure enough, their cars were still in the driveway.
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Speaker 1: And so Chandler was left to believe that, well, I
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Speaker 1: guess my parents did get picked up by whoever these
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Speaker 1: friends were, and they did not feel the need to
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Speaker 1: come tell me they were leaving. Now, this did leave
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Speaker 1: Chandler a little bit shaken up. He just kept thinking
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Speaker 1: about the strangeness of what they were packing, and the
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Speaker 1: fact that he didn't know who they were going with,
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Speaker 1: and now the sudden departure. But again, Chandler just told
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Speaker 1: himself that his parents would be just fine. You know,
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Speaker 1: these are just kind of random anomalies, but they're not
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Speaker 1: indicative of there being any issue here. And so Chandler
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Speaker 1: found a way to just kind of push these concerns
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Speaker 1: out of his mind and he just went about his day.
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Speaker 1: And so, because his parents were now going to be
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Speaker 1: gone for the weekend, he promptly called his girlfriend Catherine
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Speaker 1: and asked her to come over and stay as how
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Speaker 1: with him for a couple of days. And so she
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Speaker 1: would she comes over, and because Chandler can't really do
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Speaker 1: anything because of his injury. They basically spent the weekend
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Speaker 1: just kind of lounging around and eating nice food and
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Speaker 1: watching Netflix. But by the end of the weekend, on
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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, there was an undertone that both of them
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Speaker 1: noticed that something was wrong. Chandler had told his girlfriend
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Speaker 1: about the strangeness of his parents' quick departure to White Lake,
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Speaker 1: but he had said to her, you know, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: it's fine, and she basically said the same thing that
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Speaker 1: of course your parents are fine. But by Sunday, Bart
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Speaker 1: and Christa had still not called or texted or checked
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Speaker 1: in with Chandler or Mitchell or anybody. They were just
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Speaker 1: totally gone and silent, and whenever Chandler or Catherine tried
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Speaker 1: calling Bart or Christa's cell phone, it didn't even ring.
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Speaker 1: It just went straight to voicemail. But by late that day, Sunday,
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Speaker 1: July fourth, when really concerns were starting to mount about
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Speaker 1: what happened to Bart and Christa, Christa would text her
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Speaker 1: son Chandler, and what she basically said was, Hey, we
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Speaker 1: arrived in White Lake. You know it's packed here. The
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Speaker 1: service is terrible, but we're going to stick around for
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Speaker 1: the parade and we'll be back either Monday night or
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Speaker 1: Tuesday early. And so as soon as Chandler and Catherine
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Speaker 1: saw this text message, it was like all their worries
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Speaker 1: were completely gone and they were just excited to see
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Speaker 1: Bart and Christa when they came back the next day
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Speaker 1: or the day after. But the next day, Monday, Bart
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Speaker 1: and Christa did not come home. They didn't call anyone,
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Speaker 1: they didn't text anyone. And again whenever anybody tried calling
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Speaker 1: their cell phones, which now was Chandler, Catherine and also Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: who had been looped in on what's going on with
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Speaker 1: his parents, whenever they tried calling them, Bart and Christa's
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Speaker 1: phone didn't ring. It just went straight to voicemail. And
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Speaker 1: then the day after that, on Tuesday, July sixth, so
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Speaker 1: this was the day that Christa said they would be
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Speaker 1: home by they didn't come home, and again no one
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Speaker 1: could get in touch with them, and again they did
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Speaker 1: not contact anyone. Additionally, on Tuesday, Christa's office began calling
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Speaker 1: Chandler and Mitchell asking if they knew where Christa was.
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Speaker 1: Christa had recently taken up a customer service job at
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Speaker 1: an autobody shop, and apparently she was scheduled to work
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Speaker 1: on that day, Tuesday the sixth, and she was scheduled
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Speaker 1: to work on that previous Friday, which was the day
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Speaker 1: Bart and Christa left for the Lake, meaning she had
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Speaker 1: left on this trip without telling anybody at work. And
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Speaker 1: according to her boss, Christa was the type of person
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Speaker 1: who even if she was running a couple of minutes late,
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Speaker 1: she would call ahead or text ahead and let people know.
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Speaker 1: So for her to just completely not show up and
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Speaker 1: tell no one was totally out of character. But before Chandler, Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: and Catherine could process this information, Bart's employer began calling
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Speaker 1: them asking the same things, Hey do you know where
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Speaker 1: Bart is? He's supposed to be working right now, and
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Speaker 1: we can't get in touch with him, and he didn't
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Speaker 1: put in for time off, and so all afternoon on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday the sixth, Chandler, Mitchell, and Catherine and other family
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Speaker 1: members are trying to call Bart and Krista. They're calling
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Speaker 1: other people in White Lake to see if anybody knows
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Speaker 1: where they are, but nobody does. And so finally the
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Speaker 1: next morning, on Wednesday, July seventh, when still there was
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Speaker 1: no word from barton Christa, Chandler goes to the police
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Speaker 1: and he files a missing person report and pretty much
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Speaker 1: right away the police in Windsor contacted the police up
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Speaker 1: north in White Lake and asked them to do a
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Speaker 1: check on this cabin to see if maybe bart and
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Speaker 1: Christa were there and maybe they just had terrible service,
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Speaker 1: or you know, maybe there was some sort of accident
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Speaker 1: or something that happened. But when the White Lake police
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Speaker 1: arrived at the Halderson cabin, barton Christa were not there.
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Speaker 1: No one was there. In fact, the cabin looks like
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Speaker 1: it had not been used in months. The outside was
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Speaker 1: totally overgrown, and inside there was no food in the fridge.
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Speaker 1: And interestingly, the police would also tell Chandler, Mitchell and
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Speaker 1: Catherine that there was no damage done to this cabin.
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Speaker 1: There were no broken windows or any sign at least
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Speaker 1: no obvious sign of storm damage to this cabin. And
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Speaker 1: so after this revelation, of course Bart and Christa's family
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Speaker 1: is like, wait a minute, who called them and told
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Speaker 1: them to head up there to fix these obvious broken windows?
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Speaker 1: Are those the same mystery friends that drove them up
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Speaker 1: in the first place? I mean, what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: Was this some sort of trap? Have they been set up?
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Speaker 1: Are they okay, And so by the following day, Thursday,
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Speaker 1: July eighth, when still there was no sign of bart
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Speaker 1: or Christa and the police really didn't have any new
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Speaker 1: leaves to speak of, Chandler was desperate, and so he
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Speaker 1: went to local media and he said, please run a
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Speaker 1: story about my parents and get the word out there
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Speaker 1: that they're missing, and maybe someone knows something and they'll
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Speaker 1: come forward. And so local media they would do that,
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Speaker 1: they would run this piece. And so while this media
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Speaker 1: coverage is going on on the eighth, Chandler would go
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Speaker 1: back to his home and he would hobble door to
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Speaker 1: door asking each of his neighbors if they had a
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Speaker 1: security camera on the front of their house that might
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Speaker 1: have picked up an anger of the street and so
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Speaker 1: may have seen his parents on the morning of July second,
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Speaker 1: when they climbed into that mystery couple's car that took
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Speaker 1: them up to White Lake. Chandler was hoping that if
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Speaker 1: he got this footage, somebody would be able to identify
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Speaker 1: who these mystery friends were. But unfortunately, none of his
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Speaker 1: neighbors had that footage. But as it would turn out,
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Speaker 1: it didn't matter, because on that day, the eighth, the
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Speaker 1: police made a discovery that at first seemed relatively minor
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Speaker 1: relatively small, but when they examined it more closely, they
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Speaker 1: realized it was a huge discovery and it completely broke
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Speaker 1: the case wide open. To understand this breakthrough, we have
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Speaker 1: to go back to June twenty ninth, twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: So three days before Bart and Christa hopped into that
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Speaker 1: mystery person's car and headed up to White Lake. On
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Speaker 1: that day, June twenty ninth, Bart had finally just had it.
18:53
Speaker 1: There had been something bothering him for a really long time,
18:56
Speaker 1: and he had just finally decided, you know what, today,
18:59
Speaker 1: I'm going to get to the bottom of it. And
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Speaker 1: so Bart pulled out his phone, he punched in a number,
19:03
Speaker 1: he put it to his ear, and after a few rings,
19:06
Speaker 1: a young man named Omar Job answered his call. In total,
19:10
Speaker 1: Bart and Omar would talk on the phone for a
19:12
Speaker 1: total of seventeen minutes, and for the first half of
19:15
Speaker 1: the call it was basically just Bart being really angry
19:18
Speaker 1: and aggressive towards Omar. But then during the second half
19:21
Speaker 1: of the call, when Omar really had a chance to
19:23
Speaker 1: speak for the first time, Bart's tone completely changed. He
19:27
Speaker 1: was no longer angry he actually sounded totally defeated. And
19:31
Speaker 1: so after this seventeen minute phone call finally comes to
19:34
Speaker 1: an end, Bart is left kind of in shock, but
19:37
Speaker 1: he knows he now needs to set up an even
19:40
Speaker 1: more intense meeting with a group of people, and he
19:43
Speaker 1: needs to tell them what he just learned from Omar.
19:47
Speaker 1: And within twenty four hours, Bart had set this additional
19:51
Speaker 1: high stakes meeting with this other group. It was set
19:54
Speaker 1: for three pm on July first. July first was the
19:57
Speaker 1: day before Bart and Christa would leave for White Lake,
20:01
Speaker 1: and so on July first, the day of this new
20:04
Speaker 1: pivotal meeting, Bart was working from home and at some
20:07
Speaker 1: point he looked at his watch and he saw it
20:09
Speaker 1: was just after two pm. And even though this meeting
20:12
Speaker 1: he was going to have was still an hour away,
20:15
Speaker 1: the location of the meeting was a bit of a
20:17
Speaker 1: drive away, and so he knew he needed to leave soon.
20:20
Speaker 1: And so Bart stopped working and he texted Chandler, who
20:23
Speaker 1: was in the house with him. He just said, ready
20:25
Speaker 1: to leave when you are. Chandler was aware of how
20:28
Speaker 1: important this meeting was for his dad. He also understood
20:31
Speaker 1: the terrible position his dad was in, and so he
20:34
Speaker 1: had agreed to go with his dad to this meeting,
20:37
Speaker 1: and so after a couple of minutes, both Chandler and
20:39
Speaker 1: Bart have gotten dressed and ready for this meeting, and
20:42
Speaker 1: they met downstairs on the first floor, and after kind
20:44
Speaker 1: of a nod to each other, they begin walking towards
20:46
Speaker 1: the front door. But then something happens. Chandler was standing
20:50
Speaker 1: behind Bart, and so as they're moving towards the door,
20:53
Speaker 1: Chandler reaches out and grabs a rifle he was hiding
20:57
Speaker 1: on the first floor. He raises it and he fires
20:59
Speaker 1: at least two shots into his father's back. And then
21:03
Speaker 1: once his father fell to the ground and was either
21:05
Speaker 1: dead or dying, Chandler calm as can be, pulled out
21:09
Speaker 1: his phone and he texted his mother and told her, hey,
21:12
Speaker 1: dad's phone is dead, so just text me. And then
21:15
Speaker 1: Chandler also sent his mother a text saying get soda
21:19
Speaker 1: on your way home, to which his mother just wrote, okay,
21:22
Speaker 1: I can smiley face. All Chandler was trying to do
21:25
Speaker 1: was by as much time as possible to prep the
21:27
Speaker 1: house for his mother's return, and so over the next
21:30
Speaker 1: couple of hours, we don't know exactly what Chandler did,
21:33
Speaker 1: but it's assumed he moved his father's body into some
21:37
Speaker 1: hiding place, and then, after maybe trying to clean up
21:39
Speaker 1: a little bit, Chandler laid in wait for his mother,
21:42
Speaker 1: and at four fifty eight pm, Krista would clock out
21:45
Speaker 1: of her job at the automotive shop. She would make
21:48
Speaker 1: a pit stop at a store to buy Chandler some soda,
21:51
Speaker 1: and then between five point fifteen and five point thirty,
21:53
Speaker 1: security cameras on neighbors houses would pick her up pulling
21:58
Speaker 1: into her driveway, and then just a couple of minutes later,
22:00
Speaker 1: she walked inside of her beautiful little dream home where
22:04
Speaker 1: she had raised her family over the past couple of decades,
22:07
Speaker 1: only to be immediately gunned down by her son the
22:10
Speaker 1: second she walked inside. It would turn out Chandler was
22:13
Speaker 1: living a double life. He had never graduated from college.
22:17
Speaker 1: He had gone to college but for like a semester
22:19
Speaker 1: and flunked out, but he just kept telling his friends
22:22
Speaker 1: and family that he was progressing through college and then
22:24
Speaker 1: he graduated from college all made up. He also did
22:28
Speaker 1: not have a job at the insurance company. He just
22:31
Speaker 1: told his family that he worked from home, which really
22:34
Speaker 1: meant he sat in his room and played video games
22:36
Speaker 1: all day. He was not a rescue scuba diver for
22:39
Speaker 1: the Madison Police Department because one he was not a
22:43
Speaker 1: scuba diver and two because the Madison Police Department did
22:46
Speaker 1: not have a rescue scuba diving team. And needless to say,
22:50
Speaker 1: he did not have a job with SpaceX. He had
22:53
Speaker 1: never even applied. As for his head injury, he may
22:57
Speaker 1: have bumped his head at some point, and he did
22:59
Speaker 1: go to the doctors by himself sometime in mid June,
23:03
Speaker 1: but that doctor just told him he might have a
23:06
Speaker 1: mild concussion and then offered him a neck brace and
23:10
Speaker 1: told him you don't need to wear it. That's only
23:12
Speaker 1: if you want to wear it. But then, very quickly
23:14
Speaker 1: Chandler turned this non injury into a debilitating, crippling, life
23:19
Speaker 1: altering injury and literally hobbled all around with a neck
23:23
Speaker 1: brace and caine. And the reason he did that is
23:25
Speaker 1: he needed an excuse for why he wasn't starting his
23:29
Speaker 1: job at SpaceX. In short, Chandler lied about virtually every
23:33
Speaker 1: aspect of his life to virtually everyone in his life,
23:37
Speaker 1: and for the most part, people did believe him. However,
23:41
Speaker 1: his parents were becoming more and more suspicious specifically in
23:45
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, he was telling them, Oh, yeah, I'm
23:48
Speaker 1: working at the insurance company. But he never had any money.
23:51
Speaker 1: He could barely pay rent to his family, if at all,
23:54
Speaker 1: and so his dad would say to him, how is
23:56
Speaker 1: it you are employed but have no money. Chandler would
24:00
Speaker 1: handle this is he would create fake email accounts, pretending
24:04
Speaker 1: to be people in HR at this insurance company, and
24:08
Speaker 1: then acting as them, he would write these convoluted emails
24:12
Speaker 1: that had these ridiculous excuses for why Chandler had not
24:15
Speaker 1: been paid yet, And so he would have that fake
24:17
Speaker 1: email account email his real account, and then Chandler, in
24:21
Speaker 1: his actual email would write back really angrily and sternly, saying,
24:25
Speaker 1: you got to fix this. My family's not happy. And
24:27
Speaker 1: then he would once again pretend to be the HR
24:29
Speaker 1: person who would say, I'm sorry, it's some issue that
24:32
Speaker 1: you can't affect. We're going to fix it, but you
24:34
Speaker 1: gotta wait. And Chandler would take these exchanges and he
24:38
Speaker 1: would forward them to his father, and while Bart didn't
24:41
Speaker 1: necessarily totally believe what he was being shown, it was
24:45
Speaker 1: enough to get him to stop asking questions. But Bart
24:47
Speaker 1: and Christa were also suspicious of other aspects of Chandler's life, like,
24:52
Speaker 1: for example, his school records. At some point he needed
24:55
Speaker 1: to show them his transcripts, and he would tell them, oh,
24:58
Speaker 1: you know, I can't. I can't access my transcripts, And
25:01
Speaker 1: so Bart and Christa are like, why can't you just
25:04
Speaker 1: log in and pull up your unofficial transcripts at least
25:07
Speaker 1: And the way Chandler would handle this was the same
25:09
Speaker 1: way he handled the insurance company. He would create fictitious
25:13
Speaker 1: email accounts of people that were college advisors at Madison College,
25:17
Speaker 1: where he claimed to have gone and graduated from, and
25:20
Speaker 1: he would do those phony back and forth where it
25:22
Speaker 1: looked like the college was telling Chandler, sorry, you can't
25:26
Speaker 1: get your transcripts. It's this huge problem that's totally our fault,
25:30
Speaker 1: not yours. But you just gotta wait. There's nothing else
25:33
Speaker 1: you can do. We can't get them for you right now.
25:35
Speaker 1: And when Chandler would send these exchanges to Bart, Bart
25:39
Speaker 1: would get totally worked up about it, and finally he
25:42
Speaker 1: demanded that Chandler give him a phone number so he
25:45
Speaker 1: can talk to one of these college advisors. And so
25:48
Speaker 1: Chandler went out and got a burner phone from a
25:50
Speaker 1: convenience store, and he gave that phone number to his dad,
25:54
Speaker 1: and then when his dad called this number up, somebody
25:57
Speaker 1: picked up, someone introducing themselves as Daniel Speith, which really
26:01
Speaker 1: was just Chandler disguising his voice, and Daniel Speith would
26:06
Speaker 1: give Bart the same spiel about how oh, I'm so sorry,
26:09
Speaker 1: it's all the college's fault that we can't get your
26:12
Speaker 1: son's transcripts. You're just gonna have to wait. And so finally,
26:15
Speaker 1: on June twenty ninth, twenty twenty one, Bart had just
26:19
Speaker 1: had it with his son. He was convinced his son
26:23
Speaker 1: was lying or there was something going on. There was
26:25
Speaker 1: just too much about his son's life that didn't add up,
26:29
Speaker 1: and so Bart decided he was just going to call
26:32
Speaker 1: Madison College and pretend to be Chandler and see if
26:36
Speaker 1: he could get his transcripts. And so he dialed a
26:38
Speaker 1: number for customer service at Madison College, and after a
26:42
Speaker 1: few rings, Omar Job, a customer service rep at Madison College,
26:46
Speaker 1: picked up. And initially Bart was kind of aggressive and
26:50
Speaker 1: mean towards Omar for really no reason other than he
26:53
Speaker 1: was just so frustrated with this whole situation. And so
26:57
Speaker 1: he's on this call, pretending to be Chandler, and he's
26:59
Speaker 1: kind of barking at Omar to give me my transcripts
27:02
Speaker 1: right now. I go to your school. There's no reason
27:04
Speaker 1: you can keep them from me. But then after a
27:06
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, Omar finally was able to talk and
27:09
Speaker 1: he said, you know, hey, Chandler, I looked you up
27:11
Speaker 1: in the system, and you don't go to this school.
27:14
Speaker 1: You've never gone to the school save for maybe one semester,
27:17
Speaker 1: and you've failed out. And so it's at this point
27:19
Speaker 1: when bart hears this that he just pauses for a
27:22
Speaker 1: really long amount of time on this call, and then
27:25
Speaker 1: he begins asking follow up questions that are not really
27:28
Speaker 1: connected to trying to get transcripts, because now he knows
27:31
Speaker 1: the transcripts don't exist because his son didn't go to school,
27:35
Speaker 1: And so he begins asking Omar, does Daniel Speith still
27:39
Speaker 1: work there? And so Omar would look him up and
27:41
Speaker 1: he would say, no, there's no Daniel Speith that works here,
27:44
Speaker 1: and there's no Daniel Speith that's ever worked here. And
27:47
Speaker 1: because Chandler had used like five or six different names
27:51
Speaker 1: when pretending to be college advisors for Madison College, Bart
27:55
Speaker 1: in addition to asking about that Daniel Speith, guy asked
27:58
Speaker 1: about every other name he had intert with, believing he
28:01
Speaker 1: was talking to Madison College, and one by one, Omar
28:04
Speaker 1: told him, I'm sorry, those people do not work here.
28:07
Speaker 1: I've never heard of these people. They're not in the directory.
28:10
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And so finally, at the end of that
28:12
Speaker 1: seventeen minute call, Bart knew his son was living a
28:16
Speaker 1: huge lie, and so he hung up with Omar, and
28:19
Speaker 1: then Bart called real college advisors at Madison College and
28:24
Speaker 1: he set a meeting for July first, at three pm.
28:27
Speaker 1: And then he told Chandler that he had set this
28:30
Speaker 1: meeting and Chandler was going to come with him and
28:34
Speaker 1: they together were going to ask those college advisors why
28:38
Speaker 1: they can't produce Chandler's transcripts. Now, Bart of course knew
28:42
Speaker 1: Chandler did not have transcripts, and so he likely had
28:45
Speaker 1: set this meeting to get Chandler to call the meeting
28:49
Speaker 1: off and come clean about this big lie, so that
28:52
Speaker 1: Bart could get his son back on the right track,
28:55
Speaker 1: stop lying, and live a real life. But the way
28:59
Speaker 1: Chandler handled being caught was not to own up to
29:02
Speaker 1: any of this. He didn't call off the meeting. He
29:04
Speaker 1: just waited until the day of the meeting, and then
29:07
Speaker 1: he killed his father, killed his mother, and then dismembered
29:11
Speaker 1: their bodies and burned their body parts in the family fireplace,
29:16
Speaker 1: including their heads. And then when he couldn't destroy their
29:19
Speaker 1: bodies completely, he took what was left of their remains
29:23
Speaker 1: and scattered them all over town and parks and forests
29:26
Speaker 1: and rivers. He even put his father's headless, armless, legless
29:30
Speaker 1: torso behind his girlfriend's parents' house. And all the while
29:34
Speaker 1: as he's doing this, he's spinning this ridiculous story to
29:38
Speaker 1: his girlfriend, to his brother, to other members of the
29:41
Speaker 1: Halderson family, to police, to colleagues of bart and Christa
29:46
Speaker 1: that Barton Christa just up and left on the morning
29:49
Speaker 1: of July second with this mystery couple. And oh, by
29:52
Speaker 1: the way, my parents they were putting cash and silver
29:54
Speaker 1: bars in their luggage. So I don't know. They went
29:57
Speaker 1: up to White Lake and now they're gone. I don't
29:59
Speaker 1: know what happened to them. We don't know why Chandler
30:02
Speaker 1: chose the story he did. It's unclear if he was
30:05
Speaker 1: trying to make it seem like his parents were suspicious
30:09
Speaker 1: and had gotten into something that had maybe gotten them
30:11
Speaker 1: harmed or kidnapped, or if he was trying to make
30:14
Speaker 1: it seem like his parents were just super gullible and
30:16
Speaker 1: had been taken advantage of by this mystery couple, we
30:19
Speaker 1: don't know. He was just trying to make the whole
30:21
Speaker 1: situation seem plausibly suspicious. Ultimately, though, Chandler did so many
30:26
Speaker 1: things that got him cut. From the mountain of physical
30:30
Speaker 1: evidence he left behind inside of his house where he
30:33
Speaker 1: killed and dismembered his parents, and also at the various
30:36
Speaker 1: dump sites where he didn't even bury the body parts.
30:39
Speaker 1: He would just put them underneath sticks and branches, and
30:42
Speaker 1: so they were very easy to find, to his extremely
30:45
Speaker 1: suspicious behavior on July seventh, when he walked into the
30:49
Speaker 1: police station and reported his parents missing. That whole time
30:52
Speaker 1: he was talking to police officers, he was acting so
30:55
Speaker 1: weird and was just saying things that didn't make sense,
30:58
Speaker 1: and he just totally came off like a guy who
31:01
Speaker 1: did not care at all that his parents were gone,
31:03
Speaker 1: and really just seemed like a guy who was hiding something.
31:06
Speaker 1: But the big breakthrough that happened on July eighth that
31:10
Speaker 1: broke the case open stemmed from the text message Christa's
31:15
Speaker 1: phone sent to Chandler's phone on July fourth. When Chandler
31:20
Speaker 1: walked into the police station on July seventh and said
31:23
Speaker 1: my parents are missing, one of the first questions they
31:26
Speaker 1: had for him was, okay, well, when was the last
31:28
Speaker 1: time you spoke to your parents? And Chandler would tell
31:30
Speaker 1: them he got a text message from his mother, Christa
31:34
Speaker 1: on Sunday, July fourth, and then he showed them the
31:37
Speaker 1: text message, and the text message said that they had
31:40
Speaker 1: arrived in White Lake and they were going to be
31:42
Speaker 1: sticking around for the parade and they'd be back in
31:45
Speaker 1: a couple of days. But the police noticed that this
31:48
Speaker 1: text message had been sent on July fourth, but in
31:52
Speaker 1: White Lake that year, the parade was on July third,
31:56
Speaker 1: So when this text came through the parade that any
32:00
Speaker 1: one in White Lake would be aware of, it's a
32:01
Speaker 1: small place. You're not going to miss this parade. The
32:04
Speaker 1: parade had already happened, So why would Christa be texting
32:07
Speaker 1: her son that she was going to stick around in
32:10
Speaker 1: White Lake for the parade that had already happened. And
32:13
Speaker 1: so this led police to check phone records and they
32:16
Speaker 1: would discover that text message was sent from Christa's phone
32:21
Speaker 1: to Chandler's phone, but when it was sent on July fourth,
32:24
Speaker 1: Christa's phone was not in White Lake. Instead, it was
32:27
Speaker 1: inside of the Halderson home, right near Chandler's phone, and
32:31
Speaker 1: so when police went to the Halderson house, they searched
32:35
Speaker 1: it and they found Christa's phone in the garage, underneath
32:38
Speaker 1: a drawer, inside of a shoe, wrapped in tinfoil, next
32:41
Speaker 1: to her driver's license. And so Chandler had obviously sent
32:45
Speaker 1: that text message on July fourth using his mother's phone
32:49
Speaker 1: to himself, but he had just gotten the date wrong
32:52
Speaker 1: of the parade, and so this discrepancy really opened up
32:54
Speaker 1: the floodgates, and before long it was beyond obvious that
32:58
Speaker 1: Chandler was the killer. And after a thorough investigation, it
33:03
Speaker 1: was determined that Chandler had acted entirely alone, meaning Catherine,
33:07
Speaker 1: his girlfriend, and his brother Mitchell had nothing to do
33:10
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33:13
Speaker 1: be found guilty of killing his parents, and he would
33:16
Speaker 1: be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
33:20
Speaker 1: Chandler has still not taken any responsibility for what he's done. Instead,
33:24
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33:27
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