Unseen - Unmasking the Colorado Catfish Killer | The Case of Kristil Krug | UNSEEN

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

“Mommy’s not coming home”  - On the morning of December 14th, 2023 Broomfield, Colorado police find mom of three, Kristil Krug, unconscious in her garage. But what first looks like an acciden...t quickly turns into something far darker when police discover a fatal stab wound. As investigators piece together Kristil’s final hours, they realize that for months, Kristil, her husband, and 3 children had been targeted by an obsessed stalker. But, what no one realizes is that Kristil was already tracking her killer, and the evidence she left behind will be the key to exposing her stalker’s true identity, and getting justice. - To help support Kristil’s children, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-the-krug-family  - Written, directed and edited by Justin Chalifoux Researched by Bianca Yzabelle Tan Voiceover by William Akana Produced by Salim Sader - “He’s Right Behind You.” ABC 20/20: ABC Entertainment, 2025 “The Phantom.” Dateline: NBCUniversal Media, LLC, 2025. “The Setup Murder of Kristil Krug.” 48 Hours: CBS Interactive Inc., 2025. Bodycam Captures Wife’s Final Moments Before It All Went Wrong, Beyond Evil, 2025. Getty Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:34 You go one way, I got the other. Another one on the left. The R.B. said there was a stocker. Oh, s'h. On December 14th, 20203, the Broomfield Police do a welfare check at this house, where Christiel Krug lives with her husband, Dan, and their three loving children. The footage you're about to see was filmed just minutes after Kristiel's family life took a disturbing turn for the worse. One month earlier, Christiel walks into the Broomfield Police Department, claiming that her crazy ex-boy
Starting point is 00:01:08 ex-boyfriend has been stalking her. It's a lot, and it has definitely made me, like, paranoid everywhere I go, unfortunately. Detectives send units to follow Christiel around, and her husband installs security cameras on their property. The problem is, police have been unable to track down the suspect, and the stalking doesn't stop. Now is escalating. This is not just threats against me. It's threats against my husband. On December 14th, at 8.56 a.m., Christiel sends this text message to her husband. She is never heard from after that.
Starting point is 00:01:40 My wife isn't responding to text messages or phone calls. We've had threats against us. Can I get a, maybe a wellness check at the house? We have both been targeted by a stalker. After going around the house, Officer O'Hara notices the garage door has windows, but they're too high for him to see. The footage then shows him returning to his vehicle, before he pulls his car up the driveway. car up the driveway, close to the door, so he can use it to climb up. That's when he sees it.
Starting point is 00:02:17 151, send medical and 110. I need a 4th century. Ropelle police! Rompail police! Right there, on the floor of the garage, is 44-year-old Christiel Krug, unconscious. She has a head injury, but Officer O'Hara is not sure if she simply fell, or if she was attacked. I'm on CPR. Let me know when the next unit is close. I'll open the garage door, particularly Outside, Christel's mother Linda walks up to the house, just as Officer O'Hara opens the garage door for the paramedics. I need you to stay out, please. I need you to come over here for a minute, okay, so we can work.
Starting point is 00:03:06 As other family members start arriving, police secure the rest of the house. Move to the police, anybody inside, make yourself know! Clear here. Coming out. You go one way, I got the other. Clear here. She's got a good head wound. I think it's from falling down. Fallen down? Guys, you see anything other than a fall type of wound?
Starting point is 00:03:25 That's a stop. Police can tell Kristyel was attacked getting into or out of her car. She was hit over the head before the person stabbed her. They rolled out the stretcher and I thought, oh, she's going to be okay. They're going to do everything for her. But then they rolled the stretcher back out without her. I knew. Soon after, a scream is heard coming from down the road.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Christel's husband, Dan. Hey, stay back, stay back. This is my house. I understand it. He's just learned the news that his wife was murdered and runs into the arms of Christel's family. Dan is in shock. He suddenly goes weak in the knees and can no longer stand on his own.
Starting point is 00:04:22 This man right now has just lost his everything. He's lost his wife. He's lost the mother to his children. Now he has to do everything. With the killer still at large, Dan is brought in for further questioning. But when Detective Martinez goes to see him, he's in no state to be interviewed. I arrived at the police department and immediately went to go speak with Dan. When I walked in, he became very emotional.
Starting point is 00:04:50 To make things easier for him, Detective Martinez tells Dan that he has people in his team who can help break the news to their children, but Dan insists he wants to be the one to tell them. Whatever I'm going to be. Is she okay? The mommy is not in the kid. For now, Detective Martinez is worried about protecting Dan and his three kids, before the killer claims another victim. Christel's other family members are also brought in, each put into separate interrogation
Starting point is 00:05:54 rooms, but while investigators are hoping to gain any information on the identity of Christel's stalker, there's one person that holds the key to solving the case. Kristiel Krugge herself. One month before her murder, Christel makes a phone call to the Broomfield Police Department. I need to report threatening emails and phone calls from a stalking X. Detective Martinez is the one assigned to her case. I reached out to Kristiol and arranged an interview with her.
Starting point is 00:06:24 You're in a room. Wonderful. Thank you. When Kristiel came in, she just kind of filled the whole room with her presence. You could tell that she was just very intelligent and she was very well prepared. Okay, hi. Yes, I know. Yes, it's been a little hearing. When she sits down to talk with Detective Martinez, Christel tells him that for the last few weeks,
Starting point is 00:06:46 a stalker has been following her around and harassing her online. It's a lot, and it has definitely made me, like, paranoid everywhere I go, unfortunately. Yeah, I can completely understand that. Yeah. She first and foremost wanted the stalking and the behavior and the contact to stop. So I have to wait a little bit now. This makes it so much simpler. Okay, I did a timeline for you.
Starting point is 00:07:09 Okay. Christine has come prepared. She's gathered all the information about the stalking instances onto a spreadsheet. All I do is like, oops, we're going to create a stalker log. We're going to monitor this. I'm going to go see what information I can have. What do you do? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:24 I just always heard document everything. The stalker log was detailed and complete, included everything from dates, times, locations, her feelings about it. The first date on the stalker log is September 23, 2023. This is when everything started. On that day, her husband Dan saw an intruder running out of their home. My husband caught somebody going through a garage. Like he came home with a garage, he caught somebody running out of her garage.
Starting point is 00:07:52 When the officer shows up at the house, Dan is already waiting outside, in the middle of his driveway. I'm Officer Chaunty. I'm Dan. Nice to meet ya. He explains to the officer that he saw the intruder when he got back home that afternoon. As I came down, the door was open.
Starting point is 00:08:07 I saw somewhat, I think it was a guy, but it was so fast. Yeah. Blue jeans, gray shirt, run out, jump over my gate, and take off that way. I cared less about following him than getting inside and checking on my kids. Yeah, absolutely. We realized the spare key that we keep in the garage isn't there. Okay. Where was that? kept that?
Starting point is 00:08:30 Uh, toolbox. Everything seems to be there. Okay. Except a spare key. The house key. Okay. Got it. It went over... This area. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:41 I went back. Troll officers responded, checked the area, and they couldn't find anybody that matched the description that Dan said. When Kristiel learns about the incident, she's more annoyed than afraid. My daughter, she said, Dan left the garage door, open. She was very angry. I watched the garage door closing.
Starting point is 00:09:00 Not necessarily closed. I don't think she thought there was danger. She didn't see it as a real threat. Dan takes care of changing the locks, so there no longer seems to be anything to worry about. Just a few days later, on October 2nd, Christel receives a strange text from a number she doesn't recognize. It reads, Hi, Christiel, it's Anthony. Hope it's okay I looked you up. I go to Boulder every few weeks and thought we could hook up.
Starting point is 00:09:27 You game? And the only Anthony she knew of was Jack Anthony Holland. Christiel's long details her relationship with Anthony over the years, starting in 1999 when she graduated high school. We dated Summer of 99 very briefly. He was a very nice guy. He was fun. We liked, everybody liked Anthony. But the relationship didn't last for more than a year,
Starting point is 00:09:54 probably. Their life goals and ambitions were two completely different tracks. I was going to college. I was like on an engineering track. There was just total different lifestyle choices. I broke it off with him and we ended fairly amicably. About a year later, while studying to get her degree in chemical engineering, Christiel met Dan. I remember when Dan came over and my mom and I were there and he was looking for my dad. And that's when it kind of hit me like, oh, this is real. This is going to be the guy. I was happy at the time because I knew she was going to be really happy. In the years that followed, while Christine was building her life with Dan, Anthony would still reach out from time to time on social media. Anthony had tried
Starting point is 00:10:40 to contact Christel a number of times over the years to kind of rekindle their romance every time she rejected him. Here, you know, he says, let's go together. I'm like, no. Here he says, let's get together. I'm like, I have a serious boyfriend. Like, we were living together at this time. And he's like, screw your boyfriend. And then, yeah, I got married in 2007. He's reaching out to me. He can see, I have a kid.
Starting point is 00:11:05 This is my profile picture of my kid. He's like, we're meant to be together. And I'm like, well, I'm married, happily married with children. You need to stop. And he got like real emotional. It wasn't angry, but it was hurt. He real, like, over-the-top emotions. And then blocked me.
Starting point is 00:11:20 And I'm like, good. I shut down Facebook. entirely before the pandemic. So, like, there was no way to get a hold of me on any kind of old email address or old way, and that's when this starts. So when Christel gets a text from Anthony in October of 2023, she doesn't reply. The next day, she receives a more disturbing message. You should say yes when I offer pity.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Whatever. Saw your picks. You got fat. Bet your loser husband won't your fat. Cristiel is shocked. This doesn't sound. like the Anthony she knows. He's never said this kind of stuff to me more so.
Starting point is 00:11:59 Like something's really wrong here. Back in the day, harmless. Now, I have no idea what this is. I don't know this person anymore. So I just see him as pretty unstable, honestly. Christiel doesn't answer, hoping things will just blow over. And if this is, in fact, Anthony,
Starting point is 00:12:16 he'll get the hint and leave her alone. But she has no idea that her nightmare is only just beginning. I got a really strange text message from somebody saying, are you still looking for men? And I was like, okay, I don't think this is Anthony. She's receiving numerous text messages from all sorts of different unknown numbers, all of men, many of which are sending photos of themselves in sexually explicit poses. After researching online, Christiel discovers a classified ad with her name and phone number on it. The ad solicits men to send her obscene photos of themselves.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Christel is convinced someone posted the ad to torment her, but she can't be sure if Anthony is behind this. Whoever it was, this bizarre incident is causing tension between her and Dan. They weren't as connected and with each other as much as before. They were constantly arguing. Then, on October 31st, almost a month after those first text messages, she gets an email with a picture of her husband. It was taken at his work without him knowing. The email was sent by A. Holland Kix at gmail.com.
Starting point is 00:13:31 Whoever was sending this email was actively following Dan. The message comes with a threat against Dan. It reads, This your husband? Can't believe you want to f*** his but not mine. He needs to drive safe. Don't want a clear rubber hose in his tailpipe. This now is escalating.
Starting point is 00:13:48 This is not just threats against me. It's stress against my husband. My husband has a camera in his car. He did not see anybody. And then unfortunately he lost all the video because he didn't see it. So I don't have any video edits. Christine now has a clear indication that she and her family are being followed. And she's terrified.
Starting point is 00:14:10 But the thing that bothers her the most is she never thought her ex-boyfriend Anthony Holland would be capable of doing something like this. There was nothing in the relationship other than him being stupid with stuff that was ever violent. We argue, but never like in a violent way. When her parents come to visit her that weekend, Christiel doesn't hide what's been happening. I need to let you know I'm, I'm being stalked. I'm getting emails from Anthony. He's threatening me with the things. He's saying just bizarre things. She had called me to ask if I could help her get a restraining order and kind of what that process would look like and what she needed to do to get her ducks in a row.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Kristiel has already hired a private investigator to find Anthony so she can serve him the restraining order, but tracking him down proves to be much harder than expected. He moves everywhere. He's like all of the place. Temporary protection order was what she was going to seek, which would require him to be served with paperwork in person. Because I don't have an address I can't submit that civil protection order. And there are tons of addresses. He moves everywhere and between like three different states.
Starting point is 00:15:19 Dan installs security cameras on their house and both buy dash cams for their car in case Anthony follows them while they're driving. First and foremost, Christel is worried for the safety of her children and her husband Dan, so she starts carrying a Sig Sauer 9mm. She felt she had to get a gun. My heart just sunk. She had a concealed carry purse specifically designed for that gun. I do have weapons in my home. I am intending to register for a course here to relearn. I don't have time since I've shot my guns, to relearn and get familiarized with my handgun. And I do remember going out to the gun range with her, and she just sat in the parking lot and cried. And she was just so upset. All I could do was hug her.
Starting point is 00:16:06 With everything that's happened, Christiel's children have started to notice that their mother is upset. She now has to explain to them what's been going on. I want them to also know that they can stand up for themselves in situations that might be threatening. So she was telling them all about what they needed to do, if an intruder came in. My oldest said, she's like, I'm glad that you told me something. She's like, because this is making me, she's like, it was making me feel worse when we've just heard you guys talking and hushed tones. Christiel is doing her best to keep their lives as normal as possible. She makes sure her oldest daughter can focus on her dance classes instead of worrying about her mommy's stalker.
Starting point is 00:16:43 She was so active in all of her daughter's performances and would be backstage and would be like a mom backstage helping all the little dancers get out to the stage on time. With Christmas just around the corner, Christel's daughter will be performing in two productions of the Nutcracker, something she's been looking forward to the whole year. But because of what's been going on and because no one knows where the stalker is, Christel is asked by the artistic director and the company to stop volunteering and to stay away from her daughter's performances.
Starting point is 00:17:15 It was devastating to her. I think a lot of this is the trying intentionally to scare me, as opposed to actually trying to approach me. But my fear is when does that switch happen where he suddenly gets emboldened because I'm not responding. When Christia leaves that day, I'm believing that this is a very real issue and there are credible threats, and we need to get on top of this quickly. The first thing Detective Martinez wants to do is confirm the identity
Starting point is 00:17:46 of the stalker. He served search warrants to Verizon, Tex Now, and Google. Their records could prove that Anthony Holland is, in fact, the one behind these threats. When we serve a search warrant to any major company, it takes time, weeks, if not months, for some companies. It would be, I think, foolish of any detective to go talk to somebody that they don't even know that is actually the person. If I get involved too early and start trying to be like, hey, knock it off, this isn't okay.
Starting point is 00:18:20 It usually throws steel on the fire and kind of emboldens because look at me, this cop. Getting no consequence. Right, this cop came to me and I have no consequence. He just told me to knock it off, like, what'd you do, you know? Yeah. November 9th, just two days after her meeting with Detective Martinez, Christel receives another text message that only makes things worse. It reads, Saw you a dentist, you got so in my car.
Starting point is 00:18:43 So I kill on yours. See you soon. Alluding to the person being outside in their own car watching Christiel. Christil immediately notifies Detective Martinez, who sends an officer over to her house. That saw you at the dentist's text, that saw you at the dentist's text has gotten Christel worried her stalker might have put a tracker on her car. Okay. I can only assume a tracker based on the fact that he could show up their vehicles and the
Starting point is 00:19:14 unless he's like a station out like a corner. The original station I'm leaving. We put Christiel's car on a lift. We check that car top to bottom, front to back, and we couldn't find anything on her car. I've lied streaming my location all the time from her brother. Okay. So that he knows anytime he's in the house also.
Starting point is 00:19:33 So everyone knows what I'm going to be from now on. Okay. I arranged for some undercover officers to follow her around, kind of to sit outside of her home, to see if there was any weird car. cars or anything like that. We weren't able to identify anybody. The constant paranoia is taking a toll on Christel, causing more strife in her relationship. She and Dan have been fighting more and more to the point where Christel tells her parents
Starting point is 00:19:58 they're headed for divorce. And then, more texts come in, making it clear what Anthony is planning next and who he's aiming for. I'll get rid of him, and then we can be together. So easy. Give me the signal, and he won't come home. was a direct threat towards Dan. Basically implies that they belong together and that he will make Dan disappear.
Starting point is 00:20:23 So Dan also comes in to talk to Detective Martinez. I just want to sit down with you and kind of want to see how you're doing. I don't know where to start with that open-ended question. Largely being paranoid for the last few days, my paddock level has gone considerably higher. I had a retractable asp steel baton pepper gel spray, always in this pocket. I went to the grocery store briefly on Tuesday. And someone behind me dropped cam. So what am I doing?
Starting point is 00:21:10 I'm panicking. And I'm doing a job of protecting my life. Interacting with Dan that day, I felt that Christel was better equipped to defend herself than Dan was to defend Christiel. The anxiety has become unbearable, and Christel fears she won't be able to prevent the worst from happening. That sooner or later, someone will get killed. She will never stop. You will never stop. But what she fears the most is that her children will get hurt, and she can't let that happen. I don't think she was sleeping.
Starting point is 00:21:48 She was just exhausted. I've never seen my daughter like that before. We had conversation almost daily throughout the month of November about where she was, how she was doing, and she basically refused to leave her house because that's where she felt most safe. On December 13th, the last day before her murder, the dash cam and Kristiel's car catches a rare glimpse into her life. Instead of showing her stalker following her car, the footage only shows how exhausted
Starting point is 00:22:17 she's become and how the last three months have visibly worn her down. Thursday, December 14th. The security cameras around the Krug residents show the activity that morning. At 6.45 a.m., Dan drives their eldest to the bus stop before returning minutes later, just before 7.7.4.m., Christiel is seen driving away, as she takes their younger two kids to school. She returns just before 8. At 8.24 a.m., Dan pulls out, heading off to work. about a half hour away. Dan is on the road when at 8.56 he receives a text from Christiel, asking him to pick up their daughter after school because she has a meeting with Detective Martinez.
Starting point is 00:22:58 Dan responds when he arrives at the office 20 minutes later. Sure thing, FYI, I forgot my chicken on the counter, please put it in the fridge. But Christel doesn't message back, which has Dan worried. He tries calling her, but gets no answer. For the next three hours, he keeps trying to reach her. until at 12.01 p.m., Dan asks for that welfare check. He also calls Christiel's mother, who lives close by. Dan said, I can't find Christiel. I thought, oh, she's probably just not answering her phone. Let me go over and I'll find out what's going on.
Starting point is 00:23:32 When Christel's mother Linda arrives at the house, she walks up the driveway. Female has some sort of head wound. She is warm. As the garage door opens, she peeks inside. I need you to stay out, please. I need you to come over here for a minute, okay, so we can work. She's okay. I was running towards the house, and I said, that's my daughter. Linda was standing right there and said, she's dead.
Starting point is 00:24:05 They killed her. Christiel's family is completely distraught. When Dan arrives, he breaks down crying, held close in their arms. With the killer still at large, detectives began calming through the crime scene, while others start looking for the suspect. We started canvassing the neighborhood. Detectives were assigned. to track down Jack Anthony Holland, who was our prime suspect.
Starting point is 00:24:27 Dan was potentially the next victim. They haven't been able to locate Anthony in the last few months, but what they do have is a license plate attached to his name. Police put out a nationwide alert to be on the lookout for his vehicle. Almost immediately, they get a hit, only it's not on any roads leading out of Colorado, but in north-central Utah. Investigators contact authorities there.
Starting point is 00:24:50 We made the joint decision to go make... contact at the residence. Multiple deputies in Utah zero in on Anthony's vehicle parked outside of residence. They have a warrant for Anthony's arrest on stocking charges. Mr. Holland answers the door. We introduce ourselves, we ask him who he is, he introduced himself as Mr. Holland. The most shocking thing is that Anthony is already home, just a couple hours after the murder.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Anthony invites the officers inside, waiting to be told what all this is about. You can stay seated. Stay seated. Yeah. Have you ever heard of the name Crystal Krug? She may have been Grimsrod when you knew her? Yeah. And you know a Daniel Krug? No.
Starting point is 00:25:33 No. How do you know Crystal? She was an ex-girlfriend. She was an ex-girlfriend? How long's the ex? Like how long ago? Um, 1999. Oh, so like a long while ago? She was my very first girlfriend ever.
Starting point is 00:25:46 Oh, okay. Okay. Um. The deputies go through the events of Anthony's morning. Apparently, he had been shopping for clothes at a store in American Fork, just 10 miles outside Salt Lake City. He shows them the receipt from his purchase, and the officers are able to confirm Anthony is telling the truth. There was a lot of police officers. I'm like, geez, I must be in trouble. I had no idea what's
Starting point is 00:26:10 going on. They asked me if I knew a Christoal group, and I said, yes, I know her. She was very smart, which I rarely looked up to. The brink was hard on both of us. We both held each other and just cried when we broke up. I haven't cried that hard. So my mom died. And we became friends on Facebook. The strange thing is, Anthony admits to having texted Christiel after their split, but says the last time he messaged her was in 2016.
Starting point is 00:26:39 I got a little drunk and I left her a message saying that I apologized to her for all the things that I did when we were together, and then she stopped talking to me. I was done. It was over. Colorado police are now left without any legal basis to arrest Anthony. They have no proof he was Christiel Stalker, or her killer, as he was provably 500 miles away at the time of the murder. Detectives might have lost their prime suspect, but with a murder on their hands, they can now escalate those search warrants. Martinez has been waiting nearly a month for the digital information that would tell him where those stalking messages came from.
Starting point is 00:27:19 But now, almost immediately, the companies respond, and what he discovers in the data is shocking. I felt like I was looking at the wrong person the whole time. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Just get it. Park, go, go, go. Go, go. Hey, Dan. You want me to tell your kids that you killed their mother or someone else to?
Starting point is 00:28:00 Dan Kruk is arrested for the murder of his wife, Kristiel. He was pulled over on his way to their daughter's performance of the Nutcracker. The data provided by Verizon, TextNow, and Google showed that the stalker had been using the Wi-Fi at Dan Krug's office. The email that was used, the phone number that was used, all of those things are coming back to one place and that's Dan's work. The burner phone first used to text Kristiel was traced back to a store in Broomfield and it had been purchased using a gift card registered to Dan Krug. The day before the homicide, Dan had searched a number of different things related. to head trauma, how hard you have to hit someone for them to be unconscious, how long someone needs to be unconscious to become brain dead, all a variety of those kinds of searches.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Police also did a digital analysis of that photo of Dan outside his office. It showed the photo had been taken in selfie mode with a timer. What about the text message sent from Christel's phone at the time Dan was arriving at work? Investigators found out that the text was scheduled to be sent after he had already left the house. Dan was building his alibi, that he's going to get this text message saying, hey, I got a text from her. Well, she had to have been alive. I got this text from her. In looking back at his work camera, he took very specific routes at his work so that he was seen on camera. He receives the text message he sent himself. He starts trying to communicate back with Chris Steele.
Starting point is 00:29:32 He doesn't want to be the one to find the body. So he calls the non-emergency line at the the Brunfield Police Department and asks for a welfare check. You wanted an alibi, obviously. Why did it have to be me? As it turns out, not everyone was surprised to discover Dan had killed his wife. Just hours after Christiel's death, her mother Linda tells detectives that maybe Anthony isn't the only suspect they should look at. Her life was hell always left months and last year. Her husband and her were not in good terms.
Starting point is 00:30:08 told me that her marriage was over. Here in the last few months, she just loathed him. I kept thinking, why are you staying? Do you should go? I remember hugging Linda. And I don't know why it came out. But I remember just saying, like, did he kill her? Did Dan kill her?
Starting point is 00:30:29 And I remember Linda telling me, like, I don't know. I just, I can't shake this question. Is he the one that's been doing this with Anthony? But the most shocking statement comes from Donna, Christiel's stepmother. This nothing goes from here, right? She did say something that to me on Monday that was alarming. She did say that she felt like she couldn't even rule Dan out. I don't know what she said.
Starting point is 00:31:06 I don't know. It appears Christel was about to discover that Dan was her stalker all along, and it's possible that Dan decided to kill her before she found out the truth. April 4th, 2025, Dan Krug pleads not guilty to first-degree murder and stalking. The very, very first hearing, Dan walked in the room and made eye contact with all of us and smiled. I think he thought we were there for him. Apparently, the look on my face, after he saw me, he never looked at me again, ever.
Starting point is 00:31:38 While all the digital information points to Dan, the physical evidence against him is then. If Dan Krug walks free, he will have full custody of Kristyel's children. and their lives will be in danger. But there's one witness that will change everything, one of Dan's ex-girlfriends. To this day, she's still terrified of him, so much so that she asked to remain anonymous. It made me feel watched, so I was just constantly on guard. She says that after she broke up with him, she began receiving disturbing messages and phone calls from someone she did not know.
Starting point is 00:32:14 I started to get these really disturbing phone calls. Here I was being called like a whore and a slut and things like that, because that's when it got scary for me. When we heard her full testimony, it was just so shocking because it was exactly mirror to our daughter. At the time, the messages were investigated by police and traced back to Dan's College on the East Coast. The woman got a temporary restraining order against him,
Starting point is 00:32:40 but he was never charged with any crime. Until now. After seven days of testimony, the jury in Christiel Krug's murder case is asked to deliberate. When the jury returns with a verdict, Kristiel's parents are holding their breath. We the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. A jury returned a guilty verdict in the trial of a Broomfield man accused of killing his wife. Danielle Krug is found guilty of first degree murder, stalking, and criminal impersonation. Today the court sentenced Mr. Krug to life in prison without the possibility of parole, it's a just and appropriate sentence for a horrific crime.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Dan Kroog thought he could fool everyone and get away with his crimes. He just never thought Kristiel would outsmart him. It was her efforts that helped police solve her own murder and put a monster behind bars. At the cost of her own life, she made sure her children will always be seen. She loved them, she wanted to protect them, and she wanted them to be happy. Now, with their mother gone and their father in prison, Christiel's children live with her parents. We want to protect them. They're very surrounded by their mother's family's love.
Starting point is 00:34:02 They're in a loving environment. They're given everything that Christiel would have given them. It's only been two years since her death, and for her parents, the pain is still hard to bear. hard to bear, but they do all they can to make sure Christel's memory lives on with her children. Every day is a difficult day. You wake up and you feel the pain. And then I look at my grandkids and I find a moment of peace because I see her.

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