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Hi everyone, I'm Tanya and I'm Talia, and we are Crimes and Consequences,
a true crime podcast. Hi Talia, Hi Tanya. Welcome back everyone
to another exciting episode of Crimes and Consequences. Before I get started with today's
story, I'm going to remind everyone to hit subscribe, like follow whatever on
whatever. Just do it please. I'm gonna tell your story today about Chandler
Halderson. I don't know him. He was a twenty three year old Wisconsin
man who reported his parents, Bart and Krista Halderson missing after they disappeared after
heading up to their family cabin for a Fourth of July weekend. The same
month. Remains were found in Dane County, Wisconsin, and they were Bart
and Christa's. So how far is that from their cabin? Your I have
no idea. Why are you asking me? Couple hours? Probably? Bart
and Christa were Wisconsin natives and they both earned bachelor's degrees from the University of
Wisconsin in Madison. The two married in July of nineteen ninety four, and
they had two sons, Mitchell and Chandler. Bart worked as a CPA and
Krista worked as an administrative assistant for an automotive company. Okay, so they're
well employed. Yeah. They lived in Windsor, Wisconsin, and they were
a relatively normal family by all accounts. They lived a great life and they
had a beautiful home. Everyone that knew them really enjoyed their company. They
had lots of friends. So and then something happened happened. Barton Krista devoted
their lives to raising their two boys, and they also supported local organizations and
charities. The family would spend their time attending local football games and at their
property in Lane Laide County. Chandler, who was twenty three at the time
that our story takes place, he was in college to get his degree in
it while he lived at home with his parents. His younger or his older
brother, Mitchell, was just a year older. At twenty four. He
worked in tact and he was engaged to be married. Chandler was a student
at the Madison Area Technical College and he received his associates degree in Computer Information
Technology, Administration and Management. I have something like that yeah, you do
puter information systems. Right. While he was going to college, he worked
as a lifeguard and a teaching assistant. According to his LinkedIn profile, the
majority of his experience, like work experience, was either lifeguarding or in technology.
But he didn't stop there. He said he had a quote strong understanding
of solar panels and the installation process that goes with them, and that he
had experienced in teaching in leadership for when he was a teaching assistant leadership leadership.
Chandler was unemployed at the time of our story because he's in school right,
right, And like I said, he was living at home, so
mom and dad are paying the bills, mooching off the parents, right.
Rather than going into work every day to make his own money, he stayed
home all day to play video games. Well why not? Why not?
I suppose when he wasn't in school, If my parents were gonna pay for
wording, just play video games too. Play video games from son up to
sundown. He was on those games. Yeah, probably had a headset talking
to people. Yeah internationally, right, I know, right, some avatar.
Even though he was playing these video games all day, his parents thought
he had a job. They thought he was working, so it was he
graduated then, I believe, so maybe he was graduated with his associate.
Sorry, So his parents were like, since you're making money, why aren't
you pitching in to help with the bills? And even his brother Bart had
asked him, why aren't you paying rent? Why aren't you contributing since you're
working, And he just had this like web of elaborate lies. First,
he said that the insurance company, which was called American Family Insurance, he
said he worked for them. He said they were withholding his track because they
screwed up his payroll. Okay, the payroll department apparently had mistakenly had him
in their system as an hourly worker instead of salary. But when that lie
ran its course, Chandler then told his parents he gave the company, the
peril department incorrect direct deposit information. So oops, again I don't have my
paycheck. Oh shit, right, And then when that lie ran its course,
Chandler said that since the company had owed him so much money, that
when the check was issued to his checking account, the bank flagged it because
they thought it was fraudulent. Oh yeah, Chandler was so wrapped up in
his own lies that he even went as far as to stage fake emails between
himself and the fake HR representative. He only see, Mom, I'm working
on him. Oh my god, just get a goddamn job. It's not
that hard man, you know. The HI rep just so happened to have
a generic email address which Bart made him forward to him, and these lines
worked for a little while until they didn't. Dude, come on. Chandler
lied to everyone around him. Family and friends thought he was a very impressive
guy who studied technology at college and was working with the Madison Police Department as
a scuba diver for the rescue. Oh wow. Then he apparently had just
gotten a job at elon Musk's space. Ax. Really yeah, Okay.
He lied to his parents about attending college in Wisconsin. Chandler had told his
parents that the college was withholding his transcripts. So did he graduate? I
don't know. Yeah, Bart called the college pretending to be his son.
This reminds me of the one case I did the Walking Dead. Oh yeah,
that he lied about everything, lied about everything. There was an event
found on Bart's phone calendar that showed that he was planning to meet with school
officials with his son. Chandler on July first, at three pm. Why
do I feel like they didn't make that? I don't think they made that
now. Bart texted Chandler at two ten, when the day came for them
to meet with the school the x red quote I'm ready whenever you are end
quote. The text was sent about an hour before the murders. M This
was the very last time that Bart would ever use his phone. M After
Bart was murdered, Chandler texted his mom and told her that Bart's phone had
died, and then they asked if she could bring him a soda since she
was out. What she's like, Hey Mom, Hey mom, can you
pick me up a diet coke? I guess I don't know. She replied
with quote kay, I can end quote and with a smiley face emoji.
So Raylan's video shows Christa coming home, but she was never seen alive again.
Motherfucker going back. Bart had found out about all of the lies that
Chandler was spewing when he called the college and found out the administration had no
record of Chandler being a student there, and why is it got an appointment
because Chandler was so insistent that he do. So they were going to let
go straighten this ship out. Remember that lie told you about the Madison Police.
He worked to a scuba Yeah, they didn't even have a scuba chee
and Chandler did go to college, but he flunked out after only one semester.
The job with the insurance company that he allegedly had also came to an
end. Sense Then Chandler claimed he had gotten that job with SpaceX oh geez,
and said, I'm moving to Titusville, Florida, where those I'm working
for Eli I'm working for Elon Musk. He told his girlfriend that he was
going to be an astronaut. Oh oh, after I've done scuba dining.
What he faked so much shit, Taliah. He faked like I'm getting an
apartment. He faked that he had a serious concussion from falling down the stairs,
where he claimed that he had brain bleed along with a serious hematoba and
bad spinal damage. Because of that, he's that he wasn't able to drive
or scuba diving. Yeah, I mean it was crazy. Well, how's
it going to be a goddamn master not? He said he couldn't fly on
planes. He needed the calassmate back. I just want to I'm just giving
you like a rundown of all these bullshit lies that He'm going to go to
Mars. There's so Yeah, I'm gonna join SpaceX and I'm gonna be the
first human on Mars. Okay, but I can't go on a plane.
Yeah. There are pictures of Chandler wearing a neck brace, but there's also
a video from when after the murders occurred showing him without the neck brace.
Yeah cured. Yeah, so on July first, I told you that's the
day of the murder. Records from Chris's employer noted that she left work at
around four fifty eight pm. Video from the neighbor's ring security system showed her
Volvo pulling into the Halderson residence at about five to twelve, and that same
footage shows the same vehicle calling out of the driveway at about eight sixteen pm.
A car matching the same description was seen at a Quick Trip convenience store
at eight twenty two and a minute later, a man who was later identified
as Chandler emerged from the vehicle with a diet coke and he went in to
the convenience store. He bought two bags of ice, and he used Venmo
to purchase that. I know you could use a Venomo. You can do
that at a Comedians don't check that out. I know. The Vovo then
left the parking lot at about eight twenty nine, and the neighbor's ring security
camera footage showed the Vovo pulling back into the Halderson residence. I didn't realize
ring could do that. I mean, I thought it was just like the
front porch, like when pizza guy comes a videotapes because it maybe maybe it's
across the street right, Maybe I don't know. Chandler originally claimed that On
July second, the day after the murders, at about six pm, he
said that his parents left for their cabin for the weekend. However, Christa
was expected at work that day, and when she didn't show up, her
co workers began calling and texting her to see where she was. According to
Christa's cellular data, on July second, all incoming calls to her phone went
straight to voicemail. A text from Christa's phone was sent to Chandler on July
fourth, Two days later, she sent him in text, Hey, I'm
doing well in the cottage something like that. Did you get my oak,
he said, made it safely, can't get anything through and yes it's packed,
going to Waite like today for the parade and we'll be home Monday night
slash Tuesday early. Love you lots exclamation point, exclamation point. Oh he's
it, dick, Yeah, I want to know what he did, Tanya.
I know. On July seventh, twenty twenty one, around eleven thirty
am, bart and Christa were reported missing by Chandler. He told police that
his parents left for their cabin on July second, and he hadn't seen that
since they departed. Dane County detectives Sabrina Simms and Brian Shrunk were assigned to
the case. After further investigation, law enforcement discovered that Barton Krista never even
left home for the Fourth of July weekend. How did they find that?
Probably cameras? Yeah, probably where's Mitchell and all this? I don't think
Mitchell lives at home, so he's probably off just living his life. Yeah,
but hey, brother, I know parents are, yeah, right where
his mom and dad? He probably just told them all they're up at the
cabin. I don't know, Okay. When Chandler explained to investigators that his
parents left for their home in Langlade County. Detectives went to search the cabin
neither. That's how they known they never went. There's no signs of them,
right, Yeah. The front door of the property was locked and the
home appeared undisturbed. No car there. Yeah, nobody had been there for
quite some time, is what the police determined. A family member of the
Holderson's told police that they last saw Barton Krista on July first, twenty twenty
one, and, according to Chandler Christa, Texas, him memory till junely
fourth, but he said he hadn't heard from either of his parents since then.
He reported to the area's local news station, NBC fifteen what because he
was interviewed, he said, we'll find them. It's better not to listen
to the negative theories. My last message I got from them they were going
to White Lake for the Fourth of July. There's some festivities that go on
around there. Better drink prices at bars, stuff like that. What White
Lake, Wisconsin. Their plan to my knowledge, they were going to Langlade
County to a cabin. Their cabin along the way. They could have stopped
at many places, but I wouldn't know any of them, but it's about
three hours north of Madison or Dane County due. He went on to say
then that his parents were probably just at the casino. Oh that's okay,
that's a long time at the fucking casino, you know, with their phones
off, or they went out on a boat having fun with their friends.
Gay Later, when he asked who these friends were, who did they possibly
go out of a boat with? And supposedly they went with friends up north.
Just from that's all you need to know, Chandler couldn't name them.
It's like, I don't know those friends. Yeah, and it's because they
didn't exist. And the weirdest thing about the news report was that the reporter
saw Chandler going door to door asking neighbors if he could take a look at
their security footage. He wanted he wanted to see if he find they're just
at the casino. He wanted to find the footage that showed his parents leaving
the house. According to the neighbors, Chandler seemed more concerned if the road
or their house was visible in the footage. Yeah, investigators are sent on
a wild use chase. That's fucked up. They're fine, they're just out
on a boat. Yeah, they're great gambling. But can I look at
your footage? I know, right, just want to check it out.
The day after he reported his parents missing July eighth, Chandler made a Google
search between ninety four yeh and nine forty five am boy to see if his
parents' bodies were found. Oh the Google search? What the fuck is that?
The Google searches round? Wouldn't he know you would think like, Okay,
if your parents were really missing, you reported a missing, you reported
a missing, if bodies were found, wouldn't he be notified? Yeah?
He would think. Well, maybe he's wondering if any bodies were like found.
He googled body found Wisconsin. He googled dead body found Wisconsin, body
found in Milwaukee River. Oh, well that's specific. And he also googled
this a little bit of a spoiler alert Wisconsin dismembered body found. Oh what
off? Yeah? Fuck? Yeah? What the fuck? Barts remains?
Oh my god, Tanya, what did he do? I'm gonna tell you.
Bart's remains were found that same day. They were found around three pm,
the same day that these Google searches were made, and that same day
Chandler was brought in for questioning, and his story was just not adding up
for I know. Originally, he tells the police that his parents were heading
up to their cabin. Yeah, yeah, they're gonna have a good time
for a little getaway with friends. It's the fourth of July. I'm gonna
get drunk and gamble. Right, they're gonna get cell phone service, No
cell phone service. Maybe they're going out on a boat. Maybe they're contexted
exactly. But now that he was being interrogated, Chandler told police that his
parents had gone up to the cabin due to a plumbing emergency. He had
helped them pack up tools. He then mentioned that his parents packed lots of
booze. Oh for a plumbing emergency, And well, you know what,
I'm not judging them. I pack up lots of boots for less than that.
I'd be like, Oh, the fucking pipes burst. We'd better bring
a bottle of vodka. Oh, I gotta do the dishes. Where's the
vodka? I know? So, as a side note to that little they
brought lots of booze. Friends of Barton Krista were interviewed and they said that
they rarely drank and even when they did. Neither of them had more than
two drinks, so they weren't like tighter than better than me. During the
interrogation, one of the detectives let Chandler know that it was mandatory that he
tell the truth about what happened to his parents. Oh okay, I don't
know. Does that work? Oh okay? Absolutely. The detectives were trying
to get Chandler to feel that law enforcement was on his side. Detectives let
him know that something simply just could have happened while Chandler was defining himself,
or something may have happened if he just got fed up with his parents.
Oh yeah, that whole Hey boy, you know they do. You were
abused child, did you you had to kill and chop their bottles? You
could just come clean with us. I'm your friend, Tell your friend.
Really, I understand, I understand. Chandler denied any type of allegation that
he was either defending himself or that something happened. The detective went on to
say, quote, you know what happened. We're not going to tell you
what happened. You were there when it happened, and we are not bullshitting
you. We know more than you think we know, and oh, I
wouldn't be able to control myself of the detective. I feel like, listen,
you little fucker, I know what you did. You know what you
did. Just tell me, Just fucking tell me. Just tell us.
Not your friend anymore, just we already know. Just tell us. Yeah,
Detective Shunk, let Chandler know that people have come forward with information about
this whole thing, and they have evidence against him. They have proved did
they probably not? Shunk. Let Chandler know that his parents never made it
to the cabin and that you probably already know that the detective my mom tech
what. The detectives began to ask Chandler about blood they found at the home,
and they found blood, yeah, and Chandler defended that by saying that
he had cut his foot and that he cleaned it up with hydrogen peroxide and
a swiffer. Chandler said, quote, I didn't feel sick, so there
couldn't have been that much unquote whatever that means. Detectives let him know that
the blood wasn't his, but it was his parents' blooded DNA. Yeah.
So Chandler was like, well, you know both of my parents had nosebleeds.
I knew nosebleeds were coming into the air conditioning. His father was also
bleeding from scratching a psoriasis patch on his skin. I mean you have to
really, I mean, come on, he said, Quote my dad scratches
his psoriasis until he gushes blood. Quote, well couldn't. He also just
showed that he didn't have a cut on his foot, right right, Yeah,
maybe he did, Maybe he did. He volunteered this information after being
asked if there was any reason that his parents' blood could have been evident in
the house. In the video footage of the interrogation, the detective asks simple
questions, but rather than giving the detective simple answers, he engages in just
elaborate stories and lies. While detectives were speaking with them, the deputies received
a tip. Someone said while they're speaking with them. Yeah, someone said
that they saw a suspicious man walking away from a car, wearing a backpack
and heading away from the river a backpack. Yeah, around the time that
snapchat captured Chandler's location there. Yeah, that snapchat's got your location, damn.
But what was in the Detectives kept this information to themselves, and they
continued questioning Chandler until he asked for a lawyer that dumbask didn't notice, shut
off his location on Snapchat, leave your cell phone at home. Chandler was
arrested on July eighth, and after the booking was complete, detective asked him
if he was suicidal. He responded and said he didn't have any reborse about
what he did. Oh what he did I know. Chandler was originally held
in Dane County Jail and was charged with providing false information for a missing persons
investigation. The Dane County Sheriff's Office released a statement and made a post on
Instagram extending their thoughts and prayers to the family of Barton Christa, letting them
know that the Sheriff's office was doing everything in their power to quote bring closure
and justice end quote to the investigation. A family member of the Halderson's responded
to the post, thinking the police department quote, thank you everyone for your
prayers and any help you can give in finding them. So hard waiting for
updates and not being able to do anything to help. Also appreciate all the
work law enforcement is doing to find Barton Christa. We have always been big
backers of the police and never thought we would be in a situation like this
and neither help. So much. Thank you all. The family member Blake
Halderson went on to reveal how none of what happened made any sense. The
Halderson family was loved by the community. A member of the community wrote on
the post about how kind, caring and general Krista and Bart they were just
those types of people. Two days later, Chandler was charged with the murder
of his dad because by then Bart's body was found parts. Yes, he
was also charged with dismembering and concealing a body. The police still didn't know
what had happened to Christa or if she was even still alive. I'm going
to take a guess on them. Yeah. After the police interviewed neighbors,
family, and friends, they came across some very interesting information from a woman
named Katherine Melander. She went by Kat oh Boy, Chandler's then girlfriend of
two years. No what does she know? Kat was brought in for questioning
and she said, quote, I just believed parents were missing and I just
want them to be found. As part of her own cooperation, she allowed
detectives to download data from her phone. She wanted to help investigators in any
way she could, since she said Bart and christ were really good people.
Detechasens was told that Chandler had cheated on Kat in the past, so she
kept tabs on her man's location with the well known nap snapchat Snapchat. This
app gives friends the capability to keep track of their friends whereabouts in real time,
but only if the location services are turned on yep, I got it,
and if the app has been used recently. Luckily for Investigators, Chandler
had his location on yes, and he had just used the app on July
third. Can't notice that Chandler was in a very remote location near the Wisconsin
River. Oh, that's what you were talking about. That's how they knew.
So she decided to take and save a screenshot of it, probably because
she was going to be like, why the fuck were you at the Wisconsin
River right? And where are your parents? Yeah? And where are your
parents? In the screenshot, Chandler's bit Mooji is seen in Roxbury. In
Cat's phone, Chandler's contact is set to Hubby, so in the screen shot,
Hobby is standing in the middle of nowhere off Route sixty in Golf Road
and there the Wisconsin River can be seen in the screen shot clear as day,
stupid. I know the screenshot was taken at the exact time Barton Christo
were missing. Kat told investigators at one point Chandler had asked her to bring
him over hydrogen peroxide, ice and a mop. A mop and a mop.
You get a mob. You can't go buy these things on your own?
Well, what are you playing that bad? Honey? And in need?
Am up? I can't use a paper towel. And just so you
know, when you screenshot on snapchat, it lets the person know, Oh,
yeah, you're right, But I'd be like a mo a mom,
I'll go to the hospital. Why do you need this? Why do you
need it? Your mom doesn't have a mom at home? A mop?
Yeah? Right, come on now. Kat told investigators that she had believed
everything that Chandler told her. He told her about a job he was going
to take at SpaceX, and she had planned to move to Florida be with
him after August twenty one. Cat questioned the job opportunity since she never saw
his grades or any money that he earned whatsoever. When asked around the time
when Barton Christa went missing, she said she went to Chandler's home on July
second, and smelled heavy smoke when she asked smoke. Yeah. When she
asked hibout the smell, he told her that he had broke the fireplace while
playing fetch with one of the family dogs. What how would them make smoke?
Exactly? How would that? May spoke it? According to Kat's family,
Chandler had told him that he lost the job at SpaceX due to his
severehead concussion. Oh yeah, you know. Kat's mother, Dulce, was
dating a woman named Crescent Lasai. On July fifth, Chandler visited the home
of Crescent and asked if he could use the pool sort of as physical therapy
for a leg injury he had. He's got a leg injury. Yeah sure.
Chandler seemed frazzled. He's got everything right, I noticed, and when
he was asked if he was okay, he replied, Oh no, I'm
not okay. I'm having problems reading words in numbers. His head head injury.
How did he get that again? I don't know. Bumped his head
on the wall. Yeah, some talked into a door. He did something
okay on the stage. Chandler was alone and drove himself there in one of
his parents' cars. Crescent told investigators that Chandler was not only seen at the
pool, he was also seen in a wooded area near a shed. And
he actually went missing for a little while. Oh shit. And when she
looked outside the pool cover was untouched, like he hadn't gone in the Conno,
but he went in the woods. Yeah, near shed. And should
he even be driving with his head injury? I know, right, I'm
just saying the trunk of the Halderson car was open at the time. He's
got the trunk open, and he's in the fucking woods and he's in the
woods. Yes. When he reappeared, he was seen taking a dip in
the pool and appeared to be washing himself off. Incidentally, when police searched
the wooded area on July eighth, Bart's remains were discovered and Cottage Grove,
Wisconsin. I thought they were in the river. Yeah, I think that's
near the river. His remains showed that he was shot at least two times
in the back. Neighbors reported that they had seen vultures circling ball Man and
this was unusual. Yeah. Yeah. The investigation ended up turning from two
missing people to a double homicide in a matter of weeks. The shed that
I mentioned at Pressence's residence that was searched inside the shed, there was a
rifle that was found and that was used to murder Bart and there was also
a blood covered tarp was fall man. Scissors in a sob blade were found.
Scissors, yes, scissors. They were found inside an oil drum.
Where was the oil drum in the shed? And a sochal warrant was obtained
for the Hulderson residence once that was found. Did you think they're never going
to chuck their shed? I know, right, at some point you go
in your shed, they're all looking. There's a rifle and a fucking bloody
tart, right, I know, how do you leave this stuff somewhere?
I don't know. They're better places, That's all I'm saying exactly, there
are better places. No, I don't know that you go to a fucking
shed and somebody else's property. No, anyway, anyway, Sorry, Okay,
So I told you. Chandler was arrested. Yes. On July fifteenth,
Chandler had his first court appearance. Court Commissioner Brian Asmus set bail for
a million dollars. Chandler's defense attorney told Asthmus that Chandler was a lifelong residence
who was an Eagle Scout and was involved in church organizations with no prior criminal
record. He's a saint. The defense asked that Chandler's bail stayed at ten
thousand dollars. A fourteen page document was released that same day that detailed the
investigation into the murder of Bart. This document had information about the interviews that
were held with chandler friends, witnesses, and family members. It didn't specify
where and when Bart was killed, but it did place Chandler at the site
where Bart was found the open murder charge or something. The document continued on
to explain what happened at Crescence's property and that a family friend provided the gun
and ammunition to Chandler on June twelveth, What like it wasn't his so somebody
could get like one of his family members just made up some bullshit. I
need a rifle. Yeah, And before I tell you more, we're going
to take a break. On July twenty second, investigators targeted a new location
to search for Krista. The Dane County Sheriff's Office in Dank County is square
the family lives. That's where they're ya house. Revealed that they were searching
a waste management land film near Johnson's Creek in hope of finding her. Dive
teams and candaver dogs searched the pond near the Halderson residence. The ponds drained
to gain better access, and cadaver dogs pointed the police to areas that ended
up just being insignificant, like dead ends. Yeah. The spokesperson for the
Sheriff's office said that this location was just it's just an obvious location. They
had to search it because it's by their house. It's by the house.
On Friday, July thirtieth, the Sheriff's office confirmed that remains were found in
Roxbury, not in the pond, and that the remains were identified as Krista's.
Investigators asked the District Attorney's office add a second first degree homicide charge against
Chandler, along with the additional charges that he was being charged with, like
hiding a corpse and mutilating a corpse. Sheriff Calvin Barrett said, we have
kept the Halsdersen family in our thoughts and prayers throughout this investigation, and we
extend our continued sympathies to them. Today we have said everyone allow them to
grieve this tremendous loss with the utmost respect and dignity. That's so sad,
like terrible. On July twenty eighth, even more evidence was found. There
was a black rope tied around Bart's remains around his torso, and the same
black rope was found so they were able to make a match like at the
house. Yeah mean, all technology from the house was seized as evidence.
Barton Christa's phones were found in the garage. The phones along with both of
their drivers. Like kept the phones in the garage, they kept it.
He kept them rams in aluminum foil and paper towels, and he used to
stuff them inside of a shoe. Oh, no, one will find them
there. Next, the detectives took a look at cellular data from Barton Christa's
phones. It was found that Christa's phone never pained from Langlaide County, and
that's where the cottages where Chandler told investigators that his parents went up to remember
she had supposedly sent him attacks. Well the text that was sent from her
phone. Their data from it revealed that the text was sent from Dane County,
where they lived, and autopsy was done on Bart's remains, and the
report revealed that he had been shot with an sks Narenko rifle. I don't
know what that is. It's a foreign military style rifle and it fires very
specific ammunition and a shell casing for the ammunition was found inside the Halderson residence.
Okay, he didn't even take out the shell. No, like,
he couldn't pick up that shell, right, And they also found they were
parts of the floor removed and a part of a wall. That's hello,
hello right. Chandler was charged with the murders of both of his parents on
twenty fourth, two thousand and one. He was charged with two counts of
first degree homicide, providing false information in a missing person's case, and mutilation
and hiding of a corpse. And I haven't told you what exactly he did
to his parents. Oh, he murdered them, yes, I got that
part. He dismembered them using a saw, scissors, pruning shears, and
then that well, and then he burned some of the remains in the family
fireplace, which bone fragments were found in the family fireplace. How many like
over two hundred and yeah, and then he buried some of the remains.
Oh my god, I'm August twenty fifth, Chandler filed a request for a
speedy trial, and in September he pleaded not guilty to first degree murder.
Wasn't giving false information, I mean he pluged not guilty to every charge thereout
eight charges in total. In early January of twenty twenty two, the trial
began. So I guess he did get that speedy trial, and the prosecutor,
William Brown, revealed that Christa had discovered that Chandler didn't have a job,
nor was he actually in school. Surprise. The prosecutor went on to
say that Chandler was playing video games at home rather than working, and said
that he lived a life of lies. Prosecutors presented evidence that Chandler dropped out
of school and told a jury that he made up a series of fake emails
to make his parents believe that he was actually attending college. The prosecutor claimed
that Chandler posed as life insurance company employees and college officials in emails that he
forwarded to his father like as proof that he had this job and that he
was enrolled in school. The prosecution also said that the defendant made up that
job at SpaceX no no shit, no shit, and lied to his then
girlfriend that he had bought a car and signed a lease for an apartment for
a future move to Titusville, Florida. When the story fell apart, Chandlers
fall down a flight of stairs was an escape plan so that friends and family
wouldn't find out that he had fabricated like every fucking thing he was talking about.
And what about his foot and the blood? Utah, that was true?
Actually that was true. Yeah, that was true. That happened.
Well, he said he was playing with the dog and he might have scraped
it on the fireplace or whatever, But I doubt that's what really happens.
I do scissors, yeah, or the saw or something. The prosecution didn't
stop there, though, They displayed video evidence of Chandler buying a tarp along
with twenty pound bags of ice that he used ice his father's dead body.
What what? Why is he icing his dad's dead body? No? Was
it easier to cut up I don't fucking know to cut up its frozen frozen
chickens harder than I don't. I'm being crude. I don't need to be
crude. The scissors and sobling found were tested by forensic team and the results
were announced during the trial that both Christa and Bart's DNA were on both.
The prosecution showed the jury of photo of the broken glass from the fireplace inside.
That's how he did it. Yeah, that's when he mentioned during his
interrogation that he cut his foot, and the jury was shown a picture of
the bottom his foot and the cut is less than a centimeter long. Oh
it hurts a bitter no man, the cut looked to be a splinter.
I need a mop and his big toe. There was also a video shown
from a neighbor security system. The neighbor I think that lives across the street
that I originally mentioned, who had like fourteen cameras around his house. It
wasn't just a ring camera, yeah he was. He had the security hookup.
Wow, that's a lot of cameras. Yeah. That security footage from
his house showed a flicker of light coming from inside of the home the day
that Bart and Krista were supposedly killed. So that's when he was probably burning
stuff in the fireplace and in the business summer. This is like July.
Yeah, I get cold, easy in Wisconsin, where it's nice and humid
like it is in Michigan. It's believed that Chandler cut them up and attempted
to burn the heads, arms, and lings of each of them inside the
fireplace. Yeah, forensic specialists took the stand to explain the two hundred bone
fragments that I mentioned earlier. The same forensic expert went on to explain blood
evidence. Blood was found in the basement of the home and an attempt to
clean up the blood and the basement. Yeah, that was evident. The
jury was shown a photo of what appeared to be a clean basement floor,
but the expert revealed that in the dark, blue light revealed traces of blood.
Next, the prosecution explained that the rifle found in the shed it was
found on the same property where Bart's remains were found, and the medical examiner
confirmed the evidence. They also noted that Christa's cause of death was unknown and
wasn't determined, and that so blade that they found when it was found,
it had what looked to be like slimy material on it. Slimy which they
believe was fatty tissue. Oh my god, he didn't even bother to clean
it. No, he didn't even bother witnesses. Several witnesses took the stand
to testify against Chandler. Kat's mother, A. Dulce, took the stand
because he went to her house right, yeah, and she recalled it.
Chandler had told her about his job working for the Wisconsin Department of Nancial Resources
and that he needed to be on call for water rescues. Remember it because
he's a scuba die. Yes. He also mentioned to her that he worked
for that insurance company, American Family Insurance. Lastly, she was told that
he had received a new job working for SpaceX in Florida. It's okay,
I can't. I cannot hear about his fucking chileman and like SpaceX again.
Dulce mentioned to the jury that after hearing this, she took him out to
dinner to celebrate, but then said that the job fell through due to his
inability to fly because he had that severe concussion. When asked about seeing Chandler
at Crescent's farm, she let the jury know that she saw Chandler with one
of his parents' cars out in the field with the trunk open. When Chandler
came back from the field, he was acting really strangely. Yeah, I
bet yeah. Next to testify was Dulcha's significant other, Crescents, since her
firm was cited as the crime scene. Oh man, I know. She
told a jury that Chandler had asked if he could use the pool for physical
therapy. Remember I told you yeah, because my tell yeah in my head.
My fine. Yeah. He said his concussion caused nerve damage to his
legs. Crescent went on to tell the jury that Chandler was only in the
pool to wash himself off after he had walked around the property for about an
hour and a half. She recalled it his demeanor and I think that's weird.
He's just walking around the half. But I don't think that like anything's
really that wrong, anything right, And I'm just saying, yeah. She
recalled that his demeanor was kind of off and he was acting kind of weird.
Oh, I bet yeah. Two days later in the trial, Chandler's
former girlfriend, kat took the stand to testify against him. She told the
prosecution that she was with Chandler the most between July first through seventh. She
let the jury know that she fully cooperated with law enforcement and she gave police
everything they asked. For During the questioning process, she told the prosecutor that
Chandler had asked her to bring him the swiffer like this fucking swiffer. Oh
yeah, yeah, that's the mop along with hydrogen peroxide, which investigator said
was to actually clean up the crime scene. She had ordered the supplies from
Target via the Target app, and a photo was taken to the Target bag
with her name, order number, and order date. The bag was noted
at the crime scene since the bag contained bloody rags. Oh. Kat was
in tears on the stand when she was asked if she had helped her ex
boyfriend cleaned the blood up after he brudely killed his parents, and she denied
it. The prosecution noted to the jury that Kat was innocent of any crime.
Yeah. I think by the time he got there he cleaned most of
it off. Yeah. From when I read about it, he said he
broke some glass in the fireplace and needed the swiffer. Yeah, and cleaned
it off. His big toe hurt. This is another weird thing that Kat
testified to. She said she spent the night with Chandler on July second,
So this is the night after he had killed his parents, and she remembered
it being really weird because she said they didn't sleep in his bedroom. She
said that he had made a fort with the couches in the living room and
bedding sheets, so they slept inside the fort. Oh okay. The last
thing she told the jury was that she just wanted them to find Krista and
Bart more than anything else. After Kat, two different doctors were called to
the standard discuss Chandler's falled down the stairs. One doctor in particular told a
jury that he didn't diagnose Chandler with a brain bleed. He didn't have a
hematoma, he didn't have a spinal injury, nor did he have any other
ailment. These diagnosises were what Chandler decided to tell his friends and family.
The doctor, I think that would be a big deal if you had that.
Like, you know, I went to urgent care. I got all
this ship right, bravely. But I'm good now. The doctor did say
that he sent Chandler home with a neck brace. Jesus yeah. One of
the detectives took the stand and very graphic images were shown to the jury of
Bart's remains. There was also testimony that Chandler, when they had arrested him.
There were bruises all over his backside. He had scrapes on his legs
that were probably from like a briar bush, which is where Bart's torso and
legs were found. The joke deliberated for two hours, and Chandler was found
guilty of all eight charges. How long did they deliberate? Two? Who
long? Two hours? For about two people. He was sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of parole. Chandler requested to be absent from on
the day of sentencing. Yeah, I would be like, I'm busy,
I don't need to be there. Yeah. Deputy District Attorney William Brown argued
against this motion that he shouldn't be there, and he said that Chandler had
zero right to skip the court hearing simply due to the fact that it's uncomfortable
and to avoid being held responsible for his cruel actions. Dane County Judge John
Highland agreed with the prosecutor and denied the motions, so Chandler had to face
the music. He was given the maximum penalty for each of the lesser charges,
and he will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder
of his parents. All because he was a fucking liar. Well, thank
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Yeah, they only found her legs I think yeah, I think it
was her legs. Yeah, they didn't find anything else, so they really
couldn't determine how she was killed because, I mean, legs really ain't going
to tell you much. So why what a psycho? I'm poor his brother
Mitchell, I know it's probably Mitchell's probably like, what the fuck? What
the fuck he lost his brother, lost his parents. I know, right,
it's terrible. Oh my goodness, it's awful. What the fuck?
I hate people? I hate people, man, I know, yeah,
and you your own son, I know, right, What the fuck?
Why? Why because of school, because it's that's what I'm saying, because
of school. Really, Like, what ain't the probably really going to get
into with your parents? I told you video games have been going on.
Honestly, you're not gonna get all You're gonna get a job, oh shit,
and be an adult. Yeah, unbelievable. I wish there was a
psychological report on him. He's a psychopath. Yeah, for sure, I
had to be. Signs had to be. You know, you don't just
chop up your parents. No, you don't signs What the hell like?
Oh, you're just in a bad mood, mad at your mom, Yeah,
mad at your dad and you chop him up. No, no,
anyway, anyway, Thank you guys, Thank you everyone for listening up and
to our next episode. Don't kill each other or your parents. People,
your parents, nice to them.