A twisted Colorado man impersonated his spouse’s ex-boyfriend and stalked her for months — earlier than beating and stabbing her to demise as they had been within the means of divorcing, authorities stated.
Daniel Krug’s homicide trial is about to start as early as Friday within the alleged slaughter of his spouse Kristil, whose lifeless physique was discovered on the storage flooring inside their Broomfield house on Dec. 14, 2023.
Beginning in fall 2023, Kristil, 43, started getting texts from somebody claiming to be her outdated beau, asking if she needed to “hook up” whereas he was on the town.
After she didn’t reply, extra texts got here flooding in from the identical quantity – together with ones that indicated she was being watched, like one message referring to her “loser husband.”
The stalker additionally despatched the mother of three creepy photographs, together with of her automotive in entrance of a dentist workplace the place she had an appointment and one in every of her husband getting out of his automotive at work, CBS Information reported.
“Ill get rid of him and then we can be together,” the obsessed sender emailed her. “U dont want him i know u want me.”
Two days after Kristil’s physique was discovered, cops arrested Daniel, 44, on first-degree homicide, stalking and felony impersonation prices.
Cops situated Kristil’s actual ex-boyfriend, who had no latest messages on his units, CBS Information stated. He was additionally in Utah when the creepy photographs had been taken and despatched to Kristil and was there on the time of her demise.
The ex, nonetheless, had contacted Kristil beforehand in 2002, 2005, 2010 and 2016 after they broke up in 2000. She and Daniel married in 2007.
Daniel, in the meantime, referred to as police asking them to do a welfare examine on his spouse as a result of she hadn’t responded to his messages.
When police discovered her lifeless, they found three of the house’s surveillance cameras – which Kristil’s mom stated she put in due to the stalking – weren’t recording on the time of the slaughter, based on the arrest affidavit. One digicam was lined with tape.
Following her demise, cops traced the textual content messages Kristil had been receiving – and reporting to the police – to an IP deal with that belonged to Krug’s office on the Colorado Well being Division, the affidavit stated.
Kristil’s mom divulged to police that her daughter hoped to get divorced from Krug and search custody of their 14-, 11- and 8-year-old kids earlier than her premature demise.
Krug had a level in biochemical engineering and a profession in know-how and innovation and was obsessed with performing arts and fashionable dance, based on her obituary.
“She accomplished so much in her short life, and had so much left to contribute before being so savagely removed,” it learn. “The world will miss what she had yet to give us.”
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