Chapter 1: What events led to the investigation of Kristil Krug's murder?
tonight on the 3,000th episode of Dateline.
This is really creepy for me.
She said, mom, I'm being stalked.
It has definitely made me paranoid everywhere I go. My heart just sunk. She's totally being terrorized.
There was two text messages from an unknown phone number. The first was requesting a sexual relationship. A follow-up text told her that she should kill herself. So that went from inappropriate to threatening pretty quickly. Within 24 hours. Chris Steele was frantic. She was fiercely protective of her family.
I'm a addict, and I'm doing a s*** job of protecting my wife. Repel police!
We have someone out there who just committed a homicide.
Our number one suspect was this person who's been stalking her.
This guy's a phantom.
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Chapter 2: How did the stalking incidents escalate before the murder?
I saw someone, I think it was a guy, but it was so fast. Blue jeans, gray shirt, run out, jump over my gate, and take off that way.
He couldn't identify that person? He could not. And patrol officers responded, checked the area, and they couldn't find anybody that matched the description that Dan said. Dan Krug lived here with his wife, Christille, and their three school-aged children. Dan told the officer he'd gone out that afternoon to run an errand and thought he'd closed the garage door behind him.
I watched the garage door closing, not necessarily closed. Okay.
He said his kids were inside the house when he left and didn't hear anything strange. And he didn't think anything had been stolen. That is, until Christille came home.
We realized the spare key that we keep in the garage isn't there. Okay. Where was that kept at? Toolbox. Got it. Okay.
The officer took the report and that was it. He did say changing the locks might be a good next step.
When you can, I'll probably... I'm going home to you when I'm done with you. Okay. Got it.
Christille's parents, Lars and Linda Grimsrud, said Christille was more annoyed than scared by what had just happened. So tell me about Dan coming home and seeing somebody running out of the garage. How did you hear about that?
Well, my daughter, she told me, she said that Dan left the garage. She was very angry. She said Dan left the garage door open. I don't think she thought there was danger.
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Chapter 3: What evidence was found during the welfare check on Kristil Krug?
It included her phone number. She was convinced Anthony had posted it. The ad was basically asking for multiple sexual partners on her birthday, which was coming up at the end of November. She also wanted to make sure the detective knew about that break-in at their garage.
My husband caught somebody going through our garage. Like, he came home, the garage door was up, and he caught somebody running out of our garage.
All of it triggered her organizational instincts as an engineer.
I did a timeline for it.
Christille called it her stalker log.
All I did was, like, oop.
going to create a stalker log we're going to monitor this i'm going to go see what information i can have i don't know i i just always heard document everything she doesn't come off as some like helpless victim she's like completely in control the stalker log was detailed and complete included everything from dates times locations her feelings about it
what needed to be done that potentially follow-up points that we could do. Christille's log detailed her relationship with Anthony, starting with the year they met, 1999, when she graduated high school.
Okay, in this timeline, we dated summer of 99. Okay. Very briefly.
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Chapter 4: How did authorities initially suspect Anthony Holland in the case?
December 14th. As daylight broke, those new cameras recorded a bustling family morning. That's Dan, driving their eldest to the bus stop and returning minutes later, just before 7 a.m. Christille leaves next, taking their younger two kids to school. She returns just before 8. Then at 8.24, Dan pulls out, heading off to work about a half hour away.
Dan was on the road when, at 8.56, he received a text from Christille asking him to pick up their daughter after school because Christille had a meeting with Detective Martinez. Dan responded 20 minutes later, Sure thing. FYI, I forgot my chicken on the counter. Please put it in the fridge. When Christille did not message back, Dan called her. No answer.
For the next three hours, he kept calling. Finally, at 12.01 p.m., he dialed Broomfield Police and asked for that welfare check.
I don't think this is an emergency, but this feels really weird. My wife isn't responding to text messages or phone calls.
Okay.
Dan also called Christille's mom.
He calls me and he says, would you please go check on her and see if she's in the house and just not answering the phone?
You live closer?
We all live about 15 minutes.
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Chapter 5: What digital evidence pointed to Dan Krug's involvement?
He was shopping in Utah that morning and nowhere near the crime scene. I asked Anthony about his relationship with Christille, starting with when they began dating just after she graduated from high school.
We both worked at JCPenney. She worked in the department in the front. I was package pickup.
He was 17. She was 18. What was so great about her?
She was very smart, which I really looked up to. First love? Yeah, my first love, yeah.
He does admit he and Christille were headed in different directions.
The breakup was hard on both of us. We both held each other and just cried when we broke up. I haven't cried that hard until my mom died. She was the one that got away. Yeah, I always say that to people.
You blame yourself for that.
Yeah, I do.
Christille finished college and became an engineer, wife, and mom. Anthony's life didn't go as well.
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Chapter 6: What was the motive behind the stalking and subsequent murder?
There's public Wi-Fi access.
throughout the entire facility and we literally post the passwords in every single meeting room detective martinez persisted things are certainly pointing in one direction right now i had just laid out the facts like we know where anthony is we know the ip addresses everything's pointing to you dan watched the skies of suspicion turn suddenly darker
You could see his demeanor change, his body language changed. He immediately withdraws and tucks his knees back, crosses his arms, rolls his eyes very sardonically, and then says, Oh, yes, you heard that right. Even when confronted with the evidence, Dan didn't get mad. He didn't yell or even raise his voice. He just seemed annoyed. That's when Dan decided it was time to stop talking.
Police collected his clothes for processing. He was not arrested. Detectives gave Dan a change of clothes and let him leave. Prosecutor Stephanie Fritz. You're starting to get evidence that Dan is involved in the stalking, but you have essentially no evidence at that point that Dan's involved in the murder.
No, we don't have evidence that Dan is the murderer. We have suspicions.
It turns out investigators were not alone in their suspicions.
He was very upset, but there were no tears.
The Christelle Krug murder case had turned inside out when investigators learned some of the messages from her stalker came from her husband's office. Police confronted Dan Krug. They did not arrest him.
We don't have any evidence that Dan is the murderer the night he walks out of the police station.
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Chapter 7: How did the trial unfold for Dan Krug?
Suddenly, Dan Krug's past was stalking him.
It made me feel watched.
In the spring of 2025, Dan Krug entered a courtroom to face trial on charges he had stalked and murdered his wife, Christille. By that time, Dan's hair had turned gray and his former in-laws had turned against him. Christille's family attended every day of court. Did he know you were there?
The very, very first hearing, Dan walked in the room and made eye contact with all of us and smiled.
Because, like, what, he thinks you're there to stick up for him?
Yeah, I think he thought we were there for him.
And apparently the look on my face, after he saw me, he never looked at me again, ever. Prosecutors laid out the digital evidence pointing to Dan as Christille's stalker, the burner phone he bought, the messages from his office Wi-Fi, and Broomfield Police did a digital analysis of that photo of Dan outside his office, the one that bothered Jenna.
It showed the photo had been taken in selfie mode, likely on a timer. Prosecutors called Anthony Holland as a witness, the man they said Dan intended to frame. Dan is right there, the guy who tried to frame you for stalking and was probably fine with you going down for murder.
Oh, yeah, he was fine with that. As I was leaving, I stared him down, and he didn't look at me. He just looked straight like this. Didn't want to face you. He couldn't even look me in the face. He's trying to frame you for murder, and he couldn't even look at me.
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