Counterfeit Son: The Murders of Bart and Krista Halderson

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's not that unusual for people to bend the truth a little to show themselves in a good light, especially when they're young. Maybe you want to impress a crush, maybe you just want to add a bit of glamor to an otherwise normal life. It's mostly harmless...unless the lies get out of control. If someone lies with every beat of their heart, builds an entire alternate reality around themselves, then what happens when that alternate reality is threatened by the truth can get pretty ugly. Join us for the story of a golden-boy son turned double murderer.

Sources:
CBS's "48 Hours," episode “The Snapchat Clue”
Trial footage, People v Halderson
WMTV15 News: https://www.wmtv15news.com/2021/12/22/halderson-trial/ https://www.wkow.com/news/prosecutor-haldersons-father-about-to-expose-sons-lifestyle-lies-before-homicide/article_4385f8b0-6d96-11ec-bcd0-6b683767931a.html
Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fake-spacex-job-murder-dismemberment-lies-1278750/
Channel 3000 News: https://www.channel3000.com/news/crime/analysts-say-phone-of-chandler-halderson-was-tracked-in-areas-where-parents-remains-found/article_4779b795-67a1-53ba-81d0-3b0261ce3688.html
WKOW News: https://www.wkow.com/news/crime/chandler-halderson-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole-for-the-murder-of-his-parents/article_1ec0c0b4-a626-11ec-b6d8-a303892e68f7.html

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0:54.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire. We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:57.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
1:01.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire. It's not that unusual for people to bend the truth a little to show themselves in a good light, especially when they're young.
1:18.0	Maybe you want to impress a crush. Maybe you just want to add a bit of glamour to an otherwise normal life.
1:24.0	It's mostly harmless unless the lies get out of control.
1:28.0	If someone lies with every beat of their heart,
1:31.0	builds an entire alternate reality around themselves, then what happens
1:35.2	when that alternate reality is threatened by the truth can get pretty ugly.
1:40.2	This is Counterfeit's son, the murders of Barton Krista Hollerson. So, campers, for this one were in Windsor, Wisconsin, a little town just north of Madison,
2:01.8	July 7, 2021.
2:04.0	People were getting really worried about Bart and Krista Halderson, a popular couple with two grown sons.
2:10.0	Their 23-year-old son, Chandler Chandler had just reported them missing.
2:14.0	They hadn't been seen since the previous Friday, July 2nd.
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