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Rotten Mango

Part 1: "Puppet Master" Killer Set Up The Most Elaborate Murder Plan To Kill A Woman

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.828K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the event of a break in, usually something of value is stolen from a house. But what if someone breaks into your home and steals a single, random item. Your hairbrush. Your pet’s ashes. Your family picture but leaves the frame. Your one spare house key? Daniel Krug, patriarch, calls the police after his wife, Kristil comes home and realizes that the spare key they keep hidden in their garage is missing. They could’ve just misplaced it right? With three young children at home though, the family doesn’t want to take any chances. Especially after Daniel, the father, remembers pulling into his driveway, before the key went missing, and saw someone jump their fence and take off running. If someone had broken into their garage, stole their spare key, and nothing else that can really only mean one thing right? They’re planning on coming back. Daniel reports it to the police and even gives his statement to the responding officer who visits his house. For nearly three months the family will grow increasingly paranoid after feeling like the burglar never left the house in the first place. That he came back and started doing stranger and stranger things around the house. Until exactly 82 days after the initial report, one of the Krug family members will be found inside the family home. Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com

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0:00.0

Bada being baddaboo.

0:02.8

82 days before the murder, there is a break-in.

0:06.8

And in the event of a break-in, usually something is going to be stolen from the house.

0:11.7

Most times, it's going to be whatever that is within reach and is the most valuable.

0:15.8

Nobody is breaking and entering, risking jail time to steal a can opener and the remainder of your laundry detergent.

0:23.1

They want electronics. They want cash. They want things that they can resell and make money from.

0:28.3

This is a literal cash grab with a side of trespassing. That's what most break-ins are.

0:33.1

It's devastating, but at least you know that the motive is very clear.

0:36.6

Whoever did this wants money, they're committing atrocious crimes to make money.

0:42.4

But what if someone breaks into your house and they take something that is not of monetary value?

0:48.4

They don't steal the $1,000 iPad that's in Clearview or the phone or the car.

0:53.6

They steal your journal that you write in

0:56.0

every single day. It's not a password book. You don't have some sort of ledger for Bitcoin in there.

1:00.6

It's just like your deepest inner thoughts, leather bound journal that financially would fetch

1:06.0

no more than $10 on the market resold. Or what if someone breaks in and you check the entire house up and down?

1:12.3

Nothing's been taken. Nothing. And it's not like they didn't have time. And then you walk by the

1:18.2

console under your TV and there's the picture frame, the picture of your entire family that you

1:23.0

framed last year during Christmas. The frame is still there, but the photo is gone.

2:01.6

They had time to take the photo out of the frame, but they didn't take anything else. No valuables? What are they planning on doing with the picture? Or you go upstairs to try and collect yourself. You're about to shower and in the drawer, your hairbrush is gone. It's missing. Or maybe they take that one magnet that you have on the refrigerator that you bought during your first time going to Yosemite. What the hell are they going to do with that? Or any of these things. These are the things that will keep people up at night. It's not just like the random violation of someone breaking into your home, which is typically the only private place that people can truly feel safe. But it's the fact that you don't know who did it, you don't know why they did it, it's clearly not for money,

2:06.3

then what is it for? Are they going to come back? For the Krug family house in Colorado, it's even

2:12.2

more alarming than all of those. Daniel Krug, the father of three kids and husband of Christiel Krug, calls 911,

2:20.3

Daniel's standing at the end of his driveway, talking to the officer, and he's explaining,

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