Part 2: "Smartest" Husband Pretends To Be Ex & Stalks Wife For Months Before Stabbing Her To Death

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 28K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 52 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, bad a boob.
0:02.9	This is part two of the Kroog family case.
0:06.2	If you haven't listened to the audio part one, please go listen to that.
0:09.6	We went through the entire details of the case of how Kirsteel Kroog was found,
0:14.1	deceased, murdered in her garage, how she had been stuck, how the Kroog family had a break-in
0:19.6	into their house 82 days before her murder,
0:21.8	where the only thing stolen was the spare key into their house.
0:25.9	We went through the messages that Kirsteel Kroog was receiving from her old ex-high school
0:30.8	boyfriend that was from like 20 years ago.
0:33.2	And we also went through how her daughter found out that something was going on in the house
0:38.2	through the camera app that she had when she was sitting in class.
0:41.7	She had received all of these alerts.
0:43.8	And ultimately, the conclusion to part one was that the police are now looking at Anthony,
0:49.1	the ex-high school boyfriend, who claimed to be the one sending these messages in the first text message.
0:54.9	It says, it's Anthony.
0:56.8	But also how the police are now very suspicious of Christel Krug's husband, Daniel, who claims
1:03.4	that he is being framed.
1:05.3	He's being set up.
1:07.3	This is part two.
1:08.5	A lot of people will tell you that the smartest murder is the one that you
1:11.7	have never heard of yet because that's the whole point. It goes undetected. But a lot of people
1:16.9	have been calling this case the smartest most calculated murder in recent history, the months of
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