The Phantom

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Investigators initially think there is an obvious suspect in the murder of Colorado mother Kristil Krug, but uncover an elaborate plot that turns everything upside down. Josh Mankiewicz reports.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the 3000th episode of Dateline.
0:05.0	This is really creepy for me.
0:06.5	She said, Mom, I'm being stalked.
0:08.0	It has definitely made me, like, paranoid everywhere I go.
0:12.0	My heart just sunk.
0:14.0	She's totally being terrorized.
0:17.0	There was two text messages from an unknown phone number.
0:20.0	The first was requesting a sexual relationship.
0:23.9	A follow-up text told her that she should kill herself.
0:26.2	So that went from inappropriate to threatening pretty quickly.
0:30.7	Within 24 hours.
0:32.1	Christiel was frantic.
0:33.9	She was fiercely protective of her family.
0:36.6	I'm panicked.
0:39.3	And I'm doing your shit job. I'm panicked. And I'm doing your shi-ch-job. I'm protecting my wife.
0:41.3	Repair, police!
0:43.3	We have someone out there who's just committed a homicide.
0:46.3	Our number one suspect was this person who's been stalking her.
0:50.3	This guy's a phantom.
0:51.3	It's terrifying.
0:52.3	He fooled everyone.
0:53.3	The only thing we could do now is to make it right now. been stalking her. This guy's a phantom. It's terrifying. He fooled everyone.
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