A man of Colorado was sentenced Thursday for killing his wife after prosecutors say he passed through ex boyfriend and harassed her.
With their crumbled marriage, prosecutors said Daniel Krug, 44, decided to play “Puppet Master” scaring his wife and then trying to recover her protecting her from false harassment, joining them against a common threat.
Kristil Krug, a biochemical engineer, kept a record tracking the increasingly threatening texts and emails that suggested that they were watching her. While the police investigated the messages, prosecutors said Daniel Krug began to realize that he could face criminal charges and began planning how to kill his wife to silence her and because she no longer wanted to be with him.
The prosecutors said he waited for him to return to his suburban house in Denver on December 14, 2023, after taking two of his children to school and then hit her and stabbed her in the heart.
“I didn’t love her. I hated her. Think of what he did,” said attached district Kate Armstrong during the closing arguments on Wednesday.
At the time of the murder, the ex -boyfriend was eight hours by car in Utah, where he lived, according to the researchers.
The defense emphasized that there was no physical evidence that linked Daniel Krug with the violent murder, noting that he was not blood in his car or his clothes, which is the same daughter in the same way when he led her to the bus stop that morning. None of Daniel Krug’s DNA was found on the scene, he thought that the partial DNA of an unknown person was found in his neck, the defense said.
Daniel Krug’s lawyers alleged that careless police work had not been able to keep Kristil Krug safe before being killed and then hooked the investigation into his death. The detective who investigated the stalking that Kristil Krug had reported first in October 2023 was lazy and incompetent, they said. The defense also emphasized that the Police fail Kristil Krug’s phone for the fingerprints just although Daniel Krugs alleged him after killing her.
Shortly after the time the authorities said they killed his wife, he was in his usual cafeteria buying his coffee with milk. Hello, he complained that he had set an adjustment of frozen drinks or a hot one and waited for a replacement. Closing arguments, defense lawyer Philip Geigle questioned whether that is something that a “cold blood murderer” would bother to do.
The prosecutors said that Hed to be as “great as a cucumber” to drink their regular morning coffee before heading to work and also probably planned to wear gloves, so he would not leave any DNA to link it with the murder.
According to the researchers, the email account was used to send messages to Kristil Krug was created in the computer network in Daniel Krug’s workplace. It was discovered that a burner phone used to send some of the text messages, bought with a registered gift card to Daniel Krug, was in the same general location as his phone, said Armstrong.
Three of the house surveillance cameras, which Kristil Krug’s mother said he installed due to the recent harassment, did not record when they found her, according to Daniel Krug’s affidavit. The garage was covered with tape. The defense said the tape also had DNA of an unknown source.