A jury on Thursday found a Wisconsin man guilty in the murder and dismemberment of his parents last summer.
After roughly two hours of deliberations, a Dane County jury found Chandler Halderson, 23, guilty on all counts for killing his parents Bart, 50, and Krista, 53, on July 1 at their home in Windsor, roughly 80 miles west of Milwaukee.
Halderson appeared to show no reaction when the verdict was read. He was convicted on two counts each of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse, and falsifying information about a missing person, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. A first-degree intentional homicide conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.
WISCONSIN MAN, 23, SPUN ‘WEB OF LIES’ AFTER KILLING, DISMEMBERING HIS PARENTS, AUTHORITIES SAY
Chandler Halderson, 23, is accused of killing and dismembering his parents, Bart and Krista, earlier this year. (Dane Co. via YouTube, Dane County Sheriff’s Office)
“I hope that it brings some satisfaction,” Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne told reporters, according to the paper. “We know that we cannot bring Bart and Krista back, but this is the first step to hopefully some finality.”
During the trial, prosecutors had argued that Halderson killed his parents after they exposed a “web of lies,” about his college enrollment, work, and being on a police scuba dive team.
Halderson, 23, reported his parents missing on July 7 after he claimed they failed to return from a Fourth of July weekend trip to their cabin in northern Wisconsin, police said.
In her closing arguments, Assistant District Attorney Andrea Raymond discussed evidence and testimony given during the trial, which included human bone fragments found in the family’s fireplace, cutting tools with DNA that matched his parents, as well as phone data that showed him near where their remains were later found, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The torso of Bart was found July 8 on a rural property in Cottage…
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