"Worried" Son Has No Idea the Neighbor's Doorbell Camera Faced the Driveway

On the afternoon of Thursday 8 July 2021, a 23-year-old from Windsor, Wisconsin, sat down with a detective at the Dane County Sheriff's Office to talk about his missing parents. He had reported them missing the day before. He told the deputies a couple he did not know had picked Bart and Krista Halderson up before six on the Friday morning a week earlier, to drive them to the family cabin up north; that his mother had texted on the Fourth to say they had made it; that her phone had gone straight to voicemail ever since. That morning he had walked door to door asking the neighbours what their cameras had seen. The neighbours' cameras faced the driveway. A store camera in the same village had already answered the rest. This is the police interview, shortened and in order, with the cameras, the phone records and the court record laid against his account where the record answers it. What the court decided is at the end of the film. CHAPTERS 0:00 “Is there a warrant for my house?” 3:03 The week 10:06 The text 14:58 The farm 21:15 The blood 26:08 “The truthful version” 29:50 The record SOURCES Interview recording: Dane County Sheriff's Office, Wisconsin, 8 July 2021, State's exhibit at trial, as played in open court (public record, via YouTube; the uploader's inserts and narration are not used). The detective's name and a street name spoken on the tape are removed. Squad-car camera: Dane County Sheriff's Office, Squad 37, 8 July 2021 (public record, via YouTube). Doorbell, driveway and store cameras: State's exhibits played at trial, Dane County Circuit Court, January 2022, as broadcast by Channel 3000 / News 3 Now, Law&Crime Network, Court TV and Grizzly True Crime; the camera's own timestamps are left on the picture. Trial: State of Wisconsin v. Chandler M. Halderson, Dane County Circuit Court, 4–20 January 2022; verdict 20 January 2022; sentencing 17 March 2022 (Channel 3000 / News 3 Now; Law&Crime Network). Appeal affirmed by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, 26 November 2025; review denied by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, June 2026. Phone records, voicemail log, Kwik Trip receipt and the neighbours' camera findings: the criminal complaint and amended complaint (9 July, 15 July and 25 August 2021) as reported by Channel 3000, WKOW, WMTV and WAOW. Photographs: Dane County Sheriff's Office and Dane County Jail Records via CBS News; the Halderson family via WKOW/WAOW; the house, WMTV. No photograph of remains is shown anywhere in this film; what was found is told in the record's words only. Aerial imagery: Google Earth (recent imagery; no home is marked). The recordings are real and nothing said in them has been altered. The interview is shortened and arranged in order; every jump in the recording is marked on screen. Lines attributed to witnesses are as broadcast from the courtroom. What the court decided is at the end of the film.