Man sentenced to life for killing mother and father after they realized he was mendacity about working for SpaceX

An unemployed Wisconsin man was convicted of killing and dismembering his mother and father after they found his internet of lies, together with that he was police scuba diver and dealing for SpaceX, was sentenced Thursday to life in jail with out parole.

Chandler Halderson, 24, of Windsor, was convicted in January of all eight costs filed in opposition to him, together with first-degree intentional murder, mutilating a corpse and hiding a corpse within the July deaths Bart and Krista Halderson.  

Investigators stated Halderson killed his mother and father after his father initially found he had been mendacity about attending a technical school. 

The choose stated that it was his obligation to guard the general public in requiring the stiffest attainable sentence. Wisconsin doesn’t have the dying penalty.

‘I’ve to, for this sentence, be certain that the one time Mr. Halderson comes again into the group is to have the privilege of a burial that he denied his mother and father,’ Choose Hyland stated as he handed down the sentence. 

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Prosecutors stated his false declare that he was attending technical school was one in a sequence of lies he advised about work, college and being on a police scuba dive group.

The net of lies got here crashing down on Halderson after his father Bart known as the school his son had advised him he was attending in an effort to request transcripts.

Halderson had additionally advised his mother and father, in addition to different witnesses who testified within the case, that he was a police scuba diver in addition to a SpaceX worker at numerous instances, using faux e-mail addresses to additional con his household into believing his lies. 

When the school said that his son was now not a pupil on the college, and that a number of folks Halderson advised his father he had spoke to on the school didn’t exist, Bart reportedly requested for a gathering with college officers.

He was fatally shot by his son within the days main as much as that assembly, in response to court docket transcripts. 

Halderson then allegedly killed his mom after she returned dwelling later that very same day. 

In line with testimony at Halderson’s trial, after dismembering his mother and father our bodies, he tried to burn his mother and father’ our bodies within the household fire earlier than dumping them alongside the Wisconsin River and at a rural property, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. 

Halderson did not testify and his attorneys didn’t name any witnesses. In line with a court docket submitting this week, he didn’t converse to his attorneys concerning the occasions, the State Journal reported.

Chandler’s grandmother stated she nonetheless loves him, though she described his actions as ‘horrific’ in a letter she learn to the court docket.

She added that she hoped Chandler might finally be paroled later in life.

In the meantime, Chandler’s brother’s fiance advised the court docket she would concern for the remaining household’s security if Halderson is ever launched.

Halderson spoke briefly Thursday, saying he would attraction his conviction and asking any attorneys to contact him.

‘It isn’t that I would not have emotions; it is that I used to be warned to not present them within the scrutiny of this case,’ he stated.

Earlier than Circuit Choose John Hyland handed sentence, Assistant District Legal professional Andrea Raymond stated that Halderson ‘grew up with a lifetime of privilege’ that made it tough to elucidate his crimes.

Hyland rejected a request Halderson made final week to not be in court docket for his sentencing.