“Job” at SpaceX – son (23) kills and dismembered parents because they discovered his web of lies

Chandler Halderson is on trial in Madison, a town about 300 kilometers northwest of Chicago: The 23-year-old is said to have killed his parents, dismembered their bodies and then scattered the remains across the state of Wisconsin. The motive: The father was probably behind Chandlers «unbelievable Lyingetz », as the public prosecutor said on the first day of the trial.

Chandler’s vertigo spiral began with the pandemic. For financial establish he moved back to live with his parents, claiming to be working from home for an insurance company while completing his university studies at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC for short). Last June he surprised father Bart Halderson and mother Krista with great news: He got a job at Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. Soon he will have to move to Florida. Thereby forgete he plans to be with his girlfriend there to pull. He has already rented the apartment, he assured me.

But everything Chandler Halderson told his parents was made up – absolutely everything. Instead of working and studying, he played video games in his room all day. Whenever his father him asked how he was doing studying renewable energies, the son talked about his promising future. Was there he in truth failed after one semester.

The son forged dozens of e-mails with the university administration and even pretended to be a university advisor when he spoke to his father on the phone. He used a disposable cell phone. Chandler acted similarly to his fictional job: he would sometimes get up early in the morning to make it look like he was having important meetings with his team.

When his father, an accountant who’s also worked from home since the pandemic, asked him why he wasn’t getting a wage from his employer, where he allegedly had been employed for almost a year, Chandler made excuses. Sometimes there were errors in his transfer data, sometimes HR forgot to pay out the salary. The 23-year-old even created a number of emails with the HR department to give them to his fatherlay.

beard Halderson asked his son to pay a portion of the rent. For the son, the pressure got bigger and bigger. With his back to the wall, he saved sa constructed web of lies with an even more blatant lie. Or as Prosecutor William Brown put it: «The best way out of a bogus job is an even better bogus job. ” And so became Chandler «astronaut» at SpaceX.

His biggest problem: Without a university degree, without references and without money, his start in Florida would be difficult. A new lie was needed. So he “injured” himself days laterby falling down a flight of stairs and suffering a severe concussion. He claims to have suffered spinal and nerve damage that forced him into a ruff and made him unable to travel.

That was probably one lie too many for Father Bart – er made a couple of calls. At the MATC you didn’t know your son, the people who had sent the alleged e-mails do not exist. On July 1st father and son should have a personal interview with the rectorate. Also this one meeting should, according to the public prosecutor’s office,n Chandlerehave been found. Father wrote to me that afternoon his son: «I am ready whenever you are ».

In the evening dhe son shot his father with a rifle. When his mother came home shortly afterwards, er you too. Then he chops up the corpses With Axes, saws and knives and tried, to burn the severed heads in the chimney of their parents’ house. The son later scattered other body pieces on public land, on farms, along rivers, in trenches and in garbage cans.

Then he went home and made a note of what he had to do on the notes app on his cell phone: «Hydrogen peroxide and lemon» to buy, «clean the floor» and «look for a job». He told his brother Mitchell and girlfriend that the parents drove with friends to her cabin on White Lake for the July 4th holiday weekend. As Mitchell Halderson his father tlong tcouldn’t be reached by telephone, he drove to the hut – but his parents had never been there.

On July 7, Chandler finally reported his parents missing. A day later, the police found the remains of Bart Halderson in Dane County, body parts of his mother Krista were found on the Wisconsin River in Sauk County. The police arrested Chandler Halderson that same day. The son pleads in court «not guilty».