Unmasking the Colorado Catfish Killer | The Case of Kristil Krug | UNSEEN

fall never arrives all at once first the air then the light and slowly the things you love begin to find each other a jacket meets a dress a hoodie slips beneath a blazer an old cap finds a new scarf because you don't simply step into the season you create it layer by layer until it finally feels like fall find fall your way at Ross on December 14th 2023 the Broomfield police do a welfare check at this house where Christille Cruz lives with her husband Dan and their three loving children the footage you're about to see was filmed just minutes after Christille's family life took a disturbing turn for the worse one month earlier Christille walks into the Broomfield police department claiming that her crazy ex-boyfriend has been stalking her it's a lot and it has definitely made me like paranoid everywhere I go unfortunately detectives send units to follow Christille around and her husband installs the Broomfield police and tells them that she's not the only one who's been stalking the suspect and the stalking doesn't stop now it's escalating this is not just threats against me it's that's against my husband on December 14th at 8 56 a.m Christille sends this text message to her husband she has never heard from after that my wife isn't responding uh to text messages or phone calls okay we've had threats against us can I get a maybe a wellness check at the house my wife isn't responding uh to text messages or phone calls okay we've had threats against us can I get a maybe a wellness check at the house we have both been targeted by a stalker we have both been targeted by a stalker we have both been targeted by a stalker after going around the house officer after going around the house officer after going around the house officer o'hara notices the garage door has o'hara notices the garage door has o'hara notices the garage door has windows but they're too high for him to windows but they're too high for him to windows but they're too high for him to see the footage then shows him returning see the footage then shows him returning see the footage then shows him returning to his vehicle before he pulls his car to his vehicle before he pulls his car to his vehicle before he pulls his car up the driveway close to the door so he up the driveway close to the door so he up the driveway close to the door so he can use it to climb up can use it to climb up can use it to climb up that's when he sees it 151 send medical and 110 i need a force 151 send medical and 110 i need a force 151 send medical and 110 i need a force entry rope out police rope out police rope out police roomfield police oh oh oh right there on the floor of the garage right there on the floor of the garage right there on the floor of the garage is 44 year old christine krug unconscious is 44 year old christine krug unconscious is 44 year old christine krug unconscious she has a head she has a head she has a head in the middle of the garage in the middle of the garage in the middle of the garage injury but officer o'hara is not sure injury but officer o'hara is not sure injury but officer o'hara is not sure if she simply fell or if she was if she simply fell or if she was if she simply fell or if she was attacked i'm on cpr let me know when the attacked i'm on cpr let me know when the attacked i'm on cpr let me know when the next unit is close i'll open the garage next unit is close i'll open the garage next unit is close i'll open the garage door particularly medical door particularly medical door particularly medical outside christine's mother linda walks outside christine's mother linda walks outside christine's mother linda walks up to the house just as officer o'hara up to the house just as officer o'hara up to the house just as officer o'hara opens the garage door for the paramedics opens the garage door for the paramedics opens the garage door for the paramedics i need you to stay out please i need you to stay out please i need you to stay out please i need you to come over here for a minute i need you to come over here for a minute i need you to come over here for a minute okay so we can work okay so we can work okay so we can work she's okay as other family members start she's okay as other family members start she's okay as other family members start arriving police secure the rest of the arriving police secure the rest of the arriving police secure the rest of the house house house everybody inside make yourself know clear everybody inside make yourself know clear everybody inside make yourself know clear here coming out you go one way i got here coming out you go one way i got here coming out you go one way i got the other the other the other clear here clear here clear here she's got a good head wound she's got a good head wound she's got a good head wound i think it's from falling down guys you i think it's from falling down guys you i think it's from falling down guys you see anything other than a fall type of see anything other than a fall type of see anything other than a fall type of wound police can tell christine was attacked police can tell christine was attacked police can tell christine was attacked getting into or out of her car getting into or out of her car getting into or out of her car she was hit over the head before the she was hit over the head before the she was hit over the head before the person stabbed her person stabbed her person stabbed her they rolled out the stretcher and i they rolled out the stretcher and i they rolled out the stretcher and i thought oh thought oh thought oh she's gonna be okay they're gonna do she's gonna be okay they're gonna do she's gonna be okay they're gonna do everything for her everything for her everything for her but then they rolled the stretcher back but then they rolled the stretcher back but then they rolled the stretcher back out without her out without her out without her i knew soon after a scream is heard i knew soon after a scream is heard i knew soon after a scream is heard coming from down the road coming from down the road coming from down the road it's christine's husband dan hey stay it's christine's husband dan hey stay it's christine's husband dan hey stay back stay back back back i understand he's just learned the news that his wife he's just learned the news that his wife he's just learned the news that his wife was murdered and runs into the arms of was murdered and runs into the arms of was murdered and runs into the arms of christine's family dan is in shock he suddenly goes weak in dan is in shock he suddenly goes weak in dan is in shock he suddenly goes weak in the knees and can no longer stand on his the knees and can no longer stand on his the knees and can no longer stand on his own own own this man right now has just lost his this man right now has just lost his this man right now has just lost his everything he's lost his wife he's lost everything he's lost his wife he's lost everything he's lost his wife he's lost the mother to his children and now he the mother to his children and now he He has to do everything." With the killer still at large, Dan is brought in for further questioning, but when Detective Martinez goes to see him, he's in no state to be interviewed. "I arrived at the police department and immediately went to go speak with Dan." "When I walked in, he became very emotional." "It's not your fault." To make things easier for him, Detective Martinez tells Dan that he has people in his team who could help break the news to their children, but Dan insists he wants to be the one to tell them. "What happened to Molly?" "I don't know." "Molly got hurt." "Is she okay?" "No. Molly is not okay. Molly is not going to be okay." "Pastor. " "Molly? Molly died." For now, Detective Martinez is worried about protecting Dan and his three kids, before the killer claims another victim. The family members are also brought in, each put into separate interrogation rooms, but while investigators are hoping to gain any information on the identity of Christille's stalker, there's one person that holds the key to solving the case: Christille Krug herself. One month before her murder, Christille makes a phone call to the Broomfield Police Department. "I need to report threatening emails and phone calls from a stalking ex." Detective Martinez is the one assigned to her case. "I need to report threatening emails and phone calls from a stalking ex." I reached out to Christille and arranged an interview with her. When Christille came in, she just kind of filled the whole room with her presence. We could tell that she was just very intelligent and she was very well prepared. When she sits down to talk with Detective Martinez, Christille tells him that for the last few weeks, a stalker has been following her around and harassing her online. It's a lot and it has definitely made me paranoid everywhere I go, unfortunately. Yeah, I can completely understand that. She first and foremost wanted the stalking and the behavior and the contact to stop. So I have to wait with you. This makes it so much simpler. Okay, I did a timeline for you. Christille has come prepared. She's gathered all the information about the stalking incident. She has put her personal instances onto a spreadsheet. All I do is like, oh, we're going to create a stalker log, we're going to monitor this. I'm going to go see what information I can have. I don't know. I just always heard document everything. The stalker log was detailed and complete, included everything from dates, times, locations, her feelings about it. The first date on the stalker log is September 23rd, 2023. This is when everything started. On that day, her husband, Dan, saw an intruder running. When the officer shows up at the house, Dan is already waiting outside, in the middle of his driveway. He explains to the officer that he saw the intruder when he got back home that afternoon. As I came down, the door was open. I saw someone, I think it was a guy, but it was so fast. Blue jeans, gray shirt. Run out, jump over my gate, and take off that way. I cared less about following him than getting inside and checking on my kids. Yeah, absolutely. Uh, we realized the spare key that we keep in the garage isn't there. Okay. Where was that? Kept at? Uh, toolbox. Everything seems to be there. Okay. Except a spare key. The house key. Okay. Got it. It kind of went over. This area? Okay. It went that way. Troll officers responded. We checked the area and they couldn't find anybody that matched the description that Dan said. When Christille learns about the incident, she's more annoyed than afraid. My daughter, she said Dan left the garage door open. She was very angry. I watched the garage door closing, not necessarily closed. I don't think she thought there was danger. She didn't see it as a real threat. Dan takes care of changing the locks, so there no longer seems to be anything to worry about. Just a few days later. On October 2nd, Christille receives a strange text from a number she doesn't recognize. It reads: "Hi, Christille. It's Anthony. Hope it's okay I looked you up. I go to Boulder every few weeks and thought we could hook up. You game?" And the only Anthony she knew of was Jack Anthony Holland. Christille's log details her relationship with Anthony over the years, starting in 1999, when she graduated high school. We dated summer of '99. Okay. And then we met briefly. He was a very nice guy. He was fun. We liked Anthony. Everybody liked Anthony. But the relationship didn't last for more than a year, probably. Their life goals and ambitions were two completely different tracks. I was going to go to Boulder. college i was like on an engineering track there was just total different lifestyle choices i broke it off with him um and we ended fairly amicably about a year later while studying to get her degree in chemical engineering christine met dan i remember when dan came over and my mom and i were there and he was looking for my dad and that's when it kind of hit me like oh this is real this is going to be the guy i was happy at the time because i knew she was going to be really happy in the years that followed while christine was building her life with dan anthony would still reach out from time to time on social media anthony had tried to contact christine a number of times over the years to kind of rekindle their romance every time she rejected him here you know he says let's get together i'm like um no um here he says um let's get together i'm like i have a i have a serious boyfriend like we were living together at this time and and he's like screw your boyfriend and then yeah i got married in 2007. he's reaching out to me he can see i have a kid this is my profile picture of like my kid he's like we're meant to be together and i'm like i'm married happily married with children you need to stop and he got like real emotional it wasn't angry but it was hurt and real like over the top emotions and then and then blocked me and i'm like good i shut down facebook entirely um before the pandemic so like there was no way to get a hold of me on any kind of old email address or old way and that's when this starts so when christine gets a text from anthony in october of 2023 she doesn't reply the next day she receives a more disturbing message you should say yes when i offer pity whatever saw your pics you got fat bet your loser husband won't your fat christine is shocked this doesn't sound like the anthony she knows he's never said this kind of stuff to me before so it's like something's really wrong here back in the day harmless um now i have no idea what this is i don't know this person anymore so i just see him as pretty unstable honestly christine doesn't answer hoping things will just blow over and if this is in fact anthony he'll get the hint and leave her alone but she has no idea that her nightmare is only just beginning i got a really strange text message somebody's saying are you still looking for men and i was like i was like okay i don't think this is anthony she's receiving numerous text messages from all sorts of different unknown numbers all of men many of which are sending photos of themselves in sexually explicit poses after researching online christine discovers a classified ad with her name and phone number on it the ad solicits men to send her obscene photos of themselves christine is convinced someone posted the ad to torment her but she can't be sure if anthony is behind this whoever it was this bizarre incident is causing tension between her and dan they weren't as connected and with each other as much as before they were constantly arguing then on october 31st almost a month after those first text messages she gets an email with a picture of her husband it was taken at his work without him knowing the email was sent by a holland kicks gmail.com whoever was sending this email was actively following dan the message comes with a threat against dan it reads this your husband can't believe you want to his but not mine he needs to drive safe don't want a clear rubber hose in his tailpipe this now is escalating this is not just threats against me stress against my husband my husband has a camera in his car he did not see anybody um and then unfortunately lost all the video because he didn't save it so i don't have any video evidence christine now has a clear indication that she and her family are being followed and she's terrified but the thing that bothers her the most is she never thought her ex-boyfriend anthony holland would be capable of doing something like this there was nothing in the relationship other than him being like stupid with stuff that was ever violent we argued but never like in a violent way when her parents come to visit her that weekend christine doesn't hide what's been happening i need to let you know i'm i'm being stalked i'm getting emails from from anthony he's threatening me with the things he's saying just bizarre things she had called me to ask if i could help her get a restraining order um and kind of what that process would look like and what she needed to do to get her ducks in a row christine has already hired a private investigator to find anthony so she can serve him the restraining order but tracking him down proves to be much harder than expected he moves everywhere he's like all over the place temporary protection order was what she was going to seek which would require him to be served with paperwork in person because i don't have an address i can't submit that civil protection order and there are tons of addresses he moves everywhere and between like three different states dan installs security cam cameras on their house and both buy dash cams for their car in case anthony follows them while they're driving first and foremost christine is worried for the safety of her children and her husband dan so she starts carrying a sig sauer 9 millimeter she felt she had to get a gun my heart just sunk she had a concealed carry purse specifically designed for that gun i do have weapons in my home i am intending to register for a course here to relearn spend time since i've shot but to relearn and get familiarized with my handgun and i do remember going out to the gun range with her and she just she just sat in the parking lot and cried and she was just so upset all i could do was hug her with everything that's happened christine's children have started to notice that their mother is upset she now has to explain to them what's been going on i want them to also know that they can stand up for themselves in situations that might be threatening so she was telling them what they needed to do if they an intruder came in my oldest said she's like i'm glad that you told me something she's like because this is making me she's like it was making me feel worse when we've just heard you guys talking in hushed tones christine is doing her best to keep their lives as normal as possible she makes sure her oldest daughter can focus on her dance classes instead of worrying about her mommy's stalker she was so active in all of her daughter's performances and would be backstage and would be like a a mom backstage helping all the little dancers get out to the stage on time with christmas just around the corner christine's daughter will be performing in two productions of the nutcracker something she's been looking forward to the whole year but because of what's been going on and because no one knows where the stalker is christine is asked by the artistic director and the company to stop volunteering and to stay away from her daughter's performances it was devastating to her i think a lot of this is the trying intentionally to scare me um as opposed to actually trying to approach me um but my fear is when does that switch happen where he suddenly gets emboldened because i'm not responding when christine leaves that day i'm believing that this is a very real issue and there are credible threats and we need to get on top of this quickly the first thing detective martinez wants to do is confirm the identity of the stalker he serves search warrants to verizon text now and google records could prove that anthony holland is in fact the one behind these threats when we serve a search warrant to any major company it takes time weeks if not months for some companies it would be i think foolish of any detective to go talk to somebody that they don't even know that is actually the person if i get involved too early and and start trying to be like hey knock it off this isn't okay it usually throws feelings at you it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay it's not okay and kind of emboldens because look at me this cop getting no consequence right this cop came to me and i have no consequence he just told me to knock it off like what did you do you know fall never arrives all at once burst the air then the light and slowly the things you love begin to find each other a jacket meets a dress a hoodie slips beneath a blazer an old cap finds a new scarf because you don't simply step into the season you create it layer by layer until it finally feels like fall find fall your way at ross november 9th just two days after her meeting with detective martinez christine receives another text message that only makes things worse it reads saw you at dentist you got so in my car so i on yours see you soon alluding to the person being outside in their own car watching christine all christine immediately notifies detective martinez who sends an officer over to her house that saw you at the dentist text has gotten christine worried her stalker might have put a tracker on her car okay i can only assume a tracker based on the fact that he could show up there and i don't see vehicles unless he's like stationed out like i'm cornered we put christine's car on a lift we we check that car top to bottom front to back and we couldn't find anything on her car I arranged for some undercover officers to follow her around, kind of to sit outside of her home to see if there was any weird cars or anything like that. We weren't able to identify anybody. The constant paranoia is taking a toll on Christelle, causing more strife in her relationship. She and Dan have been fighting more and more, to the point where Christelle tells her parents they're headed for divorce. And then, more texts come in, making it clear what Anthony is planning next and who he's aiming for. I'll get rid of him, and then we can be together. So easy. Give me the signal, and he won't come home. It was a direct threat towards Dan. Basically implies that they belong together, and that he will make Dan disappear. So Dan also comes in to talk to Detective Martinez. I just want to sit down with you and kind of, one, see how you're doing. I don't know where to start with that open-ended question. Largely being paranoid for the last few days, my panic level has gone considerably higher. I have a retractable ASP steel baton, peppered gel spray, always in this pocket. I went to the grocery store briefly on Tuesday, and someone behind me dropped a can. I panicked. So what am I doing? I'm panicking. And I'm doing a sh**ty job of protecting my wife. Interacting with Dan that day, I felt that Christelle was better equipped to defend herself than Dan was to defend herself. I felt like I was better equipped to defend myself than Dan was to defend Christelle. The anxiety has become unbearable, and Christelle fears she won't be able to prevent the worst from happening. That sooner or later, someone will get killed. She will never stop. She will never stop. But what she fears the most is that her children will get hurt, and she can't let that happen. I don't think she was sleeping. She was just exhausted. I've never seen my daughter like that before. We had conversation almost daily throughout the month of November. About where she was, how she was doing, and she basically refused to leave her house, because that's where she felt most safe. On December 13th, the last day before her murder, the dashcam in Christelle's car catches a rare glimpse into her life. Instead of showing her stalker following her car, the footage only shows how exhausted she's become, and how the last three months have visibly worn her down. Thursday, December 14th. The security cameras around the Krug residence show the activity that morning. At 6:45 am, Dan drives their eldest to the bus stop, before returning minutes later, just before 7. At 7:42 am, Christelle is seen driving away, as she takes their younger two kids to school. She returns just before 8. At 8:24 am, Dan pulls out, heading off to work about a half hour away. Dan is on the road, when at 8:56 he receives a text from Christelle asking him to pick up their daughter after school, because she has a meeting with Detective Martinez. Dan responds when he arrives at the office, 20 minutes later: "Sure thing. FYI, I forgot my chicken on the counter. Please put it in the fridge." But Christelle doesn't message back, which has Dan worried. He tries calling her, but gets no answer. For the next three hours, he keeps trying to reach her, until at 12:01 pm, Dan asks for that welfare check. He also calls Christelle's mother, who lives close by. "Dan said I can't find Christelle. I thought, oh, she's probably just not answering her phone. Let me go over and I'll find out what's going on." When Christelle's mother, Linda, arrives at the house, she walks up the driveway. "A female has some sort of head wound. She is warm." As the garage door opens, she peeks inside. "Ma'am, I need you to stay out, please." "I need you to come over here for a minute, okay, so we can work." "I was running towards the house, and I said, that's my daughter." "Oh God! She's gone! She's gone!" "Linda was standing right there and said, she's dead. They killed her." Christelle's family is completely distraught. When Dan arrives, he breaks down crying, held close in their arms. With the killer still at large, detectives begin combing through the crime scene while others start looking for the suspect. "We started canvassing the neighborhood." "Detectives were assigned to track down Jack-Anthony Holland, who was our prime suspect." "Dan was potentially the next victim." They haven't been able to locate Anthony in the last few months, but what they do have is a license plate attached to his name. Police put out a nationwide alert to be on the lookout for his vehicle. Almost immediately, they get a hit. Only, it's not on any roads leading out of Colorado, but in north central Utah. Investigators contact authorities there. "We made the joint decision to go make contact at the residence." Multiple deputies in Utah zero in on Anthony's vehicle parked outside a residence. They have a warrant for Anthony's arrest on stalking charges. "Mr. Holland answers the door. We introduce ourselves. We ask him who he is. He introduces himself as Mr. Holland." The most shocking thing is that Anthony is already home, just a couple hours after the murder. Anthony invites the officers inside, waiting to be told what all this is about. "You stay seated. Stay seated." "Yeah." "Have you ever heard of the name Crystal Krug? She may have been Grimsrod when you knew her." "Yeah." "And do you know a Daniel Krug?" "No." "No? How do you know Crystal?" "She's an ex-girlfriend." "She's an ex-girlfriend?" "Uh-huh." "How long's ex? Like how long ago?" "Um, 1999." "Oh, so like a long while ago." "She was my very first girlfriend ever." "Oh, okay." The deputies go through the events of Anthony's morning. Apparently, he had been shopping for clothes at a store in American Fork, just 10 miles outside Salt Lake City. He shows them the receipt from his purchase, and the officers are able to confirm Anthony is telling the truth. "There was a lot of police officers. I'm like, 'Geez, I must be in trouble.' I had no idea what was going on. They asked me if I knew a Crystal Krug, and I said, 'Yes, I know her.' She was very smart, which I really looked up to. The breakup was hard on both of us. We both held each other and just cried when we broke up." "I haven't cried that hard until my mom died, and we became friends on Facebook." The strange thing is, Anthony admits to having texted Krystile after their split, but says the last time he messaged her was in 2016. "I got a little drunk, and I left her a message saying that I apologized to her for all the things that I did when we were together, and then she stopped talking to me. I was done. It was over." The Colorado police are now left without any legal basis to arrest Anthony. They have no proof he was Krystile's stalker, or her killer, as he was provably 500 miles away at the time of the murder. Detectives might have lost their prime suspect, but with a murder on their hands, they can now escalate those search warrants. Martinez has been waiting nearly a month for the digital information that would tell him where those stalking messages came from. But now, almost immediately, the companies respond, and what he discovers in the data is shocking. "I felt like I was looking at the wrong person the whole time." "Dan, do you want me to tell your kids that you killed their mother, or do you want somebody else to?" Dan Krug is arrested for the murder of his wife, Krystile. He was pulled over on his way to their daughter's performance of The Nutcracker. The data provided by Verizon, TexNow, and Google showed that the stalker had been using the Wi-Fi at Dan Krug's office. "The email that was used, the phone number that was used, all of those things are coming back to one place, and that's Dan's work." The burner phone first used to text Krystile was traced back to a store in Broomfield, and it had been purchased using a gift card registered to Dan Krug. "The day before the homicide, Dan had searched a number of different things related to head trauma: how hard you have to hit someone for them to be unconscious, how long someone needs to be unconscious to become brain dead, all a variety of those kinds of searches." Police also did a digital analysis of that photo of Dan outside his office. It showed the photo had been taken in selfie mode with a timer. What about the text message sent from Krystile's phone at the time Dan was arriving at work? Investigators found out that the text was scheduled to be sent after he had already left the house. "Dan was building his alibi that he's going to get this text message saying, 'Hey, I got a text from her while she had been alive. I got this text from her.'" "In looking back at his work camera, he took very specific routes at his work so that he was seen on camera." "He receives the text message he sent himself. He starts trying to communicate back with Krystile." He doesn't want to be the one to find the body, so he calls the non-emergency line at the Broomfield Police Department and asks for a welfare check. You wanted an alibi, obviously, but why did it have to be me? As it turns out, not everyone was surprised to discover Dan had killed his wife. Just hours after Christiel's death, her mother Linda tells detectives that maybe Anthony isn't the only suspect they should look at. Her life was hell these last few months and last year. Her husband and her were not in good terms. She told me that her marriage was over. Here in the last few months, she just loathed him. I kept thinking, why are you staying? You should go. I remember hugging Linda, and I don't know why it came out, but I remember just saying, like, did he kill her? Like, did Dan kill her? And I remember Linda telling me, like, I don't know. I just, I can't, I can't shake this question, is he the one that's been doing this with Anthony? But the most shocking statement comes from Donna, Christiel's stepmother. This never goes from here, right? She did say something that, to me, on Monday, that was alarming. She did say that, that she thought that I was the one who killed her, that I was the one who killed her, that I was the one who killed her. I just, I can't, I can't shake this question. Is he the one that's been doing this with Anthony? She said that, but she couldn't even rule Dan out at that point. Why did she say that? I don't know. It appears Christiel was about to discover that Dan was her stalker all along, and it's possible that Dan decided to kill her before she found out the truth. April 4th, 2025, Dan Krug pleads not guilty to first-degree murder and stalking. The very, very first hearing, Dan walked in the room and made eye contact with me. I think he thought we were there for him. Apparently, the look on my face after he saw me, he never looked at me again, ever. While all the digital information points to Dan, the physical evidence against him is thin. If Dan Krug walks free, he will have full custody of Christiel's children, and their lives will be in danger. But there's one witness that will change everything: one of Dan's ex-girlfriends. To this day, she's still terrified of him. So much so. That she asked to remain anonymous. It made me feel watched, so I was just constantly on guard. She says that after she broke up with him, she began receiving disturbing messages and phone calls from someone she did not know. I started to get these really disturbing phone calls, where I was being called like a whore and a slut and things like that, because that's when it got scary for me. When we heard her full testimony, it was just so shocking, because it was exactly what I wanted. I was like, "What? What are you talking about? What's going on? What's going on? What's going on?" At the time, the messages were investigated by police and traced back to Dan's college on the east coast. The woman got a temporary restraining order against him, but he was never charged with any crime. Until now. After seven days of testimony, the jury in Christiel Krug's murder case is asked to deliberate. When the jury returns with a verdict, Christiel's parents are holding their breath. A jury returned a guilty verdict in the trial of a Broomfield man accused of killing his wife. Daniel Krug is found guilty of first-degree murder, stalking, and criminal impersonation. Today, the court sentenced Mr. Krug to life in prison without the possibility of parole. It's a just and appropriate sentence for a horrific crime. Dan Krug thought he could fool everyone and get away with his crimes. He just never thought Christiel would outsmart him. It was her efforts that helped police solve her own murder and put a monster behind bars. At the cost of her own life, she made sure her children will always be safe. "She loved them, she wanted to protect them, and she wanted them to be happy." Now, with their mother gone and their father in prison, Christiel's children live with her parents. "We want to protect them. They're very surrounded by their mother's family's love." "They're in a loving environment. They're given everything that Christiel would have given them." It's only been two years since her death, and for her parents, the pain is still hard to bear. But they do all they can to make sure Christiel's memory lives on with her children. "Every day is a difficult day. You wake up and you feel the pain, and then I look at my grandkids and I find out that Christiel is alive, and I find a moment of peace, because I see her." "Fall never arrives all at once. Burst the air, then the light, and slowly the things you love begin to find each other. A jacket meets a dress, a hoodie slips beneath a blazer, an old cap finds a new scarf. Because you don't simply step into the season, you create it, layer by layer, until it finally feels like fall." Find fall your way at Ross.