Affidavit: Suspect posed as ex-boyfriend
A man accused of murdering his wife reportedly spent weeks impersonating her ex-boyfriend and stalking her before killing her, according to a newly released arrest affidavit.
Daniel Krug, 43, is charged with first-degree murder — after deliberation, criminal impersonation, and two counts of stalking in the death of his wife, Kristil Krug, 43.
An arrest affidavit states that Broomfield police responded to reports of harassment from Kristil Krug, who believed she was receiving threatening and explicit messages from an ex-boyfriend.
Kristil Krug and her ex-boyfriend broke up in 2000 after dating for a little over a year. In the years since, she told officers that her ex contacted her at least four times, and messages included propositions for sexual encounters and rude comments. The affidavit states that she did not previously report him because he stopped communications when she did not respond.
This year on Oct. 2, Kristil Krug received a text messagethat police now believe was from Daniel Krug posing as the ex-boyfriend. In the message, he offered to meet with Kristil Krug to “hook up.” When she did not respond, an additional text on Oct. 3 insulted her and encouraged her to kill herself.
The affidavit states that Kristil Krug decided to open a case with the police Oct. 31 when she received an email that threatened her husband and included a photo of him exiting his car at his workplace.
From the time she filed the report to her death Dec. 14, Kristil Krug received eight more texts and emails from Daniel Krug posing as the ex-boyfriend, all containing explicit content and proposals, according to the affidavit. Two of the messages in early November implied that she was being stalked, one message correctly stated that her license plate tags were expired and another implied that the sender followed her to a dentist appointment on Nov. 9.
Another message on Nov. 13 threatened Daniel Krug, stating he didn’t “deserve” or “satisfy” his wife, and that he could “save” her.
The message quoted in the affidavit reads, in part, “U belong with me.,ill get rid of him and then we can be together…they let me park and walk right into his (workplace)…give me the signal and he wont come home.”
After receiving this message, Glendale police officers were sent to Daniel Krug’s workplace to ensure his safety, and Broomfield detectives checked on Kristil Krug as well and determined that they were both unharmed.
The affidavit states that around noon on Dec. 14, Daniel Krug contacted the police, saying he was concerned that he could not reach his wife. While performing a welfare check, police found Kristil Krug in the garage with a “substantial wound” near her right temple. Preliminary information from her autopsy shows that she sustained two or more blunt-force trauma wounds on the back of her head and one stab wound on the left side of her chest.
After Kristil Krug’s death, police obtained the IP address behind the messages and found that it originated from a public Wi-fi network at Daniel Krug’s work