Chandler Halderson Resident Evil: Parricide Waiting to Happen

By Pamela Lillian Valemont

When we were first introduced via his arrest, on the surface, Chandler Halderson looked a bit vacant and inoffensive, belying the true character beneath this grossly misleading façade. On closer and deeper inspection, his piercing, penetrating, unsettling, fixed gaze became a doorway that led to a deadly, macabre soul. This 23-year-old young man walked up behind his father and shot him at least three times in the torso and back of the neck, and killed his mother by some unknown method, quite probably using the same rifle. We have no way of knowing which of the deaths came first. However, as research into such parricides shows, it was likely Dad was his first victim. He then chopped his parents heads off with an axe and incinerated them in the fireplace of the room he temporarily occupied in the family home. He removed the limbs from their bodies, cutting through muscle, tissue and bone, using a variety of implements: a pruning saw, tree loppers, hacksaw and scissors. So he wouldn’t make a mess on the floor, and facilitate easy clean-up of the crime scene, he briefly departed to buy a black and silver tarp from a local store. A forensic numerological criminal profile and analysis of Chandler, the perpetrator and Bart and Krista Halderson, his parental victims.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781678172503

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Pamela Lillian Valemont

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When we were first introduced via his arrest, on the surface, Chandler Halderson looked a bit vacant and inoffensive, belying the true character beneath this grossly misleading façade. On closer and deeper inspection, his piercing, penetrating, unsettling, fixed gaze became a doorway that led to a deadly, macabre soul.

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Bart and Krista Halderson right, Chandler, left

This 23-year-old young man walked up behind his father and shot him at least three times in the torso and back of the neck, and killed his mother by some unknown method, quite probably using the same rifle. We have no way of knowing which of the deaths came first. However, as research into such parricides shows, it was likely Dad was his first victim. 

He then chopped his parents heads off with an axe and incinerated them in the fireplace of the room he temporarily occupied in the family home. He removed the limbs from their bodies, cutting through muscle, tissue and bone, using a variety of implements: a pruning saw, tree loppers, hacksaw and scissors.  So he wouldn’t make a mess on the floor, and facilitate easy clean-up of the crime scene, he briefly departed to buy a black and silver tarp from a local store. He was captured on CCTV footage making this innocuous purchase. A latent fingerprint was later lifted from tape stuck to another tarp, used to bind the bodies. This was a tarp that his Dad used to lay on the basement floor, during a carpentry project he was engaged in: constructing a wooden table.

Evidently, Bart had inherited some talent from his grandfather, who built a slab cabin on the lake in the 1940’s.  This was the cabin Chandler lyingly said his parents had gone to, when in fact they had never left the house at all.  It sounds like Chandler would have been better employed in the arts as a screen or paperback writer. Apart from the fact he was a good swimmer and had been taught to dive, he had one great attribute we know of: he could spin a darn good yarn. 

Deputy Greg Leatherberry, a crime scene investigator for the Dane County Sheriff’s Office, shows jurors an axe recovered during the investigation. Later tests found it had human blood on it. 

In order to carry out this lengthy and physically taxing task, he set up a bed comprised of two couches, positioned face to face, forming a four-sided enclosure, like a children’s fort, so he could rest intermittently until he completed this awesomely gruesome and exhausting task. From this vantage point fireside, he could watch his parent’s’ heads spit and sizzle until they burnt into nothingness.

A prosecutor told the jury that white fragment circled in yellow is a piece of a human skull, which was found in the Halderson couple's fireplace

Several neighbours smelt what they thought was barbequing pork. They were perhaps wondering why they were not invited over, and also why on earth the Haldersons were having pig on a spit roast between the hours of midnight and 4 AM.

Being an affluent neighbourhood, homeowners all around had security TV cameras installed, and they conveniently recorded excellent coverage of the fireplace window in the Halderson residence flickering and burning brightly through the night of July 2nd.

This would make the job so much easier for the array of forensic scientists and homicide detectives working the case. Chandler virtually broadcast his ghoulish crime to the entire network of astute neighbours, one of which was a retired police detective, living directly opposite.

Chandler, who was having trouble finding the perfect fit in employment, missed his calling. He would have made a

Reviews for Chandler Halderson Resident Evil

[Ryan · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book presents a fairly good account of the murders of Bart and Krista Halderson. It’s accurate on the basic chronology of events. However, the book is marred by the inclusion of a study of parricides in Quebec. The author made an unconvincing effort to draw connections between the conclusions of the Quebec study and the Halderson case. She indulges in some ungrounded speculations about possible Oedipal motivations for the murders. Even more egregiously wrongheaded and uncalled for were the author’s lengthy digressions into bizarre numerological theories and the Tarot. These digressions and the unconvincing psychological speculations diminished the effectiveness of the book.