kruse was neither. keith morrison: which meant, said the prosecutor, that chris could not have been in bed as he said he was when those shots were fired. hoefert also pointed out steps chris did not take. he did not arm himself despite there being a firearm in the bedroom. he did not barricade the back door. he did not help jan. he did not attempt first aid or to try to stop the wound from bleeding. he did not hold her hand or try to comfort her. he indicated that he went to the doorway and quickly looked at her and decided that she was dead and then he left her there, which was problematic from our perspective. because the medical examiner had opined that she would have lived three to five minutes after being shot. keith morrison: this, said the state, was the murder weapon, a remington 870 12 gauge shotgun, as determined by a forensic scientist at the nationally-accredited state investigative agency, the bca. she said that because she had to analyze seven 12 gauge shotguns found in chris's home and sh

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isaac kruse: absolutely. when i found out that they were talking about buying it, i was starting to look for my line of work up in that area. and i thought it would be really fun to help own and help work out on the resort. that's the sort of place that comes multigenerational, too. i mean, you can look forward to an association with it for your whole life. yeah. keith morrison: so come august, chris and jan drove the six hours from brewster to spider lake to engage in some serious negotiating. and there were obstacles-- of course, there were-- as jan told her sister kay. kay king: it was just the timing with bailey having a couple of years left in school. so it wasn't that she-- yes she, did want to buy it. there was just a lot that went into that whole decision. keith morrison: mostly, of course, the money. jan, the bookkeeper, ran the numbers. they offered as much as their bank would allow, but it wasn't enough. was it jan who faced it first, that they'd have to move on? chris would never own the resort he

the loss of that woman, jan kruse, a genuinely tragic event.ore so because it just seemed pointless. why would somebody go into the house, shoot some sleeping woman? that didn't make any sense. so did she have any enemies who would want her dead? no. that was a question that we asked often was, who would have wanted jan dead? and we could not find one person that didn't like jan or that thought she wasn't a good person. keith morrison: there was, however, that young man, jeremy majerus-- the not quite boyfriend. unapproved by bailey parents. passions can run high in a situation like that. jeremy's place-- his family's farm, that is-- was a 20 or 25 minute drive away from the kruse house. deputies drove out to talk to him. recorded the conversation. keith morrison: so as the deputy, when was the last time he talked to bailey? or communicated at all? keith morrison: jeremy said he met bailey while helping out with the high school marching band. he had graduated, but continued to volunteer. and somehow, during those band practices, he and bailey h