I agree- he really takes the time to make the witnesses and juries comfortable. This court case has been so enjoyable for me to watch because of the professionalism of the judge, attorneys, scientists, detectives etc. It's masterclass of how our system SHOULD enact justice.

So agree ... they are blessed to have a judge like him in their state....

After they give their testimony, this Judge always wishes them "a good rest of the day"

@@peggypeggy4137 🥰 I have never heard any other judge say that, or anything resembling that.

He’s such a gentlemen. You could tell he cares about the law when he gave his speech to Chandler during sentencing. Super respectful to the jury, I’d feel honored had I been on that jury and shown the respect he gave them

So right! He is adding insult to injury by not pleading guilty.

He wants the attention-he wants everyone to know what he was capable of 🤢🤢🤮

After watching the entire interrogation, Chandler had absolutely *NO emotion* totally indicative of a psychopath.

Each day out of prison is a win for him, for he knows once he enters his ' corrections centre '', he'll never be free from the confines of its walls.

I agree, but after all his lies, he probably thinks he can still get away with it. So sad for his brother.

and dignifed.

Yep 1000x better than when a court room is full of yelling drama.. Like jodi arias case

I wonder if he is a Christian. Poor Judge after listening to the detective he is now saying um lol

@@zenamen5221 & regal. His voice is calming

This also isn't a contentious case at all since one side is so clearly beyond a shadow of a doubt guilty so when both parties know he's guilty it becomes more civil.

He should have stood up and yelled out.... I am 100% guilty. And stopped all of this.

yes. Even if he only did the tampering with the corpses, which is very proven he did, he would have reacted. He is weird. And quilty.

Plus the mountain of evidence

He's putting effort into not showing facial expression. He's numb from nightmares most likely. The reality will hit him a couple of times in prison I bet. He cares. He just knows he fckd his life up. His brother's too.

@@poodee9395 I always wondered what would happen if someone yelled that out during their trial? Do they finish the trial or no?

omg LOL thank you for pointing that out!! You're so right about him continuing to ask with a "hopeful disposition"....love the way you worded your comment!! 😊😊💜💜

@@amyc9155 he was just the cutest, wasn't he?? Lol. Such a nice && patient seeming man.

@@ellemariec yes I want to watch more trials with him and this prosecutor!! Haven't been able to find any as of yet.

Probably had been up playing games for days and wasn't thinking..it's called sleep deprivation phychosis. I really believe he went nuts due to his lies plus his online addictions.

Narcissists always think they are the smartest people in the room.

🤣

He lost his entire family. God bless Mitch for a bright, happy & healthy future.

I don't know how he is putting one foot in front of the other.

You're right, i caught that too Seems like classic distancing behavior? Like that other nutbag, Chris Watts, calling his murdered 2 and 4yo daughters "those kids."

You're right, how sad 😢 no wonder ppl don't want to have kids anymore

He even used his dad’s voucher to buy coffee

@@ritayammouni2803 it was for a free coffee. For example buy 5 coffees get 1 free. He used his fathers free coffee 😢

That’s wild

Yes. Shot dad first, I presume. Maybe even before dad confronted him about all his lying, to avoid just that. Then "logically" decided to shoot mum when she came home from work.

@@bumblebaa2327 You know I wondered if he murdered his father before he was confronted. After Bart called this college and pretended to be Chaz I wondered if he realized the full extent of the lies or not. I speculated that this was not the case and that Bart wanted to give Chandler a chance to come clean on his own before they drove to that school meeting. We will only know more in this regard after we will hear Barts call. The prosecution said that after the call Bart texted to his son "I spoke to X" and pointed out that Chaz likely didn't know who X was. But I'm sure he googled X's name and there you'll find the Linkedin profile, customer service rep at Madison College. So Chaz was alarmed till then and knew regardless that he could not accompagny his dad to a school meeting or his double life would unravel. I wondered (if my theory is correct) if Bart & Krista might still be alive had he confronted his son immediately after said call. So I'm really curious to hear the tape.

@@TheMundusvultdecipi his interrogation says a lot when the detectives confront him with the truth. It looks like he’s about to faint. He probably felt the same when his father confronted him. His house of cards collapsed..

@@TheMundusvultdecipi yes me too. If only Bart had realized how sick his son is. He might have thought to not confront him but instead a-peace him. Telling him he felt honoured about all the efforts C. did all these years for them, his parents. Compliment him on his creativity and persistency. Avoid the word "lies". I'm the same age as Bart and I could not have done it. You just don't expect your son to be so different from the one you know.

@@GodsTribe indeed. You'd never expect them to be a killer though, that's so far from being human. How come he crossed that treshold? He must be insane. Or is there a bit of murderer in all of us? Only when we are extremely pushed maybe. He wasn't.

The prosecutor's opening statement is not evidence. It is not that simple in the law. So they have to call the witnesses to put in the evidence.

Right!!! I watch trials daily and I have never been more convinced of someone's guilt...

@@justbrandy8520 what's a good channel to watch trials like this?

@LubeThatChair law and crime network, court tv's website has trials on demand and they also play live trials on their website, scales of justice

Prosecutor William Brown's opening statement was EVERYTHING! The best opening statement I have ever heard. I know it holds no merit as far as evidence but after listening to it. All I could think was GUILTY!

I liked it when he read paper towels on her list then asked her "what are these? " and she simply replied "paper towels" I thought that was funny (not that I don't find what this monster did was funny in the slightest )

💯 it was wayyyy out of hand, disrespectful, rude, selfish, etc. I don't understand what's wrong with some people. It's not the place for this kind of behavior/comments.

Yup, shameful

Wow. ✔ done

They probably do but they are not close enough to the microphone to pick up the sound

@Jacquelyn Whiting I would say thank you back, to you..

Actually, quite a few did but probably unheard due to standing up to leave.

What difference does it make?

At this point I’m convinced they only ask questions so they can feel like they are trying but they know he’s guilty and really don’t want to fight it or drag it out. As if they seriously could care less. Can’t blame them.

I don't think Sam I am would appreciate that analogy!

@@nikinthemidwest1915 I can'y believe he had the AUDACITY to say ; " If there is any Attorney please contact me so I can appeal this decision!" No apology to his brother, his grandmother who pleaded for the Judge's mercy and the courts and spare him from life in prison with no parole, or his Uncle whose birthday will be connected to the last time he spoke with his only brother and best friend. It is said; "WHAT THE PARENTS DON'T TEACH THEIR CHILDREN, THE STREETS WILL!" May the Prisoners give Chandler Prison Justice that he rightfully deserves.

​@@marcyeaglecloud7345Well said. Thank you.

I'm following this from Ireland to,such a heartbreaking case , thinking of the other son and both victims families xx

I think Judge Dorrow did an excellent job with Darrell Brooks. He was outrageously difficult. It would be interesting to see how this judge would have handled his antics.

Except when he claimed that the prosecutor "didnt mean to imply the defense was lying" (comitting a felony) in the courtroom......when the prosectuter literally said exactly that.....word for word. It should have been a mistrial, but this judge unethically finagled things. Now the prosecutor will likely do it again and get a murderer released one day. Judge should have had the honor to just let the statement be what it was, if not sanction the prosecutor outright. They could have re-tried this 1000 times and still convicted Chandler.....but that might not be the case next time.

A person devoid of concern for anyone but himself. He used everyone he was involved with. His former girlfriend paid for everything & did all the driving because he had no money & no car. Yet, he told her he had money but there were all these problems getting it into his account. Such a moocher loser!

I suspect they're as aware as we are that acquittal is not likely here. Their defense, assuming they plan to mount one, may hinge on something that hasn't come up on the prosecutor's side yet.

🤣

@@fieryweasel I’m suspecting they may claim he suffered a brain injury which caused him to act violently? 🙄

So far they aren't disputing the huge amount of evidence against him. I'm thinking Chandler will have a story that Cat or someone else shot & killed his parents & he felt he had to protect her so he disposed of the bodies. As someone said above they'll likely also use his 'brain injury' to explain why he didn't react like a normal person would. I hope he doesn't use his ex gf to blame it on or accuse her of dismembering them.

@@AnnaMorris411 I think your idea is more likely than my b grade horror movie theory lol.

ikr? And people keep asking why they don't object to anything. What good what it do, all this evidence is scientific and undeniable. Also, he may have told them in private counsel that he did do it.

It's almost humorous, in a dark way.. how after the medical examiner the Defense asks why they wrote atleast 3 shots.. basically putting the image of Chandler shooting him in the body parts not found as well.. When she asked that I had the image from Home Alone, "keep the change you filthy animal", then letting loose with the tommy gun. Also thought it was cute how the Defense asked if he could have shot himself.. (I noticed the D in Defense is capitalized.. not sure why, too lazy to correct.. but typing this explanation takes longer.. I just like to use my thumbs I guess).

@@brianstewart6657 Capital D is correct.

And not to mention, doing it to your parents...

@@anovemberstar Absolutely

Even worse, to his parents!

I agree. Seems like it’s happening a lot. Even with precious innocent children. Really makes me angry that someone is so evil to even think to do such a thing. Death sentence is just too clean, neat, and has to be carried out based on the cute constitutional rules. I say firing squad or stoning would end this madness.

No death penalty in Wisconsin. I am glad they don’t have that punishment. He needs to stay alive 💯 years, so he lives a nightmare every single day for the rest of his life.

I've been watching this trial and I thought the same thing.

That is true about the weight I wondered the same thing why do ppl say dead weight is heavier🤔🤔🤔 and what he did to his parents is pure evil

Preface: super morbid. Anyway, They might weigh the same but the weight could be dispersed differently in parts. Picture carrying a giant trash bag of potatoes vs a big box of potatoes. One is much easier to carrier than the other despite there being no difference in weight

The weight is technically the same, but a living person will do things to “assist” with moving them, even if against their will. Think of it this way, a living person can hold on, grab, wrap their legs, bend their joints to make it easier to pick them up and move them. But a dead person just lays there. Limbs hang straight down and won’t grab on to you. The weight just hangs straight down. The saying is “dead weight is heavier than living weight” because a living person is simply easier to move in all regards.

Maybe carrying and dispersing of the body parts separately, is easier to move

the soul weighs 21 grams and the body loses 21 grams when it dies. they did a movie on it

Co-workers? He didn’t have any, his co-workers were the characters of the video games 😂

This is the first time in his life, everything revolves around him. All the attention is on what he has done.. he probably thinks he is famous now.

maybe as long as he not confesses he can convince himself that he's not evil but just another victim? The breaking of his fantasy world of lies is what he tried to prevent by shooting his dad. So maybe he still lives in it.

@LogicianTenderstone I'm a true crime fanatic and I've been watching since day 1 from Illinois! The prosecutor's opening statement was amazing and these defense lawyers are a joke. Who is the defense going to call anyway? And I think he said 'he didn't feel bad for what he did'. I feel so sorry for his brother 😔

@@peaceandlove7824 exactly,the main reason to keep up the charade of working was just to fuel his video game addiction.this is an extreme case of video game dependency

I seriously doubt the prosecution offered. Plea. Chandler halderson had the option of pleading guilty to all charges or going to trial. If he pled guilty, his sentence would be life without a chance of parole. At trial there is at least a chance for a not guilty or a hung jury/mistrial. It makes no sense logically to plead guilty because the punishment is a life in prison. In this type of brutal crime and the plethora of evidence, the prosecution would never offer a plea to a lesser charge. They feel very good about their chance to get a conviction

@@hoover1412 My point. He opted to go to trial that's his right to do so. Even though the evidence was posed to him, he still thinks he's the smartest person in the room. Hense why he lied the whole time, and in court now.

Was he offered a plea deal? I never heard anything about it if so

@@June-tb4vi There's always a plea. It's up to the defendant weather he will except. Some want to roll the dice in hope that they can someday be released. With this case, the outcome will probably be the same.

@@June-tb4vi As Hoover touches on, if he pled guilty it's game over. With a trial he has a chance of acquittal or at least a prayer for something in the process to appeal down the road.

instructions unclear, put mama's phone in mama's shoes, still got caught.

Right? Defense attorneys: Do you like chocolate?

Omg me too. She uses UMMM to breathe in air or something. Sometimes she even says it on an intake and it’s barely there, but yet… there it is. It’s beyond an affectation and she should work on limiting her use of it. It’s highly annoying.

SO ANNOYING!!!!!!!! Literally so unprofessional too

Great! Can't wait...lol. Thanks for the heads up.

Each ummm sounds exactly the same too, smh

Those "UMMS" are uttered by a very intelligent woman and I applaud her! It might be annoying, but to be honest I haven't heard the "umms" you speak of. Her testimony has been very educational and helpful in understanding the evidence that the state presented to the jury. Let it be said that the Prosecution presented an IRON CLAD case that there isn't a hint of doubt that the jury needs to entertain.

Reddit has all the photos. That's where I seen them.

Right?! Its an unlikely hobby for most ppl to look at gore. If you're not used to it, it's sickening. These poor innocent people are forced to and barely getting paid to see and know this disturbing shite!

oh wow interesting thankyou,, I WOULD LIKE TO sEE WHAT THE JURY DOES THOUGH, aswell,

That's also the reason why televised trials have the most graphic evidence displayed in booklets that the cameras can't see, if it got on TV it could be copied and misused.

Bless you, and all those who have to be subjected to such horrors. You are truly special people.

Thats insane that a buch of adults need to be coddled like that. This is real life...sometimes its necessary to step out of our fantasy.

@@SuperPhunThyme9 It maintains the victims' privacy and dignity as much as possible. Is that "coddling" dead kids, for example, to keep as many photos private as possible?

I don't think he was trying to frame her. I suspect he wanted the stuff out of his car, saw the trash cans, tossed stuff in & assumed no one would notice. Perhaps he knew the trash pick up schedule, too.

I thought the same as well. In his interrogation he said something to the effect of Cat's mother not liking his parents for 'some reason'. Chandler left remains and incriminating evidence at Cat's mom's girlfriend's farm. I feel he wanted to divert attention to other people.

That’s exactly what he was doing. Just in case someone found body parts. There’s a reason he left the torso ( with the gunshots ) as well as planted the gun in the barn.

The whole thing was stupid. You kill your parents because what? You don't want to get a job? Then you look up stuff on the internet like no one was gonna check out your searches? And you go to the stores to buy stuff where you can be recorded buying the stuff that ties you to your crime? You ask to come to your girlfriends family farm and then dump body parts on it as if you wouldn't be the first suspect when those things were found? Then all the lies and inconsistencies throughout. Cruel and horrific is what he is, but also, he is an idiot. I saw someone mention Chris Watts somewhere. He was an idiot too. He dumped the bodies at his work site, as if no one was gonna tie him to it when the bodies were found. Nevermind that his chance to getaway didn't even get far enough for that detail to matter.

It's obvious he was being set up, no one's that stupid even Chandler aka the jockstrap cowboy,

Ummm ummm ummmm ummmm arrrrgh lol

Counted over 20 ums in just one sentence! Infuriating

@@lisawhitehouse4628 I counted all 225 of them lol

She really needs to speak without the umms. They distracted from her testimony, which was a waste of time anyway. Thank goodness she didn't have to testify that her team searched hundreds of places.

Unfortunately, because of Trump, the ugly and cruel side of our population has come to the forefront. If he is not convicted and put in prison, the United States will be nothing but a failed experiment in the history books.

@@susiepittman601 agree. But Trump is just a symptom. He’s not the cause. For him to have even had the remote possibility of becoming president, there has to have been a very ugly suppressed sentiment bubbling up amongst a large number of the population.

Agree, i wish every country had the same justice system and also the transparency

@@susiepittman601 🤣

@@susiepittman601 it's 🤣🤣🤣 you sound like a child.... Everybody's bad all because of trump!!! LMBO.

This

Cat was in on it.

@@stepheneurosailor1623 I believe that as well. It was all about the money with Cat.

@@trentcruise3084 It takes an awful lot of effort both physically and mentally to murder dismember and incinerate (partially) two fully grown adults and dispose of the remains.far beyond this guy's capability.. Something tells me we’re looking at birds of a flock

@@stepheneurosailor1623 There's literally no proof of that. You're no better than people who make false r*pe accusations. Baseless claims like this haunt and ruin people's lives. But evil people like you don't care. You just like feeling smart and smug in your armchair detective work. You're a truly sickening individual.

He was a pathological liar. That’s a major red flag, but his parents had to find that out the hard way. I don’t believe anyone actually believes their child ( or anyone) would do actually this… but Chaz really intended to go all the way with his lies.

they think she's in the landfill. It was trashday on Friday and he put out a bin. :(

@@bumblebaa2327 🥺

I know!!! Ugh! So so so annoying. I can’t even focus on what she’s saying. She uses UMMM to breathe in air or something. Sometimes she even says it on an intake and it’s barely there, but yet… there it is. It’s beyond an affectation and she should work on limiting her use of it. It’s highly annoying.

She uses UMMM to breathe in air or something. Sometimes she even says it on an intake and it’s barely there, but yet… there it is. It’s beyond an affectation and she should work on limiting her use of it. It’s highly annoying.

Very annoying !! Really needs to check on her “umms”

yes you can see him moving

Ooo, I missed that. What a disgusting nightmare of a human

To shoot from a distance in the back is criminal and coward, to cut and hold and carry their heads and watch the fire and stand the smell and the sight this man is a textbook psychopath, is just beyond criminal. A gruesome case that i unfortunately know off in Mexico city and i regret watching the photos of it comes to mind, but the killer felt so sick about what he was doing to the body that he started vomiting and finally he almost went crazy, crying and screaming while confessing in fear for his own gruesome actions... This case is on the top 3 most horrendous crimes I've known about.

I can't even type what he did like you did. What utter just black vile evil heart of poison and horror he has. I can't even think of the words. He's the worst I have ever heard off

Easily proven premeditated to me. He had to set up the basement and lure them down there, and then the surprised attack. I wonder if his dad was already dead and then when his mom got home, he called for her to come down there and shot her before she could even react. Sicko

We only need jesus

That's exactly what I thought. He called his dad downstairs then shot him and he was hiding behind something. Then he did the same to mom.

I can’t figure out that table… but if it were the spot they were shot, wouldn’t there have been bloody drag marks (obviously cleaned up somewhat) from that room, leading to the basement?? 🤔 the amount of blood he attempted to clean up (as evidenced by the luminol test) leads me to believe they were killed and dismembered down there… unless I haven’t gotten to the part where they identify a spot with significant pooling elsewhere 🤔 but then the broken glass ☝🏻 I just don’t know!

Because they were all things the jury could have asked about, and all the evidence must be presented at the trial. They can't just send out a few more questions for detectives to investigate while they're deliberating.

@@barbaramcmillan3835 "and all the evidence must be presented at the trial." As I said before, she presented no evidence whatsoever. "Because they were all things the jury could have asked about" The jury is only supposed to consider the evidence. She didn't present any evidence, therefore there was no point in calling her to the stand again. "They can't just send out a few more questions for detectives to investigate while they're deliberating." What questions? Questions about everything they _didn't_ find and where they _didn't_ find it? Those aren't legitimate questions for a jury to be asking anyway. If a hypothetical find that a jury member may be speculating about hasn't been presented as evidence from an actual find, then it goes without saying that there was no find, or at least not a find that was legally presentable as evidence. Again, a jury's job is simply to consider the presented evidence, not to question the investigators.

I rest my case . .

@@barbaramcmillan3835 Since you have no further arguments, your tacit concession is noted and your resignation is accepted.

I understand your pseudonym now. Goodbye

If he, at any time indicated to his counsel that he did kill them, that prohibits them from trying to project blame onto an outside party. I suspect he was honest with them.

Kristine Bailey really?? I've watched a ton of trials, and never realized that. How could that even be enforced without violating privilege? What I mean is, how could anyone verify if he did or did not admit to committing the crime, if they can't ask about privileged conversations between him and his attorneys?

They haven't even had their turn yet! Give them a chance at least. Not that there's much they can say...

@@kristinebailey6554 A defense attorney who knows their non-guilty-pleading client is guilty can actually go through the process without ever explicitly claiming that the client is innocent. In order to convict someone for a crime, the prosecuter must prove the clients guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I can argue every piece of evidence that is presented without blaming another party. His attorney's are not trying which is wrong.

@@lizgander9172 Typically defense attorney's will challenge the states evidence. They will challenge witnesses expertise, they will challenge how the evidence was collected. I realize they don't really have much to work with, but you can still challenge witness testimony, challenge their experience in their field. I would challenge the farm owners on who works on the farm, have they ever had individuals who were trespassing. I would love to understand what Chandler expectations are on taking this to trial. Part of me believes he's proud of what he did and he actually wants people to know that he is a ruthless killer and expects to be found guilty.

I speculate he shot them in the head as well too.

They would have found the bullets in the ash trap or fireplace. They wouldn’t melt so easily.

@@HK-kz1wu Great point! Ty!!

This, Chris Watts and Jodi Arias. Some incredible brutality that makes you question everything

@@naysay02 Young too.

Cat did

lmaaoooo

Don't forget some people are very nervous. It's a gory trial, after all.

@@tourdedogue4952 - that's true. Thinking about it now, hope it's not bc of covid

It seems to me that they’re trying to target how much investigators don’t know. Hence the questions asking why they use terms like “at least.” In the closing statements they really hammer in the term “reasonable doubt,” as well. So basically I think they’re just desperately trying to find the gaps in their knowledge and exploit them, but it’s so air tight that there’s very little for them to grasp onto.

Ikr? He obviously grew frustrated with keeping the fire lit and burning hot enough and yet he took the Target bag of bloody paper towels to the farm to dispose of. I thought early on that he was intentionally trying to frame the occupants of the farm with the murderer and he did not want the missing person case to go cold leaving him waiting for several years to lay claim to the life insurance. He wanted them to be found and identified, while at the same time trying to make it appear that someone else killed them.

And, tucking them sloppily into his mother's cheery garden shoes. Creepy

I believe he sent a text from one of the phones after the murders, but the DLs? That idk

I think also may have planned on using them later . To show they were alive somewhere else.

@@tourdedogue4952 where!? When?

for real. it makes no sense for the defense to question the order of the gunshots unless the defense was based around them happening in a specific order. and questioning why it said "at least 3" just drew attention back to the dismemberment and how it could've been even worse than we know. and the question about whether the dismemberment happened while Bart was alive or not? first of all, the prosecutor already asked that and got the answer, and second of all, how is that supposed to help the defense unless the defense's argument is, "yes, he shot his father at least 3 times, but at least he waited until he was dead to chop him up"?

@@ididntknowtheyhadwifiinhell absolutely my points.

It seems to me that they’re trying to exploit the gaps in what they know. They questioned why they used the term “at least” in terms of gunshot wounds because they’re trying to show that there isn’t a certainty in terms of what happened. It’s a very weak angle, but it’s all they’ve got haha

oooh - that's an angle I hadn't thought of, framing the ladies! I wondered why he would risk getting spotted at the place dropping (and dragging) his dead dad's torso. He seems so stupid.

And why did he hide the vape mouth pieces and gun magazines in the insulation of the house? Seems so strange.

@@jenniferverhaeghe7067 I never heard that. Who was the witness?

Weren’t they burned in the fire place?

@@SarahLovesBoobahandErEr just their heads were

@@maxmanx1294 oh man, really?

@@SarahLovesBoobahandErEr And some arm parts, finger bones were found

They found skull fragments, finger bones , and knee cap bones and some vertibre I believe.

Postpone for how long?????

Ugh

Apparently it will be postponed until at least the 18th of January, but it may be pushed back until the 24th 😔

I bet the last two witnesses feel even better about their decision to keep their masks on during their testimony after hearing that.

@Let'sBeCivil,ShallWe? my thoughts EXACTLY!

She uses UMMM to breathe in air or something. Sometimes she even says it on an intake and it’s barely there, but yet… there it is. It’s beyond an affectation and she should work on limiting her use of it. It’s highly annoying.

Excruciating!!!

This chat is ridiculous. Uninformed, clueless people

The defense isn't disputing any of the stuff happened. So far, there's been no proof that Chandler killed them. There's circumstantial evidence that he tried to get rid of the corpses, but no proof of murder. I think that's going to be the defense.

They are basically just making sure he gets a fair trial. They are public defenders, learning.

I mean he went through the whole interrogation without an attorney, so the defense really doesn't have much to work with now.