48 Hours The Snapchat Clue (CBS Saturday November 5, 2022)

Bart and Krista Halderson lived in a lovely home in Windsor, Wisconsin, and adored their two adult sons, so their sudden disappearance in July 2021 shocked their neighbourhood. Erin Moriarty, a correspondent for 48 HOURS, looks into how information discovered on social media could point police to their murderer.

When the couple vanished, there was mystery surrounding it, so investigators turned to family members for information, including sons Mitchell, who was 24 at the time and worked in technology, and Chandler, who was 23 at the time and a home-bound college student. The new job offer Chandler claimed to have received from Elon Musk’s SpaceX had him giddy. Chandler was the one who told authorities that his parents had left for the long Fourth of July weekend at the cabin but never came back. The social media app Snapchat is where the police would eventually discover a clue.

“No way would I have ever, ever guessed what was about to be revealed. Never,” Krista Halderson’s cousin Barbi Townsend said. “Nobody saw this coming.”

48 HOURS: “The Snapchat Clue” is produced by Marcelena Spencer. Iris Carreras is the field producer. David Dow is the development producer. Mike McHugh and Greg McLaughlin are the editors. Patti Aronofsky is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. Judy Tygard is the executive producer.

Airdate: Saturday November 5, 2022 at 10.00pm on CBS.