Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Family Fireplace With Parents' Remains u0026 Bloody Ax Found" video.

C'mon, he had a point! Lots of people see the irony of this rock solid, middle class couple who loved their kids being murdered and cut up by one of them! I'm glad I don't have kids either - as author Lionel Shriver said, deciding to have kids is a gamble like leaving your front door open - you never know who is gonna walk in!
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It was a skull fragment, he burned both parents' heads on the fire. The resulting heat got so intense, one of the fire's glass doors shattered (he claimed he broke it playing ball with the dog). Mom's legs only were recovered. He almost certainly threw her torso in the river, as he did a Google search specifically asking if a woman's remains had been found in the river close to where the legs were dumped. He is sheer evil.
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Nope, it's a perfectly intelligent and valid point. The world is way overpopulated. People should think hard before procreating. Bart and Krista seemed to have a good marriage. Fact is they'd have had a long and happy life together if they hadn't become parents. Unfortunately society encourages everyone to think marriage and kids are the norm, and if you don't fall in line and comply with that lifestyle, you're a failure. That's very wrong. NOT having kids should be recognised as a perfectly acceptable and positive lifestyle too! In fact people should be applauded for choosing not to have children. If there were fewer kids, the ones that are born would be more highly valued and treated better. There would be less child poverty and maybe better parenting!
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If not him then who? Their pet dogs?!
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@mariesmith4309 Correct - Chandler shot his dad in the back just as they were about to leave the house to attend that meeting at his college, where his lies would have been fully exposed. Then he waited home for his mom to return from work and no doubt lured her down to the basement too, to muffle the gunshot sound as he killed her. These murders of parents by lazy, entitled twenty-something sons still leeching off them follow a similar pattern. The crime is invariably committed after the father has belatedly put his foot down, and taken action to end their free ride. Joel Guy Jr and Grant Amato were very similar murders by man-child sons. I doubt this is the last such crime we've seen. Parents need to take note - over-indulge your kid and keep them dependant on you, and you are doing them - and yourself - no favours at all. It's natural for parents to love their kids unconditionally. But as they become adults, and face life in the adult world, they need to detach from them for their own good. Because in the adult world, no one owes them a free ride and they will have to stand on their own two feet and make their own way in life to survive. Parents should give them the tools to do that - a secure home and a good education - but then they must let go and expect them to fly the nest and take responsibility for themselves. Why was Chandler still living with parents age 23? That's a big red flag, right there.
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@SkybabyandStar Nothing 'selfish' about choosing to be child-free. What's selfish is having children and not raising them right. Not raising them right does not only mean abusing or neglecting them. It also means over-indulging them, and not setting down clear boundaries for good, respectful behaviour which will make them decent citizens. Sadly some middle-class parents are wilfully deluded about a disturbed child, and don't want to admit there's a problem with them and get them the professional psychiatric help they need. I bet there were many red flags in Chandler's behaviour as he was growing up. But the parents didn't want to think there was anything wrong with their son, and thought they could 'fix' him with love and support. Wrong! If you fail to set boundaries for your child, sooner or later society will. Chandler will spend the rest of his wasted life in jail - costing the taxpayer a fortune, as did his farcical trial. Bart and Krista are tragic victims. But they also failed as parents and played a key role in putting a dangerously dysfunctional man into society. Their part in this horrific crime cannot be ignored!
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@nicoleloves9483 He totally did it alone. He had his parents' big house all to himself to 'deal with' their bodies (he repeatedly told his girlfriend not to come over/limited her time there, so he could finish what he euphemistically called 'his chores'). But like so many killers, he was over confident. Detectives and the forensic crime labs they use can pick up the tiniest speck of blood proving he location of the murder scene and the killer's connection to it. Who else could have killed and dismembered them in their own home but the son who lived with them? It's frankly ludicrous this 24 year old man is denying it. But he has nothing to lose, and no doubt enjoys all the attention he's getting at his double murder trial. He's secretly proud of what he did to his parents. There's no remorse or emotion from him when photos are shown in court of his parents' body parts. He shot them in the back then chopped them up - because they were about to uncover his many lies about himself and his life. He's not a man, but a man-child. He didn't want to grow up, leave home, earn his own money or be a man, as his elder brother had. He's an evil, entitled, cowardly freak, and the sooner he's locked up with bigger psychopaths, the better! Chandler Halderson killed the two people in the world who loved him deeply, and would have supported him no matter what. Who gives a damn about him now they're gone, and he killed them both so cruelly? He has a very lonely life ahead of him.
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@kathyw7143 Seems he's likely a psychopath, they are born with weakened electrical pathways to the areas of the brain controlling emotions like love, empathy, guilt, remorse or fear. Because they don't feel fear, they are able to kill without fear of consequences and fully expect to get away with it. This guy's cover story is hard to fathom. Did he really expect police to believe a mystery couple his folks supposedly left with killed them and dumped their body parts in areas he was familiar with (including his girlfriend's mom's land?) Frequently such killers are pathological liars, who have always enjoyed great success being believed by others, even when telling the most blatant untruths. They become full of confidence in their power to con others, believing they will be thought innocent even if they commit murder - just as long as they deny it convincingly enough. They literally think they are untouchable, and way smarter than police and prosecutors!
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My parents were great and always told me I had a home with them no matter what. That gave me the confidence to go my own way and move many miles away to London aged 18. I had dreams I wanted to follow, and not coming from money, knew I had to earn that money myself to make those dreams happen. So I guess I had very supportive parents like Chandler. But I had ambitions and would no more have been living with them, jobless, playing video games all day aged 23 than I'd have murdered anyone!
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@southernsass2937 Amen, of course Chandler Halderson murdered both his parents, the evidence against him is so overwhelming his defense lawyer has hardly said two words on his behalf, from day one! Her opening statement to jurors was the most feeble thing I've ever heard in defence of a suspected killer. All she could say was "Remember he's innocent until proven guilty, you can't assume anything, and we may never know who killed Bart and Krista Halderson". Pathetic! She actually helped the prosecution!
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@Stephanie J Absolutely! Frankly the world is way overpopulated, so if crimes like this prompt people not to procreate then something positive will have come out of it!
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How can that dumb lawyer say there's no motive? There's clear motive - Chandler Halderson shot his father Bart dead moments before they were due to attend a meeting he'd set up at his college, where his lies would finally have been exposed! He then waited for his mom Krista to return home from work, and did the same to her. The defendant had been going to elaborate lengths to live a lie, pretending he was studying and about to graduate, pretending he was working from home for an insurance company, and pretending he'd got a better job working for Elon Musk in Florida. But his dad was getting suspicious and had been on his tail for a while, asking why he had no money and wasn't paying them rent. Chandler faked emails to himself from his supposed employer, explaining the lack of payment as a payroll problem that was being sorted. He also bought himself a cheap burner phone and rang his dad pretending to be a college employee! He must have thought his dad was stupid, but he was wrong. Bart wrote a note to his mom afterwards, saying the voice on the phone sounded suspiciously like their son Chandler. They were onto him, and his web of lies was about to be exposed. He was 23 and still living at home rent free, a pathological liar with no qualifications and no job, wiling away the hours playing violent video games (one with an online friend who would visit and gift him the murder weapon and ammunition). Or hanging out with his girlfriend Cat, who he was allegedly cheating on. Chandler's an entitled man-child and the polar opposite of his older brother Mitchell who'd left home, got engaged and was doing well in his career. In his evidence Mitchell described their childhoods, with a workaholic, largely absent father, and an over-indulgent, stay at home mom who molly-coddled them both way beyond childhood. Criminologists long ago identified that absent fathers are a major factor in males becoming criminals. Without a strong male role model to set an example and lay down consistent boundaries and expectations for good values and behaviour, they get only praise from an indulgent mother. And this is not good for their development to men. Sadly in their youngest son Bart and Krista unwittingly created a dangerous narcissist so ruthless, he would even kill in his own self interest. He believed murdering his folks would get them off his back so he could continue his lazy lifestyle, and bring him a sizeable life insurance payout and inheritance to boot. People who knew the couple liked them. They were typical of so many hard working, middle aged people who raised kids to adults, and were looking forward to retirement. But it would all be stolen from them in the most brutal way imaginable, by one of the two children they'd given so much to in every possible way. Absolutely chilling. And how that evil runt-of-the-litter's allowed to waste taxpayers' money with this farce of a trial, I don't know. The evidence against him is overwhelming - as evidenced by how little his lawyers have to say!
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UGH! That really brings home the horror of the dismemberment. He must have shot mum and dad dead in the basement, to muffle the sound of the gunshot to neighbours, then put each body on a tarp to drag them upstairs to the shower room, where he cut them up in the wetroom-style shower to clear away blood. Police were clear from the forensics the basement and bathroom were the crime scenes. It's utterly grotesque. The fact he had hung towels over the basement window so no one could look in, was a big red flag to what went on there. SHUDDER!
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@scott2296 YES!
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@joycemarie9702 Exactly! Chandler clearly had no ambition whatsoever, beyond a wholly unproductive life as a parasite. Ironically, murdering both parents, dismembering and dumping their remains, is the hardest he ever worked in his 23 years on the planet. More ironic still, is that he killed the only people in the world who loved him deeply, and would continue to care for him regardless of his narcissism and entitlement. No one else cares a damn about him now! He has many long, lonely hours ahead of him in a prison cell to think about that. And to realise there's no more mom and dad to call on - no source of emotional support or even cash, as thanks to his ruthlessness and greed every cent of it (a cool $1 million), has gone to his brother. Not the sharpest tool in the box, is he?!
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@HannahMattox Yep, gunshot evidence in the basement showed he shot them down there - and he chose that location so neighbours wouldn't hear the gun go off. Then he cut them up in the upstairs shower to minimise blood. That's why his girlfriend didn't notice anything when she visited - most rooms in the house were of 'no evidenciary value' as cops said, he'd only had the bodies in the basement and bathroom.
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Tonette Lewis I can't wait for that. Who are the defence gonna call in support of Chandler - the family's pet dogs?! Even they know he's guilty - a dog can smell a drop of blood in a swimming pool. He's toast.
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@bugsbunny7205 Are you for real? Murdering and dismembering other human beings (in this case, your own parents), is not on any spectrum of normal human behaviour! People are perfectly entitled to get 'high and mighty' about that kind of sick, revolting crime. It is not acceptable to 99% of the population! Get off YOUR high horse!
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