Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishNewly convicted killer Daniel Krug, shackled and clad in mustard prison scrubs, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday without the possibility of parole – one day after a Colorado jury found him guilty of stalking and murdering his wife while framing her ex-boyfriend.’Before Kristil’s death, you stalked her. You terrorized her. You tortured her,’ 17th Judicial District Judge Priscilla Loew told Krug, 44, on Friday.’She lived in fear; it was evident through the evidence, her video statements, that the last months of her life were managed by you and your actions, through deceit and control.’And not only did you manipulate her through the stalking … you manipulated your family, impacting your own children, and you also manipulated law enforcement.’She sentenced him to life without parole on the murder charge, the maximum of four years each on two stalking charges and maximum 18 months on the charge of criminal impersonation. ‘Unfathomable’ and ‘senseless’ were the words that kept getting repeated as relatives and friends of Kristil, who’d been terrorized for months by a ‘stalker’ who turned out to be her husband, gave victim impact statements. Newly convicted killer Daniel Krug, shackled and clad in mustard prison scrubs, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday without the possibility of parole – one day after a Colorado jury found him guilty of stalking and murdering his wife while framing her ex-boyfriend.They struggled through tears as they described their inability to grasp the reality of the murder of the mother of three, who was found fatally bludgeoned and stabbed in the heart on December 14, 2023 in the garage of the home she shared with the children and Krug. The couple had been sleeping in separate bedrooms for more than a year, and Kristil was planning to soon divorce her husband; the 43-year-old had told her brother she ‘could not stand the man.’Kristil’s two daughters and son, ages 16, 12 and 10, were not in court. But the girls asked their Aunt Kate, now their permanent guardian along with her husband and Kristil’s brother, Lars, to read their statements.Ella Krug simply relied on a quote from Queen song lyrics from the song One Vision – lamenting: ‘I had a dream when I was young/A glimpse of hope and unity/And visions of one sweet union/But a cold wind blows and a dark rain falls/And in my heart, it shows.’Lorelei Krug, calling herself ‘the child who was forced to grow up too fast,’ told the court though her statement: ‘As I once came up with: “Don’t run from your problems, skip from them.”‘I’m not sure if I can skip away from this one.’ Krug was found guilty of murdering wife Kristil after a terrifying stalking campaign where he posed as an ex-boyfriend she hadn’t seen in two decades Protection order bar Krug from contacting his children, even through a third party, for the duration of his life sentence.Other victim impact statements were given by Kristil’s mother, father, uncles, stepsister, friends and cousin – a former domestic violence prosecutor.They described a brilliant, hilarious, generous woman equally skilled in dance and engineering. They called Krug ‘pure evil,’ a ‘narcissistic sociopath’ and an ‘idiot.’Kristil’s father, Lars Grimsrud Sr, lamented how his daughter’s ‘wonderful, amazing life was tragically cut short through a horrific, brutal act of pure selfish evil.’He violated, defiled, he mutilated and destroyed my lovely daughter – and in the process also forever altered … the lives of his own children. ‘Our entire family will never be the same again.’ Kristil Krug’s family hug after her husband Daniel was found guilty of her gruesome murder Kristil was found stabbed to death in the garage of her home in Broomfield, ColoradoKrug had tried to frame Kristil’s distant ex, who lives in Utah and had occasionally attempted to reconnect over the years. But digital investigators tied the ‘stalker’s’ emails and texts to her own husband.’This was a brutal, calculated, premeditated murder, and in the months before he brutally murdered his wife, the defendant manipulated, deceived and terrorized both his wife and his children – and an innocent man who he tried to frame for the crime that he was about to commit,’ Broomfield District Attorney Brian Mason said after sentencing at a press conference with police, prosecutors and Kristil’s family.Judge Loew asked Krug during sentencing whether he wanted to speak, but he declined.After Kristil’s family and friends finished giving victim impact statements, his brother, Jeremy Krug, addressed the court.He said he felt it ‘important to express the breadth of victims and victims’ families involved in this case.’Jeremy Krug recounted how he’d had to hold up his elderly mother the previous day when the verdict was read – then drove his grieving parents home, the two of them consoling each other in the back of the car.Since his brother’s arrest, he said, the Krug family ‘only had hope that something was wrong, that something didn’t add up, that there was truth to the statements’ from the defendant.’Dan, I think it’s important for you to know that the victims of this extend beyond even what was voiced in the courtroom,’ Jeremy Krug said Friday.’In some ways, I think your parents, our parents, my parents, as among the last victims of all of this.’They had no idea. They had inklings, they had suspicions, they were concerned … but they held out hope. they held out belief, all this time … [that] there was somebody else’ responsible.’At the press conference after sentencing, Lars Grimsrud Sr reiterated that ‘there’s never enough justice for a life that has been so wrongfully and horrifically taken.’But the legal process and the support and dedication of so many people has now at least allowed some relief in knowing that Dan Krug has been held accountable for his actions in achieving some justice for Kristil.’
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