Kelsey Berreth was a 29-year-old flight instructor from Woodland Park, Colorado.
She hasn’t been seen in public since Thanksgiving afternoon, when surveillance video captured her with her daughter entering a local market.
Now her fiance, Patrick Frazee, is being accused of her suspected murder.
Within months, Kelsey moved to Colorado to be with Frazee.
Frazee has a business shoeing horses.
Frazee and Kelsey did not live together.
Frazee told police that he and his fiancé met up on Thanksgiving, so that she could hand off their daughter to him.
Kelsey was reported missing by her mother- who lives out of state- 10 days later, on Dec. 2, 2018.
Frazee was arrested on Dec. 21, 2018, and remains in police custody without bond.
Frazee will be back in court on Friday for the next hearing in his case.
If convicted, he faces life imprisonment as well as a possible death sentence.
Three days after she vanished, Kelsey's mobile phone pinged on a cell tower near Gooding, Idaho, nearly 600 miles from her home.
That same day, texts from the phone were sent to her employer, saying she would not be at work for the next week.
Prosecutors state they believe her suspected killing was planned over two months, allegedly by her fiancé, Patrick Frazee.
Patrick Frazee, 32, faces three counts of solicitation to commit murder in Kelseys death.
She is the mother of his 1-year-old daughter, who is now staying with Kelsey's parents.
Frazee allegedly solicited an individual three times or three people on three separate occasions as part of an alleged murder plot.
Prosecutors filed two murder counts because they have two theories about how the presumed killing may have taken place: either Frazee killed Kelsey by himself, or he and someone else allegedly tried to rob Kelsey before she was killed.
She is the mother of his 1-year-old daughter, who is now staying with Kelsey's parents.
Frazee allegedly solicited an individual three times or three people on three separate occasions as part of an alleged murder plot.
Prosecutors filed two murder counts because they have two theories about how the presumed killing may have taken place: either Frazee killed Kelsey by himself, or he and someone else allegedly tried to rob Kelsey before she was killed.
If convicted, he faces life imprisonment as well as a possible death sentence.
No motive has been announced yet, but relatives say Kelsey had ended the engagement weeks before vanishing.
Others have claimed the couple split the day of the alleged killing.
Others have claimed the couple split the day of the alleged killing.
Three days after she vanished, Kelsey's mobile phone pinged on a cell tower near Gooding, Idaho, nearly 600 miles from her home.
That same day, texts from the phone were sent to her employer, saying she would not be at work for the next week.
The F.B.I is now involved and looking at a woman in Idaho who may have disposed of Kelsey's phone.
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