The Murder Of Kelsey Berreth: Patrick Frazee Trial: The Verdict Is In

The jury deliberated 15 minutes shy of 4 hours before delivering the verdict. Patrick Frazee was convicted of tampering with a deceased human body and three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder.

Kelsey's dad stared Frazee down as the verdict was read. Frazee didn't react at all while Kelsey's family smiled, cried and hugged one another.

Before Frazee's sentencing, several of Kelsey’s friends and family members gave victim impact statements, which were all read out loud by Berreth's uncle, Scott Morin.

Ira Cline, one of Berreth’s coworkers, discussed how Kelsey was a proud mother who always had a smile on her face. She said that everyone at their work missed Berreth and knew that she loved Kaylee “with all her heart.”

Another coworker, David Deray, wrote how Kelsey was a pleasure to fly with and was a great instructor. He called her a “natural pilot” and saying he would remember he kindness and smile, one that would lift him up about most anything, forever.

And a third coworker talked about the impact Kelsey made on others. He called her a quiet and unassuming soul.

The last letter was written by Cheryl Berreth, Kelsey Berreth’s mother. “She was our daughter, a devoted, loving mother, a sister, a friend,” the letter read. The letter went on to say how Kelsey was a positive contribution to society and was beautiful inside and out. 

Not only did Frazee kill their daughter, but he chose a horrific death, beating her head with a baseball bat while she tied to escape, it read. He showed no remorse when he put her body in a tote and had Thanksgiving dinner with his family. Then he burned her body, she said, all in the presence of his 13-month-old daughter.

“He sent me a text that morning wishing me a happy Thanksgiving,” her letter read. “What a sick man.”

Her letter went on to say how they have barely slept and ate since Kelsey's disappearance.

“Patrick chose Thanksgiving to execute his plan, forever tainting this holiday for us,” Cheryl’s letter read.

“We have taken additional steps to protect ourselves as Frazee said he had hitmen and we have his daughter against his will,” her letter went on.

At times, the case forced them to reevaluate their faith in God.

Cheryl said they would like all of Frazee’s parental rights to be revoked permanently and immediately. And the want to adopt Kaylee.

She also said they plan to establish an aviation scholarship in Kelsey’s name. Cheryl asked that Frazee contribute a substantial amount each year to this cause. She said she wants people to know that her daughter made a difference.

She said Kaylee will probably someday find out the gory details of her mother’s murder and will suffer for a lifetime because of Frazee’s selfishness.

She said her family is requesting a no-contact order between the Frazee family and the Berreths. That the Frazee family has a complete lack of courage by choosing to withhold relevant information during this trial. Instead, they chose “to support a killer, which forfeited their rights to Kaylee.

Cheryl said that she believes in the death penalty, but that it's god's decision whether to take a life or not.

Cheryl then acknowledged that without Kenney’s contribution and testimony, a conviction may have been much harder or even impossible, but it doesn’t excuse the fact that Berreth would still be alive if Kenney had taken just one opportunity to tell law enforcement about Frazee’s plan.

Cheryl also added that Kenney has only shown remorse for getting caught and deserves a harsher sentence.

After reading the letters, Morin thanked Judge Sells for overseeing the case and for those who decided Frazee was guilty of murdering his niece. He went on to say how that he and his family have prayed for justice. And that Kelsey was a great hugger, very loved, and that she loved everyone else. He said that she is gone, but not forgotten.

Kimberly Morin took to the stand next saying that she remembers how Kelsey could fit perfectly under her arm when they hugged. 

She talked about how Kelsey attended her daughter's wedding alone. They laughed and smiled the whole time. Kelsey told her aunt that Frazee said she couldn’t get her nails done for the wedding because “only whores” do so.

Kimberly said that she had never been so angry and she will love Kaylee just as she loved Kelsey.

Prosecutor Jennifer Viehman stood at the stand and said, “We all knew early on that something terrible had happened to Kelsey Berreth,” she said. “We didn’t know just how terrible and how horrible and how brutal the murder of Kelsey was until Dec. 20, 2018.”

Viehman said that is one of the most brutal murders that she has ever seen in her career.

“Mr. Frazee took a shining light from this Earth,” she said. “He not only took her life on Thanksgiving Day of last year, he planned for months to do it. He had Krystal Lee come to Colorado three times to kill Kelsey.”

Viehman asked Judge Sells to sentence Frazee to life without parole for murder after deliberation, plus 156 years for the maximum sentence for solicitation for murder and tampering with a deceased human body.

Judge Sells asked Frazee to stand up. He told Frazee that his actions were “vicious,” “senseless,” and “without reason.”

“Kelsey spent her last night caring for you and you repaid that kindness in the morning by viciously beating her to death,” Judge Sells said, looking at Frazee. “Your crimes deserve the absolute maximum punishment and I intend to do that.”

Frazee received the mandatory life in prison without parole for the two murder counts, which were merged. For each of the solicitation charges, he received the maximum 48-year sentence, which run consecutive to one another. And for the tampering with a deceased human body count, Frazee was sentenced to the maximum of 12 years, which also run consecutively.

In total, he received life in prison without parole, plus an additional 156 years.

Krystal Kenney has not yet been sentenced. She faces a maximum of three years in prison for tampering with evidence.

The Murder Of Kelsey Berreth: Patrick Frazee Trial: Day10: Frazee Asked A Former Jailhouse Inmate To Kill Krystal Kenney.

Krystal Kenney and the prosecution outlined the different ways that Frazee plotted to kill Kelsey Berreth.

Kenney testified about all the times that Frazee asked her to kill Kelsey. 

In October 2018, he asked Kenney what would happen if someone took too much sleep aid or other drugs. Around this time, Kenney said that Frazee told her that Kelsey liked caramel macchiatos and that she should spike one with a drug cocktail so "we can end this." He also told her, "People go missing every day. … She had gone to an alcohol and drug rehab facility. It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.” 

Kenney then testified how she didn't poison Kelsey's drink, but did give her the coffee.

When Kenney returned to Colorado around mid-October, Frazee  handed her a pipe said to make sure there wasn’t a lot of blood by hitting Kelsey in the back of her head. Again, Kenney went to the town home, but couldn't go through with it and dropped the pipe back at the ranch. 

Frazee gave Kenney one more chance, asking her if she had a bat and telling her to "swing away." Again Kenney went to Kelsey's home. She said she feared "it was going to be her or me," but Kenney said she drove back to Florissant and told Frazee she couldn't do it. Kenney said Frazee threatened her and said that if anything happened to his daughter, it would be her fault.

Kenney went back to Idaho. Several weeks later, on Thanksgiving Day, she said Frazee called her several times. He told her that she had a mess to clean up.

Kenney changed her shift at work and swapped cars with a friend. Then she drove 12 hours to Colorado, arriving in Florissant about 6:30 a.m. on November 24th.

Kenney arrived in Teller County and said Frazee left the keys to Kelsey's town home on his gate and gave her instructions on what to clean inside the home.

Kenney said she opened the door and "saw a lot of blood" on the living room floor and the walls of the town home. Kenney said she put on a painter's suit and rubber gloves and covered her shoes and hair and started to clean. She said it took four hours to clean the whole place. “I left little spots so that somebody would see it and then it would raise suspicion or question on what happened,” Kenney told the court, adding that she hoped police would find the blood.

When Kenney met up with Frazee, she told him she did the best she could so. He allegedly replies with, “You better hope you did because our lives depend on it.”

Frazee then told Kenney that it was hard to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the mother of your child is in a tote in the back of your truck.

She Frazee then told her how he killed Kelsey. He said that he had brought a baseball bat in under his sweater and tied the other sweater around Berreth’s eyes to play a “guess the scent” game with candles. He told Kenney that he then “swung away” but called the method “inhumane” and said in the future he would stick to “normal weapons.” She said that he told her he brought a tote in from the back of the truck after he killed Kelsey and put the bat inside, then washed his pants and tried to clean up.

Joseph Moore, a longtime friend of Frazee's and a fellow cattle rancher, testified that in April 2018 when referring to Kelsey that Frazee said that, "I figured out a way to kill her." Moore responded to Frazee with, "Don’t even talk about things like that. Get that s**t out of your head." Frazee then grinned and said, "No body, no crime, right?"

During that summer, Moore said, Frazee told him about how he had people spying on and taking pictures of Kelsey, because he wanted custody of Kaylee.

After Kelsey disappeared, Frazee and Moore were talking about Kelsey being missing. Frazee told Moore, “Man, if I had known it would have blown up this big, I never would have —” and didn’t finish sentence.

Caitlin Rogers, a CBI forensic scientist, said her final conclusion on the blood on the side of Kelsey's bath tub , showed that it was a mixture of Kelsey's DNA and Gorney's. And that Kelsey was the main contributor.

The blood sample from the bathroom toilet was from Kelsey. All of the genetic material in the single-source sample was consistent with Kelsey, Rogers said.

Rogers said she analyzed one of two possible tooth fragments, both of which appeared to have come from where Frazee had allegedly burned Kelsey's body. A DNA test detected female human DNA , Rogers said. She tried to develop a DNA profile from the fragment, but there wasn't enough DNA available. The remainder of the tooth was sent to the FBI.

Slater believed something had happened in Kelsey's bathroom and home, but that was it. All they did know was that Kelsey's and Frazee's phones had traveled together around Thanksgiving. And that was Kelsey was missing, as well as her belongings and that her behavior was off. Without Kenney's, Slater didn't know where the case would be without her testimony.

Kevin Hoyland, a cell phone expert with the FBI, testified that cell phone records showed that Kenney's phone moved from Idaho to Colorado on November 23rd, arrived in Colorado on November 24th and left later that day, arriving back in Idaho on November 25th.

In Thursday's testimony, Hoyland said Kelsey's phone showed a lot of activity near Gooding, Idaho, on November 25th. Her phone texted Frazee at 5:11 p.m. and got a response at 5:20 p.m. Frazee called her phone at 5:20 p.m. and 5:21 p.m. but the calls went straight to voicemail. Those calls were the last activity from Kelsey's phone.
Jonathyn Priest, a former Denver police officer who now specializes as an expert in blood stain pattern analysis, testified that the blood stains found inside Kelsey's town home matched what he'd expect to find in a case of a bloodied person getting struck repeatedly by a baseball bat. He said the victim in this case could have been hit 10 to 15 times. Bloody footprints discovered around Kelsey's home showed that a person was likely stepping in a "pool of blood" while they walked around.

Prosecutors showed 17 different letters that were exchanged between a former convicted felon and Frazee. In their passed notes, Frazee asked the man to kill witnesses, Kenney, Michelle Stein, John Moore, Wendi Clark and lead CBI Agent Gregg Slater, and described where they live now and what they look like.

In one letter, Frazee wrote he’d “really like to see Kenney with a bullet in her head.”

In another letter, he wrote: “I’m excited if we can pull this off — only thing better would be if Krystal sent someone a text from her phone confessing and telling the truth that I didn’t have anything to do with it at all. Gregg Slater and all five disappear," referencing Kenney's family, including her children and Chad Lee, and Stein.

The Murder Of Kelsey Berreth: Patrick Frazee Trial: Day 9: CBI Agent Doesn't Know Where The Case Would Be Without Kenney.

Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst, Caitlin Rogers, was questioned by the defense about the evidence tested from Kelsey's town home after her disappearance last year. The defense  pointed out that Frazee's DNA was hardly found inside the home. Attention was also brought to the fact that the hay sample and hay swine from Nash Ranch underwent a presumptive blood test and both came back negative.

Rogers also confirmed that many places tested inside Kelsey's home came back negative for Krystal's DNA.

CBI agent, Michael Hecht, said he was familiar with Doss Aviation and looked through Kelsey's work space for evidence, such as a suicide note or itinerary. He said he found no evidence that indicated where Kelsey may have been.

Mary Longmire, who has worked for the Teller County Department of Human Services, became involved in the case after the department received a referral. She recalled this happened on December 21st, which is the same day Frazee was arrested. She had to do interviews of anybody who sought custody of Kaylee. Frazee was one of them.

Frazee told Longmire that he and Kelsey had decided to separate and talked about their co-parenting plan. Frazee also told her that they were separated when Kaylee was born and that Kelsey never wanted to fix things. He also said he was the sole bread winner.  Frazee also claimed that Kelsey was an alcoholic and that they would fight over money. He claimed that she would frequently "dump" Kaylee on him.

Longmire then described the conversation she had with Frazee about Thanksgiving 2018. Frazee said Kelsey called him to come pick up Kaylee on the day before Thanksgiving. He said he agreed to meet her at the Florissant post office. Frazee said they talked about their relationship then and while driving to Nash Ranch. Frazee said they talked about going their separate ways and that they would split custody of Kaylee equally. 

After stopping at the ranch, Frazee threw up and Kelsey went and got him medicine. Then Kelsey and Kaylee went to her town home and texted Frazee to say they made it home safely.

On Thanksgiving Day, Frazee said he talked with Kelsey around 9:30 a.m. and told her he would pick up Kaylee about 12:30 p.m. that day. He told Longmire that he picked up Kaylee and said he and Kelsey agreed to talk again the next morning.

Frazee told Longmire they texted the next morning and decided that Kaylee would stay with him until 5:30 p.m., when they'd meet at the Florrisant post office. He said Kelsey texted him to say he should keep Kaylee.

Frazee told Longmire that Kelsey texted him the next morning, saying she wanted to go to church alone the coming Sunday. Later that Saturday, Frazee said they had a heated conversation and he told Kelsey he would keep Kaylee "until the storm blew over," Longmire said. He said Kelsey "lost it," Longmire testified.

Frazee said he talked with Kelsey on Sunday morning. He called her again later that afternoon and got her voicemail, Longmire said Frazee told her. He said he later received a text from Kelsey, asking, "Do you even love me?" Frazee said he tried to respond, "Of course I do," but his text didn't go through.

Frazee claimed that he tried calling her later that night and again tried to contact her over the next three days. When asked if he had been concerned, Frazee said he became concerned as time went by.

CBI agent, Gregg Slater, testified that he "Honestly don't know" where case would be without Krystal Kenney. “We didn’t know anything other than Berreth was missing, her belongings were missing... her behavior was off,” Slater said.

Slater said he traveled to Kenney's home with a FBI special agent and Twin Falls police detective in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Dec. 17, 2018 with search warrants in tow. They explained to Kenney that they knew she was involved in Kelsey's disappearance and had evidence to support it.

Before Kenney gave a statement to the investigators three days later, she signed an agreement with the district attorney's office.

Kenney provided the investigators with information about the black tote container, in which Berreth's body was allegedly burned; the Nash Ranch, where Frazee allegedly kept the black tote; and the area where the tote was allegedly burned on Frazee's property.

Slater said when they returned to the ranch on December 21st that is when noticed the discoloration in the dirt, where Frazee had allegedly burned Kelsey's body in a rusted-out trough and asked ranch hands to cover the burn area.

He was asked if a cadaver dog was ever used on the burn area on the Frazee ranch or on his truck. Slater said no, because Kenney hadn't came forward with her information yet. So, they were unaware of any information about a tote or burn pit.

Kenney also informed the investigators about the blood found on Kelsey's toilet, floor, baby gate, couch and fireplace in her town home. Slater said that they wouldn't have found this without her.

Slater then talked about the texts between Frazee and Kelsey going back to April 2018. In those texts that Kelsey mainly initiated, she would text Frazee about starting a family together and if that was ever going to happen, if he loved her and not being able to see Kaylee as much as she wanted. She would also text him about buying a house together. Frazee would respond to those conversations infrequently.

Slater said that the last time Kelsey posted on Facebook was October 30th, 2018. She had many baby pictures up of Kaylee and had also sent many of those pictures to Frazee. When Kelsey's disappearance went public, many people posting on her Facebook wall, but not Frazee.

Slater then went on to detail the texts from the day of Kelsey's alleged murder.

3:37 a.m.: Frazee texted Kelsey telling her he will come to Woodland Park after his chores and could take Kaylee with him on errands while Kelsey napped. 

3:53 a.m.: Kelsey texted Frazee letting him know they had just gotten home to her townhome. He replied, "OK, thanks."
9:15 a.m.: Kelsey texted Frazee asking if he wanted to go out to eat. He did not respond.
9:37 a.m.: Kelsey texted him asking him to call when he was awake. He did not respond.
12:41 p.m.: Kelsey texted Frazee that she bought sweet potatoes in case he wanted a sweet potato casserole, but forgot pecans.
4:39 p.m.: Frazee texted Kenney saying happy Thanksgiving and to call when she could. Kenney did not reply.
5:32 p.m.: Kelsey's phone texted Cheryl Berreth that they went shooting that day and that she had had fun using her gun again. She said Frazee was going to let her keep it and that she'll now feel safe running again. Cheryl Berreth responded, "Great!"
9:35 p.m.: Kenney texted Frazee saying, "Happy thanksgiving to you guys too!"

Then Slater moved on to the next day.

6:59 a.m.: Kelsey's phone texted Frazee asking him to call her when he was awake.

7:32 a.m.: Kelsey's phone texted Frazee saying she was running late and would call when she got home. Frazee responds, "OK. Be safe."
3:13 p.m.: Frazee texted Kelsey, asking how her shopping was going. Her phone replied saying she was just looking and hadn't seen anything she liked.
After 5 p.m.: Kelsey's phone texted Frazee asking him to keep Kaylee that night because she was tired.
5:23 p.m.: Frazee responded, saying sure, that he didn't mind doing so. He asked if she needed anything and she said no.

Then he moved on to the texts from Nov. 24:
7:24 a.m.: Kenney texted Frazee about looking at horses around 9 that day.
7:26 a.m.: Frazee said 8:45 a.m. would be better.
7:41 a.m.: Frazee texted Kelsey to see if she was awake.
7:43 a.m.: Kenney texted Frazee saying she didn't know if she could make it by 8:45 a.m.
7:45 a.m.: Berreth texted Frazee apologizing because she didn't hear her phone. She said she would call after she showered.
Unknown time: Kenney called Frazee saying she would call later.
1:01 p.m.: Kenney texted Frazee saying she was curious if then was a good time to come over and Frazee responded that was fine, as he was almost back home. He said he'd be back home in 15 minutes.
3:59 p.m.: Kelsey texted Cheryl Berreth and said she'd call her the following day.
4:07 p.m.: Frazee texted Kelsey saying if this was what she really wanted, he'd respect her wishes and give her space. "If you change your mind, you can call me," his message read.
4:21 p.m.: Kenney texted Frazee thanking him for letting her see the horse.
4:33 p.m.: Frazee texted Kenney saying it wasn't a problem and to let him know how many mares she wanted to breed and they would make it work.
6:25 p.m.: Kenney texted Megan Garrison, saying she was going to stay at Garrison's house that evening and if that was OK, which Garrison agreed to.
6:32 p.m.: Garrison responded that it was fine for Kenney to stay the night.

Slater then continued to show texts between Kelsey and Frazee from November 25:
7:34 a.m.: Kelsey texted Frazee, asking to call her when he and Kaylee wake up.
8:53 a.m.: Kelsey texted Frazee, saying "Patrick.Frazee1985@gmail.com. Password Kaylee05." Frazee responded, saying thanks and "I'll look at 'em when I get time tonight."
-Unknown time: Kelsey texted Frazee, "Call me when you guys are done." Frazee responds, saying "OK will do."
Unknown time: Kelsey texted Frazee, "Do you even love me?"
6:29 p.m.: Kenney texted Frazee, "After talking to the powers that be, he thinks just my sisters buckskin"
Unknown time: Slater said a response from Frazee didn't go through, but said: "Why would I bend over backwards and stand behind you through everything if I didn't? So to answer your question, yes I do."

No more texts from Frazee to Kelsey after that. Police seized Frazee's phone on December 4th.

Kevin Hoyland, a cell phone expert with the FBI, was recalled to the witness stand. He testified that cell phone records showed that Kenney's phone moved from Idaho to Colorado on November 23rd, arrived in Colorado on the 24th and left later that day, arriving back in Idaho on the 25th.

On her way to Colorado, Kenney's phone received six calls from Frazee's landline phone.

Kelsey's phone showed a lot of activity near Gooding, Idaho, on November 25th. Her phone texted Frazee at 5:11 p.m. and got a response at 5:20 p.m. Frazee called her phone at 5:20 p.m. and 5:21 p.m. but the calls went straight to voicemail. Those calls were the last activity from Kelsey's phone.

Kevin Clark, senior criminal intelligence analyst with the Colorado Springs Police Department Metro Vice Unit, was given records from for different Verizon users as well as surveillance footage and photos from all the relevant Woodland Park and Florissant homes and businesses.  He used all this information to compile multiple timelines. The timelines show the communication between multiple cell phones and Frazee’s landline in Florissant between November 22nd and December 4th, 2018. It mirrored what Slater had said in his previous testimony Thursday, but in greater detail.

The timeline Clark presented in court also showed that Kelsey’s phone and Kenney’s phone both signaled near the Colorado-Utah border shortly after 4 a.m. on November 25th. 

The Murder Of Kelsey Berreth: Patrick Frazee Trial: Day 8: Experts Testify On The Blood Found In Kelsey's Home.

Kelsey's coworkers described her as private, kind and very loving toward her 1-year-old daughter. One of the coworkers testified that Kelsey told her Frazee wasn't treating her well at one point.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic scientist testified that the blood found inside Kelsey's town home was most likely hers and that a possible tooth fragment tested positive for female human DNA.

One of Frazee's friends testified that Frazee said Kelsey had given him custody of their daughter.

Stephanie Howerton office manager for Teller County Waste, said she had records for trash pickup at Kelsey’s home.  According to the schedule, trash hadn’t been put out Thanksgiving week of 2018 or the following week. In fact, trash wasn’t picked up from her residence until December 21st, 2018.

The state then called Jennifer Barks, who worked as a human resources director at Doss Aviation. She testified that she told police that Frazee was Kelsey’s emergency contact. On December 3rd, Barks called Frazee to ensure he knew she was missing. Frazee claimed that the Woodland Park Police Department kept calling him, so he put Barks on hold multiple times. When they were able to talk, Frazee said he and Kelsey had broken up because she wanted space.

Frazee also told her that Kelsey went to rehab. Barks challenged him on this comment because pilots at Doss Aviation work in close quarters and a coworker would have spoken up. Frazee didn’t answer her question and that she was never notified that Kelsey had a problem with alcohol.

Anissa Smith, who used to rodeo with Frazee and has known him since she was 8 years old, testified that Frazee custody have Kaylee since the day she was born. He told Smith that Kelsey had signed over her rights when Kaylee was born. He told her that Kelsey wouldn’t reach out for weeks or months at a time to check on Kaylee.

Woodland Park Police Department Commander Christopher Adams was recalled to the stand. He testified that according to Kenney’s testimony, Frazee had discussed putting Kelsey’s remains in a river or a landfill. This is what had led investigators to search the Midway Landfill, where they didn't' find anything substantial. He also said that throughout the investigation, he never found information to suggest that Kelsey was alive.

Stephanie Courtney, an investigator with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, was also recalled to the stand. She was also tasked with getting buccal swabs from Kaylee on December 21st. She said that it was a difficult task and that she never had to get a swab from someone so young before.

Robert Hill, a flight instructor at L3 Harris, which acquired Doss Aviation, was called to the stand next. He said that he and Kelsey were fairly close, but not romantically. He said he thought Frazee was Kelsey’s husband and that she had talked about him at work. He knew Frazee was Kaylee’s father.

Kelsey had mentioned to Hill that she didn’t get along well with Frazee’s mother, Sheila Frazee.

Hill said that one day Kelsey came into work up set and told him that Frazee was acting “acting like a dick”. 

Hill said that Kelsey never mentioned giving up custody of Kaylee. He met Kaylee a few times when Kelsey would bring her into work. He said that he never see any indication that she was being abused.

Hill testified that Kelsey came into work one time and said that some random woman had come to her house with a coffee. 

Hill said he had no indication that Kelsey ever usesd drugs or alcohol.

Carolyn Sharp, a flight instructor at Doss, was called to the stand. She said when Kelsey first took the job, she stayed with her during the week. She'd go home on weekends. Sharp said when Berreth was staying with Sharp, she’d call Frazee almost every night. Sharp said that after these calls, that she could tell that Kelsey was not ok. Kelsey briefly mentioned Frazee wasn’t treating her well at one point, Sharp said.

Sharp She didn’t notice any signs of abuse with Kaylee and that Kelsey loved being a mom. She described Kelsey as a woman of strength.

Sharp also testified that Kelsey never would have left Kaylee.

Peter Sergejev, a flight instructor at Doss Aviation, testified that he met Kaylee two times and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary about the child.

Mark Maryak, the chief pilot for initial training at Doss Aviation, testified that he never had any concerns that Berreth was abusing alcohol or drugs. Doss instructors specifically look for those type of issues. 

On December 2nd, Maryak tried calling Berreth three times and she didn't answer he said.

CBI forensic serologist, Lindsay Roup, testified that the toilet in the home tested positive for blood, along with other areas of the bathroom: Swabs from the wall, under the towel rack, the sink, the side of the tub and the door.

The previous owner of Kelsey's house, Sue Gorney, testified that she bled several times in that house. She said that her skin cuts easily if she knocks into things around the house. Gorney also said that skin was too thin for band-aids, so she let her cuts air dry and blood would sometimes drip in the house.

Forensic anthropologist and professor at Colorado State University, says she's confident that the tooth fragment that was found in Kelsey's town home was human and from a female. 

CBI forensic scientist, Caitlin Rogers, used Kelsey's toothbrush and mouth guard to build a DNA profile for Kelsey. She also used buccal swabs to obtain a DNA profile from everyone else that had been known to have been in Kelsey's town home. 

In the analysis of the blood found on the side of Kelsey's bath tub, Rogers said her final conclusion showed that it was a mixture of two people's DNA. She said that it was most likely to be Kelsey's and Gorney's. She said that Kelsey was the man contributor of the DNA.

The blood sample from the bathroom toilet was likely to be from Kelsey and that all of the genetic material in the single-source sample was consistent with Kelsey's.

High likelihood was applied to the blood sample found on the front fireplace and on the baby gate in the home.

Rogers did a presumptive test for blood in the grout on the fireplace tile, which came back as most likely being Kelsey's.

Rogers said she also tested red-brown stains on the hardwood floor. The presumptive test came back positive that the profile was a two-person mixture. It was most likely to come from Kelsey and Gorney.

In another testing of a separate area of the hardwood floor, Rogers said she found a mixture of three contributors, including at least one male. She said it most likely originated from Kelsey, Frazee, and Gorney. With Kelsey and Gorney being the two main contributors.

Prosecutors then asked her about one of the two possible tooth fragments, both of which appeared to have come from where Frazee had allegedly burned Kelsey's body. Rogers said a DNA test detected female human DNA. She tried to develop a DNA profile from the fragment, but there wasn't enough DNA available. The remainder of the tooth was sent to the FBI.

Rogers explained that she tested a chair to the right of the TV stand and one to the left. The right chair had a DNA mix of three people, including at least one male. The left chair had a mix of two people. She said it was most likely to originate form Kelsey. 

A possible blood mark from the front of the couch was most likely Kelsey's.

In another sample of the hardwood floor, Rogers said she found moderate support of Frazee's DNA. It was mixed with two other people's.

Overall, she said these results showed that the blood samples in the town home overwhelmingly matched Kelsey's DNA.

She also testified that bleach can destroy DNA to the point where it cannot be detected.

The Murder Of Kelsey Berreth: Patrick Frazee Trial: Day 7: A Friend Of Frazee's Testified That He Just Wanted Kelsey Gone.

Coworker of Krystal Kenney, Delynn Bird testified that Krystal said she did what she had to do to stay safe. 

On November 28th 2018, when she came into work on 7 p.m., Bird said. She noted that Krystal looked tired.

On December 26th, Bird learned from a coworker that Krystal was linked to Kelsey’s disappearance. When Bird asked Krystal that evening at work about Berreth, Krystal said the press may “hound them at work about the case” and that she did what she had to do to keep herself and her children safe. Bird said that Krystal seemed uncharacteristically resigned and flat.

Another co-worker of Krystal's, Allyson Wright, testified that she was the one that filled in for Krystal on November 24th, 2018. Krystal had told her she needed to do “something” in Colorado, but didn’t specify what.

Wright said she remembered seeing Krystal on December 26th. She said that Krystal “didn’t look good" and it appeared that something was wrong.  When she asked if Kenney was OK, Krystal said she had gotten into a bad situation. She also allegedly told Wright that she had gotten mixed up in Kelsey's disappearance and that she had to do what she did for the safety of her and her family.

Megan Garrison, a close friend of Krystal's, testified that she and Krystal had switched cars in Idaho before Kelsey's alleged murder. It was on Thanksgiving when Garrison asked Krystal if she could borrow her pickup truck, which agreed to. The following evening, they swapped vehicles at a Walmart halfway between their homes. Garrison mentioned it was pouring rain when they exchanged cars, so their conversation was short.

Sometime on November 24th or 25th, they switched back at the same Walmart, Garrison said.

In mid-December, Krystal reached out to Garrison to let her know the FBI may contact her to search her car.

Twin Falls Police Officer Josh Hayes testified that On December 17th, authorities got a search warrant for Krystal’s home.

They searched the home again on December 21st. On that day, That looked for a burn pile that may contain the remains of a purse, documents, a cell phone and a bat.

He found a burn pile about 500 feet away from their home, Hayes said.

The state showed photos of a burn pile and separate burn pit in the back of Krystal’s home and the second was a closer look at the burn. 

Other photos showed the burned ground and rubble, and a very small piece of an electronic device and glass that may have came from a phone. The prosecution also showed pictures of a circuit board on the electronic device, more burned pieces of the possible phone and a burned glass screen protector.

Frazee’s "very good" friend,  Robert Slagle, confirmed that he and Frazee went on a trip to collect alibi evidence after the date of Kelsey's alleged murder. They first went to Ent Credit Union, then drove by a Safeway and a gas station. The state published a photo of Frazee and Slagle at the teller window of the Ent.

In December, Slagle drove to Nash Ranch with Frazee and he mentioned that he and Kelsey had broken up.

CBI crime analyst, Tanya Atkinson, photographed and processed Berreth’s town home on December 6th and on the December 19-21 searches. She testified that she also processed the scene at Nash Ranch on December 21st and in February 2019. She was called to Kelsey's apartment because of apparent blood on the toilet inside the home and administered a presumptive test on the possible blood and on other items inside the home.

One of the late December reviews of Kelsey’s home, she found wipe marks on various parts of the apartment that made her believe it had been cleaned.

Prosecutors showed her several exhibits of what appeared to be tiny blood stains on various items in the townhome, as well as the floorboards that were pulled up after Krystal gave her statement to investigators.

Atkinson was showed a photo of the discolored portions of a hay bale inside the Nash Ranch barn that Krystal and other have talked about during the trial. The discolored area was shown to be about 38 inches by 30 inches, which was about the same size as the tote that Frazee was alleged to have put Kelsey's body in. She testified she saw no other areas of discolored hay inside the barn when she processed it.

Atkinson said that she went to a Waste Management facility on December 17th, to look for trash Frazee dumped that day and confirmed she did a presumptive blood test on a tarp with a brown or red substance on it.

Adams County Fire Rescue Investigations Chief and the state’s arson expert in the case, Jerry Means, testified he was contacted Dec. 21 to help investigate the case. He said he had experience in dealing with melted plastic in fire investigations, as well as on investigations involving human remains. When shown a picture of the burn area at the Frazee ranch he stated that it was fairly obvious that there was black plastic melted into the gravel and soil in the area and that the plastic had fused with portions of the soil. He described the two types of plastic and how they melt down, and said that the melted shape of the black tote would be consistent with what would happen with the type of plastic of which the black tote was comprised.

Means then discussed  about how bodies break down in fires. And that how the scene at the ranch seems consistent with that of a body being burned.

“You can pick one up with a gloved hand, and just – poof. It turns to nothing. … It turns to dust,” Means said.

Friend of Frazee’s, Laurie Luce, told prosecutors she had met Krystal once when she came to her house with Frazee. 

She also testified that when she discovered that Frazee had a daugher, he told her he had a relationship with the girl’s mother but didn’t learn she was pregnant until she had the baby. Frazee told her that his daughter’s mother did not want to be a mother, so he would have to be the only parent moving forward and that the conversation happened sometime in the spring of 2018. She described Frazee as being the happiest she had seen him.

Luce told the court that Frazee went to her house on December 20th, and that they talked about November 22nd at the time. Frazee told her he went to Kelsey’s to pick up their daughter before he went to run errands and to give Kelsey her gun back even though Kelsey had commented on committing suicide. Luce said that Frazee expressed frustration of telling the story “so many times” but she told him she had never heard it before.

She said Frazee also discussed that day several scenarios as to what might have happened to Kelsey, most of them dealt with her running away.

Luce testified that she asked him about the phone ping in Idaho, but he did not answer. She told Frazee that maybe Kelsey was headed back home and committed suicide before she got there or that maybe she was coming back. To this theory Frazee answered, "Oh, she’s never coming back."

Luce told the court that sometime between August and October 2019, Frazee told her he wanted to raise his daughter with someone else and that he wanted Kelsey gone.

Another acquaintance of Frazee's, Kayla Daugherty, testified that Frazee told her about the vastness of Teller County and that it would be hard to find a body during a discussion in 2015.

When asked if Frazee told her that somebody could carry a body on a horse somewhere no one could find it, to which she replied, “Yes.” 

Savannah Greasby, for whom Frazee had been shoeing horses for about nine years, said Frazee asked her to dinner around October 2018, which she said she could not make. The court was shown a text message thread between Savannah and Frazee from November 21st through December 4th.  

Frazee texted Savannah just after midnight on November 21st, talking about getting there when he gets done, though Daugherty said she was not sure what he was referring to and told him to go to bed. They told each other happy Thanksgiving in messages the next day.

Kathryn Donahue, another woman for whom Frazee shoed horses, testified that Frazee mentioned one time he had friends in Idaho. He also allegedly told her that he was “free,” meaning he had no kids or wife. Around December 2015, Frazee showed up with Kaylee and told Donahue that she was his daughter. Donahue was surprised because she did not know he was dating anyone. She also said that Frazee he did not know Berreth was pregnant until she went into labor.

“We didn’t discuss her a lot, but he would never say anything kind about her,” Donahue said about Kelsey in court. 

Frazee told her Kelsey took off shortly after their daughter was born and that she was absolutely crazy. 

Around December 19th, 2018, she asked how Frazee was holding up. She said he asked if she saw the news, and she pressed him for details after hearing about Kelsey.

Frazee told her Kelsey went to rehab.

The Murder Of Kelsey Berreth: Patrick Frazee Trial :Day 6:Friend Testified Frazee told him "I figured out a way to kill her".

Prosecutors started the day by having two K-9 handlers testify, both of whom said their dogs hit on items at different locations that were involved in the murder plot.

Then prosecution brought up surveillance video showing both Kenney and Frazee entering and leaving a parking lot at Florissant Conoco after the alleged murder.

Several FBI agents testified about their searches of the Frazee and Berreth properties, about the burn pit and the plastic remnants, and about their discovery of a partial tooth.

A friend of Frazee also took the stand, stating Frazee told him, "I figured out how to kill Kelsey." The friend said he told Frazee to stop messing around and Patrick allegedly responded, "no body no crime."