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After deliberating for less than 3 hours, a Colorado jury found Patrick Frazee — the fiancé of missing 29-year-old mom Kelsey Berreth — guilty of her murder, multiple outlets report.
The jury listened to 10 days of testimony inside the Teller County Courthouse before ultimately reaching their guilty verdict today. Frazee was also found guilty of tampering with a deceased human body and three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder after deliberation, the Denver Channel reports.
Patrick Frazee.Woodland Park Police
Frazeewill be sentenced to life in prisonwithout the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors alleged Frazee bludgeoned Berreth, a Colorado flight instructor, with a baseball bat at her home in Woodland Park, Colorado, on Thanksgiving 2018. The couple’s 1-year-old daughter, Kaylee, was in a playpen inside the house at the time.
Patrick Frazee, Kelsey Berreth and the couple’s infant.Facebook
Prosecutors alleged that Frazee then burned Berreth’s body inside a black plastic bag on his expansive property.
“I saw blood all over the floor and blood all over the wall,” Kenney testified,according to ABC News. “There was blood on the front of the stove and the dishwasher, and on the floor there were bloody footprints.”
“He went from being someone who I loved and cared for and is one of my best friends,” Kenneysaid in courtin Teller County, Colorado. “And he said his little girl was being abused. I know it was wrong, but I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t make the right decisions.”
Krystal Lee Kenney.Springs Police
Kenney confessed to getting rid of Berreth’s phone and will be sentenced after Frazee’s case is concluded. Kenney faces a maximum sentence of three years if the crime is found to be aggravated.
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Last week, Frazee’s lifelong friend Joseph Moore testified that Frazee had allegedlyuttered the phrase “No body, no crime”several months before Berreth’s disappearance.
Last week, an inmate testified that, while he was in jail with Frazee from Sept. through October 2019, Frazee asked him to help him kill various witnesses in the case, including Kenney.
source: people.com
