Couple who exposed Patrick Frazee knew he planned to murder Kelsey Berreth weeks before her death | Daily Mail Online
The couple who allegedly broke open the Kelsey Berreth murder investigation and may have helped to put Patrick Frazee behind bars are under fire for not speaking out sooner.
Joe and Patty Rockstahl told
KMVT that one of their employees came to them in October and said her best friend Krystal Lee had been contacted by a man who wanted her 'to kill the mother of his child.'
The couple, who own a law firm in Idaho, did not share this information with officials at the time, and waited to call the FBI until December 17 - almost a month after Berreth, 29, was last seen alive.
That was also one day after officials announced they were offering up a $25,000 reward for anyone with information about the missing mom.
Many are now lashing out at the Rockstahls and even calling for Joe, an attorney, to be investigated by the Idaho State Bar.
'Wow! Owners of a law firm and they didn’t do a DAMN thing. Heroes?!?! Are you f’n kidding me?!?! They’re monsters!' wrote the victim's brother Clint Berreth on Facebook.
He later responded to a comment calling the pair cowards by stating: 'Those are my exact thoughts too. Hopefully they’re business folds following this.'
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She said that Michelle spoke with Lee and confirmed it was the woman in question, at which point Patty claims to have told her employee, 'your friend has 24 hours to go to the police, or I’m calling them.'
Patty said that she was told the next day that Lee had spoken to authorities.
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Siblings: The two did not contact authorities then or on November 26 when Michelle confirmed that Berreth was the woman in question (Berreth and her brother Clint)
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The Rockstahls claim that it took them two weeks to realize Lee had not gone to police.
And a week after that they called the FBI, one day after the announcement that a $25,000 reward was being offered in the case.
At that point it had been almost two months since they first heard about Lee being solicited to commit murder.
The couple also claimed that Lee had been in possession of Berreth's phone - which had pinged off a cell tower in a nearby town just a few days after she went missing - and that she had sent texts to Berreth's family and employer in the days after the woman disappeared.
These actions were deemed 'preposterous' in a letter that has been submitted to the Idaho State Bar by a friend of the Berreth family.
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