NOV 14, 2019
Patrick Frazee claimed his fiancée told him to keep their daughter after 'heated' conversation | Daily Mail Online
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He gave his account of the days leading up to and following Thanksgiving last year – the time when Berreth, the mother of his daughter, Kaylee, was last seen.
But cellphone signal, landline calls and surveillance stills from a variety of stores near Berreth’s home directly contradict Frazee’s account of the last time he saw Berreth.
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He has listened to testimony at Teller County DistrictCourt withoutt any reaction.
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Senior Criminal Intelligence Analyst, Kevin Clark set out the detailed and damning timeline built from all the available data across November 22 to 25th last year and presented to the court on Thursday afternoon.
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He had numerous communications with Kenney later on Thanksgiving afternoon and into the evening. And shortly after 10pm on Thanksgiving night, pings showed Berreth and Frazee’s phones traveling together to the Nash ranch – where investigators found the burn site – and back towards Florissant.
The following day Kenney’s phone showed her traveling from her home in Idaho and towards Colorado. Activity monitored across the next two days showed her loop round through Florissant, Woodland Park and back to Idaho where Kelsey’s last cellphone activity registered and from where her last alleged text message was sent.
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Longmire said the day before Thanksgiving, Frazee told her Berreth had called him to come and pick up Kaylee but that he couldn't make it right away, so they agreed to meet at Florissant Post Office an hour and a half later.
She said: 'He said they met and started a conversation about their relationship and they decided to keep talking while they drove to the Nash ranch and at that point it was about going their separate ways and they would share custody of Kaylee 50/50.'
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Frazee maintained that he and Berreth texted and spoke over the next three days – and that the plan had been for him to pick Kaylee up about 12.30pm on Thanksgiving Day and that she would be with her mother in the morning.
Longmire said: 'He said he picked up Kaylee up about 12.30 Thanksgiving Day. I assumed at their home…and that they agreed to speak again Friday morning.'
She said instead, Frazee 'received a text from Berreth asking him to keep Kaylee…and saying she wanted to go to church by herself and that they would talk later.'
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Assistant DA Jennifer Viehman pressed the point, saying: 'He said that was an actual conversation?' Longmire answered: 'Yes.'
At the time of that alleged conversation, investigators found Berreth's cell phone connected to Frazee's mistress, Krystal Lee Kenney, near the Colorado-Utah border.
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Slater said that they began to put together a picture of their relationship from the content and pattern of the messages.
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'There were also text messages where Kelsey was expressing frustration and anger with the status of the relationship, the direction of the relationship, where it was going, from time to time and her concerns with that.'
Agents studied messages and Facebook posts and comments from Berreth to Frazee as far back as April 2018.
Agent Slater said: 'At one point she spoke about the promise that had been made for her to come down here to establish a life together, a family together and it's not going to be that way. Do you love me?'
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'There may be a response back from Patrick (occasionally saying) 'we love you.'
'But they were few and far between.'
Similarly, Slater noted that Berreth often sent links of properties for sale to Frazee via Facebook with a comment such as, 'Hey look at this nice property. Check this out.'
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Agent Slater also revealed that cops might never have discovered the burn pit on Frazee's property, the blood in the bathroom of Berreth's home or other vital forensic evidence without the co-operation of Frazee's mistress Krystal Lee Kenney.
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Asked where the investigation would have gone without Kenney's co-operation he said, 'I honestly don't know.'
Frazee leaned back in his chair and stared into the middle distance as Slater testified that it was Kenney who broke the case they might never have cracked.
On Wednesday, the court heard how Frazee bad-mouthed Berreth to multiple people, saying she had a drink and drug problem, would disappear for months and speculated she had 'run off' to 'sort herself out'.
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Earlier in the day, Alyssa Smith, who has known Frazee since she was a child, said he only mentioned he had a daughter a month prior to Berreth's disappearance. He had never spoken of Berreth up until that point.
Smith admitted: 'I was shocked. He said that he always had [Kaylee] and that he went and picked her up from the hospital when she was born.
'He said that her mom told him to come pick her up. He said he had full custody of the child.
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But a string of Berreth's former colleagues at Doss Aviation where she was a flight instructor, cast doubt on Frazee's assertions describing Berreth as a 'strong woman,' who completed grueling training and was 'very happy' to be a mother.
Jennifer Barks, the Human Resources executive at Doss Aviation where Berreth was a flight instructor, testified that Frazee was listed as the beneficiary on Berreth's life insurance policy.
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Banks said: 'He told me that he was aware [of the reports]. He told me that Kelsey had gone to him, given him the baby and said she needed a break, she needed to figure things out, she didn't know what to do with her life and would be taking some space.
'He said she had a drug and alcohol problem and that she had gone away for that in the past and he didn't know if it was related to that.'
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Hill recalled: 'There was one conversation she said, ''Something really weird happened to me yesterday.'' She said a random lady had come over to her house with coffee.'
'I asked if she drank it she said no.'
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The court heard on Wednesday that Berreth's blood was found in locations throughout her townhouse.
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On Tuesday Kayla Daugherty, who had a relationship with Frazee for six to eight weeks during 2016, claimed Frazee told her that Teller County was so vast you could 'get rid of someone' and no-one would know. She said that he made the comment in 2015.
Frazee worked as her farrier from 2010 until 2018 though she said that their relationship lasted just six to eight weeks and was 'more sexual,' than romantic in nature.
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In testimony Greasby was taken through a series of text messages that she and Frazee exchanged across Thanksgiving last year and early December last year.
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The texts spanned November 21 through to December 11, covering the period during which Berreth was missing. Yet Frazee made no mention of this. Instead at the time he asked Greasby to dinner - she did not go - while she offered to keep him company on drives.
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Frazee told Greasby that he was seeking full custody of his daughter and described her mother as 'in rehab' and 'bi-polar.'
Another former client, Catherine Donahue, told the court that Frazee 'never had anything nice to say about Kelsey,' who he claimed was 'absolutely crazy' and had 'abandoned her baby directly after the birth.'
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Expert witness Jerry Means, Investigations Chief at Adams County Fire and Rescue Denver testified Tuesday that a burn site found on Frazee's ranch had tell-tale signs of a body having been placed in a plastic tote and burned to the point of consumption.
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Berreth's family sat in the front row of the Teller County court room as the court heard gruesome testimony about the impact of fire on a human body and Means pointed out to an oily patch of ground, next to the burn site.
The soil was fused together in a way that could only have been caused by burning plastic, he said. And the oily stain was consistent with human body oil.
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Means described the chronology of a body burned to the point of destruction. He said: 'Small parts go first, fingers and toes, they dislocate from larger items, your hands for example. The big muscles like your forearms dry out and draw up and it causes the arms to go into a sort of pugilistic posture.'
He said that the same 'drawing up' occurs with the legs and feet with the pelvic area and torso being the last to go before.
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Margaret Luce, a former client of Frazee who used his services as a farrier for her horses, took the stand to testify that Frazee had told her that Berreth 'did not want to be a mother,' and that she was 'unstable' and had threatened suicide.
Luce claimed that in a conversation after Berreth's disappearance Frazee had shared the fact that he had returned a gun to Berreth despite having concerns that she would 'hurt herself.'
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Later Luce tried to comfort Frazee with the comment: 'Perhaps Kelsey will come back.'
Frazee replied: 'Oh she's not coming back.'
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The longtime friend of Frazee took the witness stand where he revealed Frazee told him 'if there is no body, there is no
crime' before and after his fiancée Berreth disappeared.
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On one occasion after Berreth disappeared and Moore and Frazee were on a drive together, he recalled Frazee saying, 'I don't even understand why, why there's such a big deal over this.'
'And he's like 'man, if I had known it was going to blow up this big, I never would have …'' Moore added.
Moore, who ran cattle with Frazee at multiple leased ranches in Teller and Park counties, testified that Frazee revealed his plans to kill Berreth back in April.
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'He said 'I figured out a way to kill her.' And I went 'don't even talk about s*** like that. Get that s*** out of your head,'' Moore recalled.
'And he just kinda grinned and went 'no body, no crime, right?' And I said 'Patrick, get that out of your head,'' Moore added.
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Moore said he only met Berreth twice. They first met in November 2016 before she was pregnant. She helped them move cows and Moore recalled Frazee berated her and yelled and cussed at her.
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'He was very curious and always asking questions because he point-blank said that he had Kelsey's blood on his pants and he had Kelsey's blood on his shirt and boot, and the bottom of his boot,' Moore recalled.
'He said 'do you think they'll be able to find any of that, even though it's all been washed?'' Moore testified.
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