Friend testifies Frazee said, ‘I figured out a way to kill her’
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Julie Nash, who co-owns Nash Ranch, told May that she leased grazing rights to Frazee and that he had a lease for the area, including the barn, as well as a key to the ranch, in November 2018. Nash said nobody else was leasing the ranch at the time and that she knew Frazee kept items in the barn, including a tractor and hay.
May then called Elizabeth Police Department Office Mike Hurst, who also previously worked for the Teller County Sheriff’s Office and who specializes in working with K-9s – including bloodhounds, tracker dogs and cadaver dogs.
Hurst introduced his 140-pound bloodhound cadaver dog, Radar, who is trained to detect human decomposition and can pick up scents from a body, fluids, and other human remains. Hurst said he and Radar have spent more than 5,000 hours training and have been in the field to find bodies or scents 30-40 times.
Radar has never had a false hit, Hurst testified.
Radar searched around the tractor and around the barn and showed interest in some of the hay bales inside the barn, Hurst said.
He said Radar sat after he smelled the hay bales again near the bottom of them, which indicated a positive hit for the smell of human decomposition. Hurst said he saw stains on the top of the 12-foot hay bales, so he decided to get on top of them.
Prosecutors showed a picture of the top of the hale bale taken on Dec. 21, showing indented hay that was discolored – brown or possibly dark red – and which looked wet. Hurst said that spot is where Radar indicated again once he and Hurst were atop the hay bale.
IF ONLY KK and JM and any others would have notified LE. IF ONLY....IF ONLY...IF ONLY..
