NOV 4, 2019
Officer describes 'lack of concern' from Kelsey Berreth's fiancé after her disappearance
The first member of law enforcement to call Kelsey Berreth’s fiancé after she was reported missing said two things seemed amiss to her during their 15-minute phone conversation.
“The lack of concern, maybe, and there was no … date on the exchange of the child,” Woodland Park Police Department Cpl. Dena Currin said in Teller County court Monday morning. “Those are the only two things I thought were odd.”
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During Currin’s testimony, the prosecution played a recording of the first phone call between Frazee and Currin. During the conversation, Frazee tells the officer that he and Berreth had broken up and were determining how to split custody of their 1-year-old daughter.
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“We lived such separate lives for so long,” Frazee said. “Our exchange of our daughter was in passing.”
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Frazee also told Currin he had returned the gun, something the prosecution claimed during opening statements was his attempt at creating a narrative that Kelsey Berreth had perhaps taken her own life.
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“When I gave her possessions back, that was something that we had addressed was, ‘Hey, you’re not going to do anything crazy?’” Frazee was heard saying in the recorded phone call. “Just our lives have grown so far apart in the last year 1/2, or great, I just wanted space and time to figure things out.”
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“The last text message was at the end of the week, part of the managerial duties is to close the timesheet for payroll," RS said. “And that was the mental prompting that OK, kind of like when we lose a radio in the aircraft, we’ll transmit to the blind. So this was without any response, just transmitting in the blind stating, ‘I don’t know if you want to submit any PTO for this week, but if so, now’s the time to get it in.’”
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“I think the first text message I sent that she didn’t reply to was, ‘What do you want for Christmas?’” CB2 said. “I asked what Patrick, [Baby K], etc. want … I didn’t get a reply from that.”
He sent another series of messages asking if an ornament he had sent to his niece had been delivered.
“No reply,” CB2 said.
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