NOV 7, 2019
Kelsey Berreth murder case: 1-year-old daughter of Berreth present for gruesome killing, Patrick Frazee mistress says
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The defense attorney, Adam Stiegerwald, started his cross examination of Krystal Lee Kenney by listing the more serious crimes prosecutors could have charged her with — attempted first-degree murder or accessory to a crime — for her role in Frazee’s alleged murder of his fiancée, Kelsey Berreth. ...
The defense’s questioning ended the more than nine hours of testimony Kenney gave over two days. Kenney detailed her complicated relationship with Frazee and explained how she cleaned the Woodland Park condo where she said Frazee bludgeoned Berreth to death. Kenney ended her testimony Thursday afternoon, but could be brought back later if needed.
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Kenney became emotional multiple times over the two-day course of her testimony, including Thursday when prosecutors projected a large photo of Kaylee, the young daughter of Berreth and Frazee. She choked back tears as she explained that Frazee told her the 1-year-old girl was in the condo while Frazee murdered Berreth.
One of Berreth’s family members leaned forward and sobbed as he looked at the photo of the happy child with chubby cheeks, grinning at the courtroom from the photo.
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Kenney explained that there was a pool of dried blood on the floor and blood spatters high on the walls in the living room. She used a laser pointer to show where she saw the blood and how she used bleach and Windex to clean the evidence, a process that took four hours, Kenney said.
Kenney testified that she entered and left Berreth’s condo from the main door. ...
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Although Thursday’s hearing was scheduled to begin at 8:45 a.m., it did not begin until after 10:30 a.m. because both Frazee and Kenney felt sick in the morning, Teller County District Court Judge Scott Sells explained when court convened.
Court was interrupted about 11:30 a.m., when deputies caught a man in the audience drawing pictures of witnesses in the case. Court deputies ripped multiple sketches from the man’s notebook. ...
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