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UPDATED STORY: Compelling testimony from longtime friend of
#PatrickFrazee wraps up the second week of the murder trial. The friend said he had multiple strange conversations with Frazee before and after
#KelseyBerreth disappeared.
5:42 PM - 8 Nov 2019
Prosecutors attempt to corroborate witness in Patrick Frazee trial
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... But at the end of Friday’s testimony it remained unclear whether the tooth belonged to the 29-year-old instructor pilot.
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The wide net of the investigation also entangled a longtime friend of Frazee, Joseph Moore, who said he knew Frazee since he was a boy and considered him like a stepson.
But Moore testified that Frazee in April 2018 made a comment that he had “figured out a way” to kill Berreth. Moore reacted in shock, he said, but Frazee didn’t take the comment back.
“He said, ‘No body, no crime’” Moore testified.
Six days after Thanksgiving but before Berreth was reported missing, Moore had a conversation with Frazee during which Frazee worried about having Kelsey Berreth’s blood on his clothes.
Frazee said the blood was from a nosebleed Berreth had.
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Moore is only the second person close to Frazee who has been called to testify thus far and became emotional while describing their relationship.
“You don’t want to picture someone you’ve known so long and have trusted,” Moore said, tears in his eyes. “You don’t want to think they could have done something like this.”
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