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Solved November 22, 2018 Homicide

Kelsey Berreth

Status Solved
Type Homicide
Date November 22, 2018
Location Woodland Park, Colorado
Victim Age 29
Gender Female

Pilot and flight instructor Kelsey Berreth was murdered on Thanksgiving Day by her fiancé Patrick Frazee in Woodland Park, Colorado. He burned her body. Frazee was sentenced to life.

On November 22, 2018, Thanksgiving Day, twenty-nine-year-old Kelsey Berreth, a pilot and flight instructor, was last seen on surveillance video entering a Woodland Park, Colorado Safeway store with her one-year-old daughter Kaylee. She was never seen again.

Kelsey's fiancé Patrick Frazee reported her missing on December 2 after her employer raised concerns. Text messages had been sent from Kelsey's phone for several days after her disappearance, leading investigators to initially believe she was alive. However, the texts had been sent by Frazee's girlfriend, Krystal Lee Kenney, at his direction.

Kenney became a key cooperating witness. She testified that Frazee had bludgeoned Kelsey to death with a baseball bat at her townhome and then enlisted Kenney to clean the crime scene and help dispose of the body, which was burned on Frazee's ranch. Kelsey's remains were never recovered.

Frazee was convicted of first-degree murder, solicitation of murder, and tampering with a body in November 2019. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 156 years. Kenney pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and was sentenced to three years.

homicide Colorado 2010s domestic violence solved
2018-11-22
Kelsey Berreth last seen alive on Thanksgiving Day.
2018-12-21
Patrick Frazee arrested and charged with murder.
2019-11-18
Frazee convicted of murder; sentenced to life without parole.

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