Patrick Frazee Warrant: Teeth And Bloodstained Sheet Found

TELLER COUNTY, CO – More details have come to light in the case of missing Colorado mother Kelsey Berreth, 29, now presumed dead. The Teller County District Attorney's Office released documents today including 21 affidavits and warrants that spell out the state's case against Berreth's fiancé, Patrick Frazee, 32. Frazee faces charges of first-degree murder and three counts of solicitation to commit the murder of Berreth.

Frazee is accused of beating Berreth to death in her Woodland Park townhome with a baseball bat on Thanksgiving Day while the couple's one-year-old daughter was confined in a playpen in another room. He is then accused of forcing his former girlfriend, Krystal Lee, to come to Colorado and clean up the mess in the townhome. The two are accused of burning Berreth's body at Frazee's Florissant ranch, the 10 page arrest affidavit alleges.

The warrants show that hundreds of pieces of evidence were removed from Frazee's ranch home and Berreth's townhome. Among the most disturbing: A Dec. 15 warrant that shows five loose teeth, four in an envelope, and what appeared to be a blood-stained sheet removed from Frazee's home.

The affidavit also says a DNA match to Kelsey was found on a bottle of bleach and a mop in Frazee's home.

Putting together a narrative of cell-phone pings and surveillance video, the arrest affidavit lays out a timeline involving Frazee, Lee and Kelsey.

On Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day, Berreth was seen on video in the early afternoon at a grocery store in Woodland Park with her 1-year-old child Kaylee. Police said Tuesday that a neighbor's surveillance video captured Kelsey, Frazee and the baby outside Kelsey's Woodland Park townhouse, the arrest affidavit said.

Investigators, citing testimony from Lee, said they believed Frazee blindfolded Berreth with a sweater and asked her to smell a scented candle, then beat her to death with a baseball bat inside her home around 4:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, while baby Kaylee was in a playpen in the next room.

Police said they believed Frazee took Berreth's cell phone and left the townhome, and the two phones pinged together around 4:45 p.m. at a cell tower nearby. The two cell phones would ping again together numerous times until Lee allegedly removed the phone and drove to Idaho, prosecutors said.

The phone's last ping was on Nov. 25, from a cell tower near Gooding, Idaho.

Lee told agents that she was intimately involved with Frazee beginning in May of 2018, and at first she didn't know about his fiancée or the baby. Lee told agents she was urged and bullied by Frazee to kill Kelsey, whom he claimed was a terrible mother who abused their child and was an alcoholic, the arrest affidavit said.

Lee told investigators as early as September, 2018 Frazee tried to convince her to kill Kelsey, first with poisoned coffee. He then told her to beat Kelsey to death with a metal rod and a baseball bat on two separate occasions, but she lost her nerve.

On Thanksgiving Day, when she was in Idaho, Lee told investigators she got a call from Frazee who said, "You need to get here now. You've got a mess to clean up." Lee arranged for a new burner phone, borrowed a friend's car and drove to Colorado with a protective suit, gloves, hair net, booties and trash bags, the affidavit said.

Kelsey's townhouse was covered with "blood everywhere," Lee said. She spent more than three hours cleaning up the house, but said she left blood splattered on the fireplace for investigators to find. investigators found blood on the fireplace, as well as around the bathroom, the affidavit said.

Lee told investigators Frazee had Thanksgiving dinner with his family, then took Berreth's body in a black tote bag to the Nash Ranch in Fremont County, where he hid it on top of a pile of hay. Lee told investigators she and Frazee returned to the ranch on Nov. 24, two days after the murder. Frazee took the bag with Kelsey's remains and returned to Frazee's home where, where he burned the body and some other effects of Kelsey's such as her purse in a horse trough using five containers of gasoline, the affidavit said.

Lee told investigators she took the phone to Idaho where she impersonated Berreth in various texts to Frazee, Berreth's mother and Berreth's employer, a Pueblo flight school. She then destroyed the phone and her own burner phone.

Frazee was arrested Dec. 21. He's being held in the Teller County jail on no bond.

Frazee's next court hearing is scheduled for April 8, 2019.

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