RODEO QUEEN GIRLFRIEND SAYS PATRICK FRAZEE BASHED FIANCE HEAD WITH BAT, NOW HE DEMANDS CONVICTION BE REVERSEDBE RE

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Episode Title: RODEO QUEEN GIRLFRIEND SAYS PATRICK FRAZEE BASHED FIANCEE HEAD WITH BAT, NOW HE DEMANDS CONVICTION BE REVERSED
Date: January 31, 2026
Host: Nancy Grace
Panel: Ashley Wilcott (Judge/Lawyer), Karen Smith (Forensic Expert), Dr. Daniel Bober (Forensic Psychiatrist), Ellen Killoran (CrimeOnline Reporter), Joseph Scott Morgan (Forensics Professor), Wendy Patrick (California Prosecutor)

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Episode Overview

This episode delves into the chilling murder of Kelsey Berreth, the complex investigation and trial of her fiancé, Patrick Frazee, and recent developments as Frazee attempts to overturn his murder conviction. Nancy Grace and her expert panel unravel the forensic evidence, explore the disturbing roles of both Frazee and his mistress, and scrutinize the intricacies of the legal process and court appeals.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Case Background and Timeline

• Kelsey Berreth Disappears: Last seen on Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, at a Safeway in Woodland Park, CO, with her 1-year-old daughter. (03:59)
• Handing Off Her Daughter: Later that day, Kelsey meets Frazee, hands off their daughter, and disappears. (04:07)
• Suspicious Texts and Phone Pings: Kelsey’s phone sends texts to her employer and Frazee three days later, but her phone pings 600 miles away in Idaho; law enforcement can't confirm Kelsey was with the phone. (08:49, 09:16)
• Late Missing Persons Report: Kelsey’s mother reports her missing 10 days after last contact, raising questions about Frazee’s behavior and concern for Kelsey. (08:30, 15:03)
• Timeline Importance: Nancy emphasizes: "Every investigation starts with a timeline and the forensics around that timeline." (08:03)

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2. Suspicion and Forensic Difficulties

• Frazee’s Cooperation: Mixed signals—he provides DNA, phone records, and submits to interviews, but does not attend press conferences and is perceived as ‘reluctantly’ helpful. (12:11–17:25)
• Kelsey’s Home Clues: All personal items, except her purse, left behind. Baked cinnamon rolls out to cool, suggesting no plan to leave. Both vehicles remain. (18:24–19:27)
• Expert Suspicion:
  • Karen Smith: “If my fiancé had gone missing, I would be freaking out after three hours...10 days is a long time!" (15:29)
  • Nancy Grace: "Who waits 10 days to figure out where somebody is, especially the mother of your one year old?" (17:01)

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3. Shock of the Crime – Frazee’s Brutality and Aftermath

• Murder Details: After blindfolding Kelsey, Frazee strikes her repeatedly with a bat, according to his girlfriend/mistress Crystal Lee Kenney. (24:07, 25:16)
• Clean-Up: Kenney drives 13 hours to clean the “blood everywhere”—including on toys and personal items—while the couple’s daughter is in the next room. (25:16, 28:37)
• Frazee’s Concerns: More preoccupied with missing teeth as forensic evidence than with the horror of the crime—“He didn’t find all of her teeth that he knocked out of her head.” (25:16)
• Crime Scene Forensics: Use of Blue Star Regent to detect blood traces, discussion of cleaning delays making evidence removal difficult. (36:24–37:04)

Notable Quote:

• Nancy Grace:
  “Patrick Frazee tricks his fiancée…into blindfolding her and asking her to smell different scented candles. Then rearing back with a baseball bat and striking her…his big concern, he didn’t find all of her teeth that he knocked out of her head.” (25:16)

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4. Crystal Lee Kenney’s Role and Credibility Crisis

• Kenney’s Complicity: She not only covers up the crime but had previously been approached by Frazee to help murder Kelsey by various means—baseball bat, metal pipe, poisoned coffee. Yet, she goes along and conceals evidence. (29:06, 41:44)
• Testimony in Question: She initially lied to police and friends, set up alibis, switched vehicles, obtained a new phone, and left only minimal blood evidence, which she claimed was to help police. (33:10, 40:03)
• Expert Disagreement:
  • Nancy: “I’m not really buying it that she intentionally left blood behind for detectives to find.” (33:10)
  • Dr. Bober: "She’s claiming to be this clueless, hapless victim…Clearly she’s complicit. Clearly she’s involved." (38:04)
  • Wendy Patrick: Her many lies “has got to amount to a huge blow to her credibility…” (41:44)

Notable Quote:

• Ashley Wilcott:
  “She’s complicit in this crime. You don’t go clean it up… These are crimes that you report to police immediately.” (28:49)

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5. Legal Maneuvering and Recent Supreme Court Decision

• Frazee’s Appeal: Claims statements to a child welfare caseworker (about his daughter) should have been excluded as he wasn’t Mirandized, suggesting custodial interrogation. (22:14, 24:07)
• Court’s Ruling: Colorado Supreme Court finds the caseworker acted in a welfare—not law enforcement—role, upholding Frazee’s conviction. (46:02)
• Next Steps: Nancy predicts the legal battle will continue, potentially to the U.S. Supreme Court. (46:02)
• Insight: “Probably because of the incendiary nature of the facts that came out at trial…Frazee is going to appeal this all the way…And we wait as justice unfolds.” (46:02)

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6. Psychological Analysis

• Frazee’s Mindset:
  • Dr. Bober calls Frazee a psychopath, capable of such brutality without regret—“Zero remorse, zero empathy, zero connection with other human beings.” (38:04)
• Nancy’s Analysis:
  • “A woman that's calling her mom for a recipe is not a woman who’s gonna leave her mom hanging out in the wind, doesn’t know where you are, worried sick about you, not taking care of your baby girl. No!” (10:33)

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7. Panel’s Reflections on Justice and Responsibility

• Missed Opportunities: Multiple people, not just Kenney, knew Frazee had murderous intentions. Why did no one call police? (32:53, 33:10)
• Reiteration of Core Question:
  • Nancy: “If you really wanted to help investigators, maybe don’t dispose of the tooth… If you really wanted to help, you would leave something more obvious.” (33:49)
• Credibility of State’s “Star Witness”: Prosecution must “hold their nose” while relying on Kenney's tainted testimony. (34:56)

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• Nancy Grace:
  “Every investigation starts with a timeline and the forensics around that timeline.” (08:03)

• Karen Smith (Forensics Expert):
  “If my fiancé had gone missing, I would be freaking out after three hours…10 days is a long time!” (15:29)

• Ashley Wilcott:
  “She’s complicit in this crime. You don’t go clean it up… These are crimes that you report to police immediately.” (28:49)

• Dr. Daniel Bober (Forensic Psychiatrist):
  “True psychopathy, Nancy. Zero remorse, zero empathy, zero connection with other human beings. But Crystal Lee…clearly she’s complicit. Clearly she’s involved.” (38:04)

• Nancy Grace:
  “He beat her with a baseball bat. Number two. She’s complicit in this crime.” (28:49)

• Wendy Patrick (Prosecutor):
  “Huge blow to her credibility, notwithstanding the fact that she was involved in a very sick relationship.” (41:44)

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Key Timestamps for Reference

• 03:59–04:50 – Disappearance recap
• 08:03–08:49 – Timeline & text message evidence
• 15:03–17:25 – Frazee's inconsistent cooperation and suspicious behavior
• 18:24–19:27 – Evidence from Kelsey’s home
• 24:07–25:16 – Crystal Lee Kenney's bombshell affidavit
• 28:37–29:06 – Aftermath and clean-up specifics
• 36:24–37:04 – Forensic evidence discussion
• 38:04–38:31 – Psychological profile
• 41:44 – Kenney’s credibility, panel reaction
• 46:02 – Supreme Court decision summary and episode close

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Tone & Takeaways

The episode is driven, urgent, and emotionally charged, with Nancy Grace pressing her panel for precise facts and sharp interpretations. The tone is a mix of prosecutorial scrutiny and empathetic advocacy for the victim and her child. The panel refuses to sugarcoat any aspect—from Frazee’s monstrous behavior to his mistress’s self-serving involvement.

Listeners gain: A clear understanding of the evidence timeline, the gravity and brutality of the crime, legal twists, and the profound responsibility people carry when they know of impending violence. The discussion foreshadows continued legal wrangling, while never losing sight of the real-world horror and heartbreak left behind.

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For more detailed crime analysis and case updates, visit CrimeOnline.com

Transcript

[Nancy Grace]

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[Nancy Grace]

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Her body was never found. Her little girl is being raised without her mother or a father. Why? Because Kelsey Barreth was murdered, her body burned. By who? Patrick, with the help of his then mistress, the rodeo queen. Literally, in the last days phrase. Back in court. Why won't he go away? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us in the last days. The Colorado Supreme Court upholds the conviction of a Teller county man guilty in murdering his fiance, the mother of his child, his fiance, Kelsey Barreth, last seen at a Woodland Park Safeway Thanksgiving Day. She was speaking to her mom on the phone about recipes. Her phone then pinged in Gooding, Idaho, days later. Now, years later, her body steel has not been found. Why? I think because Patrick Frazee burned it. And of course, Frazee appeals his conviction. What do we know about the facts and the evidence that landed him behind bars?

[Ashley Wilcott]

Thanksgiving is the last known time Kelsey Barreth was seen in public. It was at this Safeway store where she was captured by the store's security cameras.

[Nancy Grace]

Cheryl Barrett says she spoke with Kelsey.

[Ashley Wilcott]

By phone that day. Twice. What did you talk about that day?

[Nancy Grace]

Always just small things.

[Ashley Wilcott]

And initially she needed a recipe based on that conversation. There was nothing to make you believe there was anything wrong. Exactly.

[Nancy Grace]

Yeah.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Her voice was fine.

[Nancy Grace]

She was.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah, she was. It was a normal day for her.

[Nancy Grace]

Where is a missing mom? Kelsey Barreth. The search intensifies as the mystery deepens. Right now. Tick tock, tick, tock. Every hour counts. There is a chance she can still be brought back alive. I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Joining me, Ashley Wilcott, judge, lawyer. You can find her as shewellcott.com Karen Smith, Forensics expert. Joining us out of the Florida jurisdiction, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober. And joining me right now, crimeonline.com investigative reporter Ellen Kill. Start at the beginning. What happened to Chelsea? Tell me everything's. Give me the beginning of the crime line, the timeline element, because that's what's so important.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Kelsey disappeared on November 22, which is Thanksgiving Day. We know that on that day she went to a Safeway supermarket near her home in Woodland Park, Colorado. She had her one year old daughter with her there. After that she met with her fiance, Patrick Frazee, who she doesn't live with, and handed off her daughter. She has not been seen since. The only time that she's been heard from. Two messages were sent from her cell phone on Monday, November 22nd, 25th. Excuse me. One was to her fiance and we don't know what that message said. And another was to her employer, DOS Aviation, where she works as a. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Nancy Grace]

White, white, white. Ellen Killorn, crimeonline.com Are you telling me she actually spoke verbally to her employer or texted her email?

[Ashley Wilcott]

No, it was a text. It was a text message sent from her phone.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, now wait, I thought you said the last person she spoke to was the fiance and the employer.

[Ashley Wilcott]

They were both text messages.

[Nancy Grace]

So she spoke to nobody. Then say that she spoke to nobody other than her mother, that previously she.

[Ashley Wilcott]

The last voice conversation that her mother had with her was on Thanksgiving Day and she saw her fiance in person later that day.

[Nancy Grace]

So the last person she actually spoke with was her mother several days before she goes missing. Ellen Killoran, My dear, sweet, precious snowflake. Ellen. You know what? Let me. Karen Smith, why do I always have to be the bad guy? Can you explain to Ellen why every word counts? It's very important. Did she speak to somebody the day she goes missing or was it a text from her phone, which, guess what? Nobody can find Karen's school. My dear Ellen Killoran.

[Ashley Wilcott]

I don't think I need to school Ellen, but I'll tell you what, or.

[Nancy Grace]

You may need to take her to the woodshed.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Having text messages rather than a vocal call. I mean, come on, this is law enforcement and Forensics 101. A text message can be sent by anybody who has access to that phone. If it's not passcode enforced. If you have a thumbprint that actually you have access to because you put your thumbprint on that phone when it was unlocked. At some point, it's not that difficult anymore. So if it's only text messages, we don't know who sent them. They're going to have to go into that phone once they find it and figure out where those text messages were actually sent from.

[Nancy Grace]

And that leads me to another forensic point. Hold on. Ashley Wilcott, I know you're chomping at the bit. Dr. Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist. Let's go into the mind of someone that would get rid of Chelsea, a mother of a little baby girl. Okay, get rid of her. And then this is my question. Think to use her phone to cover their tracks and text the boyfriend, the fiance, text the employer and go, oh, I'm taking a week off. That's a whole nother animal from somebody flying off the handle and getting mad in a bar and go, you took my money. Bam, you're dead versus killing somebody, disposing of the body, and then making all these surreptitious texts and emails to cover your tracks. That's a whole different way of thinking, Dr. Bober.

[Ashley Wilcott]

I agree, Nancy. It's on a whole. It's on a whole different level. But like your previous guest said, those text messages, you know, are going to be valuable because with text messages, unlike with vocal communication, you know, there is going to be the amount of texting, the words that were actually used, and, you know, people that are familiar with her are going to know the way that she communicates. And so there's, I think, a treasure trove of information potentially there in those text messages.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, Ellen, Killer. And are. Are you embarrassed? Because I'm embarrassed for you.

[Ashley Wilcott]

I am.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, good. Now that you've been totally publicly shamed, now I need some facts from you. It's really important, and I'm kidding around, tiny bit. But it really is crucial. It's crucial when you're trying to establish a timeline, which is where everybody starts. Every investigation starts with a timeline and the forensics around that timeline. So let's talk about these. The last time she was seen was how many days before she was reported missing?

[Ashley Wilcott]

10 days.

[Nancy Grace]

10 days. Okay, just give me short, brief answers. So we got 10 days. Darn, that's a long time. Now into that 10 days, when did the texts come in? Number one. And were they pinged and if so, from where?

[Ashley Wilcott]

The text came in on November 25, which is three days after she was last seen.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, so hold on. Jackie's editing this. The text came in three Days after she went missing. Okay, got it. Three days after she went missing, she text fiance and employer. Is that correct, Ellen?

[Ashley Wilcott]

That's right.

[Nancy Grace]

So both of them were texted in one day?

[Ashley Wilcott]

That's right.

[Nancy Grace]

Interesting day.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Her phone was pinged In Idaho, about 600 miles away from where she lived. But authorities have said they can't confirm that she was actually with her phone at the time.

[Nancy Grace]

But they can confirm that ping. We know that the ping is correct?

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yes.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay. Joining me right now, judge lawyer Ashley Wilcott. Ashley, weigh in on what we have ferreted out so far.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Well, you know, I do have a.

[Nancy Grace]

Lot to say about this, Nancy.

[Ashley Wilcott]

So here's the thing. We don't know what happened to her best case. She decided to take off.

[Nancy Grace]

God willing.

[Ashley Wilcott]

God hoping. Because that would mean she's sick.

[Nancy Grace]

Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley. You know how I feel about you and your family and your great, great, great, great grandparents that came over on the Mayflower. But, Ashley, how can you even fix your mouth to say that maybe she went away? This girl is no idiot. She's a flight instructor. Isn't that right? Ellen Killoran? She's a flight instructor.

[Ashley Wilcott]

That's right.

[Nancy Grace]

I mean, this woman can get up in a plane and fly around and teach other people. She's no idiot. But she loses her phone. Well, maybe. Maybe she had some freak out of.

[Ashley Wilcott]

I need to take a little break. That's my prayer.

[Nancy Grace]

Okay, so go back to the reality, Ashley. I'm back on you. I'm on you like a cheap suit. A girl that wants a break. Okay, this is. Let's look at what we know, and I may have to go back to the shrink on this one. Ashley Wilcott, a woman that's calling her mom for a recipe is not a woman who's gonna leave her mom hanging out in the wind, doesn't know where you are. Worried sick about you not not taking care of your baby girl. No, I mean, you see the dichotomy there, right? Like, I call my mother, I call Ms. Talbert from my little Methodist church in Macon, various people for recipes, okay? Because I love them. And their knowledge means something to me. Those are the people you love that you call for recipes, Ashley. Okay, so now Nancy's embarrassed me because you're right. Oh, I'm so happy I caused so much misery today. Go ahead.

[Ashley Wilcott]

So here's the thing about the texts.

[Nancy Grace]

On the phone and not knowing if.

[Ashley Wilcott]

The phone's with her. We see it all so regrettably, someone.

[Nancy Grace]

Could easily think, oh, I'm just going to text this person and this person or text the boyfriend so they think she's fine. And that gives me more time with her because we don't know if she's.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Dead, if she's been abducted and she's being held somewhere.

[Nancy Grace]

So I, it is not outside the realm of possibilities. Well, let me give you all something to think about and mole why did the fiance put up a stink about giving DNA? Kelsey's fiance Patrick Frazee told police he.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Last saw her Thanksgiving afternoon when he.

[Nancy Grace]

Picked up their daughter.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Kelsey was not reported missing until 10 days later by her mother. Patrick has done everything that he has been asked for by law enforcement.

[Nancy Grace]

Jeremy Lowe, Patrick Frazee's attorney, says his.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Client has been interviewed by law enforcement.

[Nancy Grace]

Voluntarily released his phone to be searched.

[Ashley Wilcott]

By investigators and provided photographs along with cheek swabs for DNA.

[Nancy Grace]

Police have said Frazee is cooperating.

[Ashley Wilcott]

I have no reason to believe that he is a suspect and the police have not isolated him as a suspect in this case. Frazee and Barreth do not live together, but Barreth's mother says their bond is strong. The relationship has been good. They're loving. She remains hopeful her daughter will be found.

[Nancy Grace]

The speculation hasn't been helpful. Don't try to figure this out.

[Ashley Wilcott]

We've got people trying to do that. Just share the photo. There's more important things to be done at this point. Police say the case remains a missing person's investigation. In the back of my mind, sure.

[Nancy Grace]

There'S a possibility something else could have.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Happened, but it does me no good to go down that road and I.

[Nancy Grace]

Don'T think it does Kelsey any good either. 29 year old Kelsey Barreth has not been seen since she was recorded on surveillance cameras in a grocery store in Woodland Park, Colorado with her baby daughter. Her fiance Patrick Frazee tells that she dropped the baby off after that grocery store trip and he has not seen or heard from her since. Now the two have never lived together despite being engaged in sharing a daughter. Interesting. The fiance was not present at a press conference and has been scrutinized on social media for refusing to speak openly about missing Chelsea. But despite that scrutiny, her mother says they had a very good relationship. Straight out to Ellen Calorin, crimeonline.com investigative reporter. Ellen, what you tell me about the fiance because that is where every timeline starts. The last time someone was seen or spoke, spoken to verbally, not by text or email. Tell me about the fiance.

[Ashley Wilcott]

That's right. He was the last person to see her and we know that he was not the person who contacted police his lawyer and he's been with her daughter. His lawyer has released a statement and says that he is now cooperating with police. He did give a DNA swab of his mouth. He did hand over his phone. But he did not attend a press conference earlier this week where her mother did attend and spoke and begged for her daughter's return. His lawyer claims that Patrick didn't know about the press conference until an hour before it began. Otherwise he would have been there and he word to the media. That's what, that's what the lawyer said.

[Nancy Grace]

Kelsey Berets, 29, has not been spotted since she went grocery shopping with her baby. Woodland Park, Colorado, fiance tells cops she dropped the baby off afterwards at his home. Has not been seen since her phone pinged about 700 miles away from where she was last seen three days later. Now, does that make sense to you? Karen smith, forensics expert 700 miles in three days, does that make sense? It can be done.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Well, sure, it can be done, but none of it makes sense to me. Nancy who first of all, if my fiance had gone missing, I would be freaking out after three hours. First of all, 10 days. 10 days. She was reported missing 10 days later. And the cell phone ping 700 miles away. Are you kidding me? I would be all over the press. I would be in front of every camera that would put my face on television. I would be talking to everyone and anyone if I had nothing to do with this.

[Nancy Grace]

10 days is a long time to pass. Ashley Wilcott. I'm looking at the video right now. She comes in the front of the grocery store. She's carrying the baby in a car seat. Oh, it looks just like the ones I would carry the twins in double fisted. She puts the car seat in the front of a cart with the baby facing her. You know, that top area. And then she drives off. She's got on a coat, her hair is back in a bun, and the baby's all bundled up. All right, so what do we know about him? Originally not giving DNA, because at this juncture, Ashley Wilcott, he has done interviews, he has released his phone to be searched. He's given, given buckle swabs, which is, you know, a mouth swab and photographs. On the other hand, Ashley, I guess his lawyer said, look, if you don't give it to them willingly, they can get a warrant from you and take it from you.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Right, that's what the lawyer is going to advise him.

[Nancy Grace]

But let me ask you this. Why get a lawyer in the first.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Place if you're not involved and second, 10 days. I agree with your guest. 10 days.

[Nancy Grace]

Who waits 10 days to figure out where somebody is, especially the mother of.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Your one year old.

[Nancy Grace]

You know, he also, the lawyer says that what does this mean to you? Dr. Daniel Bober, you're the forensic psychiatrist. The lawyer has added that the fiance for Z will not speak publicly because he does not want to, quote, impede the police investigation.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah, I mean, Nancy, a lot of this stuff is not dispositive, but it's certainly very suspicious. I mean, he's sort of reluctantly cooperating and sort of has to be dragged to do it. So that's definitely concerning. And it seems like he definitely has something to hide. Although again, it's not dispositive.

[Nancy Grace]

Well, I agree with you because let me go to you, Ashley Wolcott. When the chief of police at Woodland park, Chief Miles DeYoung, was asked at the press conference about the fiance not being there, he simply said you'd have to ask him. Okay, now see, I can read a lot into that response, Ashley. Absolutely.

[Ashley Wilcott]

He's not cooperating.

[Nancy Grace]

And it sounds like law enforcement's frustrated.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Because where most people who have a missing person in their life do anything and everything they can and give law enforcement every shred of everything they need, the boyfriend is not doing that.

[Nancy Grace]

The fiancee is not cooperating.

[Ashley Wilcott]

So I think it does indicate something's amiss.

[Nancy Grace]

Now, the brother, Clint Bareth said that he realized she was missing and he goes to her home. And what the brother, Clint Barreth says is the only thing missing from the home was her pocketbook, her luggage, her makeup, all untouched in her. Two vehicles are still at the home. Ellen Calorin, you left that little detail out. Both her cars are at the house, her luggage, her makeup, all that. The only thing missing is her pocketbook, which I'd like to point out she had with her when she was at the grocery store.

[Ashley Wilcott]

That's right. And not only was all of that stuff left behind, but there was also some cinnamon rolls that she, she had clearly just baked that day that by the time they got there they were cold, but she was baking in her kitchen. And it looks like she just pulled out the rolls to cool and had every intention of coming back. There are absolutely, absolutely no signs in the home that she was planning on going away for any amount of time.

[Nancy Grace]

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[Ashley Wilcott]

Frazee's former girlfriend and twin falls woman Crystal Kenney made a plea deal in exchange for the information outlined in that report, an affidavit from the murder case of Kelsey Barreth revealing more graphic details about her death and the months leading up to her alleged murder. In court Tuesday, prosecutors revealed Barreth's fiance, Patrick Frazee, blindfolded Barreth on Thanksgiving Day before hitting and killing her with a baseball bat. The information stemming from Frazee's former girlfriend and Idaho woman, Crystal Lee Kenney. Kenney agreed to testify against Frazee as part of a plea deal for tampering with evidence. On Wednesday, the affidavit revealed Kenney told investigators that she traveled to Colorado after Frazee said she needed to clean the murder scene in Bereth's home, removing any traces of blood left on the walls, couch, television and even on the stuffed animals belonging to the couple's one year old daughter. Kenny also told investigators that Frazee was concerned that one of Barreth's teeth were left behind. Kenny says she later found it and got rid of it. The affidavit also shows Frazee wanted Kenny to bring Bered's body to Idaho, but she says she refused and instead Frazee burned the body.

[Nancy Grace]

Our friends at Denver7 reporting the very latest out of a Colorado courtroom. I'm Nancy Grace. This is CRIME stories. Thank you for being with us. This is what we are learning. We are learning that Patrick Frazee tricks his fiance, the mother of his little girl, Kelly, into blindfolding her and asking her to smell different scented candles. Then rearing back with a baseball bat and striking her in the head in face that he hits her so hard, his big concern, he didn't find all of her teeth that he knocked out of her head. We go on in this affidavit, if you comb over it very, very carefully, we learn that his mistress, rodeo queen, finds the tooth with the root still attached, disposes of it. She is in the thick of this, on her hands and knees after traveling 13 hours overnight to come to Patrick Frazee at his beck and call. Nobody had a gun to her head. Driving through the night, leaving her two daughters she claims to be so worried about so she could clean up. Frazee calls her and says, girl, you got a mess to clean up. And she comes running, complete with a hair net, a surgeon smock, surgeon booties worn in ERs, surgical gloves, bleach, Windex. And she spends the next four to six hours on her hands and knees scrubbing. You know what? I'm not buying it. With me, an all star panel forensics expert, professor forensics, Jacksonville State University and author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Joseph Scott Morgan, California prosecutor Wendy Patrick, renowned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, judge, lawyer, anchor Ashley Wilcott at ashleywilcott.com and crimeonline.com investigative reporter and Ellen Killoran. First you, Ashley Wilcott, when she says she did all of this, cleaned Kelsey Barris condo scrubbing. There was blood on the bath mat that had to be thrown away. Blood on the commode, blood on the ceiling, blood in the kitchen, blood on the oven mitts, blood on the baby's toys. Who P.S. was in the next room in a playpen while Frazee murdered Kelsey Barrett, the baby's mother. Blood on toys, blood on stuffed animals, blood on the sofa, blood on pillows, blood on books, blood everywhere on the rock face of Kelsey's fireplace. Everything soaked in blood on oven mitts, on Kelsey Barris purse. She cleaned it all up. And then while he, after killing Kelsey goes and sits down to Thanksgiving dinner with his family. It certainly did hurt his appetite. Then after she goes with him and arm in arm, they watch the body burn on a bonfire. Help me out, Ashley.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah. I didn't mean to interrupt you, but two things. The first is let's talk about him and the fact that such a brutal, heinous murder.

[Nancy Grace]

Of course there's blood on every inch.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Of everything in that home.

[Nancy Grace]

Of course there is.

[Ashley Wilcott]

He beat her with a baseball bat. Number two. She's complicit in this crime. You don't go clean it up. You don't have information that, oh, we've tried and talked about killing her in the past. These are crimes that you report to the police immediately. She's complicit in this murder.

[Nancy Grace]

Well, you know, Ashley, you really hit the nail on the head. Let me go to you, Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor. When you see an attack like this that is so bloody, it's just chaos. Many experts say, oh, that was a crime of passion. B.S. wendy. That's a technical legal term because he had approached her, I believe, four times, wants to beat Kelsey with a baseball bat. Once he gave her a metal pipe, according to her. Once he wanted her to poison Kelsey's caramel macchiato with Ambien and Valium. And once he tried to get her to come do the deed, but she was in Reno and couldn't get a ticket. This is well planned. This is no spur of the moment murder. That's right.

[Ashley Wilcott]

And it's that chronology of sophisticated attempts, prior attempts that really will just blow out of the water. Some kind of a defense based on passion. And I think we see that in cases like this frequently where you have to look at the history of what's gone on between this couple of how has it been preplanned. But given that, one of the things that strikes me about this case, you know, it would have been much, much calmer, let's say, if it were a poisoning or something like this. The brutality of the way the murder was finally committed in this case is shocking. And it no doubt is going to be shocking to people that are now going to be deciding why it happened, how it happened, and who all is culpable for it.

[Nancy Grace]

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[Ashley Wilcott]

Prosecutors have met the burden to show there is enough evidence to charge Patrick Frazee with murder. He will stay in jail with no bond pending trial. Central to the case for prosecutors is testimony from Crystal Lee, a woman we now know dated Patrick in college. The two also had an affair in 2016 and 2017. Prosecutors say Frazee asked her to kill Kelsey Barreth three different times. She sat and said, I can't do this, and tells Patrick, I can't do this. We also know from court documents Lee says Frazee told her to lie to the FBI in addition to help make it look like Barreth was in Idaho and may have killed herself. Crystal cleans up blood, but leaves behind some telltale evidence for our investigators to find. Investigators spoke to three other people besides Lee about this case. Each had details revealing the plan prosecutors say Frazee had all along to kill Barrett.

[Nancy Grace]

It's still unclear exactly why any of.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Them did not come forward sooner and if they could have saved Barrett's life. That was a question that was asked today. Did she call police? It's not one that was answered on the record. You know, we are constrained that we can only talk about what was put on the record on any particular day.

[Nancy Grace]

You are hearing CBS Denver's Sean Chitnis talking the very latest. After coming through an arrest affidavit, we got out of the courtroom. You know, now she's saying that she left blood behind. I'm talking about the girlfriend, Crystal Lee left blood behind on the face of Kelsey's fireplace. The murder occurred in the living room for cops to find. You know, why not just call the cops when he first asked her to commit murder? Straight out to crimeonline.com Ellen Killorin. Ellen, I'm not really buying it that she intentionally left blood behind for inspectors or detectives to find.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Me neither, Nancy. That's one of my biggest problems with her testimony. I'm really, really struggling with her claims that she said after the fact that she did all of these things to help investigators, that she left the blood on the fireplace, but clean the rest of it up. If you really wanted to help investigators, maybe don't dispose of the tooth that was dislodged when Patrick Frazee allegedly beat Kelsey Barrett over the head. If you really wanted to help investigators, you would leave something more obvious. We're also learning some things in the arrest affidavit that was released yesterday that I'm not a lawyer and I'm interested in what you all with legal experience believe. But I'm worried that the defense is going to go after a lot of things that we're learning, including the fact that she lied to police. Initially. They went to meet her out in Las Vegas where she was on a trip, and she said that she didn't have a relationship with Patrick Frazee. She said she'd never heard of Kelsey Barris. And now the prosecution's case seems to be hinging so much on her testimony, and there's no body.

[Nancy Grace]

Well, I'll tell you, I think that the state is going to have to put her on the stand and hold their nose at the time. I mean. Joseph Scott Morgan, professor of Forensics, Jacksonville State University. Joe Scott, what about forensics? Will they carry the day? Because here's where I'm coming from. Joe Scott this is not what I believe happened, but Crystal Lee, the rodeo queen, his other lover, has really set herself up for a claim that she's the killer. She's there on the scene. She cleans up the blood. She gets rid of evidence. She knows where the body is. She knows what happened to it. He can easily claim she did it. Will forensic evidence carry the day? Joe Scott Let it go.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah. Hey, I got to tell you, Nancy, I think that. That the defense is really going to drill down on this where they're going to try to pin it to her, more than likely. And look, I would, if, if we could have it in a perfect world, I'd love to have this woman's body, because I think that you're going to find out a lot more information relative to these injuries she sustained and the power that was involved in bludgeoning her to death with this alleged baseball bat. And, you know, yeah, it's going to be very powerful at the scene relative to what kind of testing they did there. This blood that was allegedly cleaned up in an attempt to, you know, cover this whole thing up. Did they get this to luminesce with something like luminol out there?

[Nancy Grace]

Oh, I know what they used it's in the affidavit. They used the Blue Star Regent.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah. Yeah. And what's really great about this, do you remember just a few moments ago you were talking about what was that amount of time that you drove to get there? You said something like 13 hours.

[Nancy Grace]

Yeah. Overnight.

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah. Hey, get this. Did you know that the longer you allow these stains to set in place, it's just like anything else, Nancy. A piece of clothing, the harder it is to wipe away. To wipe away. Even using bleach and any of trace elements of blood. So they waited a long time before they cleaned this mess up.

[Nancy Grace]

What does that say to you? Let's go to our forensic psychiatrist joining us today on the Florida jurisdiction, Dr. Daniel Bober. Dr. Bober. It just is beyond me how he can beat her head in with a baseball bat while. While she's smelling a candle he gave her with the baby in a playpen in the next room, have a horribly bloody crime scene. I mean, soaked. Soaked in blood, and just fold her body up and put it in a tote bag, put it in his pickup truck, drive to his family's house with the baby, I guess, wash his hands of the blood like Pontius Pilate and sit down to turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce like nothing's wrong. Leaving the crime scene, sitting there to decompose for two full days for his mistress to come clean it up. What is that, Dr. Bober?

[Ashley Wilcott]

True psychopathy, Nancy. Zero remorse, zero empathy, zero connection with other human beings. But Crystal Lee is very interesting because, you know, she's claiming to be this clueless, hapless victim that was unwittingly led down the path. And clearly she's complicit. Clearly she's involved. She lied. She tried to conceal evidence. She tampered with the scene. And I think she's, you know, truly responsible. I think she knew exactly what she was doing and she was intimately involved.

[Nancy Grace]

Straight out to Ellen Calorin, crimeonline.com investigative reporter. At crimeonline.com, we have this and all other breaking news and crime and justice to EK Let me ask you a question. Let's talk about Crystal having a gun in her car. I saw that in the affidavit, especially as it relates to her best friend, Megan Garrison.

[Ashley Wilcott]

That's right. There's a new item in the affidavit that shows. Not that Crystal did a lot to cover up what she was doing. She switched cars with her friend Megan apparently because she didn't want her very recent ex husband to know what was going on. So she switched cars with her friend. And the FBI interviewed the friend later in the investigation. And the friend said that she has a gun. We don't know what type of weapon, but she had a gun in her car. And the friend, Megan, told investigators that there was. It does not sound like it's a gun that she uses very often. She said that there was a bullet missing. Last night, I called Spencer Kirsten, a friend of Crime Online and Crime Stories who's a security expert, and he explained to me that it's possible for a bullet to discharge from a gun without it being fired. But again, this is something that I worry that the defense is going to look at and say, wait a second, what happened with this gun? And is it too late to get any kind of ballistics from it?

[Nancy Grace]

To Wendy, Patrick, California prosecutor Wendy, where does this leave Crystal Lee? The rodeo queen, divorced mother of two, has been dating Patrick Frazee since college. They reignited their love, according to this affidavit, in around 2017 or 18, I think. That's according to the ex husband who's living with her under the same roof. Where does this leave her credibility? Because if you carefully read the affidavit, you see that she lied to her best friend, Megan Garrison. She told her best friend that she was going somewhere different. She set up a fake email message that she had to stay that night. And that would be the night she was cleaning up the murder scene with Megan because she was, quote, too drunk to drive something, some BS like that in case her ex husband read the emails. Okay, so she's setting up a fake email. She goes and gets a new phone to get rid of all the cell phone evidence. She cleans the crime scene. She's been solicited three or four times to commit murder and never calls police. She stands there arm in arm with Patrick Frazee while they watch the black tote bag with silver handles melt with a heap, as she describes it inside. And she won't. She won't say it to cops, but she knew that was Kelsey's body. And catch this. You got the mom, too, Frazee's mom, Sheila, who was home at the time of the bonfire. So what's her credibility? What is Crystal Lee's credibility?

[Ashley Wilcott]

Yeah, Nancy, it leaves her in a really bad spot when it comes to being a credible witness. And when we discuss the relationship she had with the defendant in this case, the killer. You know, I know that it sounds like, oh, it was an affair. They used to be sweethearts back in the day. It's a relationship of power and control to commit a murder and then insist she come over and clean up the mess. No doubt these are the kinds of cases where a woman that's involved often says, I was under the influence of the perpetrator and I didn't. I feared what would happen if I didn't comply with his requests. If you were to look at it through that lens, she might have more credibility than not. But again, Nancy, like you just pointed out, this long list of inconsistencies and dishonest statements that are listed in the affidavit, that's got to amount to a huge blow to her credibility, notwithstanding the fact that she was involved in a very sick relationship. Crystal tells us that on October, I'm sorry, November 22nd, Thanksgiving, Patrick kills Kelsey in a horrific manner with a bat in the back of the head as Kelsey is sniffing candles with a blindfold over her eyes. Crystal tells us that Patrick then calls her after he has put Kelsey in a black plastic tote, calls Crystal to come and help him clean up. She does not come out that day. She cannot come out that day. But she does come out on October 24th. And as Crystal describes, when she walks into Kelsey's condo, the scene is horrific. There's blood everywhere. There are bloody footprints everywhere.

[Nancy Grace]

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