Ep:94 | The Murder of Kelsey Berreth | Murder Unscripted

About this episode

This episode covers the gripping murder investigation of Kelsey Berreth, detailing the events leading to her disappearance and the subsequent legal proceedings against her fiancé Patrick Frazee.

On Thanksgiving Day 2018, 29-year-old flight instructor and mother Kelsey Berreth vanished from her Woodland Park, Colorado condo. She'd been at the grocery store that morning. She'd texted her mom about Thanksgiving dinner recipes. She'd left cinnamon rolls on the stove for her baby daughter. Then she was gone. What followed was one of the most gripping murder investigations in Colorado history... a missing person case that turned into a homicide investigation when a single blood smear on a toilet changed everything. And a critical break that came not from physical evidence, but from a nurse in Idaho with a secret she could no longer keep. In this episode, Ed covers the full Kelsey Berreth case, including: How Patrick Frazee (her fiancé and the father of her daughter) planned and carried out a premeditated murder. How he enlisted his secret girlfriend Krystal Lee Kenney to clean up the evidence and help disappear Kelsey's body. How an extraordinary web of phone records, surveillance footage, and one woman's devastating testimony put a killer in prison for the rest of his life. This is a case about domestic violence, manipulation, and coercive control. It is also a case about a…

People in this episode

Host: Ed

Topics covered

• murder investigation
• domestic violence
• coercive control
• missing person case
• homicide
• Colorado

Keywords

• Kelsey Berreth
• Patrick Frazee
• Krystal Lee Kenney
• murder investigation
• domestic violence
• homicide
• missing person
• Colorado

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Woodland Park, Colorado

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