Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Playboy Model Sentenced in Murder of Renowned Psychiatrist Found Dead in Trunk

Episode Date: March 11, 2023

Former Playboy model Kelsey Turner sentenced Turner to 10 to 25 years in prison for her role in the death of Dr. Thomas Burchard. Turner is accused of killing an elderly psychiatrist, who reportedly paid her rent and gave her money.  The 71-year-old  renowned psychiatrist was found beat to death in the trunk of Turner’s blue Mercedes Benz. The car had been abandoned on a dirt road, according to police. Two other suspects, identified as Jon Logan Kennison and Diana Nicole Pena also charged.  Turner, 29, agreed to an Alford plea, which means Turner does not have to admit guilt, but does agree there is enough prosecutorial evidence for a jury to find her guilty.  Joining Nancy Grace today: Troy Slaten - Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC, Twitter @TroySlaten Dr. Jenn Mann - Marriage and Family Therapist, Host 'Couples Therapy' and 'Family Therapy' on VH1, "The Dr. Jenn Show” on Sirius XM, Author: "The Relationship Fix: Dr. Jenn’s 6-Step Guide to Improving Communication, Connection and Intimacy", doctorjenn.com Dr. Kendall Crowns – Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Travis County, Texas (Austin) Chris Byers - Former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, now Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner, www.chrisbyersinvestigationsandpolygraph.com Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, LeadStories.com, Twitter: @swimmie2009     Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Well, you can only go so far on your looks, right? Well, apparently wrong, because this former Playboy model was accused of a vicious murder of a California psychiatrist, his body found stuffed in the trunk of her Mercedes Benz. And somehow, Kelsey Turner has managed to skate with just 10 years behind bars. Owie. I'm Nancy Grace.

This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and SiriusXM 111. A former playboy model sentenced to at least 10 years in prison in the last days after she copped a plea in the beating death of a renowned California psychiatrist. Boy, apparently she had been milking him for money from the get-go. Kelsey Turner, who apparently appeared in Playboy, Italia, and Maxim,

was handed down a prison sentence between 10 and 25 in Clark County, Nevada for her role in the death of as i mentioned the renowned psychiatrist dr thomas burchard the doctor who was in and let me just say intimate and transactional relationship with turner was murdered and crammed into turner's Now, that's no way to go and no way to be found. And he actually had a longtime love. Now, this woman, the Playboy model, had previously taken an Alford plea, which is a guilty plea in which you never actually admit you did it. Now, she took an Alford plea to second-degree murder,

and we've been waiting on the sentence. Prosecutors claim Turner, 29, directed her boyfriend, John Kennison, to attack Dr. Burchard when he came to visit her in Vegas. The boyfriend, Kennison, reportedly beat a 71-year-old psychiatrist with a bat before the site was stuffed in the trunk. This playboy bunny-turned-killer was actually driving a Mercedes Benz. Somebody was giving her a lot of money. But how was this tangled web weaved? And what was a renowned psychiatrist doing, hooking up with a Playboy Italia model,

for Pete's sake, with a boyfriend? Listen. When did you learn that his body had been found? Ten days after I had reported him missing. That was such a scary time in those ten days of not knowing. Not knowing how to do anything. That was the scariest time really I think just the fear you know he coming home and probably about by the day before about the eighth or the ninth day I began to to realize to myself that he probably wasn't ever coming home, you know, even though I kept hoping and hoping.

And then when they called me, you know, and told me, which was right before it broke on the news, it was, it was just, it was devastating, even though I thought I had prepared myself to hear the worst news. You are listening to the psychiatrist, the doctor in the trunks, long-time love. And of course, in typical police scenarios, the long-time love would be suspect number one. But how does a renowned psychiatrist end up dead in the trunk? Who is this guy? Listen. He was outgoing he loved his his practice he he loved um you know his his patients you know doing everything for them

um magic was his hobby and he learned that mainly to do magic tricks to kind of engage the children because he was a child psychiatrist nowadays originally they were children now nowadays it was a little bit more on the adult side he had started seeing them as children and um through you know and continued following them and into their adulthood that was rather one of um when he turned 65 he was 71 and when he had turned 65 he was concerned you know worried about his patients that if he retired they would be left with no one or having to start over with a new doctor. And so his idea of retirement was to cut his work week down to four days and take Mondays off. So how does a trip to Vegas fit into that four-day work week? That's what I'm trying to find out. Where was she at the time her longtime love, Dr. Thomas Bouchard, was somehow stuffed in a trunk dead unless he was killed in the trunk.

We're learning a lot about him. That speaks volumes with me. An all-star panel, Troy Slayton, high-profile defense attorney joining us out of L.A. And you can find him at Troy Slayton. Dr. Jen Mann, family therapist, marriage therapist, host of Couples Therapy and Family Therapy on VH1, The Dr. Jen Show on SiriusXM, and author of The Relationship Fix. You can find her at drjen.com. Dr. Kendall Crowns, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for Travis County, Texas.

That's Austin. And Senior Lecturer, University of Texas. And of course, forensic sciences, Chris Byers, former police chief, Johns Creek, 25 years as a police officer, now PI and polygrapher at Chris Byers investigations and polygraphs.com. Alexis Tereschuk,

crimeonline.com investigative reporter. Quick question to Dr. Kendall Crowns. Dr. Crowns, this guy is a psychiatrist. Now, just fill me in. In order to be a psychiatrist,

isn't it true you have to become a medical doctor, go through undergraduate four years, then what, three or four years of medical school, then intern in your chosen field, psychiatry, for I guess three or four years after that? How does it work?

Yeah, that's correct, Nancy. You get your undergraduate degree, you go to medical school, and then once you graduate, then you choose your residency in psychiatry. I do believe they do a one-year internship in internal medicine before they do, I think, three years in psychiatry. So four years of internship. And how long is medical school? Four years. Troy Slayton, did you hear that? We go three years to law school for one more year,

we could have been doctors. Boy, I should have done that. I would have been able to make my mother proud. I know exactly. Oh yeah. You know what, Troy? You're right. How my mother begged me not to go into criminal prosecution. Oh, yeah. One more year. And of course, brilliance, a degree in biology and a few other things which would have been needed. So this is a psychiatrist that has spent his life in child psychiatry. And it really speaks volumes in my mind to Dr. Jen Mann that he started in child psychiatry and his patients loved him so much. The bulk of his practice is them as they grew up. They stayed with him.

It's pretty amazing, and I have to tell you, I remember when I first started out as a therapist, I was working in a mental health clinic, and every other intern who came in would come in saying, I want to work with children. And within six months, every one of them was like, I can't do this because it's particularly challenging. Because a lot of the time you're dealing with difficult family systems and parents who don't want to change and, you know, things that are just really challenging, rebellious kids. So, you know, this guy sounds like he was amazingly patient and kind and really cared about his clients.

Guys, we're talking about Dr. Thomas Bouchard, who ends up after all these years of practicing dead in the trunk of a BMW. Alexis Tereschuk, CrimeOnline.com investigative reporter, also with LeadStories.com. Alexis, tell me about the discovery of him in the trunk of a BMW. How long had he been here, been in the trunk? And I'd also like to find out

from Chris Byers, how you forensically process a car trunk. But first to you, Alexis. So he had been missing for about 10 days and not related as car was found abandoned on the side of the road in Las Vegas in a neighborhood. And it was very clear when you looked inside the car that something had happened. But why would you look in the car? If I see a car by the side of the street, I don't get out of my car and go try to look in the trunk.

I believe the police were called because it had been abandoned for so many days. Okay. So why didn't they just put a boot on it and a yellow ticket? Well, I think when you see blood in a car, it makes you think something happened. Oh, so they saw blood on the interior of the car. Right. Yes. There wasn't.

Yes, there was blood in the interior of the car. Alexis Tereshchuk, you're giving me renewed interest for playing 20 questions. So, the police get called because there's an abandoned BMW. The police get there and in plain view,

and I'm emphasizing those words because I know Troy Slate is listening, the veteran defense attorney. Plain view has a legal meaning. For instance, if a cop goes by your car parked on the street and in plain view he sees a line of coke on the dash, oh yeah,

he, she can totally get in your car and impound it and get the evidence because they see evidence of a crime. They don't need a search warrant. It is in plain view. Generally, whatever a ordinary citizen, civilian can do, a cop can do without a warrant. Agree or disagree, Troy Slayton? I agree 100%. And the reason why this is so important is because if the police gather evidence illegally, then it's, and all the evidence that flows from that would be fruit of the poisonous tree. And that evidence and everything that flowed from it could be excluded from any criminal trial that follows. Right. For instance, I like to give an example when I'm speaking with jurors. If cops break into a home without a warrant, and it's not an emergency,

exigent circumstances, in there they find evidence of another crime. Let's just say they find cocaine with a delivery address. They go to that location and find a drug lord. No, you can't arrest the drug lord because the original evidence is fruit from the poisonous tree. An illegal search. He's correct again. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace In the last days, a former Playboy model sentenced to at least 10 years behind bars

for the brutal beating of a California psychiatrist that he stuffed in the trunk of her Mercedes Benz. Why did a renowned psychiatrist, highly educated, fall for this girl? He had to know at the get-go when she was milking him for money that she was up to no good. Alexis Tereshka, CrimeOnline.com investigative reporter, when they opened the car trunk. What, Alexis? Well, and they could see the blood. There had also been a rock thrown through the window of the car as it was alexis well and they could they could see the blood there had also been

a rock thrown through the window of the car as it was on the side of the road and so that also is suspicious as well um and thrown into the car not thrown out um and in the in the trunk they find the body of dr burchard to you dr, Dr. Kendall Crowns, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Travis County, that's a fine kettle of fish. You've got a dead body in the trunk that's been in there in Vegas heat for days and days. What do you do?

So the body's probably going to be markedly decomposed, bloating with green discoloration and skin flicking. Oh, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? You just reeled it all off so quickly. What did you say? The first thing you said.

In the heat, in the trunk, it's going to make the body decompose. You're going to decompose no matter what. but in the heat, you're going to decompose more rapidly. So you said markedly decomposed or marginally decomposed? Markedly, markedly decomposed. Then I heard something about either green or purple. Yeah, the body will turn kind of a greening coloration. The skin will start slipping off.

Then it will start bloating from the decomposition gases. Why does that happen? Why does the body bloat? Because you have bacteria in your body right now. It's sitting in there kind of kept in check by your body. But once you die, the bacteria no longer has the restraint put on it and then it begins breaking you down and when it's breaking you down it starts forming gas and the gas that forms results in the bloating of the body you know how i always explain it to a jury why a body bloated

uh i would use a piece of fruit like a banana or an apple, when it starts to go bad, you smell it, and it starts looking different. It turns a color. Well, if that's happening inside your body, those gases, the same ones that make a banana smell, are gathering inside your body with nowhere to go, So your body bloats. That's a very rudimentary explanation, but that's how I can understand it.

Do you think in just 10 days, Dr. Kendall-Crowns, that there can be an ID of the body or because it's been in the trunk? Is it so, as you say, markedly decomposed, you can't make an ID? Yeah, so it would be difficult to do a visual ID at that point. You would probably have to rely on fingerprints and hope that there was fingerprints available to run them against or then go with dental records or DNA if there's a presumptive ID to make the identification. To Chris Byers, former police chief of Johns Creek at Chris Byers Investigations and Polygraph.com. Have you ever seen

a case like this, body in a trunk? Yeah, I absolutely have. And it's as bad in this Georgia heat as it is out there as well. Had one that was in a trunk several days

and, you know, besides the plain view, you can smell that after several days. I've been to houses and apartments here in Atlanta and a body's been inside long enough. You could smell it from outside the door. How far away can you smell it? I can guarantee if you're standing at the trunk of the car, you can smell it after 10 days.

Because, again, I've smelled it at front doors and found bodies in living rooms and bedrooms decomposed. And it's a smell you'll never forget. I was just going to say that because people have asked me, how do you know you're smelling a dead body? And I always say, you know what? I don't know. But you know. It's kind of like, or at least for me, when you see a snake on the side of the street, you immediately know. Get away from that.

How do you know? I don't know. But you know. i guess evolutionary instinct alexis tereshchuk i'm a little bit embarrassed for you because you did not mention the stench that must have been coming out of that trunk any cop in his right mind would open it up absolutely and they you know they had seen the rocks through the window abandoned on the desert this is not something where it was maybe they didn't think it was a car accident. You know, and the people had gotten in another car and ridden away and just ran and come back later for their car. So while all this is happening, a renowned child psychiatrist stuffed in the trunk of a BMW back home, the longtime love is waiting for Dr.ashard to show up take a listen to this

well he was scheduled he flew there on friday or march 1st and he was scheduled to return the fourth the following monday and i first noticed that there was something wrong on Sunday morning. I spoke with him Friday and we texted on Saturday. And I began to feel that there was something wrong on Sunday. But I had received a couple of texts in the afternoon that I just knew were not him. You know, she's so right. Everybody has a unique style of writing a text. For instance, I would never write a long, verbose text. I try to make it as short and brief as possible, even cutting letters out of words to make it quick.

Well, she knew immediately this was not his style of writing. Listen to what Judy tells me. They just, the vocabulary wasn't his vocabulary. It was more of an uneducated, it just wasn't him. I could just tell it wasn't him talking or texting me. And I said, so I said, you know, Tom, I don't believe this is you. You need to call me. And then after that, the phone went dead.

And early Sunday morning, that same day, I woke up very early, about five or so in the morning, just 4.35, just feeling something was really wrong, you know, just kind of scared, more scared than anything. And then those texts in the afternoon, you know, really, really raised some flags, and I was worried. I didn't hear from him at all and I checked and I kept checking and he had not checked in for his flight. I was very worried. You know what's interesting? It's called routine evidence and again I don't mean that it's run-of-the-mill or typical or stereotypical evidence, but evidence of someone's routine. I like to call it behavioral evidence. Troy Slayton, of course, you as an expert defense attorney can slice all sorts of holes in this, but when someone has a routine, for instance, I get up every morning, I pack the children's snacks, I load the car to take

them to school, I get my mom's breakfast ready, I start looking at crimes all across the country, and then I enjoy cleaning out the guinea pig cage. That is a routine that is strictly followed. If I were to suddenly decide, you know, I'm going to go to the hair salon or I'm going to go to an early morning eatery and not take my children to school this morning, that would be contrary to a routine, right? It would, and that would be admissible. Evidence of someone's routine or habit is admissible in order to show their conformity therewith, and any deviation from that could be important evidence for a jury. Of course, a defense attorney like

yourself can slice it up like Thanksgiving turkey, because just because you have routine doesn't mean you're always going to follow it. Absolutely. And certainly, that would be important and compelling evidence for a jury. And someone can certainly argue that um that there is no textbook on the way that i was just waiting for you to pull that out of the mothballs there's no text there is no a textbook for the way that somebody is supposed to act especially when somebody is paying for somebody else to uh to have a a luxury apartment for somebody that they're not married to. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Ex-Playboy model Kelsey Turner finally sentenced and a renowned psychiatrist slaying.

This doctor, Dr. Thomas Burchard, had helped so many people in his life. A very well-known psychiatrist in California, he gets tangled up with his Playboy model, and he ends up dead, stuffed in a car trunk. What happened? Listen to the longtime love, Judy Earp. Monday, I still hadn't heard from him, and his flight was due in, I think, around 1.40.

And so I decided to go to the airport to meet the plane. He had his car, you know, in the long-term parking lot there, but I still, I went with my son to meet the plane. I just felt something was wrong, and I needed to, you know, check. And I watched every single person come off the plane and it wasn't him. And by this time, I'm very, very concerned. And I speak with the gate agent and they checked and he had never checked in for his flight and he wasn't on the flight. And then I knew something was, you know, just horrible. I go on to ask,

did he explain why he was going to Vegas for three days? Listen. Some of it was business. Business? What kind of business lands you dead in the trunk of a BMW? I mean, Dr. Jen, man,

I'm all for trust. In fact, my husband's out of town right now. He had to go on a business trip for guess what? Three days. Oh, you know what? It just keeps going through my head. The three hour tour from Gilligan's Island. Why is there always three something? That's something for me to think about in all my spare time. So Dr. Jen Mann, when do you start checking out what your husband's doing and when do you decide not to think about in all my spare time. So, Dr. Jen, man, when do you start checking out what your husband's doing? And when do you decide not to worry about it? Well, I think when your gut instinct says, uh-oh, something's wrong. I'm a big believer in listening to the gut instinct.

And, you know, I'm sure we've all read Gavin DeBecker's book, The Gift of Fear, where he talks about that gut instinct tends to be based on a thousand different things that our unconscious mind picked up. It was actually concrete evidence that we haven't fully made sense of. And I think that when your gut goes, something doesn't feel right. That's when you start checking it because our guts tend to be pretty on target when we listen. Dr.

Jim, and did I ever tell you about the time I read my husband's email just for the fun of it? I thought I was going to die. It was so boring. Oh, cool. Never again. It was awful. One business email after the next. Oh, it's like

reading a tax audit. Long story short, what business does this guy, a psychiatrist, have in Vegas? To you, Alexis Tereschuk, wasn't his practice, wasn't it in California? His practice was in California. He had been to Vegas several times for large medical conferences. Did you say conferences?

Now, right there, the hair on the back of my neck just goes up. Because isn't it true, Chris Byers, you're a former police chief, 25 years on the force. Now you're a PI. And I bet you do a lot of divorces. How often have you heard he went to a conference? Please. Oh, yes. The conference starts lots of problems for sure. A lot of conferences. Sometimes there's not even really a conference. That's why you have Google ladies to look up and find out if there's a conference. So sometimes he goes for conferences, but we find out a lot more was going on in Vegas. Take a listen. He had helped a lot of women, a lot of people,

you know, men and women with, you know, they were down on their luck or, you know, he would help them to pay their rent or their car payments or get the medicine that they needed, you know, rather than going through. And I told him, you know, lots of times he probably would be better off, you know, going through a charity. But no, he would directly help them make sure that, you know, they got what they needed. So hold on just a moment. Alexis Tereschuk, he's not just going to Vegas for medical conferences. I'm so glad you told me about the medical conferences. What do you mean by, quote,

helping a lot of women, such as with car payments or rent? Sounds like a honey trap. I would usually use the word sugar daddy in this case. This would be a wealthy older man taking care of younger women, beautiful younger women. And that seemed to be the case here. He was paying for multiple women and she did. His fiance and long term partner said that there were men, too, but that he was very, very generous with his money.

He had plenty of money. He had worked as a doctor for 40 years in California, was very wealthy, and was very generous with things that he paid for other people. But usually that's called a sugar daddy. You know, Troy Slayton, veteran criminal defense attorney joining me out of L.A., do you remember the time in your career that you totally realized you were jaded? Because when I hear of this renowned psychiatrist helping beautiful, young, glamorous playboy playmates, I immediately think the worst.

Well, he certainly, you can't accuse him of not being a sophisticated individual where he didn't know what he was doing in fact statements from his long time um partner miss erp uh say that um when when she confronted him with the over three hundred thousand dollars that uh he had spent over the years. Sorry, I choked on that. Go ahead. That he said he knew what he was doing and he could afford it.

Did I get that figure right? $300,000? $300,000. And so, Nancy, this was not a person who didn't know what he was doing. And he was obviously getting something in return. I don't know that I would call that sophisticated just because you've got an MD at the end of your name. If you're supporting women in Vegas to the tune of $300,000,

as a matter of fact, I don't think that's smart at all. Dr. Gen Man, I have a friend, well, let me say an acquaintance, has a wonderful marriage, leaves the wife because he falls in love with a stripper who then uses him to pay her children's private school. And then when they all graduate, she dumps him. By this time, he's lost his marriage.

He's lost his stock, he's lost his stockbroker, trader certificate, he's gone bankrupt, and he's living in the basement of a college fraternity brother. When will men ever

learn? Yeah, I see things like this all the time. It's wrong. What's wrong with you people? Kendall Crowns, Chris Byers, and Troy Slayton? You think the stripper's in love with you? Never mind.

No, I don't think any stripper's in love with me, personally. I've never been to a strip club, and I've been married to my wife for 25 years. God bless you, and I've only been to strip clubs with a subpoena in my hand looking for somebody. And I also went in the daylight hours and they're really nasty with the lights on.

But that's a whole nother can of worms. What is wrong with these people, Jen, man? No one wants to get impetigo, by the way. What, Crowns? What? I said no one wants to get impetigo i mean you know skin surface infections my goodness those strip clubs i'm sure are very unclean who wants to go in there now there's a true expert he can work in a skin condition into a stripper on a pole okay go ahead

jen man thank you dr crowns jen what is wrong with these men? Well, I think that, you know, I remember a friend who kind of like you were saying, an acquaintance that I once knew who was having an affair with a much younger woman. And what he kind of said was, when I see myself reflected in this much younger woman's's eyes I feel young and I think that a lot of these men who make choices like this are guys who are feeling the clock ticking they're feeling they're getting older. Alexis Tereszczuk is one of the women that he was helping named Kelsey Turner. Yes. named kelsey turner yes and guys kelsey turner what is she or is she not a playboy playmate alexis she is a playboy model there's a little bit of a difference between the two and i say potato so you're telling me there's a difference between a playboy playmate and a playboy model well guess what they don't teach that at law school. Take a listen to our cut 17. This is a friend of Kelsey Turner's named Logan McKinnison speaking to our friends at

Access Hollywood. If there's someone who wants to pay for your house, car, and your bills, I mean, what would you say? Would you say Tom Bruchard was Kelsey's sugar daddy? I don't know. I think he was just a really good friend. I just think he had a heart. I told him, I said, you know, I think he might be taking advantage.

And he said, well, that's okay. I can afford it. But none of them liked this Kelsey Turner. Kelsey Turner. It's my understanding, Alexis Therese Chuck, the renowned psychiatrist is paying not only for an apartment, but a home for her and Salinas. Yep, he was. And he had given her money, cash over the years, not just a little amount, like hundreds of thousands of dollars just to her. Boy, that is some friend. Take a listen to our cut 10.

This is our friends at KSBW. Kelsey Turner, no stranger to posing for the camera, now posing for her criminal mugshot, accused of brutally beating a man who paid her rent and showered her with money. About 300,000 that I know about and possibly more. Possibly more. Well, take a listen to KSNV News 3, Vegas, I cut 14. The suspect is 25-year-old Kelsey Turner, who's listed as a public figure on Instagram,

a model and actress with more than 100,000 followers. What is her relationship with the victim there is a relationship i'm at this point the investigation is extremely active and ongoing so i'm not going to get into any specifics regarding them a man who knew the doctor tells the nbc station in monterey burchard was paying the rent on this home in california where turner her kids and her mom once lived and was giving them cash. Anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 a week easily. He told me he met Kelsey on the website and met up with her and they talked and they went and had dinner a few times. He says eventually

Turner and her family were evicted when Burchard stopped paying rent. She moved to Las Vegas and Burchard went to check on her. Now Turner's in jail, accused of killing him. So he's not only paying for her house in Salinas, her apartment, but for her whole family to live there. Well, take a listen to what we learned from KSBW, our cut 13, that neighbors say. The actual incident occurred at a residence in the Las Vegas Valley, and then the body was found out by the lake. That home we initially suspected was on Puritan Avenue in Las Vegas. That's based on this arrest record from earlier this year. Turner's then boyfriend arrested for domestic violence. The victim, Turner, with her address listed.

I went to that home Monday, neighbors confirming with me. Police have been to the home several times in the last month, including a CSI unit as recent as this past weekend. The home also matches the neighborhood in Turner's arrest warrant. According to that warrant, Las Vegas police say inside the home they found Burchard's keys, his vest, and blue latex gloves, like these I found in the garbage can outside of the home. Police also found cleaning supplies, blood, a broken door with blood on it, and towels, the same towels that matched the ones in the car with Bouchard, Turner's two-door BMW. There was blood on the passenger seat, the back seat, and in the trunk. That's where Bouchard was found with wounds that left a unique pattern on him.

So what do you do with that, Troy Slayton, veteran trial lawyer, matching towels? Isn't that quite the coincidence? The towels found in the BMW with the dead body and all the blood match the towels in the home. I would look at who else had access to the home. If I'm defending this Playboy model and her boyfriend, I would want to also know who else was there. And we certainly know that she had roommates in that Las Vegas home. You're incredible.

They weren't the only ones. You really are incredible. Next, you're going to blame the mailman that delivers the mail. I thought you were going to say, hey, anybody can buy those towels at Macy's. There's absolutely no connection whatsoever. You know, Chris Byers, former police chief, Johns Creek. Isn't it amazing how after someone is found dead in another location, someone else turns into a neat nick at home? All the bleach, the cleaning supplies, the latex gloves. It's amazing, isn't it? It just

inspires you to what? Clean your bathroom and buy a new shower curtain? Yeah, absolutely. It is funny how that happens. And you know, one of the things that they just said in that last clip, that was Turner's car he found him. And I don't believe we had touched on that before. So led right back to that house and for it to be cleaned up so nicely, that does raise some serious questions. Kelsey Turner, Playboy Playmate, or as Alexis Tereschuk says, Playboy Model. Well, the boyfriend that you are hearing Chief Chris Byers refer to, John Logan Kinison, decided to speak out. Take a listen to our Cut 19 and our friends at Access Hollywood. When they searched the house, they found blood and cleaning supplies.

What do you think happened? According to Pena, Turner and Kennison instructed her to clean the house while Thomas waited in Turner's car, hoping to be taken to the hospital. She claims it was the last time she saw Thomas alive. Pena subsequently pled guilty to accessory to murder. To Alexis Terescheck, who is Pena? She is the roommate. She's a roommate who also lived in the house with Kelsey and her boyfriend. So Kelsey, Turner, and boyfriend. I wonder how the psychiatrist felt about that. The boyfriend, John Logan Kennison, they come home with a lot of cleaning supplies and say, clean up pronto. And apparently she does. Well, take a listen to our cut 18.

This is Logan Kennison again, right or wrong, speaking to Access Hollywood. Can you just walk me through the day as you remember it? We were having a party. No, we haven't lot of kids together. Kennison claims that at some point during the gathering, an altercation occurred between the couple's roommate, Diana Pena and Thomas. I was like, we got to get out of here because, you know, we're always tripping about calling the cops.

Did you leave in Kelsey's car? No, no, we were lost. How do you think that Tom's body ended up in the trunk of Kelsey's car? You're saying Diana killed Dr. Brouchard? Sounds like Troy Slayton. They took a page out of your book. Who's left standing?

The roommate. Blame her. But she took a page out of your book. Who's left standing? The roommate. Blame her. But she took a cheap deal as accessory. So where does that leave the Playboy playmate and the blubber? Pointing the finger at her. She obviously took a deal in order to save her own skin. So I would argue that she can't be trusted she can't be trusted she can't she pled guilty so you're going to trust the playboy playmate sleeping with a with the psychiatrist

with a boyfriend into we have somebody who pled guilty to accessory to murder in exchange for truthful testimony in exchange for a sweetheart deal. You know, I'm not so sure about that. In exchange for saving her skin. Correct me, tell me again, Troy Slayton, whose car was he found in? He was found in the Playboy Playmates, a Playboy model's car. I bet that hurt to spit it out, didn't it? And who was he sleeping with? If I wanted to frame somebody, Nancy, if I wanted to frame somebody, where would I want to put the car?

Not only does the roommate with no motive at all hide the dead body, she now thinks of framing her roommate. Okay, hold on. Let me think this thing through. So if the roommate did it, why didn't Kelsey Turner report it to 911? Think quick. Scared. Scared. Scared.

Yes. Okay. So all fitting together. So Alexis Tereshia, what's the evidence against the Playboy Playmate? Excuse me, model. Well, the evidence is that the roommate was there in the house, and she said that Dr. Bouchard was actually, she didn't see it happen, but he was somehow hit in the head head and he was bleeding at their house.

And so she said, and he said he needed to go to the doctor. And so she saw him get in the car and she saw Kelsey and her boyfriend, Logan get in the car. And that was the last time that she saw the doctor alive. Quick couple of questions, Alexis Tereschuk. Think of this as a lightning round. Who was the doctor sleeping with? Kelsey. Kelsey Turner. He was paying for Kelsey and he was paying for her house and he was paying for her car. I don't know that he was necessarily sleeping with her. Okay. So he was paying for her house in Salinas and her apartment and her BMW car payment, but yet not sleeping with her.

Okay. And who had he just cut off financially? Kelsey. Kelsey. A former Playboy model sentenced to at least 10 years in prison in the last days after she copped a plea in the beating death of a renowned California psychiatrist. Take a listen to our friends at Fox. A former Playboy model learned her fate in court today for killing a California psychiatrist. Under a plea deal, Kelsey Turner was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison.

Turner pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2019 deadly beating of the doctor Thomas Burchard. She entered what is known as an Alford plea, meaning she only admitted that prosecutors had enough evidence to prove her guilt. Burchard's body was found in the trunk of an abandoned car near Lake Mead. 10 to 25. They'll let her out early, I guarantee you. What a shame. What a shame. What a shame. Nancy Grace signing off. Goodbye, friend.

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