True Crime All The Time - Kelsey Berreth

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Kelsey Berreth was murdered by her fiancé, Patrick Frazee, after he unsuccessfully tried convincing his lover to do it for him three times. She would ultimately be the one to help authorities, providing a critical account of what happened to Kelsey.Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the murder of Kelsey Berreth. Her fiancé provided what appeared to be a solid alibi, but the police slowly chipped away at it. What they uncovered was a quasi-love triangle and a murder plot straight out of a fiction writer's imagination.You can help support the show at patreon.com/truecrimeallthetimeVisit the show's website at truecrimeallthetime.com for contact, merchandise, and donation informationAn Emash Digital productionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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after he unsuccessfully tried convincing his lover to do it for him three times. Three times. Not once, not twice, but three. And she would ultimately be the one to help authorities kind of put together this narrative as to what happened to Kelsey. And I'm sure we'll talk about it at some point in the episode, but, you know, I just, I never can understand how, you go to someone and say, would you murder someone for me? Or would you help me murder someone?

I just don't even understand how that conversation starts, goes down, any of it. I think you'd have to be one pretty confident and comfortable with that person that you're talking about it with. And I think you really need to have like a backup real quick like, oh no I was joking. Did you think I was serious? No, I was joking. I would never do something like that. It really sounds like maybe you've done that before because you came up with that real quick. Kelsey Barreth was born on September 15th, 1989. She grew up on her family farm in Moses Lake Washington. After graduating high school, Kelsey enrolled in a flight instructor program at her local community college. In 2016, she met Patrick Frazy on a dating website.

Patrick was a rancher who lived over a thousand miles away in Florissant, Colorado. He trained cattle dogs, shoot horses, and groomed donkeys. Patrick was said to be laid back, quiet and dedicated to his work. You used to do things with donkeys. I didn't know that donkeys needed to be groomed all that much. You got to keep them clean, man. I guess so. Well, 1,000 miles.

That's a long-distance relationship. That is. Kelsey told a friend that she liked the fact that Patrick was a cowboy. Hey, some girls like cowboys. You know, Rex is a cowboy. He's got his chaps. He's got his Stets and hat. You know.

And he's well liked. And he's well. Especially by a certain demographic. Kelsey moved to Colorado to be closer to Patrick. She lived in a townhome in Woodland Park, just 20 minutes from the ranch and got a job as a flight instructor. According to Kelsey's friend Ashley Cogburn, Patrick never came to visit Kelsey, but on her days off, she would spend time with him on the ranch.

About two years after they started dating, Kelsey became pregnant with their daughter, Kaylee, who was born in October, 2000. 2017, Kelsey was described as a doting mother. Kelsey and Patrick got engaged, but didn't immediately set wedding plans. They raised Kaylee together, but Kelsey continued living in her townhome and Patrick stayed on the ranch. Well, it's kind of hard to leave the ranch when you got to take care of all those animals and things like that. There is quite a bit to do on a working ranch. Yeah.

Something I learned by watching the ranch. Yeah. On Netflix. Well, it's going to be something that you actually did. No, no. You cannot get up early enough to do what needs to be done on the ranch. No, I would do it before I went to bed. Yeah.

If we're talking about like milk in the cows or whatever. Kelsey's friends noted that she was struggling to balance taking care of the baby, her job, and her long commute. Her relationship with Patrick seemed strained. Well, it's always going to be a struggle when you're taking care of the baby pretty much yourself. That's a lot. Yeah, I mean, it's hard enough when, you know, mom and dad are under the same room. With a new baby, that's a struggle, but bus.

But if you're doing it on your own and he's only coming in every now and then, I can see how that relationship could get strained pretty quickly. Ashley Cogburn told 48 hours that it appeared to her that Patrick was emotionally abusive. and it seemed like he was just knocking her spirit down. Kelsey never said Patrick was physically abusive. She once mentioned to Ashley that Patrick had an ex, who still wanted to be with him, but she didn't seem worried about it.

Well, you know, on the mentally abusive versus physically abusive, there's been several people that have told us that the mental abuse is worse than the physical abuse. They're both bad. But that mental abuse can really do some major damage. Yeah, I mean, I get it. Neither one is good. And it shouldn't happen.

Kelsey was last seen alive shopping at a Safeway grocery store in Woodland Park with her daughter at 12, 27 p.m. On November 22nd, 2018, which was Thanksgiving Day. The Safeway security video was the last time Kelsey was seen in public. She grabbed a shopping cart, put her daughter into it, and walked further into the store. She bought ingredients for a sweet potato casserole. I love a good sweet potato casserole. I make a killer sweet potato casserole. But yet you've never brought me any.

And I buy you dinner every single week. I have to bring you one. It's what I'm known for around the holidays. I don't know if I'd put that on my business card. Earlier in the day, Kelsey spoke to her mom about Thanksgiving. She later texted Patrick, I bought some sweet potatoes in case you wanted sweet potato cassero. Kelsey's mother, Cheryl, became worried when she couldn't get in contact with her for several days and reported her missing on December 2, 2018.

That's quite a bit of time that's gone by, right? She is last seen on the 22nd of November. Cheryl, her mother, reports her missing on December 2nd. Now, I get it, they are probably along ways from each other, distance-wise. And maybe not every mom and daughter talks on the phone every day. Yeah, but that is a good amount of time. It is. In days?

Yeah. When the police spoke to Patrick, he claimed that Kelsey broke up with him the day before Thanksgiving. because they just weren't meshing anymore. They agreed to split custody of Kaylee 50-50. They met on Thanksgiving Day to exchange their daughter. He returned some of Kelsey's belongings, including a purse, keys to the car, keys to the townhome, and a gun Kelsey M.

Patrick had once taken the gun from Kelsey for her own protection. He said, she struggled with depression, suggesting she might be suicidal. He said he then took Kaylee to his ranch for Thanksgiving without Kelsey. They had been communicating for several days after Thanksgiving via texts and calls. And, you know, some of these things are interesting, right? Because some of this can be disproved if you're not being truthful.

Right. When you talk about texting, having phone calls with somebody. Well, if you didn't after a certain date, the place. are going to be able to figure that out. Exactly. They're going to be able to pull that information up. Police searched Kelsey's townhome but found no signs of foul play. Her mother, Cheryl, and her son went to the house to take a look around.

They saw that Kelsey's bathroom Matt was missing and her fridge had streaks as if it had just been wiped down. Well, that's observant. It is. I don't know that it's something I would notice. maybe the bath mat, maybe not even that. I certainly wouldn't notice

whether or not the fridge has been wiped down. Yeah. Because I know for sure I wouldn't have been the one to wipe it down. I just don't notice little things like that.

Yeah. So I think you're spot on in saying that's pretty observant for them to notice it. But Cheryl's son also noticed blood on the base of the toilet. So Cheryl,

alerted police who returned to the house and used chemicals to find trace amounts of blood throughout the bathroom. And DNA testing confirmed it was Kelsey's blood. I mean, it's got to be somewhat alarming, right? If you have blood around the toilet, they come back, they confirm it's Kelsey's blood. You knew there was a bath mat there at one point that appears to be missing. So now your brain is an overdrive, right? Yeah, but how much can you make of it? And for me, I guess it boils down to what are you considering trace amounts of blood? Because, you know, she lived there. That's true.

So is it unusual to find a trace amount of blood in someone's bathroom? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. That's where people shave, cut themselves shaving. You step out of the bathtub. It drips down near the toilet. you don't see it, you don't hit it when you're cleaning. But I think investigators suspected Kelsey had been harmed.

They just needed more evidence. They started with reviewing her phone records. Early on, police thought Kelsey might have left town, but they questioned this when they saw that she bought ingredients to cook on Thanksgiving. They also questioned why she would offer to make food for Patrick if she broke up with him the day before. Kelsey texts Patrick that day saying she had sweet potatoes and was going to make him some sweet potato casserole. Which is weird if you broke up the day before. Yeah, why would you want to cook for somebody if you broke up?

But that's what I was talking about earlier, right? Be careful what you tell police because you can really paint yourself into a corner. Cheryl Barreth also told investigators that Kelsey sounded normal and happy during their phone call and Thanksgiving. and she didn't mention breaking up with Patrick. Cheryl also insisted Kelsey would not leave her daughter behind. I think those are two good points, especially that last one. Yeah. And you would think, right, daughter calls mom or talks to mom on the phone.

She's probably going to mention the breakup. Yeah. And like we talk about in a lot of cases, most moms are not going to just up and leave their daughter behind. But, you know, as we're talking about this, I'm thinking when a couple like them break up with a child, it's going to be big news. Like, she's going to, like, really talk to her mom about it. Like, we decided to break up. We're going to have to figure out what to do with the little one now and how that's going to work out. And it's just not going to be something you're not going to mention.

Yeah, this isn't someone you've been dating for three weeks. Yeah. Images from a neighbor's security camera showed Patrick and Kelsey at her front door with a baby carrier around 1.30 p.m. on Thanksgiving when Kelsey returned from the grocery store. At around 3.30 p.m., Patrick was captured at the door alone. In total, the neighbor's camera captured Patrick 11 times at the townhome. Investrators weren't really sure whether he was leaving or entering. at different points. Patrick told the police he took Kaylee to the ranch for Thanksgiving, and Kelsey wasn't with them. However, her phone was. Phone records showed that Kelsey and Patrick's phones traveled together on Thanksgiving

Day. Investigators came to believe that Patrick faked 19 calls over Thanksgiving weekend and was sending text between himself and Kelsey, such as Kelsey saying, I'm going running. I'll call you guys when I get home. Patrick saying, okay, be safe. Two days after Thanksgiving, there was this conversation. Patrick said, are you awake? Kelsey, sorry I didn't hear my phone, going to jump in the shower. I'll call you guys when I get out. Patrick said, okay. To keep up his ruse that Kelsey was the one who broke up with him, Patrick sent the following message. If this is truly what you want, I'll respect your wishes.

give you space. Three days after Thanksgiving, phone records showed that while Patrick's phone stayed near his ranch, Kelsey's phone moved out of Colorado. She sent a text to her supervisor saying, I won't be at work. Then her phone texted Patrick, do you even love me? This time, Kelsey's phone pinged off a tower 800 miles away near Gooding, Idaho. Police announced that Kelsey's phone pinged in Idaho on December 11th and that she had been sending text messages after she went missing. So, I mean, they're dealing with a lot of different variables here. The police are. We've got the blood.

We've also got the, this phone that makes it seem, at least on the surface, as though she's still a lot after the last known sighting of her. but then also if it is her, why is she 800 miles away in Gooding, Idaho? Is this where she's running off to? Well, I think police were considering all possibilities at that point, even though they were pretty suspicious of Patrick. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Chime is fee-free banking built for you.

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Authorities also said Patrick's home had not been searched and he was being cooperated. Woodland Park police chief Miles DeYoung told reporters were treating Kelsey's disappearance as a missing person's case at the time. we have not identified anyone as a suspect and are asking the public for any information that might help us find her. A couple of days later, Patrick spoke out via his attorney about the speculation over his behavior. His attorney described him as cooperative, saying Mr. Frazy's cooperation includes interviews with law enforcement,

voluntarily releasing his phone to be searched by law enforcement, buckle swabs, and photographs. So it doesn't seem like he's trying to hide anything based on that. No, I mean, the attorney's pointing it out to make it seem like, hey, look, my client's doing everything that the police want him to do. Speculation was fueled by Patrick's absence at the recent news conference where authority said he was invited but chose not to attend. According to the attorney, much has been said over the news and social media about Mr. Frazy's absence at the local news conference.

Patrick was first notified of the press conference approximately an hour prior to its commencement. Had he been given more advanced notice, he would have participated. Mr. Frazy hopes and praise for Ms. Barris' return. Mr. Frazy will continue to cooperate with law enforcement and continue to. to parent the child, he shares with Ms. Barrett. So I see the issue there. It doesn't look good when you don't show up to this news conference. No. And it sounds like the news jumped on it, social media jumped on it. Now, if he really was only given an hour's notice, okay, maybe you can't make it. But that also seems strange that if they wanted him to be there,

they wouldn't tell him until an hour beforehand. I think they would have communicated that much earlier. Behind the scenes, investigators were still digging into Patrick's phone records. They discovered that at the time of Kelsey's disappearance, he was in contact with Crystal Lee Kenny, a nurse from Idaho. Crystal came from a prominent rodeo family. She was considered rodeo royalty, and in 2008, she was crowned Queen of the Magic Valley Roeo.

Oh, Magic Valley. Yeah, how about that? That's pretty popular. Now, I don't know much about rodeo. Rodeo is not a huge thing here where we live, but I know in a lot of states it's big, real big. Yeah. I can get on top of a bowl.

Bull. Okay. Hold on. Give it a ride. All right. Hey, I don't need to know what you can give a ride to or anything like that. I just got to have my chaps on. Crystal had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Patrick since 2006.

Crystal later testified that she met him at a county fair. She ended things before she married another man and had two children. They had some sporadic contact over the years, and Patrick allegedly tried to thwart her marriage. He got close to her as her marriage began to fall apart. It was a thwarter. He was a thwarter. and, you know, the on again, off again relationship.

It's always a phrase that I get a kick out of. Yeah. I know it does happen. It does. Sometimes people just hook up on a, you know, somewhat random basis. Other relationships, you know, they date for a while, they break up for a while. They date again for a while. They break up for a while.

I mean, if you're on and off again, probably more than a couple times. Probably just good to be off and just never get back on. It's probably not going to work out long term. Yeah. Would be my conclusion. But, you know, getting back to the thwarting, as you called it, he obviously continued to hold a torch for this girl. Because if you're trying to thwart the marriage, what's the logical reason for that? It's most likely because you want to be with that person.

and it sounds like they did become closer as the marriage began to fall apart. So maybe it worked. Crystal later testified that while still married but contemplating divorce, she learned in March 2016 she was pregnant with Patrick's child. She thought he would be happy. But he allegedly urged her to get an abortion and allegedly said, I guess you're a baby killer or you're not. She went ahead with the procedure, but told him she had a miscarriage.

Well, that's an interesting statement to make. But Patrick met Kelsey just a couple of months prior to all of this happened. Authorities began to suspect that Crystal was impersonating Kelsey with her phone. When the FBI first contacted her, Crystal said she had no idea who Kelsey Barreth was, and she denied even knowing Patrick Frazy. Oh man. That's never good. I mean, okay.

The total lie, yeah, that's not good. Because how hard is it going to be for the FBI to figure out that, yeah, you do know Patrick Frazy? She then changed her story. She was asked when the last time she spoke to Patrick was she said she didn't know and would have to check, she then claimed it was the month prior. The problem was they already had all the records, and they knew that she was lying about everything. They're like, hey, Queen in the Magic Valley, we know what's going on. Don't try to fool us.

Crystal claimed she didn't have a personal relationship with Patrick and had gone to Colorado to look at a few of his horses, but that was it. That's it, Gibbs. That's all. we didn't have this on again, off again relationship. I didn't become pregnant with his baby. I barely know the guy. I just want to see if he had a good horse,

if that horse knew how to buck. The FBI received a tip that Crystal's best friend, Michelle Stein, had information. Crystal called and confided in her about a disturbing conversation with Patrick a month before Kelsey went missing. In this conversation, he asked her to, quote, take care of his baby mama. Michelle was shocked.

Crystal told her, yeah, he asked me if I would kill the mother of his baby. Yeah, I really like you. I think we could be something together one day, but I need you to do me a favor. Can you take care of my baby mama? But just look at the way she's painted herself in a corner. She has, yeah. To the FBI, no less, right? I don't know this guy, no relationship with this guy.

I just went to look at a few of his horses to not only were we together, but he asked me to kill the mother of his baby. Apparently, Crystal was crying and upset as she told Michelle this. She asked Crystal why Patrick wanted to kill the mother of his child. Patrick reportedly told Crystal it was because Kelsey wanted to take him. take him back to court to get custody of the baby. And he feared she would harm the baby. Here we go, right?

How many times do we talk about it, divorced, custody, that prompts someone to make the decision that their best course of action is to kill the other person? Yeah. Why am I shocked by it? Yeah, at this point, there's no reason for you to be shocked. Michelle didn't call the police immediately after hearing Crystal's confession. She later told 48 hours she didn't know Patrick or Kelsey's full names.

So I wasn't supposed to call someone in Colorado and say, Hey, there's some guy in Colorado that wants to kill some girl. I don't know their names and I don't know where they live. But you know, good luck finding them. I guess that's what people think I should have done. Which I get. Yeah. You know, it's it's kind of hard to call the police and say, first of all, I heard this story about two people, but I don't know the people's names. I mean, I guess you could say who told you that story. Yeah. And have the police go talk to to that person.

Michelle said she pushed Crystal to call the police and trusted her to do the right thing. She told 48 hours that she does have regrets about not calling. authorities. Kelsey had been missing for almost a month before Michelle talked to the FBI. When the FBI contacted Crystal a second time, she was ready to talk. But first, she wanted the deal. She agreed to plead guilty to evidence tampering and faced a maximum of three years in prison. Hey, if you're going to spill the beans and you're going to roll on somebody else, yeah, get the deal first, I guess. That's what we always say. Be the first one. Because if you're not first, you're last.

Now, I get it. She didn't really have anything to do with the murder itself. But, you know, if you got to spend three years in prison, that's no joke for sending a few texts and making some calls. I'm not excusing her behavior in any way because what she did was wrong. What I'm saying is three years in prison is not a laughing matter. No. I mean, prison changes you. It's changed you quite a bit.

Crystal's interview lasted four and a half hours. She provided the background of their relationship. By 2018, the relationship between Patrick and Crystal had intensified once again. Crystal, who was now divorced, came to Colorado multiple times to see Patrick. She claimed she was unaware he was engaged and had a child until 2018. And she was shocked when she found out. I mean, this guy is really quite the player as far as stringing two different women along, or at the same time, I guess, kind of having your cake and eating it too.

She said that after she found out the truth, Patrick alleged that Kelsey was an abusive mother. And he began trying to convince Crystal to kill her. He asked Crystal to kill Kelsey on three separate occasions. The first time, Patrick wanted her to poison Kelsey's favorite Starbucks drink and give it to her. As a nurse, Crystal had knowledge of medications. She suggested a combination of Ambien and Vali. Ninety-night? Well, I think a little more than 90-night, depending on how much of it.

But here's the thing, right? She's not going to go along with killing Crystal. but to me even telling Patrick what drugs you would use is, you know, you're really crossing the line even there, I think. I think you crossed that line if you went ahead and give the method of doing it. You know, folks, it's summertime. And that changes how I get dressed. You know, I want pieces that are breathable, easy, but still make me look put together. And that's why I just keep coming back to Quinn's.

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Kelsey said she didn't do this. She accepted the coffee and went back into her house. But Crystal didn't go through with poisoning the drink. Patrick was angry when she told him. Okay, I am totally confused. Why in the world would you drive the 12 hours then? To give somebody a coffee? Yeah, don't you know there's a thing called DoorDash?

Just have somebody put it on the steps. Yeah. Yeah, that seems very strange. Well, the only thing I can think of is that she must have chickened out, after she got there, which I think is kind of an indictment in and of itself that you made the 12-hour trip with the intent to poison, but you just didn't actually go through with it. I mean, I'd want to know, did you have the volume and the ambient on you? Well, I think we can see why she was so adamant about wanting the plea deal, you know,

because maybe there were quite a few charges that she could have potentially gotten. So Patrick's angry. He came up with a new plan. He was going to leave a metal pipe outside his property that Crystal would pick up. She would wait for Kelsey inside her home and hit her on the back of the head. Because that's a much better plan. So Patrick is the planner. And for some reason, Crystal is supposed to be the doer, the person who carries it out.

Crystal drove to the house with the metal pipe, but backed out of the plan. and return to Idaho. So again, she almost went through with something. Well, she's, yeah, she's doing the beginning part. She just doesn't follow through. I mean, I have to think there's possibly some charge, right, that could come out of some of that. A week later, Patrick called with yet another plan.

He told Crystal to bring a baseball bat and weighed outside Kelsey's home to attack her. Crystal did so, but got scared when she saw a police car drive by and didn't go through with it. Here's another path that she goes down. The third one. Yeah. Now, luckily, she doesn't follow through with any of them, but I think it does show you or tell you something that she took a step forward three different times in a plan to murder this woman. And if the police didn't spook her off this last one, would she have?

Maybe. We don't know. But Patrick was frustrated and decided to take matters into his own hands. Phone records showed that Patrick called Crystal in Idaho. At 4.30 p.m. on Thanksgiving, according to Crystal, he told her, you need to get out here now. You got a mess to clean up. Crystal came out two days later with cleaning supplies. She picked up Kelsey's keys at Patrick's ranch and then drove to Kelsey's home. There was blood all over the inside of the townhome, but Kelsey's body wasn't there. I'm just thinking about Patrick calling her and saying, hey, you need to get here. You have a heck of a mess to clean up.

Yeah, I don't know. It seems like he's really got a hold over her or, something because she's willing to really do a lot for this guy, almost murder. Yeah. And now she's in the process of cleaning up what she had to think was a murder. Crystal spent a few hours cleaning and throughout certain items she couldn't get clean. She put those items in trash bags and put them in her car. Patrick was at his ranch during the cleanup.

When she met him there, he described how, he lured Kelsey to her death. He asked her to play a game where she was blindfolded and would have to guess the scent of different candles. He then beat her to death with a baseball bat while their daughter was in another room. Wow, man. That's horrific. Yeah.

He put Kelsey's body inside a black plastic tote and brought it to the ranch. Crystal confessed that they burn the tote and other pieces of evidence at the ranch, she returned to Idaho with Kelsey's phone and texted both Patrick and Kelsey's employer to make it seem like she was still a lot. Crystal also admitted to getting rid of the gun, throwing Kelsey's keys into a canyon and destroying her phone. And she was really involved. She was much more so than you would kind of think at the beginning, right? I even said it. It's sounded to me like, you know, she had made a few calls. Yeah.

Sent a few texts. But then you find out she was way more involved. Yeah. I'm sitting here thinking three years is not even enough. No. Doesn't seem like much at all for the role she played. But that's the nature of a plea deal, right? If the authorities need her to testify against Patrick.

And I'm sure they did in order to ensure. a conviction, well, he's the one who actually committed the murder. They definitely want him. So she's going to get a bit of a deal. But you can make the argument that she definitely deserved to spend much more time in prison than just a maximum of three years. Right. Because let's face it, she wouldn't even do three years, right, on that type of sentence.

The police took Crystal back to the crime scene. She described how the home was covered in, blood when she arrived and she found a tooth. She claimed she intentionally left blood behind at the fireplace for authorities to find. Okay. I think when somebody says, hey, you got to mess to clean up. You walk into a place and it's the whole place is covered in blood. You know things are bad. And then when you find a tooth, you know things are really bad. Right. Something really bad happened here. I don't know if she really did leave blood behind for the authorities to find. Or that just came out later and she seized on it and thought,

well, it's a way to make myself look a little bit better. Yeah. Like I'm leaving breadcrumbs, right, to try to help the authorities. Patrick Frazy was arrested on December 21st, 2018. He was charged with first degree murder.

Patrick also faced three counts of solicitation to commit murder. to commit murder and another count of murder due to theories about how the murder may have taken place. Either Patrick killed Kelsey by himself or he and someone else tried to rob her before she was killed. Woodland Park police chief Miles DeYoung told reporters, as you can tell from the arrest, sadly, we do not believe Kelsey is still alive. Kelsey's daughter, Kaylee, is in protective custody and will be reunited with Kelsey's family. So they're not taking any chances, right?

Not only are they charging him with murder, they're also charging him with three counts of solicitation for the three different times that he tried to get Crystal to murder Kelsey. Good. In January 2019, Kelsey's parents filed a wrongful death suit against Patrick. alleging that he killed Kelsey over a child custody dispute. On February 4th, 2019, a felony tampering charge was filed against Crystal Kenny. On February 8th of that year, Crystal appeared in court in Colorado for an advisement hearing. She admitted she knew that Patrick committed homicide and pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence. She agreed to testify against Patrick at his trial.

And you know that's got to be a part of the plea deal, right? The biggest part. First of all, be honest. Tell us everything you know. But secondly and more importantly, you're going to have to testify against Patrick. It's going to be key. Patrick Frazy's murder trial started on October 28th, 2019. But prosecutors had a pretty difficult case ahead of them.

They didn't have a body. They didn't have a murder weapon. And they really didn't have. a definite motive. I mean, it was believed, right, that Patrick's motive was getting custody of his daughter, but how do you prove that? How do you know, how do you tell that for sure? Right.

The defense argued there was no evidence to show Patrick was involved in the murder. And Crystal Kinney was an unreliable witness because she had previously lied to law enforcement. And let's face it, you know, her credibility is not great. So I think first of all, she did lie numerous times. And then secondly, she got a sweetheart deal, I think. So, you know, do you have to take that into account as to how truthful she is on the stand? The jury heard that Kelsey Patrick and Kaylee were captured by a neighbor's camera entering Kelsey's home around 1.30 p.m. on November 22nd. the surveillance camera captured 11 images of Patrick that day.

Three hours later, Patrick was captured leaving without his daughter. And Kelsey never came out of the house. Okay, I don't know that it's definitive, but it definitely doesn't make him look good. It's not helping. No, you're going to need more than that, but that's a building block. Patrick's friend Joseph Moore testified that several months before Kelsey went missing, Patrick said the phrase, Nobody, no crime.

Moore told him, Patrick, get that out of your head. It's an interesting phrase to say. It is even more interesting when Kelsey later goes missing and her body is not found. About a month after Kelsey went missing, Patrick expressed shock

over the national media coverage her case was getting. According to Moore, he's like, man, If I had known it was going to blow up this big, I never would have. And then he stopped. He did not finish that sentence. Moore said, he never asked Patrick if he killed Kelsey.

And I feel like that's a question I would have to ask. Yeah. Got to be honest with you. I would want to know. You start me. Yeah, I would ask you for sure. If you were saying all of these really suspicious red flag type of things, I would have to ask the question.

Yeah. Patrick's brother, Sean, testified that he showed up two hours after the family ate Thanksgiving dinner. But it was really Crystal Kenny, right? Who was the prosecution star witness? She described Patrick's multiple plans to kill Kelsey. She agreed to participate because he alleged that Kelsey was abusing his child. She said, as quoted by people, he went from being someone who I loved and cared for and one of my best friends.

And he said his little girl was being abused. I know it was wrong. But I didn't know what to do. And I didn't make the right decisions. That is the understatement of the century. Thanks for sharing that with us. I did not make the right decisions. That's when you order from the wrong restaurant on DoorDash.

Right. Yeah. It's not when you decide. participate in a murder. No. Crystal testified that Patrick called her on November 4th, 2018, to say he was going to act on his own. Then he called her on the 22nd telling her that she needed to come clean up the mess. I'd be like, why do I have to come clean this up?

Yeah, why do I have to make that long drive to do this for a mess that you made? This is like John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson and Pulp Fiction. Oh, yeah, the cleaner. When they're, you know, Jackson is in the backseat. He's like, why am I the one cleaning all this up when you shot him? You get back here and clean this up. A good point. Was that guy named the wolf?

The wolf, yeah. Yeah. Or the, as you would like to say, the wolf. But you actually, I think, said it pretty correctly at that time. You did. Yeah, I did. After cleaning, Patrick asked her, did you get it done? She replied, I did the best I could do.

And I don't know if anyone listening has ever cleaned up a home full of blood. I'm hoping not because that means you were either involved in something nefarious or a very tragic accident happened and you were, you know, forced to clean it up afterwards. But we know from all the cases that we've done, yeah, you can clean blood up, but it is hard to get everything. I've had like major nosebleeds and I've had seems like certain people come over my place they get nosebleeds so that's why their blood's there if it's ever questioned yeah you know way to walk that bag yeah but it's hard to get it all up you know because it likes to smear and this I mean what kind of nosebleeds are you having where like the whole floor is covered it's just yeah it's a gusher Patrick said you better hope you did because our lives dependents on it. Crystal said she drove from Idaho to Colorado to clean up because she feared for her life. Patrick told her how he killed Kelsey and that his daughter was in the home during the murder.

He said Kelsey's last words were, please stop. That's heartbreaking. Oh, man. On so many different levels. To think about, you know, this poor woman being blindfolded to think that she's going to be smelling some candles and then being beat to death with a baseball bat while their daughter is in the next room. How much did you have to hate this woman to do that? Crystal testified that she was present when Patrick started the fire. He put the black tote, which he said contained the body in the bat into a dry water trough and lit it on fire.

They also burned items such as a stuffed animal, building blocks. and a Bible. The prosecution backed Crystal's testimony with surveillance videos and photos. For example, Patrick was captured by a drive-thru ATM camera with a black plastic tote in the bed of his truck on Thanksgiving. On November 24th, Patrick was captured at a gas station, filling up a gas can, which prosecutors said was used to burn Kelsey's body. prosecutors also played the video of crystal inside Kelsey's home showing how she cleaned up the crime scene. They noted that investigators pulled up floorboards and found more blood. And that's kind of what I was, you know, getting at, right? You can look at something and say, oh, yeah, I got it clean.

Yeah. But where does that blood seep to? To areas that you can't see. Yeah, it's going to be unlikely you're ever going to get it all cleaned up the right way. Additionally, a cadaver dog alerted to Patrick's hay barn on his ranch where Crystal said he hid the body inside the toe. Experts testified that a human female tooth fragment was recovered from Patrick's ranch near the burn site, but there wasn't enough DNA to identify it. So you've got a couple of things there, right?

The dog's alerting. Okay. it's not definitive, but again, like we keep saying, doesn't make him look good. I think when you find a verifiable part of a human female tooth, all right, does it prove that it was her? No, but then you have to ask the question, well, then if not her, who's, who's is it? Yeah. And why is there a fragment of a human female tooth on your ranch? By this burnt pile.

Yeah. Prosecutors then presented a surprise witness, an inmate at the jail where Patrick was being held. The inmate asked not to be named for safety reasons. He said he was housed next to Patrick for several weeks. According to CBS, the inmate called the prosecutor's office during the trial. He watched a 48 hours episode on Kelsey's murder and claimed Patrick gave him a hit list. He wanted the inmate to use his game.

gang connections to have certain witnesses killed. Some of the names were written on paper towels. He was told to flush. In total Gibbs, there were 16 notes. One of those names was Crystal Kinney. Patrick provided graphic descriptions of what he wanted to happen to her, such as putting a bullet in her head. Crystal's best friend, Michelle Stein,

and Kelsey's mom, Cheryl Barrett, were also on the hit list. Okay. Yeah. So definitely a surprise witness. Now, we talk a lot about, you know, inmates, can they make stuff up? Yeah, they can and have. It's been proven. I think this information, if true, though, it really says a lot because why does Patrick need someone to take all these people out if he didn't murder Kelsey?

Yeah, man, that's a good point. The defense called no witnesses and Patrick chose not to testify. And it's an interesting tactic. I think a lot of times the defense does that when they just believe that, you know, the state has not proven their case. Yeah. Not not the having their client testify,

but the calling no witnesses. Also, I don't know who you're going to call that that has any knowledge about what happened. I don't think there was anybody to provide an out. that would be one type of witness. Other than that, I don't know who you're calling. Yeah, I think they're kind of out of luck on that. I think at that point, you just have to hope is the defense that although there's been a lot

of evidence, it's not seen as beyond a reasonable doubt, right, that their client committed to murder. On November 18th, 2019, Patrick Frazy was found guilty, a first degree murder. He was sentenced to life without parole. plus 156 years. These are going zero places. Outside of the prison, for sure.

On January 28th, 2020, Crystal Kinney was sentenced to three years in prison and a year of parole. She said at her sentencing hearing, I know saying I'm sorry is not good enough.

I don't even know what the right word would be to describe the remorse that I feel. I'm sorry Kaylee will not have her biological mother. And I'm sorry to everyone who's been affected by this horrible tragedy. I am sorry that I could not save Kelsey. DA Dan May told reporters per CBS, we did a deal with the devil.

There's no if, ands, or buts about that. And I'm not proud of that, but there's no question that Kelsey wouldn't have had the sure justice today without making that deal with the devil. And I think a lot of prosecutors look at those deals like that. Yeah. They're making a deal with the devil. I mean, it has to happen. We don't like it. But they had the endgame that they had here.

They had to do it. Giving her a deal is a lot better than taking the chance that Patrick goes free. Right. In March 2020, Crystal requested to move to a halfway house. But that request was denied in June of 2020. In March 2021, an appeals court ruled that Crystal's three-year sentence was unconstitutional because the judge exceeded the maximum sentencing guidelines for her specific charge. According to the decision, the district court had erroneously sentenced Kenny outside the presumptive maximum term because aggravated circumstances could not be applied.

The maximum presumptive sentence was 18 months. And at the time of her plea agreement, Crystal acknowledged that the potential sentence would be in the range of one year to 18 months. So she was resentenced to 18 months in prison and was released on March 23rd, 2021. There you go, man. Didn't have to put that much time in after all. But I think if you're the prosecution, you're even more upset, right? You already think you did a deal with the devil.

Yeah. And now that deal is even less than. than what it was. It's half. She'll have to live with what she did. Yeah, that's true. Patrick Frazy is still incarcerated in Colorado. In February 2025,

the Colorado Supreme Court upheld Patrick's conviction. As of 2006, Kelsey Barris remains and the murder weapon have never been found. Well, we kind of know why the remains haven't been found. Yeah, I've, it wouldn't surprise me if if neither ever found or you know especially her remains most likely they were burned up in that trough so as we wrap this one up gives it's not an unheard of motive

unfortunately we cover a lot of cases where the motive is either divorce related custody related I think what is so strange to me about this one is the attempts by Patrick to try to get his on again, off again, relationship slash girlfriend to try to murder Kelsey. Yeah. And then even stranger still is the fact that she kind of went part way with the plan three different times. Yeah. Clearly she was. in love. Now, she claimed she was fearful of him. And could you be fearful of someone who's 800 miles away? Yeah. Yeah. You could be. I don't know if I'm buying that one as much as I sometimes do. I think she really wanted to have a life with him and she thought she was willing to do anything to make that happen. Yeah. I'm kind of leaning towards that as well. But let's face it, the guy, was capable of it. Yeah. No doubt about that because he ultimately killed Kelsey.

Sure did. You feel for her family. You feel for her daughter. Oh, yeah. Yep. As her daughter gets older and hears about this. To find out that or to really, you know, for it to sink in that your dad killed your mom. I don't know what that does to a person's psyche.

It can't be good though, right? It's going to be a lot of therapy. Yeah. But that's it for our. episode on Kelsey Berth. We got a voicemail. You want to check that out? Let's hear it. Hi, guys. This is Laura from Nebraska. You guys are just fantastic and such a big part of my day. I got all the way through T-Cat and I'm working my way through unsolved. Just finished the West Memphis 3 and that you guys did such a fantastic job on that. It was amazing. I'm kind of on the

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