Patrick Frazee’s mother was present when her son burned Kelsey Berreth’s body and a host of other incriminating evidence that was removed from the bloody murder scene by his accomplice, former mistress, Krystal Lee Kenney.
This is the startling revelation contained in bodycam footage obtained by DailyMail.com. The video shows Kenney walking investigators through the grounds of the Frazee ranch in Florissant, Colorado, where they believe he disposed of Berreth’s body after bludgeoning her to death in her home in nearby Woodland Park.
It is one week since Frazee, 33, was convicted of the horrific murder of 29-year-old fiancée Berreth, a pilot instructor and the mother to their now two-year-old daughter, Kaylee.
Berreth was last seen alive on Thanksgiving morning last year when she bought flowers and sweet potatoes with Kaylee in anticipation of a holiday meal with Frazee.
Meanwhile Frazee was plotting to kill her. Just hours later he beat her to death with a baseball bat, in an attack so brutal that even he later admitted, ‘I wouldn’t do it like that again. It was inhumane.’
In shocking footage seen here for the first time, Kenney can be heard telling investigators that Frazee’s own mother, Sheila, 65, stepped out onto the deck of the home she and her son shared as he set about incinerating Berreth’s body
Patrick Frazee's mother Sheila Frazee was seen arriving the Teller County District Court last week ahead of Monday's Guilty verdict. She pleaded the Fifth rather than testify against her son at trial
Patrick Frazee leaves the Teller County District Court in Cripple Creek, Colo. last year. Last week he was convicted of the murder o his fiancee, Kelsey Berreth
Frazee received the maximum possible sentence – life with no hope of parole and 156 years to be served consecutively. Handing down his judgement Teller District Court Judge Scott Sells described Frazee’s crime as, ‘vicious, senseless, without reason or explanation.’
Now, in shocking footage seen here for the first time, his ex-mistress Kenney can be heard telling investigators that Frazee’s own mother, Sheila, 65, stepped out onto the deck of the home she and her son shared while he set about incinerating Berreth’s body and blood-spattered evidence on their land.
Lead CBI investigator Gregg Slater prompts Kenney, ‘You had also mentioned that at one point Patrick’s mom came out and stood on the deck? Looking over towards the house can you tell me where you saw his mom?’
Kenney, 32, who is standing near to the burn site where forensics experts found tell-tale signs of a human body having been consumed, replies, ‘I could just see her step out between the two trees, there’s the wire dog kennel, straight past that, she came out, stood there and then turned and went back into the house.’
Investigators are seen working at the site of the burn scar in the earth at the ranch
Frazee (left in in his mugshot) was sentenced to life behind bars last week. The Colorado rancher murdered his fiance Kelsey Berreth (together right) with a baseball bat
Kenney went onto describe how she watched Frazee load wood around the black plastic tote in which investigators believe he had stored Berreth’s body. Her remains have never been found.
She recalled how she helped gather kindling and unloaded two white and four black trash bags of belongings and blood-soaked evidence that she had removed from Berreth’s home earlier that day.
She claimed that Frazee added gasoline and motor oil to speed the blaze and ‘poured gasoline into [a] bucket and pitched it into the fire.’
Asked to list the items she threw into the fire Kenney said, ‘Curtains, pillows, stuffed animals, cleaning supplies, the towels..everything I took from her house. I also threw in all the clothing I was wearing and the shoes I was wearing…a white jumpsuit, grey sweater, black pants, hair and shoe covering and gloves.’
She does not relate where Sheila Frazee was at this point or if she re-emerged from her home at any point.
Lead CBI investigator Gregg Slater prompts Kenney, ‘You had also mentioned that at one point Patrick’s mom came out and stood on the deck? Looking over towards the house can you tell me where you saw his mom?’ Kenney replies, ‘I could just see her step out between the two trees, there’s the wire dog kennel, straight past that, she came out, stood there and then turned and went back into the house'
This is the last photograph of Kelsey Berreth. She is seen with her daughter Kaylee and Patrick Frazee walking into her home
Mrs Frazee pleaded the Fifth rather than testify against her son at trial. When DailyMail.com sought comment at her remote ranch in Florissant, Colorado the gates to the long mountain road on which it sits were shut and a No Trespassing sign had been posted on them.
DailyMail.com understands there are currently no plans to bring further charges in relation to the killing.
But despite Frazee’s conviction there are still many who question the extent to which justice has truly been served in this case.
In a highly controversial plea deal described by El Paso DA Dan May as ‘a deal with the devil,’ prosecutors only charged Kenney with one single count of evidence tampering for taking Berreth’s cell phone to Idaho where she destroyed it in a bid to throw cops off the real scent and the simple fact that Berreth had never left Teller County.
Krystal Lee cut a deal with prosecutors and will serve up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to evidence tampering
With little physical evidence investigators relied heavily on Idaho-based Kenney’s testimony. Agent Slater admitted under oath that he didn’t know where they would be with the investigation had Kenney not cracked.
She unlocked the case for them and admitted to traveling to Colorado on the night of 23rd November in response to Frazee’s request that she come and clean up ‘the mess’ that she understood to be Berreth’s murder.
Video of Kenney walking detectives through Berreth’s small home and recalling the scene of bloody horror that lay behind the front door, was played to Teller County jury that took less than four hours to convict Frazee on all counts – murder, three counts of solicitation, and felony murder.
Kenney recalled blood on the floor, on the walls, on the fireplace an on one-year-old Kaylee’s toys that lay scattered in the living room where her mother was killed. She told of bloody footprints that tracked up the stairs, blood in the bathroom, blood on kitchen appliance and drapes so drenched in Berreth’s blood she did not even attempt to clean them but removed them entirely and took them to burn.
Kenney also revealed that Frazee had tried to solicit her to kill Berreth on three separate occasions in the months leading up to the murder. He suggested she take a baseball bat and ‘swing away,’ or that she beat Berreth with a metal pipe or poison her favorite Starbucks coffee, a caramel macchiato.
Kenney faces a maximum of three years in jail for the part she played in Berreth’s death. A date for her sentencing is expected to be set at her next case review which is scheduled to be heard in Cripple Creek on 2 December
Kenney who told friends that Frazee was her first love had rekindled an on-off sexual relationship with him some three years ago. She admitted that she had driven from her home in Idaho, where she worked as a nurse, to Colorado three times with the intention of killing Berreth. She claimed she had just never been able to go through with the deed despite Frazee pushing and painting Berreth as an abusive mother with drug and alcohol problems.
Kenney faces a maximum of three years in jail for the part she played in Berreth’s death. A date for her sentencing is expected to be set at her next case review which is scheduled to be heard in Cripple Creek on 2 December.
In victim impact statements read out by Berreth’s uncle, Scott Morrin, following Frazee’s conviction Berreth’s mother, Cheryl, expressed her dismay at the leniency of Kenney’s potential sentence.
She wrote, ‘The only thing she didn’t do was swing the bat.’
The family also had harsh words for the Frazee family. They asked for a no contact order to be put in place barring them from Kaylee and all of Berreth’s family and condemning them for showing ‘cowardice.’ As far as they were concerned, Morrin stated, Kenney and Frazee’s family chose to support a murderer rather than his victim.
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