Transcripts - Forever Dreaming

Up next,
this Thanksgiving
doesn't go as planned.

I remember thinking
that something there
just seemed odd.

Someone's missing,
but detectives can find

no sign of a crime.

They found nothing
out of the ordinary.

Text messages lead
to a surprise witness

and a horrifying story.

To hear this level of planning,

this level of...

it's maniacal.

But in the end,
this is a case
that goes to the dogs.

He's a superhero.
He's the one,
he has the nose.

The sky
was literally the limit
for Kelsey Berreth.

She had been interested
in aviation
from a very young age.

She was incredibly intelligent.

She was training our
United States Air Force cadets

how to fly planes.

Uh, so she's in a, uh,
very important role

to not only for her,
but for this nation,

getting pilots ready to fly.

In 2016,
the 26-year-old pilot
met Patrick Frazee,

In 2016,
the 26-year-old pilot
met Patrick Frazee,

a 29-year-old Colorado native.

Patrick Frazee is, I would say
a modern-day cowboy.

He runs cattle

that he has
at different ranches
all around Colorado.

The two fell in love,
got engaged,

and Kelsey moved to Colorado
to be with Patrick.

In 2017, the couple welcomed
a baby girl into their lives.

She has a baby.

And by all accounts,
And by all accounts,

they're really a cute,
young couple
with an adorable baby.

Even though
they had a child together,

this relationship
was a little unusual.

Kelsey wasn't living
with Patrick.

Patrick, in fact, never
ever lived with Kelsey.

The reason, Patrick's ranch

required a lot of
work and a lot of time.

He lived there with his mother,

about 20 miles away
from where Kelsey lived.

You gotta wonder about a guy
who's living at home
at his age still with his mom.

This unusual living arrangement

This unusual living arrangement

wasn't helped at all
by the undisguised hostility

Patrick's mother had
for his bride-to-be.

His mom openly would
go around and tell people,

"That's the whore that my son
picked up at the airport."

Patrick's mom
wasn't very happy
about the relationship.

So there was a lot of tension.

Shortly after Thanksgiving 2018,

Kelsey dropped out of contact
for more than a week,

which was highly unusual.

Her mother couldn't
track her down.

Her mother couldn't
track her down.

She's trying
to talk to Kelsey,
and she can't reach her.

So, she's, uh, trying
to figure out what's going on.

So she finally calls Patrick,
and, "What's going on
here, Patrick?"

Patrick assured
Kelsey's mother
the baby was safe.

But he also had bad news.

He said he and Kelsey's
relationship was on the rocks.

He said he hadn't spoken
to her since Thanksgiving,

although they did exchange
some text messages.

Kelsey's employers
were contacted.

Kelsey's employers
were contacted.

They hadn't seen her for days.

Kelsey didn't go to work,

and that is very unlike Kelsey
to do something like that,

to not go to work,
to not call them

that she's not
going to be there.

Though it seemed
totally out of character,

investigators had to consider
that given the problems

in her relationship
with Patrick,

Kelsey may have simply run off.

There's just something
not right.

Something is wrong.

After Kelsey Berreth
went missing,

her mother was able
to provide information

on her last-known activities.

On Thanksgiving Day,
Kelsey told her mother

she planned to do
some shopping
at a local Safeway.

She walks in, she gets a cart,

she's got her daughter
in the cart,

and she just looks
like she's any other mom

who's picking something up
on Thanksgiving Day

that they forgot to buy before.

Kelsey's fiance
and her baby's father
Patrick Frazee

told police he and Kelsey
exchanged the baby
on Thanksgiving afternoon.

Told police he and Kelsey
exchanged the baby
on Thanksgiving afternoon.

This was also confirmed
in pictures.

Kelsey's next door neighbor
had a surveillance camera

that actually pointed towards
Kelsey's front door.

Patrick told police
this was the last time
he saw Kelsey.

But Patrick told police
that over the next few days,

they did exchange
some text messages,

one of which he found
a little concerning.

The text message
that is sent from Kelsey
to Patrick was,

"Do you even love me?"

Uh, that is a fairly
emotionally-triggering
type of text.

Patrick told police
that he'd taken that g*n
from Kelsey

almost a year earlier
after they'd had
a particularly nasty argument.

Patrick said
he and Kelsey were arguing,

and it was about finances.

And Kelsey had
gotten to the point

where she had a g*n...
where she had a g*n...

put the g*n to her head,
said, "Maybe I'd be
better off dead."

That caused some concern
with Patrick, you know,

with regard to Kelsey's
mental state.

The police officer asks him,

"Do you think that she
was depressed

or anything like that?"

And he says, "Oh, no,
no, no, um, she was fine,

or I wouldn't have given
her g*n back to her."

But there was still hope
that Kelsey was okay.

Her phone was on the move.

The last time her phone hits
is near a canyon
up in Idaho.

Reports are correct
that Kelsey's phone

gave a location
near Gooding, Idaho
on November 25th.

We've ex*cuted search warrants

on Kelsey's home,
as well as both
of her vehicles.

We are treating
Kelsey's disappearance

as a missing persons case
at this time.

Kelsey had no reason
to be in Idaho.

So it really made you wonder,
"What's really going on here?"

So it really made you wonder,
"What's really going on here?"

Police in the area were alerted,

but could find
no sign of Kelsey.

By this time, 10 days had passed

and her family was frantic.

Like I said,
"She doesn't run off,

and someone knows
where she's at."

Kelsey, we just want you home.

Call us if you can,
and we won't quit looking.

Kelsey's mother
and brother travel

from Washington State
to Colorado.

The first thing they did
was their own search
of Kelsey's condo.

And to the surprise
of forensic experts,

they found something
local investigators missed.

Where this case
takes a very sharp turn

is when Kelsey's brother
looks down at the toilet

and he sees what he believes
to be blood on the toilet.

He contacts law enforcement,

and immediately, it is apparent

that there is what appears
to be blood on that toilet.

That there is what appears
to be blood on that toilet.

Now on the assumption
this was a crime scene,

a team of forensic technicians
descended on Kelsey's condo.

The CSI people
are pretty embarrassed.

I think they ended up
going back in there

six or seven times.

They were pulling up
the floorboards,

they were pulling up stairs.

The CSI team
employed a substance

called Bluestar,
which like luminol,

glows when in contact
with the hemoglobin in blood.

And they find blood
in several places.

They find blood on the bathtub.

They find blood on the bathtub.

They find blood on a...
on a light switch.

My heart sunk
when I saw that blood

because now you know
something bad has happened.

And I'm thinking,
"She's not alive."

The large amount
of Kelsey Berreth's blood
found in her condominium

had investigators fearing
she'd been m*rder*d.

We were able
to identify a profile,

and that profile was
a profile of Kelsey.

But the DNA results
also presented
a surprise finding.

Two more genetic profiles
were found in Kelsey's condo.

They did find unknown subjects.

There was as female
and there was a male.

There were no hits
on either profile
in the CODIS DNA database.

There were no hits
on either profile
in the CODIS DNA database.

The female DNA
was ultimately matched back

to the condo's previous tenant.

That was kind of the odd one.
She said the day she moved

she cut herself a few times
doing boxes,

and she just let it bleed
onto the floor.

So we actually found
a lot of her blood
in those floorboards.

At this point,
Kelsey's partner
Patrick Frazee

was a potential suspect,
and had to surrender
his DNA.

Patrick's DNA
was not found
in Kelsey's condo,

Patrick's DNA
was not found
in Kelsey's condo,

and that's interesting.

This is a couple.

This is, um, someone
that you would expect

to find his DNA in her condo.

A close examination
of the scene
provided the answer.

Every corner of Kelsey's condo
had been meticulously cleaned.

The only reason
the previous tenants'
DNA survived

was because she was allergic
to a lot of things

including the lacquer used
to seal the floorboards.

So her blood had soaked
deep into the wood
and survived the cleanup.

So her blood had soaked
deep into the wood
and survived the cleanup.

She did not put anything
over the wood to seal it,

so there's no sealant on it.

She can't put Band-Aids on
because she's allergic

to the adhesive on a Band-Aid,

so if she cut herself,

she'd walk around her house,

let's say, like,
her hand like this,

and the blood would just
drip down on the floor.

The source of the male DNA

could not be identified.

Whoever k*lled Kelsey
would appear to have had

access to the condo,

so that put Patrick at the top
of the suspect list.

So that put Patrick at the top
of the suspect list.

And as detectives
asked questions about him,

they got some disturbing
information.

We talked to his girlfriend
in high school,

and she said, "The best thing
that ever happened to me

- was dating Patrick Frazee."
- We said, "How come?"

She said, "I learned
what I didn't want

in a, uh, someone to date
or to marry someday."

In addition
to being forced
to surrender his DNA,

Patrick also had to provide
his cell phone.

And this proved to be
a forensic gold mine.

There's a tremendous amount
of digital forensics

There's a tremendous amount
of digital forensics

that the police are uncovering.

Patrick's story never changed.

He said he texted Kelsey
a few times

after he last saw her
on Thanksgiving Day.

But the locations
of the two phones involved
in these text exchanges

raised a host of questions.

Cell towers showed both phones

were apparently traveling
in the same vehicle

while these messages
went back and forth.

Their phones
are always together.

Their phones travel together
throughout the days

Their phones travel together
throughout the days

on the 23rd and on the 24th.

The two phones are together.

Assuming Kelsey was dead,

there seemed to be
only one explanation

as to why her phone
as with Patrick's phone

in the days
after she disappeared.

What does that tell them?

Well, that tells them
that Patrick is creating

his own forensic timeline.

He is attempting to create
his own narrative

He is attempting to create
his own narrative

about where Kelsey is,
what's happening,

and his own forensic
countermeasures.

He didn't realize
that he's actually telling us

those two phones are together,
and they're moving together.

Oddly enough,
in the days after
Kelsey disappeared,

Patrick made
more than 40 calls
to the 208 area code

which is in Idaho.

In fact, 208 was
the same area code

In fact, 208 was
the same area code

Kelsey's phone
had been traced to

shortly after she went missing.

We learn that the owner
of that 208 number

is Krystal Kenney.

And she would open this case
wide open.

So who was Krystal Kenney?

And why was Patrick desperate
to talk to her

right after Kelsey disappeared?

Krystal Kenney
was a rodeo queen.

She had a relationship
with Patrick Frazee.

Patrick had a lot of control
over Krystal Kenney,

which I never quite understood.

Which I never quite understood.

She's in love
with Patrick Frazee.

The relationship
is very volatile,

uh, is really the only way
you could describe it.

It's also very strange.

For whatever reason,

Patrick is not done
with Krystal,

and Krystal is not done
with Patrick.

Detectives confronted
Krystal Kenney,

who said her relationship
with Patrick

was now strictly business.

They said
they didn't believe her.

At that point she goes,
"I wanna talk to you guys.

There is information,
but I don't wanna talk to you
without an attorney."

There is information,
but I don't wanna talk to you
without an attorney."

She is being interviewed
by law enforcement,

and she tells law enforcement

what can really only be
described as a bombshell.

I think everyone's jaws
hit the floor
when they heard it.

I know mine did.

Krystal Kenney
told investigators

on the Kelsey Berreth
m*rder case,

that her on-again
off-again lover Patrick Frazee

insisted she drive to Colorado
right after Thanksgiving 2018.

And for reasons
he didn't explain,

he told her to bring
cleaning materials.

She meets Patrick,
she gets the keys
to Kelsey's condo.

And she opens up the door,

and her description
is that she sees

a horrific bloody crime scene.

A horrific bloody crime scene.

Krystal told investigators

that Patrick told her
to clean the scene.

She kept quiet
and did what she was told.

It took hours.

I've had people clean up scenes.

I've never had anybody

clean up a scene like she did.

Krystal now recounted
a harrowing story.

She told detectives
Patrick admitted
k*lling Kelsey.

And then she took them
on a tour of Kelsey's condo
to show them what happened.

According to Krystal,

Patrick tells her
that he had a bat,

and he plays a game
with Kelsey called

"Guess the scent
of the candle."

He ties a sweater
as a blindfold
around Kelsey's head.

She didn't think
anything of it.
She's just gonna smell it.

I mean, who would?

It's your fiance.
It's Thanksgiving Day.

As Kelsey's
smelling candles
and trying to guess the scent,

Patrick then begins
to beat Kelsey
about her head.

Patrick then begins
to beat Kelsey
about her head.

While this happened,
the couple's baby girl

was just a few feet away
in another room.

It's so hard to wrap
your head around.

I mean, the way he k*lled her
was so brutal

and so senseless.

He wants you to smell a candle,

and then beats you to death
with a baseball bat.

And then beats you to death
with a baseball bat.

Krystal's tour
continued at Patrick's ranch.

She said she
bundled Kelsey's body
in a large tote box.

Then hid it at the top
of a stack of hay bales.

She said he ultimately
destroyed Kelsey's body
by setting it on fire.

As for Kelsey's phone
being tracked to Idaho,

Krystal said Patrick
gave it to her
to throw off investigators.

Krystal said Patrick
gave it to her
to throw off investigators.

He goes as far as
to have his mistress
take Kelsey's phone to Idaho,

and he has his mistress
Krystal Lee Kenney

text his phone,
"Do you even love me?"

So he's going
to extreme lengths
to try to cover this up

and try to make investigators
think Kelsey is still alive
for as long as he can.

Despite this
overwhelming evidence,

it appeared nothing remained
of Kelsey's body,

which was a big problem
for prosecutors.

We don't have a body here.

We don't have a body here.

And so, uh, one of the things

you have to prove
is that this person
really is dead.

That's where Radar comes in.

Radar, the bloodhound,

is a highly-trained
forensic professional,

a fact that's been
legally certified
in many states,

including Colorado.

Bloodhounds' testimony
is allowed in court.

That's how acute their
olfactory system is.

Their court systems
believe and feel that

what they do
is worthy for court.

Good search, yes.
Good look, yes.

Good search, yes.
Good look, yes.

Cadaver bloodhounds like Radar

are trained almost from birth
to track human smell.

And they've been doing it
for centuries.

They were actually
the first police dogs.

Scent goes up the flue,

and into this part here,

right up to the nose
when their heads down working.

And the ears sweep the scent
up the nose.

And when their head is down,
the skin covers their eyes.

And all the crinkles actually
help hold the scent in.

So everything about her
was made for tracking.

Detectives thought that Radar
might hit on something

Detectives thought that Radar
might hit on something

in the stack of hay bales
where Kelsey's body
had allegedly been hidden.

Once radar was on top
of this stack of hay,

he went straight to the spot
where Krystal said
Kelsey's body had been hidden.

And he indicated
that there was decomposition
odor on top of the hay bales.

And he looks, and he sets,

and he's looking up.

Well, that confirms again
that we had

a decomposing human being
on this location.

And with that expert opinion
in hand,

prosecutors charged
Patrick Frazee
with Kelsey Berreth's m*rder.

In addition to Radar,

a key witness would be
Krystal Kenney.

Quite frankly,
we did a deal with the devil.

Uh, there's no if, ands,
or buts about that with her.

Krystal ultimately
served 14 months
for evidence tampering.

I was pretty angry about it.

And Patrick, well, Patrick...

my feelings about Patrick
are that he's...

well, he's a sociopath.

And I believe that he doesn't
care about anyone else
but himself.

At Patrick Frazee's trial,

court observers thought Radar
would make an appearance,

but it was not to be.

When I showed up to court,

they swore me in and stuff,

and then Dan,
the District Attorney,
Dan May,

asked, he says,
"Why didn't you bring Radar?"

asked, he says,
"Why didn't you bring Radar?"

And I said, "He's
a 140-pound bloodhound.

He throws slobber everywhere.

And I just didn't think
it was a good idea."

And the judge is like,
said, "Thank you."

In November of 2019,

Patrick Frazee
was found guilty
of first-degree m*rder,

and got life in prison,
plus 156 years.

Investigators say
about the only thing

that makes sense
in this senseless m*rder

is the evidence
that exposed who did it.

While Krystal's testimony
was vital,

While Krystal's testimony
was vital,

the DNA evidence
that was found
in Kelsey's condo...

tells us what happened.

And the bloodhound

hitting on that section
of the hay,

all of these pieces of evidence

came together to, uh...

to leave the jury
to only one conclusion.

And the evidence
was really overwhelming
of Patrick's guilt.