Colorado police officers found a strange post that seemed to be made by the mother of alleged killer Patrick Frazee just hours after he allegedly murdered his fiancée Kelsey Berreth.
Investigators received a screen screenshot of a posting made to a Facebook that said, “YAY the witch is dead,” on the same day that Frazee allegedly killed Berreth at her Woodland Park home. The post, by a woman named Sheila McCorkle-Frazee, also showed a picture of the witch killed in “The Wizard of Oz.”
The screenshot (pdf) was detailed in a trove of court documents unsealed by a judge this week that revealed a slew of findings made in the course of the investigation.
Frazee, 30, was charged with two counts of murder and three counts of solicitation to commit murder after he was arrested on Dec. 21, 2018.
Frazee allegedly killed Berreth on Thanksgiving after she disappeared.
Probing the origin of the bizarre posting, investigators found that it was actually not made by Frazee’s mother, Sheila Frazee.
“It’s just a very strange coincidence, but it is not Patrick Frazee’s mother,” Lee Richards, spokeswoman for the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, told the Colorado Springs Gazette. “They saw it, they investigated it and it was not Patrick Frazee’s mother.”
Investigators wanted to question Sheila Frazee at a hearing for her son but a judge said she didn’t have to testify and she didn’t. El Paso County District Attorney Dan May said a witness told officials that Sheila Frazee saw her son burning evidence of the killing on their ranch in Florissant.
Krystal Jean Lee Kenney, an Idaho nurse who was romantically involved with Frazee, told investigators that Frazee tried to get her to kill his fiancée, but she failed to go through with it.
Finally, Frazee killed her himself on Thanksgiving and ordered Kenney to go to Berreth’s townhouse and clean up the “mess.” She was later told to go to his ranch and while there she watched him pour gas and oil onto the fire as a large plastic tote bag burned away, revealing a “lump” she believed was Berreth’s body.
Berreth has not been seen since vanishing on Thanksgiving but authorities said that she is likely dead and believe Frazee killed her. Police started looking in a landfill for her remains on Feb. 26.
The search document dump also revealed that Frazee became so upset at the hospital staff after his baby was born that the outburst triggered a police response.
Berreth’s baby girl was born several weeks early. Since she required extra medical care, hospital staff said they would keep her in another room. Frazee, who thought that was wrong, “became so upset and verbally abusive with the nursing staff that Social Services was notified,” Woodland Park police Cmdr. Christopher Adams wrote in the court documents, citing an account by Berreth’s mother, Cheryl Berreth.
Bereth said that Frazee said at one point that he should have “killed” the nurse.
The girl was then removed from Kelsey Berreth’s care until a safety evaluation could be done “to determine if Kelsey was being physically abused by Patrick.”
There was no indication of any further action taken and the girl was eventually returned to her mother.
