The parents of a missing Colorado woman who is presumed dead has filed a wrongful death suit against her fiancé, who has been charged with murder.
Kelsey Berreth, a 29-year-old flight instructor from Woodland Park, hasn’t been seen in public since Thanksgiving, when surveillance video captured her and her daughter entering a local supermarket. In late December, authorities arrested her fiancé,Patrick Frazee. Hefaces two counts of murder and three counts of solicitation to commit murder.
Frazee and Berreth have a 1-year-old daughter, Kaylee.
While Teller County investigators have yet to detail the specific allegations that led to the solicitation counts, it likely means prosecutors think Frazee allegedly solicited an individual three times or three people on three separate occasions as part of an alleged murder plot.
Patrick Frazee, Kelsey Berreth and the couple’s infant.Facebook
Frazee, who did not live with Berreth, told police that he and his fiancée met up that same day so that Berreth could hand off their daughter to him.
Berreth’s mother, who lives out of state, reported her missing 10 days later, on Dec. 2, 2018.
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Frazee remains in police custody without bond. He has not yet entered pleas to the charges, and his criminal attorney could not be reached for comment. It is unclear if Frazee has representation in the civil case.
Three days after Berreth apparently vanished, her mobile phone pinged on a cell tower near Gooding, Idaho, nearly 600 miles from her home, police have said.
That same day,texts from the phone of Berrethwere sent to her employer, Doss Aviation, saying she would not be at work for the next week.
The status of the couple’s relationship remains something of a mystery, with relatives saying Berreth had ended the engagement weeks before vanishing. Others have claimed the couple split the day of the alleged killing.
Attorneys for the Berreth family did not immediately return PEOPLE’s call for comment.
source: people.com
