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[Music] a key witness takes a stand in the trial of Patrick frzy investigators believe
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Patrick frzy killed Kelsey Barth in her town home on Thanksgiving last year day two of the murder trial for the
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man who allegedly killed his fian day seven of the trial investigators revealed the moments they found
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surveillance video of Kelsey Barth and her one-year-old daughter at Woodland Park Supermarket is the last anyone seen
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of the 29-year-old mother if convicted frzy could face life in prison we can certainly sense that we are in the final
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days of this trial and it is certainly purp Creek is a small town Teller county is a small County we're up in like a
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minute they have never seen anything to this magnitude in Creek Ashley Franco KKTV 11 News you've covered every
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second of this trial what has the feeling been inside that courtroom it's been cold it's been very heavy and
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chiling during the first week we learned about some of the evidence in the case Crystal Lee Patrick fr's exgirlfriend is
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said to be the prosecution's star witness okay it's uh 11:15 again on the 21st December
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2018 um we're inside Kelsey's apartment with Crystal you are seeing what the jury saw remarkable evidence the heart
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of the prosecution's case when you you came in what did you see um when I first walked
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in I saw um blood all over the floor I saw blood up the wall who is Crystal Lee Crystal
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Lee is a rodeo queen from Idaho she's very wellknown and she's Patrick fr's exgirlfriend
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they'd known each other for over a decade she's the bread and butter to this case
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that's Crystal Lee wearing a police jacket and hat can you point to the area where you saw and clean blood up on the
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wall she admits to cleaning up the crime scene and tells a prosecution the whole
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entire story of what happened the spray was from here always she's the only person in the
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world that they have to possibly convict Patrick czy we did a deal with the devil there's
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just no if hands or butts about it in this case but it's a deal that we made in order to move this case forward and
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to solve this crime sometimes in order to solve a case or move a case forward we have to give a
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deal to the devil uh that's exactly what we did here did you say that you cleaned
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off some of the appliances I did I wiped the there was blood on the front of the
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dishwasher there was blood on the front of the stove Crystal Lee was obviously the the star witness for the prosecution
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and she testified to things that the prosecution needed her to say in order to establish this case I am a Gruber I'm
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a professor of law at University of Colorado law school I think there were doubts about Crystal Le's testimony
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coming into it Crystal Lee has trafficked in lies Crystal Lee is saying he has been
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planning on killing Kelsey and he had called me multiple times about it there's poison
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coffee there's a baseball bat scented candles a blindfold phones that are pinging all over Colorado and and in
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Idaho I got to tell you it's one of the most emotional trials I've ever been through and I've been through a lot of
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Trials uh the roller coaster everybody was put on there wasn't anybody on this team that at some point uh didn't have
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tears running down their face we just got word that a verdict has been reached in the case against Patrick
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crazy tell them try to take it we're the F we're the only ones out here there's always a little bit of nervousness and
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question in the back of your mind just hours ago we were hearing closing statements and now now we have a
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[Music] verdict [Music] [Music] Patrick frzy sits in this grim Creek Colorado jail put here by his
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former girlfriend Crystal Lee there's blood on the wall here there's blood on the wall here and there
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was blood right here in disturbing evidence that you will see throughout the program tonight she tells her story
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about a crime scene cleanup I moved to the couch I wiped the couch off um there was blood behind the couch down the wall
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a plan to transport a body we brought the tote here okay we unloaded the tote and her help in making sure there would
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be no trace of it left behind the things that were thrown into the fire by me were the um the belongings from Kelsey's
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house the curtains the pillows the stuffed animals The Tale begins when these haunting images were captured a mother
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in the grocery store shopping with her baby Thanksgiving Day 20 8 the last time Kelsey Barth was seen in public she not
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the kind that runs off this is completely out of character it was Cheryl Barth who reported her
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29-year-old daughter missing after trying to reach her for days Kelsey we just want you
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home call us if you can and we won't quit looking at that time in early December
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Woodland Park police had not publicly named a suspect we are treating Kelsey's disappearance as a missing person's case
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at this time you can't eat and you can't sleep and the stress won't end until we
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find her usually it was us for all together all the time Ashley Cogburn Amanda Smith
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and Nicole Haywood had an unbreakable bond with Kelsey they grew up together in Moses Lake Washington from the
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pictures she's gorgeous obviously and very put together together and so you might think that she's you know this
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prissy girl but she was not she she was raised on a hay farm and very much a tom
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boy country girl yeah she's out there driving tractors and and bucking Bales in flying planes she was a flight
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instructor is she a good pilot oh yeah she was really good she wasn't afraid to challenge the the typical
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boundaries so it wasn't a surprise when a Colorado cowboy named Patrick frzy caught Kelsey's eye on a dating website
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in 2016 he was like a country boy and that's what she was used to that's what she
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liked they started a long-distance relationship Patrick frzy lived on a 35 acre ranch in rural Floris Colorado
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these are four dogs to be our dogs to train this fall and winter in this video Patrick can be heard training cattle
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dogs pepper that'll do down he also shoed horses and groomed donkeys the black and white one is uh
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flash Clint kleene has known Patrick for seven years Patrick is uh the faer for the donkeys people call them hor shers
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and all that but our donkeys don't have shoes so he trims their feet he trims their feet he he gives them as we call
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it donkey manicures clein says Patrick was quiet and dedicated to his work he kind of uh laidback you know kind of
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stays to himself uh he had his Ranch to take care of eventually Kelsey moved to Colorado
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from Washington State to be closer to Patrick and they were expecting a child her mother Cheryl says they were engaged
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do she have a dress yet no I don't think she cared about The Big Wedding kind of
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thing it was between them and God even after their daughter Kaylee was born in October 20 17 the couple still
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didn't live together but shared parenting duties he never came to see her but um she would like on her days
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off she would go back and be with him friends say Kelsey was struggling to balance the baby her job and a long
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commute her relationship with Patrick seems strained she seemed to be kind of stressed out from the whole thing that
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she couldn't make him happy was Patrick emotionally abusive um it appeared that way from uh
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what I saw and it seemed like it was just knocking her spirit down did Kelsey ever say he was physically abusive no
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Ashley says Kelsey once mentioned there may have been another woman in Patrick's
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life I think Kelsey had mentioned one time about an ex-girlfriend who still kind of wanted to be with Patrick Kelsey
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was wasn't worried about it I don't know if it's cuz she knew she lived far away
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Kelsey didn't seem all that worried about it after Kelsey was reported missing police talked to Patrick he told them
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that the day before Thanksgiving Kelsey said she wanted to end their relationship KKTV reporter Ashley Franco
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he said that Kelsey wanted to go their separate ways and things weren't working out between they wanted to split custody
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50/50 and they were just not meshing anymore Patrick told police he and Kelsey met to exchange the baby on
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Thanksgiving Day He also returned Kelsey's belongings a purse um keys to the car keys to the town home and then a
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gun that Kelsey owned it was a gun Patrick says he had once taken from Kelsey for her own protection police say
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Patrick told them Kelsey struggled with depression hinting that she may be suicidal when you hear that Patrick said
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Kelsey was unstable that she would may be suicidal no no not at all it doesn't match up with Kelsey police searched
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Kelsey's home but turned up no signs of Foul Play then Cheryl and her son went to the house to check it
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out there was a mat a a like a rug of some sort in the bathroom and it's gone and she had also noticed that the
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refrigerator looked like it had been wiped down recently you could see [Music] streaks later her son is in the bathroom
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and notices Blood on the base of the toilet and the alarms go off in their minds alarms go
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off Kelsey's mother Cheryl alerted investigators who returned to the house this time they used chemicals to detect
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the presence of blood they found Trace Amounts of blood everywhere in the bathroom do we know whose blood DNA
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results showed it was Kelsey's investigators believed Kelsey had been murdered but they needed more
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evidence a closer look at Kelsey and her fiance's cell phone activity Thanksgiving weekend would lead them to
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her suspected [Music] killer [Music] Patrick fry was taken into custody this morning in Floris and Colorado just
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after 7:00 this morning Mountain Standard Time nearly a month after Kelsey Barth
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vanished Woodland Park police chief miles D young made this Grim announcement today we arrested Patrick
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frzy on charge of a first-degree murder of Kelsey Barth as a reminder Patrick frzy is presumed innocent until proven
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guilty Patrick what do you have to say despite the murder charge Kelsey's body had not been found as you can tell
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from the arrest sadly we do not believe Kelsey is still alive Kelsey's daughter kayy is in
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protective custody and will be re reunited with Kelsey's family Patrick frzy entered a plea of not guilty but
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from the beginning investigators had questions about Patrick's story starting with his initial claim that the day
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before Thanksgiving Kelsey told him she wanted to break up and quote go there separate ways so this is Wooden Park
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this is Wooden Park yet there she was shopping the next day for the family dinner you see her
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grab a cart and and put Kaylee in the cart and then go off and that's last time publicly anyone had seen Kelsey
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Barth what does she buy Here at Safeway she buys ingredients for a swe potato casserole investigators wondered if
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Kelsey had broken up with Patrick why would she send him this text I bought some sweet potatoes in case you wanted
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sweet potato casserole Kelsey didn't tell her mother she and Patrick were breaking up when
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she spoke with her Thanksgiving morning did she sound normal did she sound definitely she she sounded happy and
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normal mom daughter talk yeah yeah another big question investigators had was when Patrick said he last Saw
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Kelsey Patrick told officers that he hadn't seen her since Thanksgiving November 22nd when he exchange their
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daugh kayy Barth in images from a neighbor security camera on that Thanksgiving Day Patrick
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and Kelsey are seen at her door with a baby carrier after Kelsey returned from the store you can see her holding a
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point CIA later Patrick is seen at that same location alone we don't know what whether he's coming or going he doesn't
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have Kaye um and he's not with Kelsey and then that's it University of Colorado law professor ya Gruber has
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followed the case the critical question is what happened in between around 1:30 1:45 and 3:30 when they get that picture
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of him police say this is likely when Patrick killed her investigators have recovered um a
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number of items that make us suspicious that the crime did occur at Kelsey's residence Patrick told authorities he
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drove their daughter Kaye to his Ranch for Thanksgiving dinner he said Kelsey wasn't with them but investigators
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discovered that her cell phone was they pulled telep phone records and found that on Thanksgiving Day November
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22nd all of a sudden Kelsey's phone and Patrick's phone started traveling together but Patrick and Kelsey were not
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together investigators say Patrick took Kelsey's cell phone after he killed her as part of a scheme to cover his tracks
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They believe he faked 19 calls between the two phones over Thanksgiving weekend and was sending texts between them
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including this one from Kelsey's phone I'm going running I'll call you guys when I get home his response okay be
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safe the theory that the prosecution's going to put forward is that that was Patrick with her phone and he's texting
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pretending to be Kelsey 2 days after Thanksgiving authorities believe Patrick concocted this conversation are you
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awake sorry I didn't hear my phone going to jump in the shower I'll call you guys
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when I get out okay then investigators believe to keep up his ruse that Kelsey wanted the breakup Patrick sent this
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message if this is Tru truly what you want I'll respect your wishes and give you
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space on Sunday 3 days after Thanksgiving there was a bizarre development that would send this case in
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a very different Direction phone records show while Patrick cell stayed near his
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Ranch Kelsey's phone was on the Move heading west out of Colorado there was a text from Kelsey's
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phone to her supervisor at Doss Aviation saying I won't be at work so people had
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thought maybe they heard from Kelsey the next text from Kelsey's phone said do you even love me that text pinged off a
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cell phone tower 800 miles away reports are correct that Kelsey's phone gave a location near Gooding Idaho on November
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25th when that came out I think everyone was was just shocked and where's Kelsey
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and where's Kelsey no one knows where Kelsey is so how did her phone end up in Idaho this woman may have the
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[Music] answer [Music] it was startling news when investigators revealed that 3 days after Kelsey Barth
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was last seen her cell phone had pinged in Gooding Idaho 800 miles from her home
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tonight we have new information about a 32-year-old twinfalls woman that may have helped Patrick frzy cover up The
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Disappearance and alleged murder of his fiance Kelsey Barett at the time of Kelsey's disappearance
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phone records show that Patrick was in touch with this woman Crystal Kenny Lee Crystal was a nurse and Avid horsewoman
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who grew up here this is Crystal's world kmvt news director and weekend Cowboy Kade Atwood we work hard to be able to
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do this on the weekends Crystal and her family are a big part of the rodeo community of very
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prominent Family Talk horses and that's you're speaking her love language you know
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Michelle Stein is Crystal's best friend horses are her life she loves [Music] horses take her look at this and in
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Idaho where Rodeo rules Crystal was royalty in 2008 she was crowned queen of the Magic Valley Rodeo she was so loved
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by Laura stman has known Crystal since she was a teenager Crystal was so kind with everybody that it was just so
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difficult to turn her down in any way Crystal had a reputation of getting what she wanted no I wouldn't say was a
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reputation of getting what she wanted Crystal worked so hard at everything she did to try to do everything completely
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correct authorities believe that it was crystal who traveled to Idaho with Kelsey's phone but when the FBI made
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their initial call to Crystal she said she had no idea who Kelsey Barth was she also denied knowing Patrick frzy then
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she changed her story they asked her when was the last time you talked to him and she said I don't know I'd have to
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look at my phone and then says oh in the last month and investigators are thinking okay but we already know that
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your phone has called his phone multiple times in the last few weeks she says I don't have a personal relationship with
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Patrick frzy I've gone to Colorado and looked at a few of his horses and that's the extent of our relationship she lies
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she lies turns out Crystal Lee and Patrick frzy had a long history they met After
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High School then 8 months before Kelsey disappeared Crystal and Patrick's relationship heated up Crystal was
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recently divorced with two children she had been out here multiple times to see him and it was type a type of Affair
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what did Crystal say about Patrick was she in love with him I think she was to a
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point during the investigation the FBI got a tip that Michelle had explosive information about the case she says
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Crystal called and confided in her about a disturbing conversation she and Patrick had a month before Kelsey
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disappeared she was very very upset said very distraught she had told me that he
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had asked her to take care of his baby mama and you took that to me or she took that to so I was like well I was in
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shock at first because people who says that nobody says that so I was like wait what and she said yeah he asked me if I
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would kill the mother of his baby I mean what are you thinking at that point I was just in shock and disbelief what
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was Crystal's tone when she was telling you this she was balling she was crying she was extremely upset and scared
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Michelle says she asked Crystal why Patrick wanted to kill Kelsey he had told her it was because she wanted to
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take him back to court to get custody of the baby and he was in fear that she was
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going to harm the baby investigators found found no proof Kelsey had harmed her daughter but did find evidence that
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Patrick had planned to challenge Kelsey for custody and believe that may have been his motive for murder Michelle says
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she pushed Crystal to call the police I kept telling her I think you need to call and tell somebody see you got to
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understand I'm trusting her to do the right thing but I think Michelle people watching will say call the police say
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you need to talk to my friend someone's asking her to kill someone you're right okay of course the viewers are going to
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think that but do you have regret of course I regret it I regret it every day oh my God I would do anything to have
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stopped that somehow Kelsey had been gone about a month before Michelle talked to the FBI
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and when the FBI went back at Crystal a second time she too was ready to talk I think at that point she kind of
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knows I have to come clean but first Crystal wanted a deal in exchange for her testimony against
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Patrick she agreed to plead guilty to evidence tampering she admitted to getting rid of the gun to tossing
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Kelsey's keys in a canyon and destroying her phone it's a tampering with evidence
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charge which is a minor charge compared to murder or um you know accessory to murder or attempted murder she only
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faces at Max 3 years in prison this is a pretty good deal she gets what Crystal revealed to investigators would become
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the center of the prosecution's case against Patrick frzy when I first walked in I saw blood all over the floor I saw
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blood up the [Music] wall when Crystal Lee finally started talking she didn't stop for 4 and a half
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hours her story was stunning she claimed Patrick tried to get her to kill Kelsey
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three different times the first idea was to get a caramel macchiato from Starbucks Kelsey's favorite drink and
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put poison in it 2 months before Kelsey went missing crystal says she drove 12 hours from Idaho to this Starbucks near
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Kelsey's home in Colorado hi welcome to Starbucks going to get started for you toight Crystal a nurse told
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investigators she suggested the perfect potion a lethal dose of ambient and Valium this is the drink that is the
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drink Crystal Lee had ordered to put poison in to give to Kelsey Barth so Crystal brings this Starbucks
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Caramel Macchiato right here waits in the alleyway walks up to Kelsey's door knocks on the door Andel Kelsey opens it
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Kelsey opens it tells Kelsey this elaborate story she says I'm new to the neighborhood someone had told me that
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you had helped get my dogs out of trouble and Kelsey says no I didn't do that does Kelsey take the coffee
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allegedly Kelsey takes the coffee inside and closes the door and from there we don't we don't know what Kelsey does
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with the coffee but crystal says she couldn't do it she did poison the coffee and when Patrick found out he was
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angry he was Furious he was not happy that she didn't go through with it he would play head games with her a
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lot Crystal's best friend Michelle Stein he just had a way of manipulating her into doing things after crystal said she
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couldn't go through with the poison plan she told investigators Patrick came up with a a different idea he says um I
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have a metal pipe that I'll leave outside my property that you can come pick up and I want you
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to go wait for Kelsey at her town home and when she comes hit her on the back of the
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[Music] head the way Crystal tells it she drove to Kelsey's house with that metal pipe
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but didn't attack her and drove back to Idaho a week later she said Patrick called with a new murder plan once again
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Crystal drill from Idaho to Kelsey's Colorado townhouse Crystal claimed she waited for Kelsey outside her home this
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time with an aluminum baseball bat but just like her earlier attempts she says she chickened
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[Music] out it's just hard to believe these stories they seem outlandish and Wild phone record show Patrick called
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Crystal in Idaho around 4:30 on Thanksgiving Day crystal said he told her you need to get out here now you got
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a mess to clean up crystal says that she can't come out that same day um but will
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come out a few days later um she's in Idaho loads up the car with cleaning supplies bleach um hair nets you know
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gloves trash bags she basically brought the equivalent of a hazmat suit and every
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sort of cleaning product that one might see in one of those uh TV shows about how to clean up a crime scene two days
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later on Saturday morning Crystal says she drove 800 miles to Patrick's Ranch to pick up a set of Kelsey's keys he
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left for her outside then she says she drove to Kelsey's Home Crystal tells authorities
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she opens a door and the scene is horrific there's blood everywhere according to Crystal Kelsey's body was
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not inside and then spend you know 3 to 4 hours cleaning and scrubbing the the murder scene she takes some of the
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things that she couldn't clean and puts them into trash bags and loads them in the back of the car she was driving
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Crystal claims Patrick was back at his Ranch during the cleanup there was a point in time when Patrick frzy had told
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crystalie when you go to clean up her t home there is possibly a tooth somewhere
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crystal said she found that tooth and put it in a trash bag Crystal told investigators after the
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cleanup she met with Patrick she described to them how he said he lured Kelsey to her death Crystal claims
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Patrick invited his fiance to play a guessing game with candles she says that he takes a sweater
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from Kelsey's room and blindfold her with the sweater and has candles sitting out in front of Kelsey and is telling
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Kelsey to guess the scent of each candle during her interview with investigators crystal said Patrick told
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her while baby Kaylee was in another room he took a baseball bat in quote he went to
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swinging after killing Kelsey with that baseball bat on Thanksgiving Day crystal
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says Patrick told her he put her body in a black tote this surveillance image shows Patrick at an ATM earlier that day
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with a black tote in his truck Crystal went with investigators to Patrick's Ranch she told them that she
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and Patrick went there together and she watched him burn that tote he poured gasoline in the bucket and pitched it
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into the fire I believe yesterday you said that you also collected wood and put into the burn pit yes I
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did police later examined the spot where they believe Kelsey's body was burned Crystal also went with
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investigators to Kelsey's home she's wearing that police jacket and hat the floorboards had been removed for testing
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and can you point if you remember where the tooth was around the tooth what was there if
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anything there was blood on the chairs there's blood on this chair there's blood on the
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table there's blood on the Hobby Lobby bag that was sitting there she pointed out where she claims she intentionally
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left blood for them to find right there on December 21st 2018 Patrick was arrested at his Ranch
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and charged with Kelsey's murder this is a case without a body uh this is a case without
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a lot of physical evidence so what we mainly have connecting Patrick frzy to an incredibly brutal and violent crime
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is Crystal Lee's testimony Crystal who had cut that deal with prosecutors seemed shaken when she
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appeared in court after she turned herself into authorities the crystal I knew could do
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no wrong but the crystal that has done the things that came out of her mouth is somebody I don't know and that leaves
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Laura stutzman with one question [Music] [Music] why almost a year after Kelsey barth's
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disappearance there there was a long line to get a seat in the courtroom at Patrick fr's murder trial uh I like a
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lot of people that knew Patrick they don't think that the candle story adds up fr's friend Clint Klein was there
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almost every day I don't know of any guys that would have thought of going out and buying candles and having their
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girlfriend be blindfolded and then smell the candles you think that had to be a woman's idea I think so
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frzy was driven from the jail in a black SUV he entered the courthouse through this white tent out of sight from the
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media security was tight no cameras in the courtroom district attorney Dan may I got to tell you it's one of the most
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emotional trials I've ever been through and I've been through a lot of trials in
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my career prosecutor Beth Reed painted a picture of Patrick freezy very Charming
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very manipulative and controlling all traits consistent with being a sociopath Ashley Franco summed up the
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defense case nobody no murder weapon and no clear motive they had said you know Patrick wasn't involved there's no
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evidence to show he was involved and Crystal Lee had already lied to law enforcement so she's the one to blame
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for this on day four the prosecution's star witness Crystal Lee took the stand her credibility was on the line I don't
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think we would have known what happened to Kelsey without Crystal Le I started picking up things that were blood
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splattered for 2 days prosecutor Jennifer vean asked Lee to describe fr's plan to kill Kelsey Barth they bolstered
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their case with surveillance videos and photos this one shows the black tote in the back of fr's truck truck that Lee
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says he would use to dispose of her body when you came in what did you see blood all over the floor I saw blood up
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the wall saw Blood on the this wall most disturbing prosecutors played that video
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of Lee inside Kelsey's home showing investigators how she cleaned up the crime scene did you say correct me if
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I'm wrong did you say that you cleaned off some of the appliances I did I wiped the FR there was blood on the front of
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the dishwasher there was blood on the front of the stove um there was um that cinnamon roll
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pan had blood on the um tin foil they had pulled up the floorboards where they found Kelsey's
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blood they showed video of a hay barn where Le says frzy hid Kelsey's body in that tote overnight a cadaver dog
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alerted to the area this is a surveillance image of frzy at a gas station Lee says he was buying gas to
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start a fire we brought the tote here okay we unloaded the tote okay Kelsey's body was moved to
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Fry's Ranch were you present when he started the fire yes I was okay this is the video that shows how Lee says she
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helped frzy burn Kelsey's body in that black tote what about the accelerant gas okay and burned evidence including
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kayle's toys and Kelsey's Blood Stained Bible do you remember what the books were by just one of them was her um I
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would imagine it was a Bible experts say a human female tooth fragment was recovered from fr's Ranch
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near the burn site but there wasn't enough DNA to determine a profile [Music] at the end of her testimony she told the
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jury Kelsey's chilling last words please stop but he didn't he keeps beating her
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and beating her and beating her the jury needed to hear that they needed to hear
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how brutal this was how uncaring he was how senseless this was why would Lee help frzy she claimed she feared for
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herself and her children she was in love with Patrick frzy and had been for a long time as the trial went on and and
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we saw that dark side of Patrick frzy that crystal saw that Kelsey saw I think you can understand some of that
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fear I I don't know that we'll ever understand entirely why she did what she did it's it's fairly
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inexplicable perhaps the most shocking testimony came from a surprise prosecution witness your last witness I
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think jws dropped when he started testifying tell tell me about him we didn't know about him prosecutor Beth
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Reed says the surprise witness was an inmate at the same jail where Patrick fry was being held he actually had
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started calling our office while we were in the middle of trial the former inmate
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had watched a 48 Hours episode on Kelsey barth's murder turns out he says frzy gave him a
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hit list some of the names handwritten on paper towels he was instructed to flood
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describe to me what was in the 16 notes passed between Patrick and the former inmate well they were
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requests that a certain number of Witnesses needed to disappear but it was very specific as to Crystal Lee graphic
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descriptions of what needed to happen to Crystal Lee he described putting a bullet in her
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head also on fr's Hit List Crystal Lee's best friend Michelle Stein and Kelsey's
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mother Cheryl Barth what does that say about Patrick frzy it says that Patrick will do
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whatever he wants to get whatever he wants the defense called No Witnesses frzy chose not to testify the case went
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to the jury after 3 and 1 half hours of deliberations a verdict a verdict is in in this 11 breaking news alert the jury
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says they unanimously found patri frzy guilty of first-degree murder frzy was found guilty of first-degree murder
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sentenced to life in prison plus 156 years do you think if Patrick hadn't involved Crystal he would have gotten
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away with Kelsey's murder yes I do I think it's very possible he would have gotten away with that involving Crystal
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was that was a stupid plan the whole plan was stupid but he wanted Crystal Lee to pin it on as for crystal
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she's facing a maximum of up to 3 years in prison I think a lot of her viewers are
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probably thinking Crystal Lee given what she's admitted to got a really good deal she did and um
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uh it's it's not right and I'm not going to try to justify it any way uh it's unfortunately a part of my profession
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that sometimes in order to solve a case we have to give a deal to the devil uh that's exactly what we did here if you
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could sentence Crystal Lee what would it be uh heck of a lot more time than three
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years she could have saved Kelsey so many times over so many months and it's totally
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inexcusable is this Justice for Kelsey and kayy can there ever be justice justice in this
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case Kelsey be sitting here talking to you not us excuse me um so we can C certainly seek a certain
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amount of justice but not the justice that this case [Music] [Music] [Music] deserves
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