Strangers have come to the aide of the 1-year-old daughter of Colorado momKelsey Berrethafter Berreth went missing and her fiancé — the toddler’s father — wascharged with murdering her.
Dozens of items have been purchased off ofan Amazon registryestablished for little Kaylee.
Patrick Frazee, Kelsey Berreth and the couple’s infant.Facebook
Once an item is paid for, it is then shipped directly to Berreth’s relatives, who have been caring for Kaylee since the arrest of her dad, Patrick Frazee, who now faces two counts of murder and three for solicitation to commit murder.
Frazee, 32, and Berreth, 29, were engaged, but lived in separate residences. It is unclear if their relationship was in good standing on Thanksgiving, the last day anyone saw Berreth.
Patrick Frazee.Woodland Park Police
Frazee told investigators that he and his fiancée met up on Thanksgiving 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.
Frazee was arrested on Dec. 21without incident and remains in police custody without bond. Attempts to reach his lawyer were unsuccessful Thursday. He’s due back in court later today and again on Friday.
It is unclear if Frazee has entered pleas to any of the charges that have been filed against him in the last month.
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 were sent from Berreth’s phoneto her employer, Doss Aviation, saying she would not be at work for the next week.
At this point, authorities have yet to elaborate on the specific allegations that led to the solicitation counts, however it could mean prosecutors believe Frazee allegedly solicited an individual three times — or three people on three separate occasions — as part of his alleged plot to murder Berreth.
The charges against Frazee indicate that the alleged solicitations occurred between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1.
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Prosecutors said they filed the two murder counts against Frazee based on two theories about how the alleged killing may have occurred: Either Frazee carried out the crime on his own, or he and someone else allegedly tried to rob Berreth before she was killed.
If convicted, Frazee faces life imprisonment as well as a possible death sentence.
source: people.com
