An Idaho nurse has pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence in the murder investigation of missing Colorado mother Kelsey Berreth, and as part of her plea agreement, she’ll testify against Kelsey’s fiance, Patrick Frazee.
Krystal Jean Lee, 32, was in tears as she told a Teller County judge that she knew Frazee killed someone and that she helped dispose of the victim’s cellphone. She faces up to 18 months in prison for the felony charge and will be sentenced after Frazee’s trial.
“I learned that Patrick Frazee had committed a homicide,” Lee told the court, while reading from a statement. “I knew that law enforcement would be investigating that crime.” Lee, a divorced mother of two, said she “moved” Kelsey’s phone between Nov. 24 and 25 “to impair the phone’s availability” in what was then only a missing persons probe.
