A PLAYBOY and Maxim model has been arrested over the death of a doctor – whose body was found stuffed in a car boot. Kelsey Turner was quizzed last week in California after Thomas Burchard, a 71-year-old child psychiatrist was found dead on March 7. His body was discovered in an abandoned car on a […]
A PLAYBOY and Maxim model has been arrested over the death of a doctor – whose body was found stuffed in a car boot.
Kelsey Turner was quizzed last week in California after Thomas Burchard, a 71-year-old child psychiatrist was found dead on March 7.
His body was discovered in an abandoned car on a highway, Las Vegas police confirmed.
The 25-year-old model will be extradited to Clark County on the murder charge.
It is not clear how she has been allegedly linked to the death, but her mum told KSBW the pair were known to each other.
She added Burchard paid for a rental home in Salinas where the model lived with her mother and children.
Turner and her family lived at the home for “about a year,” a neighbour told the station.
A source told the station that Turner moved to Las Vegas after Burchard stopping paying rent on the home.
Burchard is said to have met Turner online and had been giving her up to “four thousand dollars a week, easily”.
Just before leaving for Las Vegas, Burchard said Turner was “having trouble with her boyfriend,” and reportedly said “I feel partially responsible for this”.
Turner’s relatives declined to comment on her arrest, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Property records identified by the newspaper indicate that Turner has addresses in Arizona, Las Vegas and California, including Salinas.
Turner’s Facebook profile, which has a photo of her May 2017 Playboy Italia appearance, identifies her as a “professional model” who lives in Las Vegas.
It also features many scantily clad photos and pictures of her with young children.
In an interview with Maxim last year, Turner said she would pay off her student debt and “then help my family in any way” if she won its $25,000 Cover Girl contest. She placed eighth within one group, according to the website.
When asked if she had a secret talent, Turner told Maxim she was actually a “very talented” R&B and blues singer.
“I would consider this a secret talent because I decided pretty early on that I wanted to preserve my music as a personal and private hobby,” Turner told the magazine. “I have a keyboard in my room and record in studios often.”
Burchard had visited Las Vegas for a psychopharmacology conference in February, his longtime girlfriend, Judy Earp, told the Review-Journal.
He later returned to the city, although Earp declined to say why.
“Whoever did this is just soulless,” she told the newspaper.
A version of this story first appeared in the New York Post.
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