Search warrants released in Kelsey Berreth murder investigation

Search warrants in the Kelsey Berreth murder investigation were made public Wednesday, two days after a judge ruled to unseal the documents.

READ THE DOCUMENTS HERE

There are 22 warrants associated with the case. At the time of this writing, 11 News is still combing through the documents and will update this article after we have read them all. Among the new information we have learned so far:

Berreth's fiance, Patrick Frazee, told investigators that on the eve of Nov. 21, Berreth told him during a phone call that she wanted them to go their separate ways because they had been growing apart. Frazee claimed he gave Berreth all of her things back, and they agreed to split custody of their 1-year-old daughter 50/50. Frazee said Berreth asked him to pick up their daughter on Nov. 22. When he got to her Woodland Park apartment, no one was home, so he told investigators he went to run errands. He spotted Berreth in the alley when he swung back by her home later, and he took their daughter. Nov. 22 is the last day Berreth was seen alive.
Frazee told investigators that on Sunday, Nov. 25, Berreth texted him, "Do you even love me?" Frazee said he replied that he did, but got a notification a few days later that his message did not go through.
Authorities obtained a warrant to search a 2006 Toyota Corolla registered to Berreth's mother but listed in the warrant as belonging to Berreth and Frazee. A sock with a small amount of what appeared to be blood was located on the front passenger seat. A K-9 indicated the presence of "human decomposition" in the rear bumper area on the driver's side.
Berreth's mother told police Frazee had exhibited worrying behavior in the past, specifically an incident after his daughter was born premature. Frazee allegedly became verbally abusive with nurses when barred from entering the hospital room; the behavior led to social services being called and an investigation conducted to make sure Berreth wasn't being abused. Frazee allegedly said later that he should have killed the nurse who reported them and joked about the incident at his daughter's first birthday.
Berreth's mother alerted authorities to blood on the outer bowl of the toilet at her daughter's townhome. She said the bath rug was gone and the refrigerator had been visibly wiped down.

Possible blood collected from toilet
Sample from sink, collected from bathroom sink
Sample from wall, collected from under towel rack
Sample from side of tub, collected from bathtub
Trash can, from bathroom
Shower curtain and liner
Towel from towel rack
Two towels from downstairs bedroom
Rug from living room
Sample from outlet in bathroom
Mat from outside of front door
The whole towel rack from bathroom wall
Bathroom vanity cabinet door
Sample from laundry door handle
Sample from laundry door frame
Bathroom drain and trap
Samples from door handle from downstairs closet
Samples from light switch from downstairs closet
Bathroom door (entire door)
Doorknobs found in trash can in downstairs closet
Kitchen sink trap and drain

(One week before his arrest)

A blanket
Several pairs of jeans
Frazee's Ent checkbook and registers
A health care card in Berreth's name
LG cellphone
Columbia boots
Baseball cap
Ancestry DNA box addressed to Berreth's P.O. box in Florissant
Verizon cell phone with broken screen
17 gray shirts
Five teeth
Hairbrush
50 9-mm rounds and two casings
Motorola Droid from Verizon with cracked screen
Laptops and tablets
Toothbrushes
Two more pairs of boots
Knife
Took swabs of a Swiffer, bleach bottle, Simply Green cleaning solution. All were positive presumptive (confirmed the presence of a specific substance)

#PatrickFrazee was just escorted into the courtroom. He’s still wearing the ballistic vest. Courtroom is relatively empty today. @KKTV11News
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Frazee’s attorneys filed a motion for today’s hearing. There’s still people working on issues, trying to resolve between CBI and the testing of the evidence in question. @KKTV11News
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Prosecutors ask that other steps be taken and other experts take a look at this evidence before it is tested for DNA. We’re not sure what evidence they have. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Judge says he’d need to hear testimony from CBI about the testing as to why some of the testing needs to be in private and if expert witnesses would be able to be present during the testing. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Defense is concerned because there’s a lot of discovery in the case and they’re continuing to receive the discovery and combing through it. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

22 search warrants with returns and 6 without returns (they haven’t been executed) but multiple media outlets have asked for those warrants to be unsealed. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Defense has objected to having search warrants released. They don’t want the public to have access to that information. Prosecution says there’s no reason the warrants should still be sealed. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

#BREAKING: Search warrants will be released to the public. That won’t happen today but we WILL get to see those warrants. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Judge Sells expects those warrants to be released later this week sometime. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Prosecution is objecting to the release of any photos provided to the court to the public. The concern is that the jury would see the photos before the trial starts. They’d see the photos without any context. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee #KelseyBerreth
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019

Judge Sells says he will not release any photos or audio recordings that were presented in the preliminary hearing. He says he’s worried those pieces of evidence would be taken out of context and possibly taken out of context. @KKTV11News #PatrickFrazee
— Ashley Franco (@AshleyKKTV) March 4, 2019