Good evening. Thanks so much for joining us. Im linsey davis. Tonight a little girl in colorado is living without her parents. Her mother murdered and her dad charged with killing her in a case thats captivated the nation. Today the trial began for Patrick Frazee, with prosecutors ready to unleash their key witness. Reporter she was the mother of a yearold baby girl. New includes in the desperate nationwide search. For the mother who vanished. Without a trace on thanksgiving. Reporter kelseys mysterious disappearance captivated the country as questions swirled about her fiance, Patrick Frazees involvement. The next chapter opening in colorado as the murder trial begins. With every potential juror he locked eyes as if he wanted to communicate with them. Reporter the main witness . A former lover who could make or break the case. You have a man accused of killing his fiance, the mother of his 1yearold, in a plot with an exgirlfriend. I mine, this has all the makings of a tv movie. Reporter kelsey met Patrick Frazee in 2016 online. She moved to colorado to be with him. Kelsey is funloving. Shes got a bright personality. She is kind, caring. Reporter she worked as a Flight Instructor and wanted a family. In 2017 giving birth to their baby girl. Shes grounded and responsible. She has a 1yearold child. She wouldnt just leave her. Reporter on thanksgiving day 2018 this Surveillance Video inside a Woodland Park safe way captures the lastknown images of her shopping with her daughter. But it wasnt until ten days later that her mother, not her fiance, reported her missing. Shes not the kind that runs off. Reporter once the investigation started questions immediately cropped up. They didnt live together. And frazee told officers he hadnt seen his fiance since thanksgiving either when he met to pick up their daughter. If you look at past cases where the husband killed the wife, and you watch their behavior, many of them sort of disengage. Theyre not in obviously, emotionally invested in finding the person because they know theyre dead. Reporter family and police searched barretts home. Inside her makeup, clothes and suitcases left untouched. Kelsey had only lived in this condominium since june. She was quiet and kept to herself. When police came to search they found both of her cars in the driveway and signs that shed left unexpectedly, including cold Cinnamon Rolls left on the stove. Reporter as authorities launched a national search, her mother was there to make an impassioned plea. Call us if you can, we wont stop looking. Reporter but her fiance was a noshow. Why is he not here . Na that is a question youd have to ask him. Reporter i tried to speak with frazee first at home. And again when he and his daughter left a meeting at the office of a colorado prisprings defense attorney. Why dont you talk to us . Everybody in their right mind knows that if you lose someone you love youre out there looking. Youre lying on the front steps of the police station, begging for justice. What did he do . Clam up and speak through his lawyer hmmm. Reporter then, nearly three weeks after kelseys disappearance, frazees property is searched. Dozens of investigators rolling up to his front gate with dogs, digging equipment and fbi evidence teams scouring the property for two days. You dont take a backhoe to somebodys ranch and start digging if you dont suspect youre going to find something. Reporter authorities towed frazees truck away. They also discovered what appeared to be a fragment of a human tooth. But they didnt find kelsey or her body. An explosive moment caught on camera. Law enforcement, guns drawn, pointed at Patrick Frazee. You see him, hes in cuffs. Were just outside Patrick Frazees property there. And right up there, investigators have Patrick Frazee in custody. They rolled in here just a few minutes ago with an arrest warrant. Reporter frazee is now facing eight charges, including first degree murder and solicitation to commit first degree murder, all of which hes pleaded not guilty to. Last december authorities identified the main crime scene as barretts townhouse, leaving with bags of evidence, including traces of blood found in the bathroom and on a fireplace. Police also say they discovered a series of mysterious Text Messages between barrett and frazees phones three days after she disappeared. What is the text message she sent you on the 25th. Barretts phone was detected in idaho. In one frazee texts, do you need anything . Can i do anything . Barretts replies, no, im fine, just warn out. Another says do you even love me . Frazee responds, yes, i do. But Authorities Say frazee staged those exchanges. A woman in idaho is now being investigated. Reporter that cell phone ping giving police a new lead. Authorities are looking at a 32yearold nurse from twin falls, idaho. That mystery nurse is this woman. She rekindled a romance. As part of a plea deal, she flipped on her former lover. Authorities allege she did more than just move the victims cell phone. Lee gives the authorities a very specific account of how she was the one who was supposed to kill kelsey. Reporter in an affidavit, she told investigators that on at least three separate occasions frazee asked her to murder barrett, suggesting she poison her coffee, even giving her a metal pipe to hit her in the back of the head. She claimed frazee had described to her in detail how he killed barrett. Patrick kills kelsey in a horrific manner. With a bat, in the back of the head, as kelsey is sniffing candles with a blindfold over her eyes. Reporter then following barretts murder, lee told investigators that frazee called her and told her she had a mess to clean up. She admitted she cleaned the home and burned damaging evidence. He told her the body was stored in a black plastic tote and that he burned the body, pouring at least five barrels of gasoline to keep the fire going. We wouldnt know where the murder happened in the apartment even, in the room without her testimony. Its all going to come down to crystal lee. Do the jurors believe her . Because it is clear that frazees attorneys are going to point the finger at her. The big surprise in the courtroom came from the defense. Their theory, which has never been laid out before is that crystal lee is to blame for Kelsey Barretts death. Reporter lee denies killing barrett. Cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom, but Carol Mckinley was there for the first day of testimony. The trial started off with the victims mother taking the stand. She broke down a couple of times, specifically, when she told the jury about the last time she spoke with her daughter on thanksgiving day 2018. Reporter in the weeks that follow, a jury will decide frazees fate. One mans life on the line. As those who loved Kelsey Barrett hope for justice. For nightline, im clayton sandell, in Woodland Park, colorado. Up next, one mans dream to dive, from olympic hopes to amazing steps against all odds. Performance comes in lots of flavors. Theres the ampedup, overtuned, feedingfrenzyof sheetmetalkind. And then theres performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. Thats the kind lincolns about. Its jcpenneys biggest sale of shop coats for the family. 12. 99 mens and womens tops. Or air fryers or, take an extra 20 off with your jcpenney credit card and coupon come in and save big at jcpenney come on lets hide in the attic. No. In the basement. Why cant we just get in the running car . Are you crazy . Lets hide behind the chainsaws. Smart. Yeah. Ok. If youre in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. Its what you do. This was a good idea. Shhhh. Im being quiet. 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I was the new york state empire ta state games champion in high school and selected for one of the all americans in my junior and senior year. That led to a scholarship at the university of kentucky. I had that olympic dream, wand with my increasing skills and the rate at which i was improving i thought i had a chance. I was trying to do more complicated, more difficult dives, and they just werent coming. I started to lose movement in my shoulder. My shoulder was becoming noticeably more and more weak. Yeah, i was struggling. It got worse and worse. So i went in, and i got an mri. I found out a day later that i had a 6inch tumor in my spinal column that was pressing up against my spinal cord and causing me to lose the function in my shoulder and my arm. I went in for surgery the first weekend of march of 1995. And i was 21 at the time. It was a 13hour surgery. There were some complications during the surgery. All the system equipment went down. And they didnt have any life signs on me. I think that my life was teetering. I had severe, severe trauma to my spinal cord. Severe scarring. So they were basically planning for me to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I think at that point i was tired of hearing that i wasnt going to be able to do this, i wasnt going to be able to do that, and i said im tired of hearing this stuff. Im going to walk again. Im going to make it happen. Not only am i going to walk again, but im going to make something of my life. Right after my surgery, i went back to my high school to watch some diving, and then i found out that they didnt have a coach. And they said hey, why dont you start coaching, and well give you the job. And then they had an opening here, and i decided to apply. They took a chance on a guy who couldnt walk very well to come in and lead the Diving Program here at r. I. T. 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