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An inside look at the startling evidence that helped convict against Colorado man Patrick Frazee for the murder of his fianceƩ. CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste reports.
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41m
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02 Aug 2020
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[music] A key witness takes a stand in the drill of Patrick Frazie. Investigators believe Patrick Frazie killed Kelsey Barrett in her town home on Thanksgiving last year. Day two of the murder trial for the man who allegedly killed his penis. Today, day seven of the trial investigators revealed the moments they found in this video of Kelsey Barrett and her one-year-old daughter at a Woodland Park supermarket is the last anyone seen of the 29-year-old mother. "If convicted Frazie could face life in prison." "We can certainly sense that we are in the final days of this trial and it is certainly not." Purple Creek is a small town teller county is a small county. "We're up in life a minute." They have never seen anything to this magnitude. In Purple Creek, Ashley Frank, OKKTV 11 news. "You've covered every second of this trial. What is the feeling that inside that courtroom?" "It's been cold. It's been very heavy and chilling. During the first week, we learned about some of the evidence in the case. Crystal Lee, Patrick Frazie's ex-girlfriend is said to be the prosecution's star witness." "OK. It's 11 and 15. Again, on the 21st of December 2018. We're inside Kelsey's apartment with Crystal." "You are seeing what the jury saw. Remarkable evidence. The heart of the prosecution's case." "When you came in, what did you see?" "Um, when I first walked in, I found Crystal. It was all over the floor. It's all gone up the wall." Who is Crystal Lee? Crystal Lee is a rodeo queen from Idaho. She's very well known. And she's Patrick Frazie's ex-girlfriend. They've known each other for over a decade. She's the bread and butter to this case. That's Crystal Lee wearing a police jacket and hat. "Can you point to the area where you saw the clean blood above the wall?" She admits to cleaning up the crime scene and tells the prosecution the whole entire story of what happened. She's the only person in the world that they have to possibly convict Patrick Frazie. "We did a deal with the devil. There's just no if-hands or putts about it in this case." "This one?" "But it's a deal that we made in order to move this case forward and to solve this crime." "Sometimes in order to solve a case or move a case forward, we have to give a deal to the devil." "That's exactly what we did here." "Did you say that you cleaned off some of the appliances?" "I did my wipe. There was blood on the front of the dishwasher. There was blood on the front of the stove." Crystal Lee was obviously the star witness for the prosecution, and she testified to things that the prosecution needed her to say in order to establish this case. "I'm Ia Gruber. I'm a professor of law at University of Colorado Law School." "I think there were doubts about Crystal Lee's testimony coming into it. Crystal Lee has trafficked in lies." Crystal Lee is saying he has been planning on killing Kelsey, and he had called me multiple times about it. There's poison coffee. There's a baseball bat, scented candles, a blindfold, phones that are pinging all over Colorado and in Idaho. "I gotta tell you, it's one of the most emotional trials I've ever been through, and I've been through a lot of trials." "The roller coaster, everybody was put on. There wasn't anybody on this team at some point. I didn't have tears running down their face." "We just got word that a verdict has been reached in the case against Patrick Crazy." Now them try to take it where the Furt weren't the other ones out here. "There's always a little bit of nervousness and question in the back of your mind." "Just hours ago we were hearing closing statements, and now we have a verdict." "The Furt ain't the Furt ain't the Furt ain't the Furt ain't the Furt.

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An inside look at the startling evidence that helped convict against Colorado man Patrick Frazee for the murder of his fianceƩ. CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste reports.