Justice for Kelsey Berreth
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A key witness takes a stand in the drill of Patrick Phrasing. Investigators believe Patrick Phrasing killed Kelsey Berriff in her town home on Thanksgiving last year. Day 2 of the murder trial for the man who allegedly killed his people. Today, Day 7 of the trial investigators revealed the moments they found in his video of Kelsey Berriff and her one-year-old daughter at a Woodland Park supermarket is the last anyone seen of the 29-year-old mother. "If convicted, freezy could face life in prison." "We can certainly sense that we are in the final days of this trial and it is serving" "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 Cripple Creek, Ashley Franco, KKTV 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 Phrasing's ex-girlfriend is said to be the prosecution's star witness." "Okay, it's 11 and 15, again on the 21st of December 2018, we're inside Kelsey's department with Crystal." You are seeing what the jury saw, remarkable evidence just released, the heart of the prosecution's case. "When you came in, what did you see?" "When I first walked in, I found two of them. It was all over the floor, and so I brought up the wall." Who is Crystal Lee? Crystal Lee is a rodeo queen from Idaho. She's very well known, and she's Patrick Phrasing'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 and cleaned blood upon 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 Tracy. We did a deal with the devil. There's just no if-hands or putts about it in this case, 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. "If you say that you cleaned off some of the appliances, I didn't wipe the front. 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."
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An inside look at the startling evidence that helped convict against Colorado man Patrick Frazee for the murder of his fianceé. CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste reports.