The fiance of a Colorado mother missing since Thanksgiving was arrested at his home Friday morning, police said.
The Teller County Sheriff's Office confirmed Patrick Frazee was taken into custody without incident just after 7 a.m. and booked at the Teller County Jail almost one month exactly after 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth disappeared. He's facing charges of first-degree murder and solicitation to commit murder.
"We have not found Kelsey at this time," Woodland Park Police Chief Miles De Young said during a press conference Friday. "As you can tell from our arrest, we do not believe Kelsey is still alive."
Frazee previously told police he last saw his fiance on Nov. 22, when he picked up their 1-year-old daughter at her home in Woodland Park _ making him one of the last people to see the missing mother alive. Police also have surveillance video that sees Berreth shopping with her daughter at a Safeway Market from earlier in the day.
Frazee said the last time time he heard from Berreth was a text he received on Nov. 25. Her employer, an aviation company where she worked as a flight instructor, also received a message from Berreth that day, saying she planned on taking some time off.
Berreth's mother, Cheryl, reported her missing a week later on Dec. 2, kicking off a search spanning multiple states and several law enforcement agencies.
Authorities were able to track Berreth's phone to Gooding, Idaho, located nearly 800 miles away from her home in Woodland Park. Cheryl Berreth confirmed they had family in the area, but said it would be "completely out of of character" for her daughter to "run off."
Investigators spent several days over the weekend combing through Frazee's 35-acre ranch near Florissant and digging equipment could be seen at the property on Saturday.
Amid the search, De Young said he considered Berreth's disappearance "suspicious" but stopped short of naming Frazee as a suspect.
Authorities have not said what, if any, evidence they found at Frazee's home.
