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This photo shows a view of the defendant's table in a courtroom closed due to budget cuts and layoffs, at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on March 16, 2009. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

KEY POINTS

  • Krystal Lee Kenney was sentenced to three years for evidence tampering as part of her plea deal
  • Kenney's testified Patrick Frazee admitted to beating his fiancee, Kelsey Berreth, to death in their home on Nov. 24, 2018 and burned her body
  • Kenney admitted to helping clean up blood around the house and taking Berreth's phone with her to Idaho before burning it

Krystal Lee Kenney, the mistress of Patrick Frazee, a Colorado man convicted of killing his fiancee Kelsey Berreth, was sentenced Tuesday at the Colorado District Court in Teller County as part of her plea deal for testifying against Frazee.

Judge Scott Sells handed down the maximum sentence, which will require Kenney to serve three years in prison for evidence tampering. She will also serve one year of mandatory parole after serving her prison sentence.

“I am sorry that Kelsey’s friends and family will live the rest of their life without her,” Kenney, 32, said during sentencing. “I am sorry Kaylee has lost her mother. I am sorry that I did not save Kelsey. My punishment comes everyday.”

Berreth’s parents took the chance to voice their displeasure at the sentencing.

“She shouldn’t have received the plea deal that she did,” Darrell and Cheryl Berreth said in a letter read to the court. “She was an active participant in the murder. The only thing she didn’t do was swing the bat.”

Berreth was reportedly killed around Thanksgiving of 2018, along with her infant daughter, Kaylee.

Kenney, who was in an “intimate” relationship with Frazee at the time, testified that she was called to his home. She said Frazee admitted to beating Berreth to death with a baseball bat and burned her body. He then asked her to help clean up the blood splattered across the house but said she left spots for police to find.

She continued, saying Frazee had her take Berreth’s cell phone with her to Idaho to make it appear she had left the state. It was then pinged on Nov. 25 near Gooding, Idaho, before Kenney said she burned it.

Frazee was convicted on charges of murder, solicitation to commit murder, and tampering with a deceased body in November. He was sentenced to life without parole.

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