[dance music playing]
[Holly Madison] Kelsey Turner looked like aPlayboy Bunny.
With the long platinum blond hair
and the voluptuous body.
Kelsey was the premier party girl for our scene.
They like the limelight,
and they're catered to everywhere they go.
But girls like Kelsey can definitely get caught up in this lifestyle.
One of those things that he would do is to find women,
that were good looking and befriend them.
[Leila Barghouty] She had a feeling that something was wrong,
and she had been calling law enforcement.
What it looks like here is someone committed a violent crime...
...and they're now fleeing the scene.
[David Kohlmeier] You just didn't really know at the time,
was she a suspect or was she the victim?
At one point, he threatened to eat the male detective's soul.
Just because there's one victim...
...doesn't mean there's not another.
[Barghouty] On March 3rd, 2019,
officers show up to a house in suburban Nevada.
There's watch communication with Las Vegas Metro Police
over a woman in California
in regards to welfare checks of the home.
They're checking on a home
where 25-year-old model, Kelsey Turner, is staying.
But nobody answers the door.
And they notice that the mail's piling up,
there's a package on the door.
No one's at home,
but the lights are still on.
[Randy Sutton] Officers saw that the windows were open,
and that there were signs of a struggle.
[Katelyn Newberg] So, because one of the doors was unlocked,
they go inside,
and there's just cleaning supplies all over the garage.
It smelled really strongly of ammonia in there.
[Sutton] When the investigators began
the actual search of the residence,
they found signs of violence...
...including a door that was actually broken down.
They found blood spatters and smears on the door.
[Kohlmeier] They made it a crime scene,
and Kelsey Turner was missing.
[Madison] Kelsey Turner is a stunning blonde
who appeared on the Playboy Italiawebsite
on May 10th, 2017.
Kelsey looked like aPlayboy Bunny.
She looked like what you would think of as, like,
the typical playmate with the long platinum blond hair
and the voluptuous body.
Kelsey Turner was originally from Jonesboro, Arkansas.
[Newberg] She went to Arkansas State University,
and she majored in Sports Medicine and Exercise.
Uh, she also had experience doing freelance modeling.
A lot of swimsuit modeling.
She moved to California in 2014
to pursue a modeling career.
[Talon Reid] I met Kelsey through mutual friends
just out at one of my shows in LA.
I run a lot of events.
Seven nights a week.
She would always hit me up,
and I would set up a whole night full of activities
for, you know, her and her girlfriends.
She would get her group of girls together,
and I would host them for the night,
and make sure that they all get taken care of in the club.
Hi!
Hey guys, we're here with Crystal James.
Hey! The spark of Hollywood with these babes!
[Barghouty] Kelsey was going for a very specific vibe.
She's always glammed up.
She was trying to show this persona
of somebody that is fun
and living this party-girl lifestyle.
Kelsey was the premier party girl for our scene
and for what they expect us to have
out at the clubs for, you know, for the shows.
You know, your blond hair, light eyes,
uh, one-piece stretched short skirt,
high heels, you know, um...
...skinny model chicks. [chuckling]
That's really what they like to see at the club.
You know, it's, like, the Hollywood nightlife chase.
[Madison] Kelsey had done lots of modeling work,
but she was finally starting to break through.
[Barghouty] From early on, Kelsey is posing in lingerie and swimsuits.
She even does a couple of low-budget films.
Watch it, ass[bleep]!
[Barghouty] She's really trying to pursue this modeling thing full-time.
[Madison] So, Kelsey was getting regular modeling work.
Not just online, but she was also a published model.
She had been in Maxim and several other different publications.
But it was Kelsey's dream to be aPlayboy centerfold.
When you can attach the Playboyname to yourself,
that could have been a big door opening for Kelsey
because so many people would have seen her photos,
and she was on the right track to that.
So, Kelsey is this aspirational model,
she's trying to get more lingerie and swimsuit work,
and in May of 2017,
her dreams come true when she's chosen
to appear inPlayboy Italia.
[Madison] Playboy was a huge brand
with so many international editions,
and one of the most recognizable brand names in the world.
Posing for a foreign edition ofPlayboy
could definitely get you in the door
to becoming a centerfold.
This is a big break for Kelsey.
Being featured on Playboy Italia
is a little bit like being featured
as, say, a Playboy Cyber Girl here in the States.
You're on the website,
you're photographed beautifully,
you're portrayed as, like, this beautiful, sexy woman.
[Barghouty] Kelsey was quoted inPlayboy Italia, saying,
"I love thrills and fun,
I'm living my life fully aware that I only have one."
[Madison] She was doing everything right.
She was on the right track.
Playboy Italiacould have been a big door opening for her
because so many people would have seen her photos.
[Newberg] In December of 2018,
Kelsey moved to Vegas from California.
[Meghan Sacks] She moved to Las Vegas to pursue her dreams.
Further her modeling career.
But she also began working for a party promoter.
Playboywas the perfect brand for Las Vegas in many ways
just because, you know, it's Sin City,
everybody wants to party here.
You know, you think, "Sexy" when you think of Las Vegas.
It's definitely a place where Kelsey could come,
and possibly make some inroads into the Playboyworld.
[Newberg] Kelsey moved into this house in December of 2018,
living with Diana Pena,
and Diana cleans in exchange for free rent.
Diana Pena works as a bartender in a casino.
[Newberg] And then, in February,
Kelsey ends up dating Jon Kennison,
and Jon moves in pretty immediately.
So, all three of them are living
in the upstairs floors of this house together.
[Madison] Kelsey was a party promoter.
She would try and bring people in,
and bring business into hotel casinos and nightclubs.
She starts spending nights at some of the city's hottest clubs,
hanging out with some of the most exclusive guests.
[Madison] She was deep into the lifestyle
where you're hustling 24/7,
and just always putting forward this image of yourself.
She would often be hired as a model
to host different events.
Whether it be nightclub events, charity events,
and she would be considered the feature draw.
Like, it would be her photo on the flyer.
And being considered aPlayboy model,
that was the draw, that was why people would hire her,
thinking it would bring people to the nightclubs.
The girls that I have had relationships with that work at Playboy
love being a part of that community.
They like the limelight, they like the attention,
and they're catered to everywhere they go,
so, it's like, "What's not to like about it?"
Anything you can imagine anywhere else,
multiply it by, like, 100, and there's Vegas.
People who go to Vegas, it's another level.
It's like that emoji with the brain exploding.
That's Vegas.
[police siren in background]
There is a lot of violent crime here in Las Vegas
of the whole gamut.
Murder, sexual assault,
armed robbery, aggravated assault,
uh, you know, batteries with weapons.
[Madison] Playboy and Las Vegas definitely have that in common,
where there's a lot of glamor on the outside.
Girls like Kelsey can definitely get caught up in this lifestyle.
But there can also be a lot of dark secrets.
[police dispatch] 911 operator, what's your emergency?
[Newberg] It was 9:30 a.m. on March 7th,
was when the 911-call came in.
Somebody who was out driving
near the Lake Mead National Recreation Center
had seen this car on the side of the road
with a busted window,
and they thought it was suspicious.
[Barghouty] It's this new car in the middle of the desert.
And if you've ever driven down a desert highway,
you know that you don't see things for miles and miles.
So, the fact that this car was just sitting there
sort of on the side of the road was really peculiar.
[Newberg] Once police get there, they try to open the door,
and they just notice the smell from it.
There's latex gloves on the front seat,
and there's blood all over the back seat of the car.
[Sutton] They looked in the vehicle, they checked the trunk,
and when they checked the trunk,
they made a very, very grim discovery.
[Newberg] In the trunk, they find blue and white striped towels...
...and a human body.
[Kohlmeier] So, when officers arrive at the scene,
the first thing they notice about this car
was the windows lowered down,
which is not normal for anyone leaving a vehicle,
even by the side of the road if you were hiking.
They then notice blood on the seats.
So, the officers definitely felt
that something was unusual and suspicious.
As they're doing some search in the vehicle,
they open up the trunk,
and inside the trunk they find some different items
where it looked like clothing.
They actually didn't see the body at first.
It took a little bit to work through some of the clothes
to actually uncover that there was a body inside the trunk.
If there's no identification on a body,
we try to check on the registered owner.
[Sutton] That is somebody that they have to look at
as a person of interest in the homicide investigation.
Because what is this dead body
doing in this car?
[Kohlmeier] At that time, when they run the license plate,
it does come back to a person out of San Francisco.
[Sutton] When police contacted the registered owner,
he explained that he had actually sold the car
to a buyer that he had met on Craigslist...
...Kelsey Turner.
This guy said that he had made an arrangement with Kelsey
whereas Kelsey was gonna make monthly payments on the car
until they could transfer the car to her name.
[Sacks] So, technically, he was listed as the owner,
but the real occupant
or the real everyday user of that car
was Kelsey Turner.
I think it was definitely a little bit suspicious,
but the registered owner was in China
at the time of the murder.
And he did have paperwork to show
he was actually, like, subleasing that car
to a Kelsey Turner,
so, that cleared him of being involved in the murder.
When the coroner started the investigation and looking at the body,
they noticed blood trauma to the head.
[Newberg] There were defensive wounds on the arm,
and the teeth were knocked out as well.
[Sacks] Despite the brutal injuries,
investigators are eventually able to identify the victim
because multiple credit cards were found at the crime scene.
Police are able to identify the victim
as 71-year-old Dr. Thomas Burchard.
He's a child psychiatrist based in Salinas, California,
visiting Las Vegas.
Dr. Burchard works at some of the country's most prestigious hospitals.
He works at Cincinnati Children's Hospital,
Mass General, UCLA.
Eventually, he goes on to work at the community hospital
of the Monterey Peninsula in California.
He's very popular at his work.
They even give him the nickname "Santa"
because he looks like Santa Claus.
[Sutton] Once the victim was identified,
the detectives were quick to learn
that for three solid days,
the police had been trying to locate Dr. Burchard,
and determine about his wellbeing.
Dr. Burchard came to Vegas on March 1st of 2019,
and March 2nd was the last day that his partner, Judy,
had received a text message from him,
and it said something along the lines of,
"I'm excited to come home."
But at a certain point, Thomas's phone is completely turned off,
and she calls him,
and other people had tried calling,
but he's just no answering.
She had a feeling that something was wrong,
and she had been calling law enforcement
to try to figure out why he wasn't answering his phone.
Judy mentions to the police
that she thinks he might have been with a woman named Kelsey Turner.
We don't know exactly how Dr. Burchard met Kelsey,
but at one point in California,
they were living in the same small town.
As detectives were conducting their investigation,
information from Judy led them to believe
that Thomas Burchard would find women
that were good looking women, and try to befriend them.
[Sacks] Dr. Burchard was particularly known for helping young women
who were hard on their times.
He would kind of come in and be their savior as it were.
He liked to help.
He kind of liked the hero complex, Judy would say later on.
[Madison] Judy thought of Dr. Burchard's relationship
with these women almost like charity.
Like he was trying to help women who needed assistance.
Whether it was a case of love
or relationships or just a friendship,
information from Judy led to believe
that he was giving money to Kelsey.
[Sacks] Kelsey's been featured in different magazines,
she's very active on Instagram as a swimsuit model,
and she has developed into that persona...
...but she's also struggling to pay her bills.
In California, Thomas had been paying
for Kelsey's rent,
and he had been paying her bills.
Their relationship worked out well because Kelsey was living with her mother
in California where she recently lost her job.
Dr. Burchard was financially supporting Kelsey and her family.
He would pay for her and her mother's expenses.
Their rent, Kelsey's car,
and pretty much anything they needed.
[Sacks] He had been subsidizing her lifestyle for a long time.
Judy told the police that Thomas had already spent
over $300,000 on Kelsey Turner.
[Madison] After Kelsey moved to Las Vegas,
Dr. Burchard kept paying her rent,
and was sending her money weekly.
He doesn't want her out on the street or having a hard time.
That seems like a really generous thing for Dr. Burchard to do,
but things like that can get complicated.
Sometimes in relationships like that,
there's all kinds of expectations on either side
that go unspoken,
which can lead to all kinds of disagreements
and conflict further down the road.
Judy was pretty forthcoming...
...but she never really elaborated what the nature of the relationships were.
If I had to guess, I'd say there was something that happened
of a sexual nature.
It could also just be sexual innuendo
that Kelsey had presented or...
and maybe possibly, you know, led him to believe.
[Kohlmeier] And Judy felt endangered by the relationship...
...and Judy definitely was nervous, upset...
...and maybe somewhat jealous of the situation,
especially a much younger woman
who's a model and very attractive.
There was a moment where Judy was very clear.
She gave a bottom line.
She wanted Thomas to stop supporting Kelsey.
[Madison] Even if this was a transactional relationship,
that doesn't mean that he didn't necessarily care for Kelsey
or want to make sure she was okay.
Those things aren't mutually exclusive.
[Barghouty] So, Dr. Burchard traveled to Las Vegas
to see how Kelsey was spending his money,
what the situation was,
to see if she was telling the truth about how she was living,
and what she was using it for,
and to potentially stop funding her lifestyle.
[Kohlmeier] So, as the investigation continued,
police realized that there were several calls that came in for welfare checks.
to check on Thomas Burchard.
[Sacks] And they're able to trace his location
to the residence where Kelsey and her roommates lived.
His phone revealed that he was there
on March 1st and March 2nd.
But after that, on March 3rd,
his phone is turned off and no location can be found.
[Newberg] Police do welfare checks
on March 3rd, 4th and 5th at Kelsey's house.
This was a house where there was always somebody at home,
but it looked like this house had been vacated,
and then everyone had mysteriously vanished.
On March 8th, police eventually are able to get a search warrant
for Kelsey's home.
[Kohlmeier] Neighbors feel something's wrong,
and they're also suspicious for the fact that
it's been several days, and there's no major activity at the home.
Even with getting information from Judy,
doesn't mean that Kelsey herself
could not be in danger.
In the middle of the floor, investigators find two piles of laundry,
and the towels in one of those piles of laundry
matches the ones that were found
with Dr. Burchard's body in the trunk of the car.
They immediately notice these towels have blood stains.
[Kohlmeier] Also, there were various fingerprints
that were located in the car.
So, of course, crime scene lab will actually take all those fingerprints
to identify who the fingerprints were.
[Newberg] And they find record
of Kelsey's roommate Diana's fingerprints in the car,
and her boyfriend Jon's fingerprints are in there as well.
In Las Vegas, it's very common to be fingerprinted
for many different jobs.
Diana Pena worked at a local casino,
so, her fingerprints were on file
because she would have had to get that done to work at the casino.
[Sacks] Jon Kennison had a few drug offenses on his record,
and he had been fingerprinted at his last arrest.
At this point, investigators can't be sure if Kelsey's a victim.
They can't be sure if any of the other roommates are a victim.
They have two crime scenes...
...and everyone is missing.
[Kohlmeier] There was no major reason to clean up...
...they weren't vacating of house...
...so some type of altercation and clean-up took place.
That's why the clean-up material
was definitely very suspicious to Las Vegas Metro Police.
[Sutton] So, detectives interviewed the landlord of the property,
and the landlord explained to them
that Dr. Burchard
was actually the one who paid the rent
on the residence
even though Kelsey Turner was the occupant of the residence.
And the lease was actually going to expire
later on in the year during 2019.
What it looks like is someone committed a violent crime.
Probably the murder of Thomas Burchard,
and they're now fleeing the scene.
[Sutton] But just because there's one victim,
doesn't mean there's not another.
[Kohlmeier] When they were conducting the search warrant,
they also did attempt to trace and tap the phone
that Kelsey had to find out the areas that she was at
over the last few days or where possibly she was.
[Sutton] Investigators looked deeply
into Kelsey Turner's phone records.
They found that she had utilized the phone,
and she was in the area of the home from the 1st to the 5th...
...but after the 6th...
...nada.
There was nothing.
On March 7th, the records show that Kelsey's phone had been turned off.
[Kohlmeier] This definitely seemed suspicious.
We just didn't really know at the time,
was she a suspect or was she a victim and kidnapped?
You just don't wanna say,
"Oh, I think Kelsey murdered someone"
just because a family member or a friend
or a partner of Thomas's says, "He's in danger."
[Sacks] However, as Judy began to encourage him to pull back,
Kelsey began threatening to call professional associations,
threatening to report Thomas for unsavory behavior,
and so, as that began to happen,
he was scared.
So, Thomas kept on supporting Kelsey
against Judy's advice.
[Sutton] So, they were gonna be checking the records
of the doctor's phone as well.
And there were calls made,
and the phone had been utilized
up until March 3rd.
And then, after March 3rd, there was nothing.
[Sacks] The last time Judy heard from Thomas Burchard
was when they exchanged texts,
and when he expressed that he was excited
to finish his business and come home.
But here's where it gets really interesting.
Dr. Burchard's phone was actually in the possession...
...of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The phone had been impounded prior to this.
On March 6th, one of Thomas's friends
is trying to reach Thomas,
and he calls him, and this guy named Jonny picks up.
[Kohlmeier] So, the friend speaks to Jonny,
"Please take that phone and bring it to the police station."
Which, to me, I am shocked
that this guy actually went into the police officers,
the impound, whether it was for safekeeping at the time
or for investigative purposes.
[Newberg] So, the police have the phone now.
On March 12th, this is after Thomas's body has already been found,
detectives track down Jonny,
and they go and meet with him,
it's a male detective and a female detective.
So, this man said that he just found the phone lying around.
And suddenly Jonny...
...he actually confesses to involvement
in Dr. Burchard's murder.
Jonny turns out to be a transient guy around town.
The Las Vegas Metro Police detectives locate Jonny
who found the phone that was either lost
or thrown out of a window or who knows what.
[Sacks] Well, look, detectives, if they immediately find a man
who's in possession of a phone of a victim,
and he confesses, they probably thought he was involved.
And detectives have a really combative interview with him.
He's yelling at them.
He was not being friendly in general,
which led the police to believe that maybe he had information.
At one point, Jonny threatens to eat the male detective's soul...
...and he tries to attack a female detective.
He had some mental issues and emotional issues
that caused him to want to,
uh, let's say, uh...
...talk about his involvement when it actually didn't happen.
[Sacks] After taking some time to observe him and question him,
they realized that he was a false confessor.
They were able to determine that he had nothing to do with this crime,
and that he was very unstable, unfortunately.
But it was this phone that gave them new evidence
to be able to trace Dr. Burchard's steps.
To be able to trace his last known movement.
They're also able to look at Thomas Burchard's phone records,
and they're able to trace his location
to the residence where Kelsey and her roommates live.
His phone revealed that he was there on March 1st and March 2nd.
After that, on March 3rd, his phone is turned off,
and his whereabouts are unknown.
So, with all this evidence piling up,
it's been nearly a week since Thomas's body has been found,
the police don't know where Kelsey is, but they're actively looking for her.
[Kohlmeier] At this point in time, has she been kidnapped,
is she in danger or was she involved
in the murder of Thomas Burchard?
On the 21st March,
the case took a very interesting turn.
The Rio Hotel in Las Vegas,
security contacted the Metro Police
to let them know that they had some personal items
that they believe that the police might have an interest in.
[Kohlmeier] Most security works well
with the local police department in Las Vegas...
...and they always have a conversation,
and they're always sharing information.
[Newberg] And with casinos out here,
it's pretty common that people leave stuff in your room,
so, the Rio had collected these bags of...
...of articles and items from somebody
who had stayed at the hotel and just abandoned.
From the Rio lost and found,
police find medication bottles belonging to Diana Pena.
They find some documents, they find this little black book
with Thomas's handwriting in it that had his bank account information.
And they also find Kelsey Turner's driver's license.
It was just so much evidence
in regards to the situation in the car
and fingerprints and blood in different locations in the home.
Judy had a bad feeling about Kelsey Turner,
and she had asked Dr. Burchard to end that relationship
and to stop sending her money.
Judy tells investigators
that Kelsey had been extorting Dr. Burchard.
That she had threatened to spread rumors
that could end his career,
and that she was taking advantage of Dr. Burchard's
kindness and generosity.
Judy was growing more concerned about Dr. Burchard.
She saw his mental health declining.
He had signs of possible early dementia,
and she really felt that he was being taken advantage of by Kelsey.
She wanted him to cut Kelsey off.
She felt that Kelsey was trying to take him for every penny he had.
But there was no way Kelsey was letting this go.
[Sutton] With all of the evidence that had mounted up...
...that Kelsey Turner was involved in this crime,
this became critical information.
Investigators know they have one victim...
...and Kelsey Turner has disappeared at this point.
So, on the 21st of March...
...the Metropolitan Police actually submitted for an arrest warrant
for Kelsey Turner.
[Barghouty] There were so many questions.
Why were they on the run?
If there's no wrongdoing here,
why would you keep trying to escape?
It's been radio silence.
Nobody knows what happened to Kelsey,
no one knows where she is.
The Metropolitan Police Department detectives went to a judge,
and had arrest warrants issued
for conspiracy to commit murder
for Diana Pena...
...and Kelsey Turner's boyfriend, Jon Kennison.
On April 12th, Diana Pena gets with her criminal defense attorney,
and she turns herself in.
[Newberg] She immediately tells police
it was Kelsey and Kelsey's boyfriend, Jon,
who were responsible for Dr. Burchard's murder.
[Sutton] Diana is employed at a local casino.
On March 3rd,
the doctor and Kelsey had arrived to pick her up.
So, Kelsey has Dr. Burchard's phone in her hand,
she's looking at the GPS to try to figure out their way back home.
[Newberg] Diana says that as they're driving,
Kelsey is looking through Thomas's phone.
She starts to get angry,
and then it starts to get pretty heated in the car,
and they're, like, yelling at each other.
[Sutton] The argument became actually physical
between Turner and the doctor
to the point where Diana had to intervene,
and try and calm this situation down
and take control of it so that they could get home.
Diana was saying that there were pornographic photos on Thomas's phone.
This sends Kelsey reeling.
She's extremely upset.
[Sutton] Kelsey Turner somehow discovered
that there were nude photographs
and sexually explicit text messages
between the doctor
and Kelsey's mother.
[Sacks] Thomas knew Kelsey's mother
because the previous apartment he had rented for Kelsey
in Salinas, California,
she resided there with her mother.
But Kelsey didn't see this as a good reason
for the two to be exchanging messages.
[Barghouty] So, they get back to the house,
and Kelsey keeps getting madder and madder,
and, at this point, Dr. Burchard keeps telling her
that she needs to cool off,
and that they can keep talking about it
once she's had a second to sort of gather herself.
But Kelsey just keeps getting more and more angry.
[Madison] Kelsey discovered that Dr. Burchard
was exchanging explicit photos with her mother,
and she threatened to expose him
if he didn't continue to bankroll her.
[Barghouty] She's going to blackmail him,
and try to get him fired from his job or even worse
by accusing him of some sort of wrongdoing.
[Madison] I think Kelsey thought she was on to a good thing,
and was going to hang on to it any way she could.
[Sutton] The argument continues,
and Kelsey is haranguing the doctor,
and the doctor is saying, "I don't want any part of this anymore,"
and Kelsey Turner tells him
to go upstairs while she calms down,
but she continues to go up there
to where the doctor is to attack him verbally,
and this continues to escalate
into even more argument.
So, Kelsey, during this heated argument,
basically extorts him to give her
his bank account information
so that she can get money from him
as a way of payment
for not making a report to the authorities.
[Sacks] And this infuriates Thomas
who then goes into the room and slams the door behind him.
[Newberg] At this point, Kelsey's boyfriend, Jon,
starts to get involved in the argument.
Diana tells police that Jon runs upstairs
to where Thomas had closed the door
and tried to lock himself in this room.
And Diana says that Jon
is armed with a baseball bat...
...and is trying to break down the door.
Diana sees Jon go into the room with the baseball bat.
Diana says that, at that point,
Dr. Burchard was clearly injured,
his eye sort of black and blue.
[Newberg] There's a large bruise on Dr. Burchard's head,
and that he's clearly disoriented.
So, he starts to say that,
like, "I need to go to the hospital."
[Barghouty] Diana told investigators at this point
that everybody agreed they were gonna go to the hospital
so, Dr. Burchard gets into the car.
[Newberg] He's still bleeding at this point,
he saying he wants to go to the hospital,
but he's telling Kelsey and Diana and Jon like,
"Look, I can say that I was mugged
so that you guys don't get in trouble.
I can just say that I was mugged. It's fine."
So, Diana at this point
is thinking that she is going to drive him to the hospital.
Kelsey and Jon end up going back inside the house.
As Kelsey and Jon are inside the house,
Diana said that she is talking to Thomas.
At that time, Thomas tells Diana,
"Look, I think that Kelsey's gonna kill me."
Diana is scared because she doesn't know what's gonna happen to her
after she just witnessed a traumatic event
of this person being severely hurt or even killed.
[Barghouty] Diana says at this point that Kelsey tells her
they need to clean up the house first
'cause it's in such bad shape.
So, Diana goes back into the house and starts cleaning.
[Sutton] So, Diana was inside the house...
...and she hears that
the violence is continuing in the car.
So, she goes down to try and quell that.
[Kohlmeier] Diana overhears Kelsey say,
"Hey, Thomas is a bitch,
you need to knock him out."
Diana tries to go back out to the garage
to see what's happening.
Kelsey meets her halfway and says, "It's too late."
Jon comes out of the garage...
...there's blood all over his arms,
all over his hands, there's some splatted on his face.
And then Diana says...
"...You guys have just ruined our lives."
[Sacks] That night, Kelsey, Jon, and Diana
decided that they had to leave the residence.
So, the three of them left, and headed for the Rio Hotel
where they spent the night.
At one point, Diana says Jon leaves,
and he says, "I need to get rid of Thomas's phone."
They end up staying at the Rio for at least two days,
and it's at this point that they start to get
notifications on their phone that the body has been found.
They're seeing news reports.
[Sutton] The next day, Kennison and Kelsey
grab Diana and say, "We gotta go right now,
we gotta get out of this hotel."
They all just leave without taking any of their stuff,
and they get in a taxi, and they go.
[Sutton] Over the next few days,
they bounced around from small motels
to friends' houses,
and, eventually, a few days later,
Kelsey got a ride out of town.
[Kohlmeier] Las Vegas Metro Police received a tip
stating that Kelsey Turner was in Stockton, California.
The FBI goes out to Stockton,
and they locate Kelsey Turner,
and she was arrested
for the murder of Thomas Burchard.
A Playboymodel has been arrested
in the case of a California psychiatrist
who was murdered in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Police arrested 25-year-old Kelsey Turner
for the death of Dr. Thomas Burchard.
[Sacks] When Kelsey's brought in,
she points the finger at roommate, Diana Pena,
and says that she and Jon had nothing to do
with the murder of Thomas Burchard.
Kelsey claimed Diana was just a snitch,
and that she had everything to gain,
and, uh, she was the one
that committed this very violent crime...
...because Diana, basically, snapped when she learned
that the doctor wasn't going to pay the rent anymore
and that she couldn't deal with that,
and that was her motivation for killing the doctor.
[Newberg] So, Jon's arrested in April,
and, at this point, all three of them are in custody.
Jon's attorneys argue
that even though Jon was the one
who might have wielded the baseball bat,
it was Kelsey's cries of bloodlust,
and her anger at Thomas
was the reason why he was killed.
[Sacks] After Diana cooperated with the police,
she worked out a plea deal.
And the agreement was that she would plead guilty
to accessory to murder,
and she would receive probation.
[Sutton] In June of 2022,
Kennison plead guilty to second degree murder
and conspiracy to commit murder with a sentence
of 18 years to 45 years in a state prison.
In November of 2022,
Kelsey took a different kind of plea...
...called an Alford plea.
It is, basically,
"I'm not gonna say I did it and I'm guilty,
but I will say that the state has enough evidence to convict me,
and I know that I'm going to prison."
Ms. Turner, in accordance to the laws of the state of Nevada,
you hereby are judged guilty of second degree murder, a felony,
you hereby are sentenced to 10 to 25 years
in the Nevada Department of Corrections.
[Kelsey] Thank you, your honor.
[judge] This court's adjourned.
[officer] Court is adjourned.
[Sacks] In the end, Judy Earp,
who had warned Thomas for so long,
found some type of dark validation
with the sentences of Kelsey and Jon.
[Sutton] This was a crime of passion.
The people who did it were absolutely morally bankrupt.
This was a very violent action
that was perpetrated against an old man.
Cruel, horrible.
[Kohlmeier] There was just emotional domestic violence
that took place here on an extreme level,
and as stress and anxiety come into play,
it leads to the complete mess that you have with the murder case.
[Reid] I was definitely surprised to know
that someone I know was capable of...
...that kind of, like, you know, cruelty, but...
...you know, it's a crazy world.
[Madison] Las Vegas andPlayboy are both very glittery,
flashy, glamorous things,
but there can also be a lot of dark secrets,
and they both try and keep them hidden.
Things could have been really different for Kelsey,
but it took a darker turn.
She had become accustom to the lifestyle
that Dr. Burchard's money was providing,
and she wasn't gonna say goodbye to that.
This is a horrible story
about someone trying to help someone else
and it going terribly wrong.
They say the love of money can be the root of all evil
because people can just get so caught up
that everything else falls to the waste side,
and it turns into the ultimate worst-case scenario.