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The Sugar Baby Murder

July 7, 2025

In this episode, Payton and Garrett dive into the case of a retired doctor with a secret obsession that ultimately leads to his downfall.

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You're listening to an Oh No Media podcast.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder With My Husband.

I'm Payton Moreland.

And I'm Garrett Moreland.

And he's the husband.

And I'm the husband.

If we sound a little different, it's because we are currently recording in a different place. But don't worry—we are here with another episode.

For those who are watching on YouTube, we don't know what we're going to do about video yet, because we brought our set, we brought our camera, and it is just not working. I could get into it technically, but it's just... it's not working.

It's bugging out.

It's wigging out.

Really frustrating, because they are not cheap cameras. I just don't understand how it's 2025 and we're literally sending people into space, but we still can't figure out all the technological glitches that happen almost every time we record.

Just... how does this still happen?

Yeah. And I know it's not just us—we have friends in the podcast industry, friends in photography, videography, whatever it is. Stuff just happens, and it's annoying. But we will figure something out for video.

I don't know if it'll be us. It probably won't.

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Daisy jumped in the pond. Now she smells like pond water.

So she's going to have to take a bath every day this week. She smells so bad.

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Our sources for this episode are: oxygen.com, abcnews.go.com, thecalifornian.com, 8newsnow.com, cbsnews.com, reviewjournal.com, aymag.com, ksbw.com, and happyscribe.com.

So, most of us can understand how great a feeling it is to help someone in need—whether that’s volunteering, making a donation, or even just lending a hand to a friend or a stranger when you see them struggling.

And sometimes all it takes is one good deed to realize: I want to help more.

It's easy to see why some people literally dedicate their lives to these acts of service. But what we rarely ask ourselves during those moments—when we’re volunteering or helping someone we don’t really know—is:

What are their intentions? Do they have an ulterior motive?

Because helping someone can be a vulnerable thing. And when help is offered to the wrong person, that can be a slippery slope—especially if you put your foot down. The wrong person might just keep taking from you anyway.

And as today’s case will prove, that might even mean taking a life.

So, let’s head now to the picturesque coastal town of Salinas, California, where in 2019, 71-year-old Dr. Thomas Burchard is living with his fiancée, Judy Earp.

That year, Thomas is finally starting to talk about full retirement after working for decades as a child psychiatrist and being 71 years old.

Thomas spent years working at some of the top hospitals in the country—from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to Massachusetts General and even UCLA.

But for the last 40 years, he has been a staple at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. In fact, Thomas had been there for so long, he was now seeing the kids of the kids that he had once treated.

So, it's safe to say Thomas has dedicated his life to helping people—particularly children. And it doesn't get much more altruistic than that, which may be why Thomas is having a hard time just letting the job go.

While he likes to tell people he's retired, he still treats his patients about four hours every week. He feels like there are some patients who really need him, and he's willing to put full retirement on hold just to help them out.

But working only four hours a week does give Thomas plenty of time to enjoy the other things he loves in life—including magic. He had been practicing for years and loved cheering up his patients with the tricks he learned.

Thomas takes it pretty seriously, too. He's a member at an exclusive magic club in Los Angeles called the Magic Castle and has been going to magic conferences for years.

For his fiancée Judy, who was twelve years younger, that was part of the charm when she met him back in the early 2000s. At the time, Judy was a realtor who had been divorced with four kids, and she was actually on a trip with some friends in Las Vegas when she met Thomas for the first time.

The two connected over the fact that they had both been recently divorced and were embarking on new chapters in their lives. And after a few great conversations by the pool, the two stayed in touch over email.

Thomas would actually travel down to LA all the time to visit Judy at her home. But around 2004, Judy decided to move with her kids up to Salinas and in with Thomas.

So, safe to say things are getting pretty serious.

There was just one quality of Thomas’s that Judy both loved and hated—and that was how generous Thomas was with his money.

Okay, which, wouldn’t they like that because he's spending it on them?

I think with other people.

Okay, so she loves and hates it.

Thomas was the kind of person who never really spent much money on himself. He pretty much always wore a variation of the same set of clothes: khaki pants, a white dress shirt, and a bow tie. But buying things for himself was not really what brought Thomas joy.

He preferred to spend his money on other people to make them happy.

And you know those magic tricks I told you about? Sometimes they ended with letting the patient keep the $100 bill that Thomas used for the trick.

Wow, that's cool.

In fact, he was generous with his patients in other ways, too. If they couldn't afford things like their medication or books and supplies for school, he often chipped in to help—no questions asked.

This is the kind of guy you want as your doctor.

But it wasn’t just his patients. Thomas seemed to have a soft spot for helping other women in need—particularly people who were going through addictions, were single mothers struggling to make ends meet, maybe even sex workers.

But there was something else going on with Thomas, beginning around 2018, that Judy started to notice.

So, they’ve been together for quite a long time at this point.

One day, she was approached by a social worker who seemed to be tipped off by one of Thomas’s colleagues. And that social worker told Judy that someone was worried Thomas might be experiencing the early stages of dementia.

Though, I will say this didn’t really come as a shock to Judy. She had noticed Thomas getting lost in parking lots, forgetting where he had left his car.

Judy’s daughter said Thomas didn’t recognize her when she ran into him at the grocery store. He was even forgetting how to use the TV remote. And while it seemed gradual, it definitely sent Judy into a panic when Thomas set off on a trip in March of 2019 and didn’t tell Judy where he was going.

So heartbreaking, because I’m sure you guys listening as well—like, we know a lot of people with dementia, and it’s heartbreaking.

It’s hard. It’s one of those things that is honestly... it’s hard to put into words.

But it is heartbreaking.

You grieve someone who’s still alive.

Correct.

Yes, I think that’s a great way to put it.

So on March 1st, Thomas got on a plane and headed to Las Vegas. And he didn’t tell Judy that he had done that until he landed at about 5:30 p.m. that night.

And for the next few days, Judy had a hard time getting in touch with him again. He wasn’t really answering his phone. He was seeming a bit shy.

So, by Sunday, she texts him saying, "Why aren’t you answering me?" And he replies with something pretty strange.

He just says, "I’m out to lunch."

Now, Judy thinks this is weird, because he’s called her and chatted plenty of times during a meal before. So she says to him, "Well, that’s never stopped you before."

And then he says, "I need to charge my phone."

And then after that, his phone goes dead.

So Judy keeps texting him throughout the day, but the texts aren’t going through. She’s getting more and more frantic, especially when she doesn’t hear from him that night.

But on Monday the 4th, he is supposed to be headed back from this spontaneous trip. So Judy goes to the airport and waits for his flight to get in. And after all of the passengers get off the plane, there is still no Thomas.

Now, this is really freaking Judy out. So she goes to the desk and says, "Hey, I just need to know if my fiancé ever even got back on the plane." And they tell her, "No, he never checked in for his flight."

And he actually wasn’t on the manifest.

Are you allowed to—this might be a dumb question, I’m just not sure—are you allowed to drive if you have dementia?

I think so.

Are you allowed to fly?

Like... like I mean, technically, I think you’re allowed to do anything. It’s just for, like, your safety.

No, I get—aren’t you like, are you a danger to other people?

I don’t know. I think your family or your caretakers might decide that.

Interesting.

Yeah. So, um, Judy at this point decides to call the Las Vegas police. She’s like, "This whole trip has been so weird. I’ve barely been able to talk to him, and now he wasn’t even on the plane back that he said he was going to be on."

She thinks Thomas is missing.

Now, with Thomas’s age and possible dementia, the police actually take it pretty seriously. But they don’t have a lot of information to go off of right now.

Though, on Wednesday—two days after he didn’t come home—a friend tries his cell phone again randomly, and now it’s turned back on.

Only, it’s not Thomas who answers Thomas’s cell phone.

No way.

The person says, "Oh, I found this cell phone on the Vegas Strip."

So, wherever Thomas is now, he doesn’t have his cell phone with him.

Okay… okay.

Anyway, it’s not until the following day, March 7th, that there’s a real break in this missing person’s case—and it’s not one anybody was hoping for.

That morning, someone calls 911 to say they spotted a blue Mercedes abandoned on a dirt road. It’s about two miles off the highway, kind of closer to the Lake Mead area, which is about 20 miles away from the Las Vegas Strip.

Good old Lake Mead.

We already know enough about that.

Yeah.

When police get there, they see that both of the windows on the Mercedes are rolled down, but there’s no one in any of the seats of the car.

What they do find inside is a pair of blue latex gloves. There is blood in the back seat of the abandoned car. And on the driver’s side headrest, there’s also blood, and what looks like evidence of a small fire in the passenger seat—like someone had tried to burn the car, but it clearly didn’t work.

And when they open the trunk, they find a bunch of clothes, they find bedding, they find bloody towels—and it smells terrible.

So when they move those things aside, they’re already kind of figuring what they’re going to find in this trunk.

And they are right.

No way.

There is a body in the trunk of this abandoned car.

Okay…

Once they check the pockets and find the ID and credit cards that are still inside, they confirm that this is the missing elderly Dr. Thomas Burchard.

Also inside that car, they find what they’re pretty sure is the murder weapon: a bloody baseball bat.

And obviously—I mean, it goes without saying—this is homicide. Because dead people can’t put themselves in trunks and close it.

So, they find the bloody baseball bat, and it’s a detail that is somewhat confirmed from the autopsy the next day, which states that the cause of death was, in fact, blunt force trauma to the head.

But they also find repeated marks of a small, circular-shaped injury, which kind of almost look like the barrel of a gun.

Okay, so basically we have a ton of evidence here.

So the next step for police is to find out, okay—well, who does this Mercedes belong to?

Which isn’t too hard for them, because after quickly running the VIN number on the vehicle, they find it’s registered to a woman named Kelsey Turner.

Now, when police start looking into Kelsey, they aren’t exactly sure what she and Dr. Thomas have in common.

Because Kelsey is a 25-year-old model. She was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas in May of 1993. She was a country girl who was raised on a farm with dreams of one day moving to a big city and finding fame.

She’s country.

She began doing pageants and then turned to modeling, which eventually brought her out to Los Angeles, where she landed a few magazine covers. But Kelsey found most of her fame through Instagram, where she called herself Bad Barbie. She would pose in bikinis, she showed photos of her gun tattoo, she took selfies in—

Wait, like the Bad Barbie?

Are you thinking Bad Baby?

Oh, that’s who I’m thinking—Bad Baby. The one that was on Dr. Phil, right?

"Cash me outside."

Yes.

Okay, not the same girl.

Okay. Okay, thank you. I was like, wait, this isn’t making sense.

Bad Barbie would take selfies in wigs and lingerie. She tried to portray herself as someone who was on the up and up in her career—a woman who was finding success in a tough industry, who was living this glamorous model life.

But in reality, Kelsey wasn’t making much money from her dreams at all. She was a single mother of two kids, and at 25 years old, had already been divorced twice with no steady income.

So a lot of people who knew the real Kelsey wondered: how was she even able to afford some of the things she was posting about online? Like a brand new house in the Salinas area of California?

Okay.

A brand new BMW. She always had new clothes, bags, jewelry, accessories.

And the answer to that is Dr. Thomas Burchard.

So, remember how I mentioned that Thomas did love to help people?

Yeah.

Well, a lot of those people were attractive young women that he met on the internet. And while I'm not totally sure how or when Kelsey and Thomas first stumbled upon each other's profiles, I do know that shortly after they began chatting, Thomas seemed to fall for Kelsey.

Not only was she a beautiful blonde model—she was a single mom of two, just trying to get on her feet. The perfect recipe for disaster for Thomas, who was attracted to both her and the fact that she was down on her luck. This was his sort of thing.

So, at first, their relationship was just online. Transactional, as Kelsey called it. She would send Thomas pictures of herself, and he would send her some cash to help pay her bills.

So, this isn’t exactly a good old doctor helping someone out.

There is definitely some transaction going on here.

Eventually, the two began to meet up in person. Thomas would bring her prescription drugs she asked for... then a new bag... and then a new car... then rent on a house not too far away.

Thomas told a friend of his that he finally understood what it was like to have a drug addiction—only Kelsey was his drug of choice. He became obsessed with her. He would do anything she asked of him.

Even though apparently their relationship never was sexual, Kelsey said it stayed transactional no matter how much money Thomas gave her. He was her sugar daddy, as she described.

Now, apparently this wasn’t the first time Thomas had found himself in a situation like this. Some sources claimed this was something that happened during his first marriage as well, and might have been what ended it, too.

But obviously, for a time, he was keeping this relationship of sorts from Judy, his fiancée.

Well, yeah.

Though, around 2017, his secret was finally exposed. Judy found some paperwork in Thomas’s car one day back in 2017, and it was a lease agreement to a rental property for a woman named Kelsey Turner—and Thomas was the one co-signing for it.

Thomas seemingly told Judy the truth about the situation.

He’s like, "No, things aren’t sexual. I just help her out financially."

But it also seemed like Kelsey had been manipulating him into doing a lot more than he was comfortable with. She told him that because she had bad credit, she couldn’t qualify for a lease, and if someone didn’t co-sign for her, she and her two kids and her mother would be homeless.

So Thomas agreed to sign the lease—but then she left him on the hook for the rent each month.

And then the same thing happened with the BMW he got her. According to her, she had nothing to get to work in. So Thomas helped her take out a loan for this vehicle, but then she wasn’t making the payments, which obviously leaves Thomas responsible.

Meanwhile, Judy noticed the large amounts of cash that were draining quickly from Thomas’s accounts.

By 2019, Judy says Thomas had given Kelsey at least $750,000 for various things.

Whoa.

750 grand?

Yes. That’s the total he had given Kelsey over the years.

That’s a lot of money, dude.

Judy, who was seemingly very dedicated to the relationship and not willing to leave Thomas over the matter, finally came up with a solution she thought might fix things: get Kelsey out of the Salinas house. In fact, get her out of the state.

So she told Thomas to put some distance between himself and Kelsey and to take away that BMW he was making the payments on.

And so, after talking to his fiancée, he did. But he rented Kelsey a new house in Las Vegas instead.

Though, Kelsey didn’t really seem to mind this change. In fact, she was living it up in Vegas. She had new friends, a new house, a new flashy lifestyle—one that was still being funded by Thomas, who just seemingly couldn’t kick his habit of Kelsey.

He even bought her a new car in Vegas, even though he had taken her old one away.

It was a blue Mercedes-Benz.

And so Thomas buys Kelsey this new car. And then Kelsey texts Judy, Thomas’s fiancée.

Now remember, Kelsey is a young girl. She texts Judy and says, quote: "Thanks for taking back the BMW. I look better in a Benz anyways." Followed by three middle finger emojis.

Holy crap.

So Kelsey does not like Judy, who was trying to stop her paychecks from coming in.

That’s insane.

But the harassment between these two didn’t stop there. Apparently, Kelsey had told Thomas a few times that she would kill Judy if she threatened to take away her home or her car again.

By the way, that house she moved to in Vegas—the one Thomas is paying for—she’s not living there alone. She’s also there with one of her kids, her four-year-old son, two roommates (one of whom is like a part-time nanny for her kid), and her 27-year-old boyfriend and former gang member, a guy named Jon Logan Kennison, who she met in early 2019.

But by the end of February, Thomas had apparently had enough. This had really kind of caused an uproar in his life, because even though Kelsey was now hundreds of miles away, she was still finding ways to get to his money.

Apparently, she had stolen some of his passwords to his online accounts and was using his money to help pay for other things in her life.

So, by March, Thomas decided he was going to fly to Vegas and cut Kelsey off in person. And this is why he doesn’t really tell Judy where he’s going or what he was doing there.

He didn’t even tell her he was going to Vegas until he was already there that night. It seems like maybe he didn’t want her to worry about the fact that he was going to see Kelsey in person.

He had innocent motivations, but would Judy be able to understand that—after the toxic relationship she had with Kelsey?

Which, obviously, Judy has a right to be worried. Because as we know, Thomas never made it back on that return flight home. And then on March 7th, Thomas was found dead in the trunk of Kelsey’s car.

What?

That Mercedes-Benz he had purchased for her.

It just seems crazy to me that—I mean, I guess all these cases are crazy—but she just killed him?

So once Judy hears from police, "Yes, your husband was found murdered, and he was in the back of this girl Kelsey’s car," she obviously has no doubt in her mind that Kelsey is responsible for this.

And the police are obviously feeling the same way. They just aren’t sure why or how. But they quickly get a search warrant for the house Kelsey was living at—the same place that Thomas was staying when he came to visit Vegas.

And when they get there, the place is vacant. Neither Kelsey nor any of her roommates are there.

But the police do find a few other things of note inside that house, like an identical set of blue-and-white striped towels that actually matched the ones in the trunk of the car that were covering Thomas’s body.

So now you’ve tied evidence from the crime scene at the car back to the house that he was staying at with Kelsey.

And they also notice the door to the upstairs bedroom is broken—and it has blood on it. There’s also blood in the garage and a very apparent and poor cleanup job.

They also find something in there belonging to Thomas, though. It’s a notebook of his. It kind of seems like a journal.

And in it, Thomas writes about some sort of extortion plan Kelsey was keeping over him. Which actually kind of explains a lot—because apparently, when Thomas threatened to cut Kelsey off financially a few months earlier, she actually said that she would go to the police and tell them that she had found child sexual abuse material on his devices.

Which is so crazy, because we see this a lot in cases where a victim is killed and the person who killed them—

They’ll continue to drag their name, right?

Because they’re not alive to defend themselves.

Right. Because I do want to say: this is completely unfounded. There was never anything of the sort found on anything Thomas owned.

We see it happen a lot—even in the courts. Like when there’s a trial and stuff, right? They’ll just continue to drag someone’s name and make stuff up to try to get the person who’s in question off.

And I don’t know, it just—it really irks me.

But in Thomas’s mind, he was like, "Okay, even though this isn’t real, just these allegations alone, in today’s day and age, will ruin my career, my reputation, my legacy—everything. No one’s going to wait around to get to the other side to find out that it wasn’t true."

Yeah.

Which, I mean—he’s right.

So Thomas couldn’t let her even utter such a horrible falsehood about him. This is why he moves her to Vegas and keeps paying for things.

At this point, he’s kind of locked into this. He doesn’t want to be doing it anymore.

I mean, it’s illegal at this point, right?

It’s blackmail.

Like, yeah, he could go to the cops and stuff, but then she’s still just going to talk trash on him.

And it’s probably why he never even went to the police after he found out that she was stealing from him by getting his passwords.

Not to mention, a lot of it had to do with some shame Thomas was feeling over having been suckered into this sugar daddy relationship with a 25-year-old woman—while he had a fiancée.

This is a woman he fell for and was willingly helping out at first, who was now kind of blackmailing him.

So, as I mentioned, Kelsey and all of her roommates fled the house the second news broke that Thomas’s body was discovered. And they all turned off their phones too, which kind of implicates all of the roommates in the house—not just Kelsey—when all of them leave and try to cover up their tracks.

So, an arrest warrant is issued for Kelsey Turner, and an FBI task force actually finds her back in California, in the Stockton area, hiding out with her 4-year-old son.

She’s finally taken into custody on March 21st, 2019, but she’s not willing to talk.

At this point, they also find Kelsey’s new boyfriend, Jon Kennison, who’s been hiding out at his mom’s house. And it’s the same deal with him.

Then they put out a warrant for one of Kelsey’s roommates, whose fingerprints were found inside the Mercedes—which, like, okay—

Which she cannot basically explain.

A woman named Diana Pena—the one who was acting as the part-time nanny for the kids.

So, boyfriend’s arrested, Kelsey herself is arrested, and her nanny Diana is also arrested.

She actually turns herself in to police.

And Diana comes in willing to tell detectives everything that went down in the days leading up to Thomas’s death. Which—it’s pretty funny because I feel like this actually happens a lot now, and the police know it. If there are multiple people involved, someone’s going to crack.

One of them will crack and will spill everything at some point.

And it’s most likely going to be the nanny—not the actual person connecting you to the victim and their boyfriend.

So, this is what she says:

Thomas showed up at the house on March 1st, as we know. And while it seems like he tried to have some tough conversations with Kelsey that night—he literally flies out there to talk to her in person to try to figure this out—these conversations didn’t appear to be productive.

Because Thomas stayed at the home that evening and was still there the following day.

That night, Kelsey and Thomas went to pick Diana up from the Vegas Strip, where she was also working as a bartender. And on the way back, Kelsey asked Thomas if she could use his phone to plug in the GPS for directions.

And apparently, while she had his phone, she found something.

Text messages between Thomas and Kelsey’s mother were on Thomas’s phone.

Wait a second.

No, these conversations were more about the well-being of Kelsey’s four-year-old son.

So basically, Thomas is texting her mother saying, like, "Hey, here’s what’s going on. I’m really worried about Kelsey. She doesn’t seem to be in a very good stage of life. I’m worried about the little boy."

And Kelsey found these messages as basically him threatening the custody of her child. And this sent Kelsey into a rage.

She began hitting Thomas as he tried to calm her down. Eventually, they do make it back to the house, but things just get worse from there.

Kelsey continued screaming at Thomas—again bringing up the false accusations of child exploitation material—and that she planned to ruin his life if he did anything to take away her son.

As things looked like they were going to turn violent again, Thomas actually ran and locked himself in Kelsey’s son’s bedroom to try and escape the situation.

Wow.

Luckily, the four-year-old boy was with another one of Kelsey’s friends at another house that night, so he didn’t witness what came next.

Because at this point, Kelsey’s boyfriend, Jon, got involved.

I want you to keep in mind, this is an elderly person with onset symptoms of dementia.

Yeah.

That these young kids are... that they killed. I mean, there’s no other way to put it.

Yeah.

Ganging up on—

I mean, it’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible.

So apparently, Jon at this point kicks in her son’s door and went in with a baseball bat and began violently beating the doctor.

Get out of here.

So Diana claims—when she’s talking to police—that at this point she steps in. She took the bat away from Jon, got Thomas a glass of water, told him she was going to get him to a hospital. She got him downstairs and into the back seat of Kelsey’s Mercedes.

And I guess Diana doesn’t drive, because she said she waited for Kelsey to calm down and then come drive him to the hospital.

Now, at this point, Thomas starts pleading with Kelsey, saying he won’t report her. He’ll tell the doctors he was mugged. He won’t mention her name at all.

He’s like, "Listen, just get me to the hospital."

Mainly because he’s terrified at this point that he’s not going to make it out of this house alive.

And unfortunately, his fears are founded.

Oh, I am so heartbroken right now, ’cause that is so sad.

Because Kelsey comes down to the car—

Oh my God—

She doesn’t calm down. Instead, she gets more erratic. She orders Diana to get back inside the house and start cleaning everything up—the blood out of her son’s room.

And Diana, who is terrified of these people who just started beating a 70-plus-year-old man, does what she’s told.

Meanwhile, Diana hears another argument break out downstairs. Kelsey starts yelling for Jon to knock Thomas out.

And by the time Diana goes downstairs to try to intervene again, she sees Jon coming back in from the garage—and he has blood all over him. He has a bloody pistol in his hand.

That’s when Kelsey looks at Diana and says, "Thomas is dead."

Which—if you think back on the autopsy—this does make sense. They believe Thomas was hit with a baseball bat and also a pistol of some kind.

I bet you she thought that she was going to get killed as well.

She’s like, "What do I do now?"

Right.

So afterward—I mean, I guess we can only take her story that she gave police, which she totally could have altered—but...

Afterward, Kelsey starts coming up with a cover story for all of them. Something about Thomas going back to California with some guy they had never seen.

Meanwhile, Diana, Kelsey, her son, and Jon all go to stay at the Mandalay Bay for the next day or so. And during that time, Kelsey and Jon talk about getting rid of Thomas’s phone. But Diana says she’s not sure what they actually ever did with it.

Though it seems they just left it on the Strip somewhere—and that’s when that random stranger answered when Thomas’s friend called a few days later.

Then the next day, March 4th, Diana says Jon drove off in Kelsey’s Mercedes. And Diana says she never saw the car again after that.

At the same time, Diana, Kelsey, and her son went back to the house, hired a cleaning service to come by, and told them they had a party that had gotten out of hand.

After that, they all left the house and stayed at another hotel before Kelsey eventually went off to California with her son, where she was finally arrested a few weeks later on March 21st.

Kelsey and Jon both pled not guilty to the murder charges. And Diana actually accepts a plea deal to the lesser charge of accessory to murder for not reporting the crime in the first place.

Diana received three years probation for her role. She later tells the press, "If I could go back and change how I handled the situation, I would. But I don’t know exactly how I would, because I was scared. But being scared is not really an excuse."

Finally, in May of 2022, Jon Logan Kennison also pleads guilty to murder. He’s given 18 to 45 years behind bars.

But before that, while Kelsey was waiting for her trial, she actually gave birth.

Based on the timing of events—and the way Jon held up a sign during one of her hearings that read, "Love you, Little Mama"—people believe he was the father, and that she might have actually been pregnant when they killed Dr. Thomas Burchard.

But Kelsey never ended up making it to trial, because she later accepted an Alford plea to second-degree murder and was given 10 to 25 years in prison.

Oh, that’s it?

Yeah.

She’ll be—

Are you kidding me?

Listen to this. She’ll be eligible for parole in March of 2029 at just 36 years old.

Oh my gosh.

No.

No. That’s not okay.

Sorry. 26 to 36? Like that’s not nothing.

No.

No. No.

You either sit in there for life or—

Yeah.

That’s not like she’s going to get out and be unable to live life. Her whole life has not passed her by.

I’m not okay with that.

That’s wild.

That’s so messed up.

Judy—obviously, Thomas’s fiancée—thinks this is a terrible idea. She pointed out that during the early hearings, Kelsey was smiling and laughing, posing for cameras. It’s clear she wasn’t taking anything seriously.

Judy called her an evil person who deserves to spend the rest of her life behind bars.

And honestly, I don’t really disagree here.

For Judy, Kelsey did irreparable damage to her life, her love, and her livelihood. She took things from Thomas and Judy that they will never get back.

In the end, Thomas’s generosity was both maybe his greatest quality and his downfall. And now, the woman who truly loved him is left to suffer the consequences.

This case truly, truly broke my heart, because I think the way life unfolds, and the trauma that people have—there’s probably some reasonable explanation for why Thomas was wanting to help out these young women in the first place.

And the fact that at some point he said, "Hey, I’m done. I don’t want to do this anymore," and him saying no led to his death as an elderly man is actually so devastating.

Because Kelsey was in her 20s. She literally could have just wiped her hands and moved on.

Like, you have a sugar daddy. It’s over. Move on.

It’s not worth killing over.

It’s disgusting.

It’s horrible.

I just—ugh—it makes me so sad.

I mean, especially when people... I mean, like, he can’t defend himself. He can’t do anything.

Like it’s—it’s just horrible. It’s just absolutely horrible. And they should both be in prison until they die. I don’t really care. There’s no other—

I don’t have any other words for it.

They should be in prison till they die. And that should be that.

But here we are.

There’s just a different level to something—like killing children, differently abled people, elderly people. It takes a different level of evil to be able to do that—and then laugh in the cameras about it afterward.

I truly hope that Judy receives justice at some point.

But from the sounds of it, it doesn’t seem like we’re ever going to get there.

All right, you guys. That was our case for this week, and we will see you next time with another one.

I love it.

And I hate it.

Goodbye.

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