Pregnant former Playboy model, 25, is extradited and booked into a Las Vegas jail alongside her casino bartender roommate who has also been arrested for the murder of psychiatrist, 71, who had been paying their rent
- New developments emerge in the March murder of Dr Thomas Kirk Burchard, 71
- Pregnant Kelsey Turner, 25, was extradited from California to Nevada Saturday and booked into a Las Vegas jail
- Her roommate Diana Pena, 30, has also been arrested and jailed in Las Vegas
- Ex-Playboy model Turner's boyfriend Jon Logan Kennison, 27, remains at large
- All three are charged with murder and conspiracy in the death of Burchard
- Doctor was found dead in the trunk of Turner's abandoned Mercedes-Benz C300
- Police said Burchard had been paying the rent on the suspects' home
- Burchard's longtime girlfriend said he had given Turner roughly $300,000
Ex-model Kelsey Nichole Turner, 25, is one of three suspects in the Las Vegas murder
Two female roommates, including a former Playboy model, have been booked into jail for the murder of a psychiatrist who had been paying their rent, while the model's boyfriend remains at large.
Ex-model Kelsey Nichole Turner, 25, who is reportedly pregnant, and casino bartender Diana Nicole Pena, 30, were booked into jail in Las Vegas over the weekend for the March murder of Dr Thomas Kirk Burchard, 71.
Turner's boyfriend, 27-year-old Jon Logan Kennison, remains at large. All three are charged with murder and conspiracy to murder.
Turner was apprehended in Stockton, California, on March 21, and she was with her child and Kennison, but he wasn't considered a suspect at the time and has since gone to ground. She was extradited to Nevada on Saturday.
Pena was arrested on Saturday, but the circumstances of her arrest remain unclear.
Burchard's body was found rotting in the trunk of a Mercedes-Benz C300 in a desert outside Las Vegas on March 21.
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Dr Thomas Kirk Burchard (left) is believed to have met Turner (right) online, and gave the ex-model some $300,000 over the course of two years, the psychiatrist's girlfriend said
Turner's live-in boyfriend Jon Logan Kennison (above) is still at large. A witness said that Turner feared that the doctor would find out about her relationship with Kennison
The Clark County coroner ruled the case a homicide, finding that Burchard was struck multiple times in the head with an unidentified object that left what police called a unique pattern.
Burchard also bore what police called defensive wounds.
Police say the car was registered to Turner and that all three suspects' fingerprints were found inside the vehicle. Pena's business card from her bartending job at Caesar's Palace was also found inside the car.
Burchard, a psychiatrist from Salinas, California, had known Turner for about two years and had given her some $300,000 over that time, the doctor's longtime girlfriend Judy Earp told The Californian.
Earp said that Burchard had previously signed a lease for a home in Salinas where Turner had lived with her mother and children before moving to Las Vegas in 2018.
She said the model, who appeared in Playboy Italia and Maxim, had told Burchard that she couldn't qualify for a lease because she had bad credit.
In Las Vegas, Turner was living with her boyfriend Kennison as well as Pena and another male roommate, whose name was redacted in warrant affidavits and who moved out after things turned ugly in the home on March 2.
Burchard's longtime girlfriend Judy Earp (right) said that Turner told him a 'really sad story.' She added: 'She took the $300,000. I'll just leave it at that.'
Turner (above) appeared in Playboy Italia and Maxim, and had told Burchard that she couldn't qualify for a lease because she had bad credit
Earp said that Burchard had signed a lease for a home in Salinas, California where Turner had lived for 'about a year' with her mother (pictured together) and children
Police say that the doctor traveled from Salinas to Las Vegas on March 1 to visit the ex-model Turner, and paid for the March rent on the home she shared with the other suspects. Cops describe the doctor's relationship with the ex-model as intimate.
On March 2, a woman showed up at the home drunk and began arguing with Turner, a witness told police.
The psychiatrist Burchard intervened and took the drunk woman on a drive around the block to cool her down.
While they were gone, Turner became frantic with worry that the woman would tell Burchard about her boyfriend Kennison, a witness told police.
Kennison is also said to have gotten agitated, making violent statements and punching a man who was present while Burchard was away.
Police believe the murder occurred on the following day, March 3.
On March 4, Turner offered a man $20 to clean up red stains in the home, claiming they were red wine.
The man also saw her attempting to use pet-stain remover to clean up the stains. He said Turner never paid him for his cleaning services, and police found extensive blood evidence throughout the house, seemingly concentrated around a mattress in an upstairs bedroom.
She was extradited on Saturday and her next court appearance is scheduled for April 16
The roommate who had moved out also returned to see a badly damaged bedroom door, which Turner claimed happened when someone got locked in the room.
He said that Turner tried to convince him to clean up the house and replace the broken door using Burchard's credit card. He gathered his belongings and left.
The roommate also noticed that the garage reeked of ammonia, which Turner blamed on the cat, and that the kitchen was filled with expensive food, including two prime cuts of steak that had been left out on the counter.
Turner, Kennison and Pena all skipped town in the following days, according to police.
They all stayed briefly at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino before permanently turning off their phones when the media reported that Burchard's body had been found on March 7, cops said.
Turner and Kennison fled for California. Pena's luggage was found abandoned in her room on March 9, when she was scheduled to check out.
Kelsey Nichole Turner, 25, faced court in Stockton, California last week before being extradicted to Las Vegas over the weekend
Pena's employers at Caesar's Palace told cops that she never showed up for work after March 6, and never called in to explain her absence.
Burchard's girlfriend Earp told police that he may have been suffering from early Alzheimer's.
Earp would not elaborate on how Turner and Burchard knew each other, only saying she did not believe the model was one of his patients.
Sources have previously said the Burchard and Turner met online.
'He helped a lot of people,' Earp told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 'She had this really sad story. She took the $300,000. I'll just leave it at that.'
