98: Celia Fought Back & the Disappearance of Kelsey Berreth

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 11:01 a.m.

Celia was sick and tired. She was an enslaved woman, living in Missouri. It seemed the man who purchased her had done so for the sole purpose of raping her. For years, Robert Newsom raped Celia. She did everything she could to stop him. Then, after roughly five years of abuse, Celia reached her breaking point. Robert said he would come to her cabin that night. She warned him not to. She said she\u2019d hurt him. She wasn\u2019t kidding.

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Then Brandi tells us about the disappearance of Kelsey Berreth. Kelsey went missing on Thanksgiving Day, 2018. That weekend, she texted her boss at Doss Aviation to say she wouldn\u2019t be in the next week. But that wasn\u2019t like Kelsey. Her mom, Cheryl-Lee sensed that something was wrong. Kelsey had an infant daughter and an important career as a pilot. She wouldn\u2019t have just taken off.\xa0

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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\nThe book, \u201cCelia, A Slave,\u201d by Melton A. McLaurin
\n\u201cMissouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense,\u201d by DeNeed L. Brown for the Washington Post
\n\u201cCelia, A Slave Trial,\u201d by Douglas O. Linder for famous-trials.com
\n\u201cState of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave\u201d wikipedia.com

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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cKelsey Berreth Case: What to Know About the Missing Colorado Mom Last Seen on Thanksgiving Day\u201d by Caitlin Nolan, Inside Edition\u201cFianc\xe9 of missing Colorado mother Kelsey Berreth arrested, charged with murder\u201d Associated Press, CBS News
\n\u201cKelsey Berreth case: Timeline of investigation and Patrick Frazee\u2019s murder trial\u201d by The Denver 7 Team, The Denver Channel
\n\u201cKelsey Berreth murder trial: Patrick Frazee had hit list of witnesses to kill, inmate says in testimony\u201d by Carol McKinley, Clayton Sandell, and Emily Shapiro, ABC News
\n\u201cPatrick Frazee found guilty of killing missing fiancee Kelsey Berreth; sentenced to life without parole\u201d by Clayton Sandell, Carol McKinley, and Emily Shapiro, ABC News
\n\u201cPatrick Frazee convicted of killing his fianc\xe9e, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole\u201d by Jack Hannah and Darran Simon, CNN
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