The family of missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth has spoken out for the first time since her fiancé was arrested and charged with murder on Friday.
JoDee Garretson, 50, from Washington, tells DailyMail.com she feels 'numb' after police announced her cousin, who disappeared nearly a month ago, may no longer be alive.
Kelsey, 29, was last seen on Thanksgiving Day entering a supermarket with her one-year-old daughter Kaylee, before allegedly dropping her off with fiancé Patrick Frazee later that day.
After weeks of speculation and a two-day search of his home, Frazee, 32, was taken into custody on Friday and charged with first-degree murder and solicitation of murder.
In a picture provided by Kelsey's cousin Jodee Garretson, the 29-year-old mom is seen (Center) with her cousin (far left) mom Cheryl Berreth (far right), two years ago just before Kelsey moved from Washington state to Colorado
Fractured family: Police served an arrest warrant on Patrick Frazee early Friday morning in Colorado, one mother after his fiancée Kelsey Berreth (above with her daughter Kaylee) went missing
'I don't know what to feel at this point. It doesn't feel real, it really doesn't. It feels like these things don't happen, but they do and I get that, but it doesn't feel like it,' JoDee said.
'I think for me I'm probably waiting to hear more details which is horrible-sounding I'm sure, but to make it more real.'
JoDee revealed Frazee, a cattle rancher, met Kelsey online two years ago and helped her move from her home state of Washington to Colorado months later.
'I don't know anything about him. I was looking through my messages to Kelsey just over time. She just said how she was so happy when she first moved there,' she added.
'She told me she met him online but she didn't elaborate. She just said they met online and after a few months he came down (to Washington) and moved her over there.
'In retrospect, there's a lot of questions I didn't get to ask.'
JoDee said her cousin had been 'very excited' to be having a baby.
The pair had been together for more than two years, had baby Kaylee in October 2017, but did not live together. Kelsey was living in Woodland Park while Frazee lived with his mother on her ranch in Florissant.
In custody: Frazee (above in his mugshot) was booked at 8:33am and a government data sheet simply said he had committed a felony
Ranch: The property where Frazee lives with his mother, which authorities have searched multiple times (above)
Suspect: Police served an arrest warrant on Patrick Frazee early Friday morning (above being cuffed) in Colorado, one mother after his fiancée Kelsey Berreth went missing
Baby Kaylee had been in Frazee's care since Kelsey's disappearance, but is now 'safe with authorities,' according to JoDee.
She said she hopes Kelsey's mother Cheryl will get custody of Kaylee after Frazee allegedly prevented her from seeing the baby girl after Kelsey disappeared.
JoDee refused to say whether or not she had suspected Frazee saying: 'At this point I can't say anything, I've been having to bite my tongue for a while so I should probably continue.'
She added: 'My first concern is Kelsey's very immediate family, I worry so much for Kaylee, for Cheryl, her dad Darell and her brother.
"That's where my first thoughts go, but definitely secondary to that absolutely I hope that all the answers come out so the family can have all the questions answered and justice is done. Right now where my heart is just with her family.'
Kelsey's parents are in Woodland Park, Colorado, and her brother has been there for a large part of the search for his sister.
JoDee had expected a development in the case after investigators were seen painstakingly searching Kelsey's Woodland Park, Colorado, town again Thursday night.
She had hoped Frazee's arrest might lead to authorities locating Kelsey alive but that hope was dashed with the announcement it was a first-degree murder charge.
However she still wants to know exactly why police say they think Kelsey is dead as they have not yet found the body.
She said: 'I found out about half hour after his arrest. I started getting messages on my phone. With so much happening last night at Kelsey's house, it was constant online watching people take pictures, evidence being taken out and everything, it was like something had to be happening soon.
Kelsey Berreth's Woodland Park home. Police believe the mother-of-one was killed in her home
Last image: She was last seen at a supermarket on Thanksgiving with her daughter Kaylee, 1, (above) but Frazee previously told authorities he saw his fiancée later that day
'So when I first heard it, honestly it might sound bad but I almost felt kind of elated, like something is going to happen, but my hope was more that we'd find Kelsey, now that someone's arrested we can find Kelsey.
'And then when I saw it was her first degree murder, I was still kind of holding out hope. At the press conference I was thinking they were going to share more concrete reasons why they believe she was dead, I get why they can't.
'That still kind of leaves me with they believe but they didn't say that they know. 'I know it's not realistic, but how do you decide that that's true if they can't say that's definite yet.'
Tearfully paying tribute to her cousin, JoDee said: 'I can't do her justice. I just want the world to know that Kelsey's a beautiful, beautiful soul.
'I hope her daughter grows up knowing how special her mom was. She has Kelsey's little nose and looks like her mom, I just pray for her daughter that she grows up surrounded by love and able to know her mom through all of her loved ones.
'When you're around Kelsey, I think you just feel like a better person, being around Kelsey makes me smile, it makes me smile just to think about her, she's just a good person.'
Kelsey's neighbor Angie Gerber, 71, told Daily Mail.com that Woodland Park police first did a wellness check at Kelsey's house the day she was reported missing by her mother Cheryl on December 2.
'Then over the next three days there were police vehicles around here all the time. They did a really thorough investigation of the place,' Gerber said.
Gerber was out of town for Thanksgiving and last saw Kelsey the week before the holiday when she gave her a baby gate for her house . She said Kelsey 'seemed fine.'
She had always assumed Frazee lived there with Kelsey and the baby as she would see him come and go in his red work truck.
When asked if she ever heard any arguing, she said: 'No never really. These places are built really well as far as that goes, but no everything was always really quiet.'
JoDee thinks the search of Patrick's ranch and his suspicious appearance at a waste management dump earlier this week may have led cops to clues to what to search for at Kelsey's home.
She said: 'I don't know, I would assume, that whether what they found at the waste management place or in his search, I would assume that let them know what to actually look for.
'For whatever reason it wasn't anything obvious or they would have taken it, they must have found some type of evidence that helped them focus on something specifically but I don't know what that is.'
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