Neighbors have described the fiancé of the missing Colorado mom as a 'shy,' 'old fashioned cowboy' who wouldn't 'do anything' to the mother of his daughter, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Authorities say Patrick Frazee, 32, has not been ruled out as a suspect in the disappearance of 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth, who has not been seen since November 22 - but is yet to be questioned by police.
Police and FBI specialists conducted a two-day search of his sprawling and remote ranch in Florissant, Colorado on Friday and sent out a public plea asking him to sit down with them.
Frazee, who is believed to be the last person to have seen Kelsey, has also divided opinion in his tiny rural town, with some calling the cattle rancher a 'quiet,' 'good person' while others claim he has been known to mistreat animals.
Frazee was reported to have last seen his fiance after she dropped off their one-year-old daughter Kaylee at his home on Thanksgiving Day, before she vanished.
Patrick Frazee (left) from Florissant, Colorado, is yet to be questioned by police over the disappearance of his fiancee Kelsey Berreth (right) who has been missing since Thanksgiving Day
Friends and neighbors of the 32-year-old cattle rancher have described his as 'quiet and shy' and an 'old fashioned cowboy'
Kelsey was last seen on CCTV at a Safeway supermarket a mile from her home just after midday with Kaylee.
A text was sent from her phone to her job on Sunday, November 25 saying she was taking the next week off.
Frazee has also told investigators he received a text from her that day but it is not known what it said.
The last trace of Kelsey's phone was that same day, 800 miles from her home near Gooding, Idaho.
DailyMail.com can reveal Frazee lives with his mother Sheila, 64, on a family ranch where he makes a living by raising and selling cattle as well as horseshoeing.
The 6ft 3in farrier's 35-acre ranch has a one-and-a-half story home and a 1,300 sq ft barn, according to Teller County records.
In Florissant, some told DailyMail.com he was a respected horse-handler who was a good father to baby Kaylee.
But Michell Guterl, 50, who has known Frazee since he was 16, said she refused to let him work on his horses because of how he handled them.
Guterl told DailyMail.com at a candlelit vigil for the missing woman: 'He was a farrier, we rodeoed together. He's a horseshoer, he roped at a lot of the rodeos that we went to. I used to see him all the time.
'He worked on my horses for a real short time till he punched one in the gut with a rasp and that was about the last time I let him work on my horses.
'[He did it] just because the horse won't stand still, it's kind of common, but horses are very sensitive, they can sense, and my horse was very sensitive.
'He just smacked him with a rasp, it was uncalled for.'
Frazee, a 6ft 3in cattle rancher and farrier, divides opinion in the small town of Florissant, population 104, and the outlying ranches of Teller County for whom its bar, coffee shop, hardware store and grocery and liquor store are the center of rural life
In Florissant, some told DailyMail.com he was a respected horse-handler who was a good father to baby Kaylee
An aerial image (pictured) of police searching Patrick Frazee's property at Wildhorn Road in Florissant
The alleged incident happened back when he was a teenager, but according to Guterl, Frazee's behavior wasn't a one-off.
She said: 'It's a characteristic that was ongoing for years. Anytime he was at a rope and his horse didn't act right, he'd rip on his face, kick him. In the community, we were all at ropings and stuff, but if the horse doesn't do exactly what it's supposed to do you don't just beat them.'
Recalling a rodeo in nearby town Cripple Creek several years ago, she described Frazee losing his cool with his horse.
She said: 'One time we were at a rodeo in Cripple Creek and he got mad because his horse didn't do good and somebody didn't heel just right to help him get in the money and he got so mad he left out of Cripple Creek Rodeo, flipped his horse trailer with his horse in it and almost killed that horse.
'He got mad, tries to get his vehicle out of there and there's too many cars tightly packed in. Lots of people were there.
'He was in a rage of being mad and angry, because the heeler didn't heel and they lost out the money. It was kind of a sad deal, especially trying to get the horse out that was traumatic for everybody.'
A former girlfriend who dated Frazee more than six years ago declined to speak to DailyMail.com but her current partner said: 'He cheated on her while she was in the hospital, take that for what it's worth.'
Asked whether Frazee was ever abusive, he said: 'He never beat on them (girlfriends) or anything like that. On animals he was rough, he was pretty aggressive with dogs and horses.
'Patrick is a horseshoer, I heard once he was thumping on the horse "saying this is how you've got to do it," that horse reared up and kicked him right in the forehead, he got a bunch of stitches and his [then] girlfriend hauled him to the hospital to get stitches.'
The man remembered Frazee from school at Woodland Park High, he added: ' He was Patrick. I'm not getting in it man. Oh yeah, he's a recluse for sure. I haven't seen him in 10 years or so.'
Frazee was seen earlier this week speaking to a reporter at his home (left) and was also pictured with his daughter on the same day (right)
Officers (pictured) are seen combing the area around Frazee's property in Florissant on Friday
Hank Fildes, 34, who lived close to Frazee growing up said he's heard 'mixed things' about Frazee's alleged rough behavior with animals.
'It's hard to elaborate on Patrick, he was quiet and shy. He had his own friends circle and stayed close to his friends,' he said.
'He did come across, "I'm a big tough cowboy." But that's that cowboy way, got be strong.
'That's how he was raised, he raised horses. I think if you're raised country that's normal, if you're raised city it's going to seem harsh. It's not wrong in his eyes. Sometimes there's neglect and over abuse yes, he'd tread the fine line on it I'd say. You've got make a horse submit to what you want to do. You've got to be kind of firm. You shouldn't hit them.'
DailyMail.com also spoke to two friends of Patrick who defended him and rejected any suggestion he was cruel towards animals.
A local, who lives in Florissant, but didn't want to give his name, saw Frazee in September when he came to shoe his father's horses and said he seemed fine. He even brought baby Kaylee to work with him.
The man said: 'He's an old fashioned cowboy. He's just old school, he does things the old way. He shoes horses modern, but he trains horses the way people used to do it, I wouldn't say that he's cruel or not. He's a stand up real good guy. I've just known him for years and he's a great person.'
The friend said he had not met Frazee's fiancée but added: 'I know the day I saw him he was a great dad to the daughter and he's a good guy. He was fine.
'I'd be shocked, I wouldn't think he would do anything to her. He's a good person. I think when this stuff happens they immediately blame the fiance, it's always the first subject. They don't have a suspect so I imagine a lot of people already suspected him, I sure hope it's not, I'd be shocked if it was.'
David Rusterholtz, 59, who runs a propane gas company in Florissant, also spoke highly of Frazee.
He said: 'I know him, when we had horses he used to trim our horses hooves. He was a very nice young man, I knew him all growing up, we used to go to the Gymkhana and the rodeos when he was younger. I've known him since 2003 and I never saw him do anything inappropriate or out of order.'
In a picture provided by Kelsey's cousin Jodee Garretson, the 29-year-old mom is seen (Center) with her cousin, mom Cheryl Berreth, two years ago just before Kelsey moved from Washington state to Colorado
Berreth, a 29-year-old flight instructor, has been missing since November 22
On Monday police released footage of Berreth entering a Safeway in Woodland Park with her baby on November 22, which is the last visual confirmation police currently have of her
Asked about the claim he was violent with horses and punched one with a rasp, he said: 'You know I've heard that same thing, I don't know. If you are in the equestrian or the livestock realm, the perception of propriety is different than for someone that is not around animals.
'For example, if you watch them out west here brand and castrate cows you will think it's brutal. Depending on how you do it with a rasp, it is all a matter of perception whether he did something inappropriate or not.
'I thought it was an over-dramatization of the story that had happened, he would not abuse an animal and he's always had a good reputation in this community.'
Kelsey had been living in the mountain community of Woodland Park, about 15 miles from Florissant, in a townhouse she bought in June.
Her neighbor Angie Gerber, 71, said she had assumed Frazee lived there with Kelsey and the baby, and said she saw him come and go in a red work truck.
Angie was away for the Thanksgiving holiday and her last interaction with Kelsey was the week before, when she gave her a baby gate for the house.
She said: 'She seemed fine. She's a gorgeous baby and Kelsey was just a great neighbor, she was always really quiet and there was never any problem at all. All of us are praying she's okay.'
An employee at Starbucks said Kelsey would pull in to the drive-thru about once a week to get a chai latte while on her hour-long commute to Pueblo where she worked at Doss Aviation which trains US army pilots.
On December 3, the day after Kelsey's mother Cheryl reported her missing, an aunt wrote in a Facebook group: 'Our niece is missing and has not been seen for a week. Her phone was last pinged near Gooding, Idaho. She told her ex when she dropped off their baby that she was heading to family in Washington. Please help us get the word out to the truckers in that area last week. If anyone has seen her contact the authorities immediately.'
Berreth worked at Doss Aviation which trains US army pilots. A text was sent from her phone to her job on Sunday, November 25 saying she was taking the next week off
She added: 'She broke up with her ex on Thanksgiving, he said she dropped off the baby and was heading to Soap Lake, Washington to visit. No one knew anything about the visit.'
Kelsey's cousin JoDee Garretson, 50, confirmed to DailyMail.com that the message was posted by an aunt, who is Cheryl's sister.
JoDee said she didn't know if the information was correct and revealed Kelsey's mother asked the aunt to take the post down.
The message adds another dimension to the mystery surrounding this case as up until now, police and Cheryl have said Frazee and Kelsey were engaged but not living together.
Cheryl told NBC News that the couple did not have a wedding date set, she said: 'The relationship has been good. They're loving. It hasn't been ideal, you know, given the economy and things.
'They had plans that haven't worked out as they would have liked. But they've dealt with that and they've made things work regardless.'
She also said the couple were planning to find a home of their own, but Frazee's cattle farming job had been affected by poor prices.
JoDee says she is sure her cousin did not disappear willingly and described her as a very loving mother who would never have left her daughter.
She said: 'I don't think she left willingly. Kelsey's so reliable and responsible, she's a mom, she would never leave her child. She was very excited [to be a mom], and she was a great mom.'
JoDee said the family want Frazee to sit down with investigators and to let Cheryl see her grandchild.
Police from Teller County Sheriff's Office (pictured) talk at a sealed off area of Patrick Frazee's ranch
She said: 'I can only imagine as a mom if one of my children went missing, it would be killing me not to get to the grand baby. I just can't imagine how much it would mean to hold that baby.'
A search of Frazee's ranch lasted from Friday until Saturday evening.
Woodland Park Police Chief Miles De Young said officers didn't find Kelsey but no other details on what was found have been released.
He also made a public plea for Frazee to sit down with investigators for questioning and said he was only in contact via his lawyer - who says he's cooperating.
Police have also announced a reward of up to $25k, which has been donated anonymously, for information that leads to Kelsey being found.
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