COLORADO SPRINGS – Residents of a Colorado community renovated a townhome where a woman was killed, opening the property to the possibility of renewed life with new occupants.
Volunteers completed the renovation in Woodland Park where Kelsey Berreth died in 2018, The Gazette reported Tuesday.
The 29-year-old resident of the small, mountain community was beaten to death with a baseball bat in her kitchen on Thanksgiving.
A jury convicted Berreth’s fiancee, Patrick Frazee, of first-degree murder in November. He is serving life in prison without parole.
“Our hearts were just crying,” Jerry Good said. “We wanted to do something.”
Good and his wife, Vickie, rallied construction tradespeople and business owners to donate their skills and materials to rehabilitate the damaged home, which is now for sale.
“I’ve had both positive interest and negative comments – basically, the community blaming the property at this point,” said Stephanie Tanis, a Re/Max Performance real estate agent who lists the property 19 miles northwest of Colorado Springs.
Tanis has removed negative remarks about the property from social media. The property may be stigmatized, but no lingering traces remain, Tanis said.
“I do not feel there’s a negative, evil presence in the house,” she said.
