Kelsey Turner

Turner was born on May 5, 1993, in Norfolk, Virginia, and grew up in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Later, she started modeling for adult magazines.^[8][9] During her modeling days, she lived in Salinas, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.^[10][11][12]

Turner and her ex-boyfriend Jon "Logan" Kennison have been in custody since 2019 for the murder of Dr. Thomas Burchard, a child psychiatrist.^[13][14] They are accused of beating the 71 year old psychiatrist to death with a baseball bat and a gun, then stuffing his body into the trunk of Turner's Mercedes.^{[14][15][16][17][18]}

Judy Earp, the victim's fiancé, claims that Burchard had given Turner around $750,000 to be his "sugar baby" over a period of several years.^[19] Earp claims Burchard's last words to her were: "She's such a pervasive liar that I have to see for myself."^[19]

Burchard's body was discovered in the trunk of Turner's vehicle, which had been abandoned on a desert road outside Las Vegas.^[20]

Turner was arrested by FBI agents and Las Vegas police in Stockton, California, on March 21, 2019.^{[21][22][23][24]} Her trial lasted three years.^[25][26] In July 2022, in the wake of Kennison pleading guilty, she agreed to accept an Alford guilty plea.^[25] On November 9, 2022, she signed the plea deal, despite maintaining her innocence.^[27][28] On January 10, 2023, she was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison.^[28]

Kennison pleaded guilty in June 2022 to second-degree murder with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit murder.^[29] He was sentenced to 18 to 45 years for his role in the murder.^[30] A roommate of the couple, Diana Nicole Pena, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder and provided prosecutors with critical evidence.^[30]

Turner is currently incarcerated at the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center in Nevada.^[31][32]