A former model was sentenced to at least 10 years in jail after she took a plea deal in the death of a 71-year-old California psychiatrist.
Kelsey Turner, who has reportedly appeared in issues of Playboy Italia and Maxim, was given a 10- to 25-year prison sentence in a Clark County, Nevada, courtroom on Tuesday.
Turner, 29, previously took an Alford plea, which is a guilty plea while maintaining innocence, to the charge of second-degree murder in the death of Dr. Thomas Burchard.
According to prosecutors, the doctor was in an intimate and “transactional” relationship with Turner. He was murdered and stuffed into Turner’s car back in March 2019, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Prosecutors say Turner told her boyfriend, Jon Kennison, to attack Burchard when the doctor visited Turner in Las Vegas. He was beaten with a bat by Kennison before he was stuffed into the trunk of a Mercedes-Benz.
KTVN reported that the reason for the visit was because the doctor intended to end the two-year relationship he had with Turner. He had been financially supporting her and her child and paid her rent, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
