Second girl captured in the homicide of psychiatrist found in Vegas desert


A second lady has apparently been captured regarding the homicide of a 71-year-old California therapist who was found clubbed to death in the storage compartment of a vehicle left in the desert outside Las Vegas a month ago.

Diana Nicole Pena, 30, was arrested on Saturday and accused of trick to submit murder and murder with the utilization of a dangerous weapon. She stands blamed for working with 25-year-old Kelsey Turner and Turner's sweetheart Jon Logan Kennison to kill Dr. Thomas Burchard, as per The Californian. The three lived respectively at a condo in Las Vegas.

After his demise, it was uncovered that Burchard had paid the lease for Turner's condo in Las Vegas through June 2019. Turner, a mother who allegedly modeled for Playboy Italia and Maxim, was captured in Stockton, Calif., by FBI operators and removed to Las Vegas in association with the homicide on March 21. Her removal was supposedly deferred in light of the fact that she is pregnant.
Burchard's better half of 17 years, Judy Earp, said that Burchard had given Turner, in any event, $300,000 throughout the years that she knew about, and that she considers Turner "as malevolent as Charles Manson." He supposedly gave various other ladies cash throughout their relationship. Earp included that she trusted Burchard was in the beginning periods of Alzheimer's at the season of his demise.
Earp was the person who announced the "excessively merciful" Burchard missing. Police recouped his body on March 7 in the storage compartment of a blue two-entryway 2017 Mercedez Benz. He was in part dressed and had been pummeled to death by an item that supposedly left particular imprints..

Specialists found that the vehicle was enlisted to a man living in China who had posted an advertisement offering the vehicle up on Craigslist, to which Turner purportedly reacted. She never announced the vehicle as absent.

The vehicle is additionally driven police to Pena after they found her bartending card for her position at the Caesar's Palace inn inside. Her fingerprints, alongside Turner's beau Kennison's, were found inside the Mercedes.


Pena purportedly did not appear for work after March 6, the day preceding Burchard's body was found. It is trusted that Pena, Kennison, and Turner fled to Rio, Calif. before the two ladies were captured. Kennison supposedly consented to talk with investigators, however, was not gotten notification from again and stays on the loose.

Pena is set to have a case status mind Tuesday, and both she and Turner are booked for a fundamental hearing for the situation on June 3.

Burchard purportedly lived in Monterey, Calif., and invested decades attempting to help patients at the Montage Health Foundation. A representative for the not-for-profit association said the circumstance was "miserable" and that their "hearts go out to his family, companions, patients, and partners."

"Dr. Burchard was a specialist in our conduct wellbeing program for right around 40 years and was useful to numerous patients," representative Mary Barker said. "We are advising his patients and giving distress guiding to staff."

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