Welcome back to postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green, and today we are discussing the case of

Alyssa Burkett, who in 2020 was brutally murdered by Andrew Beard, her ex-boyfriend and also the father of her

young daughter. Nearly three years after Alyssa's death, Andrew's fiancée, Holly Elkins,

was arrested in connection with the murder. So joining me now to unpack all the twists and

turns of this case are 48 hours correspondent

Peter Van Sant, producer Liza Finley and Gabby Demergin. Thank you so much, guys.

Thanks, Anne-Marie. Thanks, Anne-Marie. Great to be here again, Anne-Marie. Okay, as per usual,

everyone, remember, if you haven't listened to the 48 hours episode yet, you can find the

full audio just below this episode in your podcast feed

go take a listen and then come back for this conversation so here we go elisa burkett was murdered

in broad daylight outside of her workplace in carolton texas this is just north of Dallas. There were witnesses.

And even though Andrew Beard wore a disguise, he was really quickly identified as a suspect and surrendered to authorities just three days later.

But what I was really surprised by is he picks such a public place to attack her. Do you have any insight into why he would do it there

in broad daylight? Well, first off, it's absolute madness that he did it, where he did it.

His own mother even said, this was stupid. She wasn't involved in the murder, of course,

but to have all those eyeballs there where he was spotted, his getaway vehicle was spotted,

how he killed her was seen.

Authorities, it's all part of this enormous psychological pressure he was under from Holly

that he had to act.

That's the power that she had over him, that he would have done something this stupid,

which put authorities right on top of him so quickly. And by the way, a quick side, I used to live in Carrollton, Texas

when I was a reporter in Dallas, and about a mile and a half from this site, so it's really

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