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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Renowned psychiatrist dead in Playboy 'Bunny’s' BMW trunk

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Former Playboy model Kelsey Turner is accused of killing an elderly psychiatrist, who reportedly paid her rent and gave her money. Dr. Thomas Kirk Burchard, 71, a renowned psychiatrist, was found dead in the trunk of Turner’s blue Mercedes Benz. The car had been abandoned on a dirt road, according to police. Two other suspects, identified as Jon Logan Kennison and Diana Nicole Pena are charged. Pena pled guilty. Kennison continues to deny that he or Turner had anything to do with Burchard's death. Joining Nancy Grace today:Troy Slaten - Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC, Twitter @TroySlatenDr. Jenn Mann - Marriage and Family Therapist, Host 'Couples Therapy' and 'Family Therapy' on VH1, "The Dr. Jenn Show” on Sirius XM, Author: "The Relationship Fix: Dr. Jenn’s 6-Step Guide to Improving Communication, Connection and Intimacy", doctorjenn.comDr. Kendall Crowns – Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Travis County, Texas (Austin)Chris Byers - Former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, now Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner, www.chrisbyersinvestigationsandpolygraph.comAlexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker, LeadStories.com, Twitter: @swimmie2009

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0:00.0

The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:07.0

How? How does a renowned psychiatrist end up dead in Vegas in the trunk of a BMW?

0:25.0

Nope, it's not a movie script, it's not hangover part 3 or 4, it's real. Our

0:33.4

renowned psychiatrist ends up dead in the trunk of a BMW in Vegas.

0:41.0

Who is he? Take a listen to what the doctor's girlfriend tells me.

1:01.0

When did you learn that his body had been found?

1:05.0

Ten days after I had reported him missing, it was such a scary time in those ten days of not knowing.

1:14.0

Not knowing how to do anything, that was scary. The scariest time really I think, just the fear of becoming home and probably about the day before about the age of the day.

1:34.0

To realize to myself that he probably wasn't ever coming home, even though I kept hoping and hoping.

1:46.0

And then when they called me and told me which was right before it broke on the news, it was devastating.

1:57.0

Even though I thought I had prepared myself to hear the worst news.

2:02.0

You are listening to the psychiatrist, the doctor and the trunks, long time love.

2:10.0

And of course in typical police scenarios, the long time love would be suspect number one.

2:17.0

But how does a renowned psychiatrist end up dead in the trunk? Who is this guy?

2:23.0

Listen.

2:33.0

He was outgoing. He loved his practice. He loved his patients doing everything for them.

2:39.0

He was a child psychiatrist. Now a day, originally they were children. Now a day, it was a little bit more on the adult side.

2:57.0

He had started seeing them as children and continued following them into their adulthood. That was rather one of, when he turned 65, he was 71 and when he had turned 65, he was concerned, you know, worried about his patients that if he retired, they would be left with no one or having to start over with the new doctor.

3:25.0

And his idea of retirement was to cut his work week down to four days and take Monday's off.

3:32.0

So how does a trip to Vegas put into that four day work week? That's what I'm trying to find out. Where was she at the time her long time, a love, Dr. Thomas Bischard, was somehow stuffed in a trunk dead unless he was killed in the trunk?

3:46.0

We're learning a lot about him. That speaks volumes with me and all-star panel Troy Slayton, high profile defense attorney, joining us out of LA just a hot skippin' a jump from where this dead body was found. I'd like to know where Troy Slayton was at the time.

4:01.0

And you can find him at Troy Slayton, Dr. Jen Mann, family therapist, marriage therapist, host of couples therapy and family therapy on VH1, the Dr. Jen show on serious exam.

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