Las Vegas Sun

June 27, 2024

Attorney: 3 indicted in California doctor slaying in Las Vegas

A lawyer says a 26-year-old former magazine model, her boyfriend and their former roommate are headed toward trial in the killing of a California psychiatrist whose body was found outside Las Vegas

Attorney Brian Smith said Friday that Kelsey Nichole Turner, Jon Logan Kennison and Diana Nicole Pena are due before a Las Vegas judge on Monday on murder and conspiracy charges in the slaying of 71-year-old Thomas Kirk Burchard.

Smith represents Turner. He says their preliminary hearing will be called off because a grand jury handed up an indictment moving the case to Nevada state court for trial.

Turner, Kennison and Pena are accused of killing Burchard and leaving his bludgeoned corpse in the trunk of Turner's car on a desert road near Lake Mead.