What appeared to be an open-and-shut case for Texas investigators turned out to be a twisted murder plot involving victim Alyssa Beard's ex-boyfriend Andrew Beard and his fiancée Holly Elkins – who detectives say was the mastermind.
In the months after Alyssa Burkett was murdered, she appeared to her mother, Teresa Collard, in a dream.Teresa Collard: I see her across the room and in my dream — I knew she was gone but I was hysterically happy that I was seeing her and I was thinking 'you're back.'Teresa Collard: She came to me and said, no, I'm not back. And I don't want to come back and I never want to be there again.
So I just told all my friends and family that I'm engaged to the most wonderful man on the planet.DET. can't believe that my fiancé would do something like that to a woman or to anybody, but a woman.Chevallier and Harding interviewed Elkins for about an hour, hoping to turn her into a witness for the prosecution.DET.
I can — I can tell you that because I know that for a fact that he was out of the house, Holly. I just feel bad, you know. I just feel bad to not help something that I think is very sad that happened.DET.
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