Burchard’s girlfriend on newly released murder details

The girlfriend of Monterey Dr. Thomas Burchard, is speaking out after disturbing new details have emerged about his murder in Las Vegas.

A newly released grand jury transcript shows Diana Pena testified about a violent fight and that one of the suspects, Kelsey Turner’s boyfriend Jon Logan Kennison, “Had a gun that was covered in blood” with some blood “splattered on his face.”

Pena blamed Turner and Kennison for Burchard’s death. She said they all went into hiding after his body was found. Turner and Kennison are awaiting trial.

Pena has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors.

The court testimony shows Pena claimed that the attack that led to Burchard’s death started with sexually explicit texts between Burchard and Kelsey Turner’s mother.

Burchard’s former girlfriend maintains there was nothing sexual between him and Kelsey Turner, or her mother.

“He was a psychiatrist, talk that would be sexual in nature or personal, that’s what he did for a living,” Judy Earp said, “That was just natural to him to talk with people that way.”

Earp says threats from Turner had her fearing for both her and Burchard’s life long before his murder.

“She had made many threats, many threats,” Earp said, “She made threats that I actually saw in texts against me, threatening to kill me and I know she threatened Tom.”

We asked why she felt Burchard still maintained any contact with Turner; she would only say this:

“I do know the reason and I’m sure that it will come out in court,” Earp said. “It was not the salacious gossip sugar daddy stuff that so many people have said.”

For now, Earp says she and her children, who Burchard helped raise, are trying to move forward by remembering the life of their loved one.

“We always celebrated Father’s Day,” Earp said. “It was just really hard. We all put our different pictures that we had together and made a little slide show, and we all talked about how we miss him and how hard it is.”

Turner is expected back in court at the end of the month for the trial date to be set.