A toxic couple orchestrates an elaborate plan to kill a mother. Peter Van Sant reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Alyssa Burkett?
Investigators believe the shooter thought Alyssa was dead. The blast had destroyed her left eye and part of her face. But Alyssa Burkett was still alive.
She gets out of her car and she walks up to this landing to try to get help because she knows her co-workers are here.
The shooter, described by some as a black man, got out of the vehicle and began sprinting toward Alyssa, this time with a new weapon in his hand, something more personal, a large hunting knife.
Did you see him holding the knife? Yeah, in the hand.
After he starts to stab her, she's still fighting. On this window right here, there was a blood handprint smear where Alyssa was trying to get anyone to come out and help her.
But fearing it was an active shooter situation, they stayed inside.
We're just getting our day started.
And the attacker launched into a rabid killing frenzy. plunging his knife into flesh and bone again and again. Incredibly, Alyssa was still breathing when her assailant fled. Once the suspect left, her coworkers came out to try to render aid. One of her colleagues made this call to 911.
911, what is the address of the emergency? 911 came up and just shot my assistant manager. Where is the shooter? I don't have enough information. I mean, he's gone. He left in his car. He literally left a second ago.
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Chapter 2: Who was Andrew Beard and what was his connection to Alyssa?
I'm telling you there's a side of him that you do not know.
But she stood by Andrew, insisting that he had an alibi. He was home with her when the murder took place.
There are a few hours that you know he was not in that house.
You cannot tell me that I feel that way, sir.
I can tell you that because I know that for a fact that he was out of the house, Holly.
I don't know that for a fact. That's what my problem is.
Holly remained adamant that she would have known if he had left.
I am a total stage five clinger girlfriend. I'm always up his ass. I find it hard to believe.
The interview ended with Holly standing by her man. She and Andrew's mom, Lizette, continued living together in an Airbnb. They became extremely close and bonded over their shared belief that Andrew was innocent, says Lizette.
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Chapter 3: What evidence was found after Alyssa's murder?
If you were to ask me whose idea was what, drugs and the planning of drugs was Elkins.
Holly Elkins even tried to get Alyssa's mom, Teresa, arrested. The incident started when Teresa and Alyssa drove by Holly and Andrew's home. Teresa says Holly and Andrew had failed to return Willow at the appointed time.
We see Holly on the golf cart with Willow in her lap coming towards the end of their driveway. And I got out of the car and I grabbed Willow, went and got back in the car, handed Willow to Alyssa and sped off.
Holly immediately called the police, who arrived with body cams rolling. Holly told them Teresa assaulted her when she grabbed Willow from her lap.
She literally talked to me from behind, or from behind side. I was facing the lake.
Teresa says she never touched Holly, but Holly pulled up her shirt to show cops scratches she claimed Teresa had inflicted.
No, no, no. Oh, you have some on your stomach?
What did you think of those pictures?
That they were ridiculous, that it was so apparent that she had done that to herself.
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