After Texas woman's murder, detectives learn killer was "only half of the story"
CBSN
Three days after 24-year-old Alyssa Burkett was shot and then stabbed to death outside her office in Carrollton, Texas, Andrew Beard – with whom Burkett shared a 1-year-old daughter – was charged with her murder. The following day, Beard's fiancée Holly Elkins voluntarily sat down with two detectives at the Carrollton Police Department.
"I wanted to use her as a witness in this. And if she had information that could put her in that witness column and not in the suspect column, I was gonna listen to her," Det. Jeremy Chevallier told correspondent Peter Van Sant in "The Plot to Eliminate Alyssa Burkett," an all-new "48 Hours" airing Saturday, Nov. 16 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
Elkins told Chevallier and Sgt. Michael Harding she was convinced they had the wrong man. "I can't believe my fiancé would do something like that to a woman, or to anybody …" she said.
