After woman's murder, detectives learn killer was "only half the story"

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After woman's murder, detectives learn killer was "only half the story"

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 …

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 encore of the episode airs Saturday, June 6 at 10/9c (following the WNBA on CBS) on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. After Alyssa Burkett was murdered in broad daylight in Carrollton, Texas, Andrew Beard, (pictured left) the father of her child, became a suspect. Investigators would eventually discover a twisted murder plot they say was orchestrated by his fiancée, Holly Elkins (pictured right) Lizette Bowers/Stephen Green 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. …

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