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title: "Kelsey Turner: The Instagram Model Who Became a Murderer"
description: "The shocking true crime story of Kelsey Turner, an Instagram model and Playboy Italia cover girl who murdered her 71-year-old benefactor Dr. Thomas Burchard and left his body in the trunk of a Mercedes in the Mojave Desert."
url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/kelsey-turner-instagram-model-murderer.md
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datePublished: 2026-06-12
dateModified: 2026-06-12
author:
  - name: Dana Ortiz
    url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/author/dana-ortiz
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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---

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The shocking true crime story of Kelsey Turner, an Instagram model and Playboy Italia cover girl who murdered her 71-year-old benefactor Dr. Thomas Burchard and left his body in the trunk of a Mercedes in the Mojave Desert.
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