Bombshell twist in murder of young Texas mother as documentary reveals who was really behind kill plot

A Texas parent was brutally killed by her bitter ex aft his caller woman coerced him into a twisted execution plot, it has been revealed. 

Beloved parent Alyssa Burkett, 24, was shot and stabbed to decease connected the greeting of October 2, 2020, extracurricular her work. Her ex-boyfriend and begetter of her girl Andrew Beard, past 33, was promptly arrested for her murder. 

Detective Jeremy Chevallier told CBS News' 48 Hours that 'at first, it seemed similar an unfastened and unopen case', with the motive seemingly a hostile custody conflict for Burkett and Beard's one-year-old girl Willow. 

Chevallier said erstwhile helium began his investigation, helium sought retired Beard's caller fiancée Holly Elkins, and initially 'wanted to usage her arsenic a witnesser successful this.' 

'If she had accusation that could enactment her successful that witnesser file and not successful the fishy column, I was gonna perceive to her,' the detective told the outlet. 

Elkins insisted nether questioning that she couldn't 'believe my fiancé would bash thing similar that to a woman, oregon to anybody' - and insisted Beard was with her connected the greeting Burkett was killed. 

But arsenic Chevallier enactment it, helium aboriginal discovered 'Andrew Beard was lone fractional of the story.' 

When Burkett was murdered, witnesses said they saw what they thought to beryllium a achromatic antheral propulsion up beside her car arsenic the parked extracurricular her enactment astatine the Greentree Apartments leasing bureau in Carrollton, Texas. 

The slayer changeable her done her drivers' broadside window, and believing her to beryllium dead, near her there. Burkett survived, and climbed retired of her car to effort and get assistance from her co-workers wrong the office. 

This led the slayer to pursuit aft her with a hunting knife, and stabbed the young parent to decease 44 times connected the steps of her enactment earlier fleeing successful a Ford SUV. 

Bodycam footage from the country captured the tragic infinitesimal Burkett's parent Teresa Collard raced to her daughter's enactment aft proceeding the news, and instantly told officers she believed Beard was the killer. 

'She said helium was the benignant of idiosyncratic who would effort and termination her,' Collard said astatine the country done tears. 'And helium did, helium did... ohio my god.' 

Despite the witnesser descriptions of a achromatic antheral being the killer, constabulary rapidly tracked Beard down and pulled him implicit successful his motortruck with Elkins and Willow inside. 

Investigators allowed the 3 to permission but told them they couldn't instrumentality home, and erstwhile cops searched Beard's home, they recovered GPS tracker batteries and charging stations that matched a tracking instrumentality recovered nether Burkett's car that day. 

Burkett's household aboriginal told constabulary that she had antecedently told them she was acrophobic Beard was stalking her and ever seemed to cognize wherever she had been. 

The adjacent day, a hunt of Beard's conveyance uncovered 2 bottles of acheronian instauration constitution - and it was discovered that Beard had utilized the constitution to disguise himself arsenic a achromatic antheral to transportation retired the murder. 

Later that nighttime constabulary besides recovered the Ford SUV witnesses described astatine the country of the crime, near abandoned little than a mile from Beard's home. 

Beard surrendered to the Carrollton Police Department and was charged with murder. He was released connected enslaved 2 weeks later, but owed to fears for Willow's safety, cops enlisted the FBI to instrumentality him backmost into custody. 

They said they recovered an unregistered silencer astatine Beard's home, allowing him to beryllium re-arrested connected caller charges of cyberstalking utilizing a unsafe limb resulting successful death. 

Beard pleaded blameworthy successful June 2022, and spoke with the FBI 1 period aboriginal arsenic portion of a plea woody - yet pointing the digit astatine Elkins arsenic the orchestrator of Burkett's murder. 

In his interrogation, Beard said: 'It was …'this is however you're gonna bash this,' it was, 'you're gonna deterioration this acheronian makeup.' That was her plan… that's however it's gonna beryllium done.'' 

Chevallier told CBS' 48 Hours that helium came to recognize Elkins 'was the 1 moving the show... she was telling him what helium was going to do.' 

In substance messages betwixt the couple, detectives said they could archer Elkins hated Burkett, and successful 1 speech the week earlier the murder, Elkins texted Beard portion she was connected a travel to Mexico ordering him to transportation retired the murder. 

'I anticipation you grip it I'm not coming location to b***s***,' she texted him. 

'That's my goal,' Beard responded. 

In his interrogation with the FBI, Beard went connected to explain: 'I conscionable fundamentally said, 'OK' and became submissive to immoderate she wanted maine to do, that's the task I did.' 

In May 2023, astir a twelvemonth aft his blameworthy plea, Beard was sentenced to 43 years successful national prison, and Chevallier said helium believes Elkins thought astatine the clip she had gotten distant with it. 

'I deliberation she believed that the further she got distant from this, the little progressive she was gonna be,' helium said. 'But it didn't enactment retired for her.' 

Two months later, Elkins was snared astatine Miami Airport aft returning from a travel to the Dominican Republic, and was charged with conspiracy to stalk and stalking utilizing a unsafe limb resulting successful death. 

She pleaded not guilty. At her trial, a national authoritative summed up the lawsuit against her: 'Andrew Beard was a monster, but helium was Holly Elkins' monster.' 

Jurors ended up deliberating for conscionable 90 minutes earlier returning a blameworthy verdict, and she was yet sentenced successful August to 2 beingness presumption - longer than Beard's sentence. 

As enactment by different detective connected the case: 'I 100% judge that if Holly and Andrew had ne'er met that Alyssa Burkett would beryllium live today.'