Former Playboy model Kelsey Turner, who was charged for the 2019 murder of her then 71-year-old sugar daddy, Dr Thomas Burchard, after he stopped paying her rent, has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison following her court appearance on Tuesday.

In addition to her lengthy sentence, Turner’s accomplice, her ex-boyfriend Jon Kennison, was also sentenced to 18 to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter.

Kennison also pleaded guilty during his hearing last year to the same charge, admitting to prosecutors that he bludgeoned Burchard to death with a baseball bat and helped Turner hide the doctor’s corpse in Turner’s blue Mercedes-Benz C300.

According to reports, Turner met Burchard during a therapy session in 2018 and developed a platonic relationship that blossomed into a romantic one months later.

During the said relationship, Burchard reportedly promised Turner that he would pay her rent for her condo in Las Vegas for a year which totaled US$3200 on a monthly basis.

However, when the payments stopped in November 2019 after Burchard travelled to Turner’s apartment to inform her that he could no longer afford her lifestyle, Turner with the help of Dennison flew into a fit of rage and grabbed a baseball bat and bludgeoned him to death and later stuffed his body in Turner’s Mercedes.

Three days after the murder, the victim’s girlfriend filed a missing person’s report after he failed to return home; a search was then launched.

Days later, investigators found the car on Silver State Route 147, after a report was filed to the Las Vegas police of a vehicle matching the description given in the bulletin which subsequently led to Turner’s arrest.

She was later charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Turner also entered an Alford plea under a deal reached between attorneys in the case, maintaining her innocence but pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge.