Police Las Vegas asks for help to track down the killer known children’s psychiatrist, who was found dead in the trunk of a car in a remote desert area in the beginning of this month.
According to the coroner’s office of Clark County, the body of 71-year-old Dr. Thomas Burchard from Salinas (CA) was found on 7 March in an abandoned car on route 157, East of the Las Vegas Valley, near the entrance to the National recreation area Lake Mead. The first vehicle noticed the driver passing by with their children. It seemed suspicious that one of the Windows was broken with a rock.
Officers responded to a report of an eyewitness about the abandoned vehicle. Opening the trunk, police found the body of Burchard. Upon inspection they came to the conclusion that the man died from wounds to the head with a blunt object.
Psychiatrist Thomas Burkhard
Judy Earp, Mary Burchard, said the couple was in Las Vegas at the conference on psychopharmacology in February. B., later returned to the city, but during the interview with the magazine «Las Vegas Review-Journal» the ETA refused to name the reason of such act. Now the woman insists that the person responsible for the murder of a popular psychiatrist, was «prosecuted».
Burchard’s death shocked not only his family but also patients. Some of them for several decades, went to his sessions since childhood. According to the ETA, were t those who brought their children.
A spokeswoman for Community Health of the Monterey Peninsula Mary Barker confirmed the death of Burchard.
«For many years he worked as a doctor in society,’ said Barker. — It is a tragic situation, and our hearts are with his family».
According to Barker, Burchard worked in 40 years, the programme on mental health in Montage Health.
The police of Las Vegas encourages anyone with any information about this incident, please telephone 702-828-3521 or email [email protected]. You can also leave an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 or telephone on the website crimestoppersofnv.com. If these tips lead to the arrest of the suspect, the person who provided it, is entitled to a cash reward.
