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NBC’s Dateline episode titled, The Last Weekend, recounts the events around trumpet player Scott Sessions' gruesome murder on February 8, 2020. Scott was killed by Kevin Eastman.
The synopsis of the Dateline episode reads:
"Scott Sessions, a trumpeter, misses a planned show. His family finds his corpse deserted in the distant Colorado peaks. Detectives eye two people, until a second killing happens."
More on this in our story.
Dateline: The Last Weekend - Who was Scott Sessions and what happened to him? Details explored
As per Dateline, 53-year-old Scott Sessions used to paint houses for a living. But his true passion lay in music, and he used to play trumpet with several bands, including the popular The Elvis Experience, an Elvis Presley cover band.
Sessions, who was adopted by his parents when he was a baby, lived in Greeley, Colorado. According to Dateline, his childhood was spent with a loving and caring family. Unfortunately, this music-loving man’s life met an unexpected and gruesome end in 2020. After he missed his gig at The Candlelight Dinner Playhouse on February 10, 2020, family and friends got suspicious of some foul play being involved, and their hunch was right, as on the same day, a snow plow driver found a burned body in Poudre Canyon.
Initially, the police were unable to identify the body due to it being burned, but after Scott’s father filed a missing persons complaint, it wasn’t hard for them to discover that the burned body, bound in plastic, was none other than Scott Sessions. Later, an autopsy report revealed that Sessions’ throat was slit before his body was lit on fire.
There weren’t many people who could be suspected, as Sessions was loved among his friends and family. His half-sister, Allison Weldon, told Dateline:
"I thought, 'Who would murder Scott? Who would murder him? Everybody loved Scott. It broke my heart that he lay up there in the cold, and to burn him afterwards, you know, like it wasn’t good enough that they did what they did."
The police then interviewed Sessions' ex-girlfriend but did not find anything, as she conveyed that they were still friends after their break-up a year earlier, which was discovered to be true as Scott had sent her a voicemail to tell her to have a great day, a day before he died.
Their attention was later shifted to Heather Frank, the new woman in Scott’s life. They met after one of Scott’s late-night band gigs. After looking at Scott’s Facebook messages, the police found out that he was supposed to meet Frank on February 8, 2025, but they might not have seen each other, as in Scott’s last message, he wrote:
"Hey where you at...?"
After surveilling around the neighborhood and Frank, the investigators identified a man named Kevin Eastman who was captured on CCTV driving Scott’s car and leaving it in a grocery store parking lot near Scott’s house.
Dateline: The Last Weekend - Eastman committed another murder before being arrested
After investigating Frank and Eastman’s phone records, the police found out that both of them were in Frank’s apartment with Sessions on the day he died, and also traveled to Poudre Canyon that night. They decided to track them for more evidence and placed tracking devices on their vehicles.
On February 15, 2020, Frank and Eastman traveled to Weld County and were followed by Larimer County Lt. Donnie Robbins to a farm. The investigators also noticed that Eastman made multiple stops while driving through the Colorado rural areas, alarming them.
They thought he might try to destroy crucial evidence, as Robbins saw Eastman lighting a fire on the farm. Without wasting any more time, Robbins arrested Eastman when he went to refill his canisters at a gas station.
Initially, Eastman denied being involved, but after the police found Frank’s body on the same farm, Eastman was charged with two murders. As per Dateline, Eastman was found guilty of two first-degree murders and was sent to prison for life in 2022.
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