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[Music] in 2017 Kelly Cochran a 34 year old woman gave the following statements during her testimony in an iron County
Michigan courtroom Kelly told the court about her husband Jason Cochran she explained how he had
physically abused her throughout their entire marriage and on numerous occasions he had held a gun to her head
threatening to kill her speaking in regards to one of those occasions she said quote he put a gun to
my head he was going to shoot me he was going to shoot himself he was going to just end it right there
end quote Kelly went on explaining her marriage more and informing the court that she
had cheated on her husband and she was having an affair with a man she had worked with Chris Regan
she said on October 14 2014 her husband Jason went out with some friends so she invited Chris to
come over and join her at her home Kelly and Chris were having sex when Jason returned home he walked in saw the
two of them Chris on top of Kelly and Jason shot Chris in the back of the head and the two of them fell down the stairs
in the middle of the ACT then just a short time later Jason told Kelly to fetch him in an electric cord
so he could power a handsaw Jason then handed Kelly a pair of forceps and told her to remove the
bullet from Chris's head Jason forced her to make him dinner he wanted a burger with fries
while she was cooking for him Jason was dismembering Chris's body with the Sawzall in their basement
Kelly said when he had cut him up Jason took one of Chris's hands and waved it at her adding that that would be the
last time he would ever wave goodbye to her after mutilating the body Jason put the
body parts into several trash bags and told Kelly to help him carry them she would not she told the court I
didn't care if he shot me right there but I wasn't carrying those bags saying quote I wasn't going to be part of him
being treated like garbage Jason and Kelly hid Chris's remains in a wooded area near pantoga Trail in
Crystal Falls Michigan Kelly said she only helped him because if not Jason was planning on dissolving
the body using acid and then Chris's body would never be found so Kelly suggested that location
thinking it was a high traffic area and he would likely be discovered on the stand she was asked if she felt
guilty and Kelly said yes because if he Chris if he would have never been in a relationship with me he'd be here
[Music] Chris Carl Regan was a fun-loving divorce father of two grown boys Chris
found his love for the outdoors when he was stationed at K.I Sawyer Air Force Base it was a great place for hiking
camping and all types of cycling activities he loved and passed on to his two sons
Chris was 53 years old he had an on and off again relationship with a woman named Terry O'Donnell they
first met in the 80s this was an on-again and off-again relationship that lasted until 2014 but even when they
were off again Chris and Terry remained close Chris's Sons said that Chris was the
type of friend and father that always answered phone calls and returned text and when they didn't hear from him for a
week they knew something was wrong on October 27 2014 Terry O'Donnell went to the police and reported Chris is
missing Chief Laura frizzo took the report Terry made sure to let the police chief
know that Chris was not depressed or suicidal in fact Chris was excited he was getting ready to move out of town
and start a new job in Asheville North Carolina in November it already started to pack for his new
adventure and the pair planned to remain close even after the move they had made plans to visit each other
during the holidays so weird thing here Colonel is that Terry didn't know where Chris was but she knew where Chris's car
was yeah seems a little strange we have Chris's sons who say it was over a week since they had heard from their father
and then Terry told the police chief that she could take her to the car to Chris's car which was sitting at a
nearby park and ride so police went to this vehicle and sure enough it was Chris's car later the
police ran a check on Chris's bank accounts finding that the last time that he had used his bank card was about two
weeks prior to the reporting of him missing Chris used his band card at a local gas station around 4 pm on October
14th Chief Rizzo went to the gas station observed the security footage from the 14th and she saw Chris driving his car
pumping gas he was traveling alone and nothing appeared out of the ordinary and when Chris drove off and left the gas
station nobody was following him when police had found Chris's car they found two interesting items one Chris's
knee brace they were informed that he wouldn't go long without wearing it so this is not a positive find
the other item was a sticky note left on the passenger seat and on it was a local
address and police are going to check with Chris's work and they find out that Chris hasn't been to work in two weeks
yeah and while they're there they're going to ask if there's you know you ask these people is there anything that we
should be aware of anything of importance uh in regards to Chris and why we might not be able to find him
well at some point they're told that Chris is having an affair with a co-worker this is a married woman named
Kelly Cochran the address on the sticky note in Chris's car was Kelly's home address so
of course police went to the home of Kelly Cochran and her husband Jason Cochran and they brought them in for
questioning and this question was a little odd to say say the least right yeah yeah I agree it's not so much the
the questioning that I find odd it's more of the answers that we end up getting because they do what you would
you would expect in any situation like this they take in two people now they're not under arrest for anything at this
point nor should they be they're just being asked to answer some questions and these might be tough questions and we
want to get good honest answers and be able to fact check some of these things so when we bring in Kelly and her
husband Jason we're going to separate them we're going to put each one of them in a room by themselves and they're
going to be interviewed separately they're going to be asked a lot of the same questions but along the way as they
start telling us proportions of their story well we're going to let those questions
adapt depending on what's going on in their version of the story first thing we want to know as investigators is why
do we find this address your home address in this missing individual's vehicle well
that's when Kelly comes clean and she says look we've been having an affair of course we know that the investigators
already know about the affair at this time right from them his co-workers yeah so they're going to make the hard
decision to ask Jason about the affair to which the husband states that he didn't like it but he was aware of it
and that if he wanted to keep Kelly as his wife then he just kind of had to put up with it it was just something that he
had to put up with apparently she had other uh Affairs throughout the course of their marriage all right so this is
like a ongoing thing but it's just like a loud the open relationship sound I mean it
almost sounds like it is well what it's not open relationship in the sense that what we gather from the questions here
is that both people willingly admit to the extramarital affair uh Jason is aware of it uh both agree that they're
not he's not entirely happy with it but that's what was going on in this situation and Kelly had stated that Not
only was she having an extramarital affair but that Jason wouldn't do anything to harm either her or Chris
as she stated that Chris meant the world to her and if anything happened to Chris
even though that Jason didn't like this affair that Jason wouldn't do anything to Chris
because it would really hurt Kelly and that Jason had been great throughout their entire marriage in fact he
worshiped the ground that she walked on therefore he would never do anything to hurt Kelly right but she doesn't have a
problem having this affair and hurting her husband yeah she was asked if Jason would be you know violent either towards
her or to Chris and she stated that he was not a violent individual that he was at times
depressed and maybe even suicidal at times but she was he was not what she would describe as a violent individual
so the police are obviously taking a long look at Jason and Kelly Cochran Kelly because she was the one she was
one of the last people to see Chris and we know this because she tells the investigators hey look he had been to my
house before I had been to his house several times and it sounds to me like she was going
to his house more often right and on the she says between the 12th and the 15th somewhere in that time range
that she had gone to his house and they had had dinner together and she that was
the last time that she had seen him so she's being looked at because we know that she is one of the last people to
see Chris and then both of them are being looked at obviously because of this affair this has got to be a super
weird situation I'm guessing for detectives because here we have this couple okay now how do we how do we
explore this how do we look at this do we look at it as we have two suspects working together
or do we have one suspect and the other person doesn't know what's going on either way we have two people that are
very interesting in this investigation into this missing individual yeah I mean or the fact that they might have nothing
to do with the situation true so then we have police search their home and this is what the FBI
and this takes place in March of 2015. now they find no obvious sign of Chris or of murder but while they're there
They seized two guns the couple's cell phones and their computers this search though would have a huge
impact because Kelly and Jason were spooked by this so much so that they packed up and they moved to Merrillville
and Lake County Indiana how far away do you know I don't know the exact distance
but we're talking about a move from North Michigan to I believe this is north West Indiana right so so at least stayed
away right and I think the the important thing here is the cochrons moved quickly
so this is one of those running out of town in the middle of the night situation the cochrons move like
cockroaches and I'm pretty certain that they moved in with Jason's mother but they did leave pretty much
everything behind when they fled Michigan their Furniture was still in the house food was still there just
about everything apparently Jason even left his marijuana plants behind hmm now despite speaking with the couple back in
2014 after learning of the extramarital affair detectives said the Regan case had eventually gone cold so we have the
single father of two and he was about ready to move and start a new life and now he's just
disappeared from the face of the Earth yeah about three weeks before he could move down to North Carolina he vanishes
his car turns up at this park and ride and there's little Clues to suggest what may have happened to him but police are
well aware of his relationship with Kelly Cochran then on February 20th 2016 paramedics in
Lake County Indiana responded to a 9-1-1 call on the call a woman stated that something was wrong with her husband and
she needed help the woman did not know for sure what was wrong with her husband but she but he was sweating a lot and
throwing up she said she needed an ambulance right away when paramedics arrived it was at the
new home of Kelly and Jason Cochran Jason was unresponsive they tried desperately to revive him
during the entirety of their time on site Kelly the wife that had called 9-1-1 could only be described as
disruptive and she wouldn't leave the room despite their request for her to do so especially as they attempted to
revive her husband Jason was pronounced dead and the cause of death was believed to be an overdose
of heroin Kelly held a memorial service for her late husband and wrote on Facebook that his death was quote the
hardest thing I have ever had to deal with but then someone tipped off the FBI saying that the couple were suspects in
an unsolved Michigan missing persons case which could possibly actually be a murder case right this paired with
Kelly's confusing and inconsistencies in her stories about what had happened to her husband the night that he had died
and Kelly's defensiveness and evasiveness while all of these things were raising major red flags so a full
autopsy was ordered and this revealed that Jason had not died from an overdose but from asphyxiation well surprise
surprise yeah changing the cause of death from accidental overdose to homicide caused by asphyxia by
strangulation right but you you would think that there was some drugs in his system well it was because sorry I
didn't get to finish the cause of death it's uh by strangulation Complicated by heroin intoxication okay so the lead
detective in Indiana this is detective Ogden he hatched a plan and I I love this kind of police work right here he
hatched a plan with a tipster to make Kelly believe that her husband had left behind a letter that would
expose their past actions so a phone call is made and there's a gentleman that's going to
happen that sounds like such like a detective movie and then a phone call was made well the man working with the
detective his name is Walt ammerman okay this is her deceased Kelly's deceased husband's very good friend according to
Walt now during that phone call Walt tells Kelly he has a letter from her late husband that he had asked him to
send to the Iron River Police Department if anything had happened to him investigating officers recorded this
phone call now Kelly asked the man not to send the letter but ultimately told him that he was going to have to do what
he had to do Walt tells her that he intended to mail the letter to the police department
later she asked Walt if he had mailed it he said that he had she asked what was in it and Walt told her he did not open
it well this prompted Kelly to call Indiana detective Ogden she said she had something to tell him and this is wild
Captain because her story is going to change dramatically you think yeah well she tells detective Ogden that that
Jason had caught her and Chris together had caught the two of them having sex and she witnessed
Jason kill Chris but keep in mind meanwhile back in Michigan police are still working the
case but they have no body they still have not found Chris's remains right but with his car being found and the
information they found in the car I mean her story lines up with what possibly could have happened well let's do a
quick little recap here because there's a lot of moving around in this story and
it can get confusing so in 2014 we have Chris Regan who goes missing in Michigan
then once the couple Jason and Kelly Cochran are questioned they leave the state of Michigan and about a year and a
half later Jason Cochran dies now after his death the ruling of his death has changed from an overdose to homicide
then we have Kelly Cochran who is now in constant interaction with the Indiana Detective now after this letter this
this letter phone call goes down she is going to call the Indiana detective and she wants to know why this letter was
sent what was in the letter she's she's pretty consumed with this letter and that's when she says that guess what
I know we told people in Michigan we didn't know anything about Chris's disappearance but what actually happened
was we were having sex and my husband came in and had shot Chris Regan [Music] foreign
[Music] [Music] all right we're back cheers all right Captain nine weeks after Jason Cochran
had died the Michigan authorities decided they were ready to charge Kelly Cochran with Chris's death now Kelly had
been let's say working with the detective in Indiana up to this point but just like her and Jason had fled
Michigan Kelly decided she was going to flee Indiana well and think about this now Captain
this is not the same situation because now Kelly technically being charged with a murder or with The Disappearance up in
Michigan this is a wanted woman okay so detective Ogden well he likes a good game of chess as we
saw with his clever creation of that fake letter we would later learn that that whole letter thing was just a ruse
it was a pretty intelligent idea it's a great idea and this time he tracks pings
on Kelly's cell phone in April of 2016. so Kelly is located in the state of Kentucky and she's arrested by U.S
Marshals and the Kentucky State Police and Wingo Kentucky following her arrest Kelly was interrogated by both Michigan
and Indiana Law Enforcement well let's focus on her possible involvement into Chris's death her boyfriend or her her
lover okay well Captain I have to point out this story is very tricky to cover and very tricky to research for many
reasons okay first off we have the ever-changing stories of Kelly Cochran and I don't know why I've seen this in
several cases not often but seen this in several cases and it seems like a strange kind of Defense to put up to try
to convince law enforcement that you're innocent or didn't have much involvement
in something or at least didn't have control over a crime or murder and what I mean is the ever-changing
stories so basically what Kelly does is that she throws you one story and she's going to
see if you bite and if you don't bite and you don't believe her she's very happy to throw you another story or a
slightly different version of that last story that she gave you and she's willing to just keep doing this and
doing this and doing this until you settle on a story now the thing here though is what she will do from time to
time is she will point out reasons why she might be willing to come forward about having
more of a personal involvement and in the crime that took place then the previous story that she gave you okay so
each story she's a little more involved and then also she does this other thing too where she will just throw out these
crazy stories that on the surface and when you're first presented with them seem like possibilities but it could
just be her playing mind games with you well and that's pretty strange too because you see a lot of times when
somebody confesses um to a crime that they'll start every time they start confessing
they'll backpedal so they're less involved well that's what's so great about this
letter this this whole letter ruse that was come up by the Indiana detective okay so basically you have a situation
where Kelly Cochran and her husband Jason are question about The Disappearance of Chris and they say look
yeah we saw him we had some kind of relationship with him we had some uh personal interaction with this guy but
we had nothing to do with his disappearance we don't know where he is or what could have happened to him
and then after the creation of this letter all of a sudden Kelly is saying a whole different story
we were having an affair that much was true we've already agreed on that part but in this version of the story they
are caught and Jason basically executes Chris right in front of Kelly yeah and then her dismembers him yeah and here's
the other crazy thing Captain remember how nice Kelly said that her husband was yeah and you know he worshiped the
ground that I walked on and he would never do anything to hurt me hurting Chris meant hurting me and he would
never do that all of a sudden here's the story this guy's an abusive husband I was
scared to death of this guy he killed Chris and I didn't tell anybody about it because I was afraid of
my husband right all the while she keeps asking detectives both in Michigan and Indiana what was in that letter what was
in that letter from my husband to his friend that his friend did not open up and that he sent to you guys I wanted to
see that letter let me see that letter right the detective Ogden the guy that created the letter mm-hmm
he basically he just goes he created the idea of the letter right yeah right and
he came up with it and I tell you what Jason's old friend Walt he sold it great on that phone call man he sold it great
to Kelly and she bought it she bought every bit of it she ate it up to the point where she keeps asking to
see this letter detective Ogden gets like aggressive with her during The Question he's like you don't get to see
the letter gives her one of those you can't handle the truth yeah yeah you know what I was talking with somebody a
couple weeks ago and they were asking me remember the old Felix Vail case that we
covered with our friend Gina Who pretended to be an insurance adjuster and took pictures of his place and got
to know him and know some personal things about him yeah she also pretended to be somewhat romantically interested
yes slightly interested in this guy somebody asked me said uh don't you think that's kind of operating in the
gray area of law enforcement I said I love when they operate if you think that's gray fine to me I think it's
black and white these criminals do things behind closed doors under the cover of Darkness we're just leveling
out the playing field a little bit I'm totally fine with that guy Felix Avail believing that Gina was from the
insurance company well I'm totally fine with Kelly Cochran believing that there was a letter sent from her dead husband
yeah I wouldn't say that's in the gray area I mean that that's within the law I think that's creative within the law
you're exactly right as long as they're playing within the confines of the law it's all fair game right and remember I
wanted to start that that show where we dress up like clowns and we go take people hostage and try to
get them to confess to crimes we couldn't get anybody to buy that show yeah because it's illegal I found out
later it's illegal to do that well Captain her story is going to continue to change and she's not going
to get to see this letter that she wants to see so badly but now all of a sudden
Jason is this monster that she was married to that she had been afraid of okay so let's follow Kelly's story all
right she says that her and Jason her husband they started dating shortly after high school then they moved in
together in 2001 Jason proposed to her she thought Jason was quote the love of her life
so she accepted and they got married in 2002. according to Kelly Jason was two very different people after their
marriage sometimes he was the man that she loved but other times she said that she saw the eyes of the monster in him
and that their relationship devolved into verbal abuse and physical threats a couple was married for 13 years they
didn't have any kids Jason had some kind of physical trouble he was injured I believe it was some
kind of injury that he had suffered suffered at work and so at some point in their marriage he was unable to work
Kelly and Chris became heavily involved at some point and it's been reported that they were
getting together as many times as four or five times a week now Kelly said that jealousy in her marriage was was getting
very bad well of course you're having an extramarital affair why would it not be
according to Kelly on October 13 2014 Jason and Kelly came up with a plan to quote save their marriage and this was
to kill Chris Regan inside of their home and they would implement this plan on the next day
so Kelly lured Chris to their home then when Jason quote caught them supposedly caught them right Chris with
his wife he shot him in the head with a 22 caliber gun the cochranes then set about
dismembering Chris's body then they divided Chris's body between garbage bags and threw the bags into the woods
now Kelly was able to direct investigators to a desolate stretch of Michigan Woods where they did discover
evidence of these alleged crimes including a human skull with an apparent Bullet Hole bones and Bone fragments
police also recovered a 22 caliber rifle and a 22 caliber bullet and a pair of glasses at this scene but hold on to
your horse people because this story is going to get a little more Twisted because at this point she's going to
start telling law enforcement that Jason not only you know killed Chris but he's
a serial killer yeah she claims that Chris before killing Chris Jason had killed other individuals
and that he had even kept some trophies from these kills to which she had confiscated them or he had hid them I'm
a little uncertain as to the details of that but for whatever reason these trophies
ended up roughly in the same location as Chris's body Okay so so all of a sudden Jason is a serial
killer and she provides some potential victim names and very little detail or information regarding these crimes that
she's saying happened she gives this information to detectives well here's the problem you now have this woman in
your custody who very likely and very soon should be charged with two potential homicides now you're handed this list of
other victims in in a whole uh Buffet of potential other crimes this could really mess up your
investigation the thing here is Oh Captain these detectives they're too smart they
realized early on the games that Kelly wanted to play my boy's Wicked smart that's right and they realize these
games and they realized that these were just things that were thrown at them to try to screw up the investigation and
they were smart enough to say you know what let's take what we have in front of us right now let's take this individual
that we think killed two people let's deal with this first and we can always come back to these items and look into
them later so they decide to pursue charges against Kelly Cochran and in in Indiana Kelly would be charged with the
death of her husband then in Michigan she was facing charges related to Chris's death this is included homicide
and assisting her husband to mutilate the face remove or carry away a portion of a dead body and concealing the death
of an individual Kelly pled not guilty to all charges while she initially claimed that she
wanted to defend herself at trial she did eventually relent and she asked for assistance from a public defender
so at some point she wanted to be her own lawyer early on she wanted to be her own lawyer that's correct now the
prosecution the attorney gave the jury copies of her presentation which included copies of text messages sent by
Kelly to both her husband and the victim Christopher Regan now what's weird here
Captain is that they were able to prove that Kelly Cochran was okay so Chris was communicating with Jason according
to their cell phones right around the time that they believe Chris was murdered so they actually think that what was
happening was that Kelly was using Chris's phone to communicate with Jason this likely went down when they were
moving the vehicle moving Chris's vehicle from their home and placing it at the park and ride
and then we also have the situation of they could have gone to his home at some point it's a little unclear if they if
they actually did it suspected that they may have during the opening comments Kelly's
defense lawyer said that Kelly's husband was solely behind the murder and that his client was acting out of fear for
her own life even though she already confessed to being involved well that's what's so confusing about this case
Captain like I said she gave story after Story during closed-door meetings with law enforcement and then when we go back
and we review the the trial I believe the trial lasted almost three weeks when we reviewed the trial
She lays out a little bit of of a pretty solid defense okay and and solid in the
sense of it's now one story and the story is this that her husband her deceased husband was
guilty was the sole murderer of Chris and that she was afraid for her life so whatever her involvement was it was out
of fear from her husband who had abused her for years and I'll tell you what the prosecution
was absolutely brilliant because they questioned every statement that Kelly gave Kelly was on the stand I think
but she was on the stand for a long time I mean maybe two complete days maybe even three but they allowed her to lay
out her story and then they went back through man and they poked holes in every bit of it that's a strong bladder
well one thing that I think was interesting uh was was one simple line of questioning
when she time and time again explained how afraid she was of her husband stating
things like he would often he always carried loaded guns in the house and he was an excellent Marksman was a complete
psychopath that's abusive and he's a serial killer so why wouldn't she be afraid well and she claims that he
threatened to shoot her in the head like 20 times with this being with a gun to her head she also claims that he fired
shots at her at one point and that he only missed because he wanted to because he was an excellent Marksman honestly
I'm such a smart mouth that you know if um my wife said I'm going to shoot you in
the head 20 times I'd say ah joke's on you I'm only going to feel fill one of those but these are 12 20 separate
incidences oh yeah the threat wasn't I'm going to shoot you in the head 20 times
that he threatened her 20 different times with a gun to her head so I am a little slow today well here's here's a
big problem so the prosecution questioned Kelly this is a great question they said so just to
be clear for the jury you were so afraid of your husband that you decided to go out and have an affair
you were you were afraid for your life all these years of your marriage from your husband and so your your result is
you go out and have an affair something that would many people have been killed because of Affairs on top of that going
out for an affair maybe not that bad maybe you're not so scared but you bring the guy over to your house yeah
according to Kelly he had been there three times before before this incident you must say we're traveling yeah
trembling hey why don't you come on over and that's what's great when you see her
on the stand and when she's being cross-examined by the prosecution uh her story just doesn't hold up there's
there's so many things about her story like saying we always had loaded he always walked around with loaded guns
inside the house well he threatened me one time and he actually pulled the trigger well what happened well the gun
wasn't loaded that time I thought you said the guns were always loaded well not on this occasion
right you know and he was an excellent Marksman and he even fired shots at me but I got lucky and they missed it was
about two inches from my head well I thought you said he was an excellent Marksman well he missed because he
wanted to miss that's how good of a shot he was so she has an answer for everything it's
not always the right answer well right but if you're lying about every answer you can come up with a answer
well and the other thing that she was questioned about was her unwillingness to help during the
ordeal and even after her husband is dead her lack of emotion during the investigation her unwillingness to help
the investigation after her husband is dead these are all things that just don't
they don't help her story to ring true at any time yeah and the biggest red flag here for me what you stated in the
beginning is when they called in that Chris was missing when they found his car and then they question these two
individuals they're gonna sit and question Jason and Kelly but here's a big red flag in separate
rooms so now you're in the police department and this guy killed your lover right
right and you're in separate rooms surrounded by police officers if you're so afraid of the guy
that's when you say hey this guy's a killer he's a serial killer I can prove that he did this lock him up protect me
I agree with you 100 and guess what there are going to be people out there that would say but she was let's let's
say she was afraid you know then I can understand why she didn't say anything no if if you get one chance to save your
ass this is it because from this moment on we might be able to protect you from this moment on
we might be able to lock him up right or at the very least we might be able to put you somewhere and keep him away from
you and while we build a case against this guy and I think the thing too is that if you give law enforcement that
chance and again he could get arrested and the police could say she had nothing to do
with you getting arrested you know so I I don't know that that was her chance if
what she's saying had any truth to it that's what you would have done and again there's going to be people that
come out and say well this person was physically abused and verbally abused and and and they feel bad for
but I don't we don't even know if that was true right you know for all I don't know of any police reports of him being
arrested for beating her up well and here's the other thing captain and with Kelly's story
like you said you if she truly was a victim on any level on any level at all you want to know and you want to
weigh that with the circumstances right yeah so we have the the original investigator this is Chief friso Laura
frizzo she's the one that originally took the missing persons report of Chris back in 2014. she was part of what she
referred to as two field trips that she took with Kelly Cochran after cochrane's
arrest to this area looking for the remains and Laura said on the stand that all the
while she was still looking for reasons and looking for evidence that would back
up Kelly's version of the story and that Kelly was telling them some truth along
the way I think what we learn here and we know this from other cases and other uh murders
that how do you know that Kelly Cochran is lying it's pretty easy her mouth was moving her lips are moving
that's correct after 12 days of witnesses questions and testimony it was up to the jury to decide the Kelly
Cochran murder cases they would find Kelly guilty of murdering Chris Regan yeah in May of 2017 she is going to be
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole this for the conviction of murdering Christopher
Regan her boyfriend and co-worker okay now we have a suit now now we have a situation Captain where
she's going to end up pleading guilty for killing her husband Jason Cochran right and for this she was sentenced to
65 years as part of the plea agreement and she did state to the media I will die in prison and I have accepted that
fate well no [ __ ] Sherlock I mean you committed murder you're going to die in prison well Kelly told the court that
she delivered an overdose of heroin to her husband and then proceeded to put her hands on his neck nose and mouth
until he died she states that this took about a minute okay and he was vomiting like she said
in the 9-1-1 call so basically she's putting her hand hands over his nose and mouth
and he's choking on his own fluids right at this point so she did give several different
versions of this story to law enforcement but this seems to be the one that would stick that they're going to
use for her plea agreement right okay and later she would say I still hate him and yes it was a Revenge killing she
stating that she evened the score that she was still mad at Jason for killing Chris and that's why she killed Jason
about a year and a half later well we know that she's a liar so but she did mention that Jason might have killed
other people I'm assuming that she's lying and when she says Jason Jason she's probably talking about herself
well that's what's weird because at another time she tells law enforcement that she is a serial killer and then she
may have killed as many as 21 people now the provisions of her plea agreement with the state of Indiana if Kelly
chooses she could later provide locations of other victims but this would be without any penalty so she
cannot be convicted for additional murders in the state of Indiana right however I don't want anybody to think
that anybody was lazy during the course of this investigation or during the course of Prosecuting Kelly Cochran I
from what I read and what I could find it looked like these investigators specifically the ones in Indiana worked
this case and not only worked this case extremely hard but outsmarted a very smart criminal and murderer along the
way multiple times so don't think for a second that Kelly has outsmarted the justice system in Indiana yeah I don't
think he's outsmart in them and it's I don't even think she's smart she just has a level of evil that becomes hard to
deal with and I think they dealt with it the best way they could you know they almost kind of fought fire with fire and
they really tripped her up well in the the supposed extra murders that she may have done what information she provided
them was taken to the process executor so that was taken into account before they agreed on this plea agreement in
the state of Indiana and and the prosecution firmly believed that there's nothing here there's nothing of any
truthfulness here in any of these statements now to the other end of that argument as
to whether there's any potential other victims some people including Kelly's brother believe that the couple had
killed at least nine people together as for who those other victims are detectives said that it's a mystery that
Kelly claimed that she had quote friends who are buried in several States including the state of Tennessee but
never revealed where or who Kelly told police that she murdered many other people
a Hobart police detective said that at one time she had said she had killed 21 people on two occasions she had told her
that and she states I didn't believe it I think that she was stretching things she was trying to play a game she
realized that when she gives you 21 games which she did you're going to have to take a lot of time to look into each
of those and they didn't it didn't take long for them to realize that she was sending them on a wild goose chase so no
more victims have turned up and no other murder charges await Kelly Cochran personally what I think Captain after
everything that I dug through in the past week what I think we're dealing with here is a situation where I think
Kelly Cochran was the ringleader I think that Jason was certainly involved in the
murder of Chris but I think that Kelly was the one that put together the plan I think she was kind of the leader I think
that for whatever reason Chris became a problem and they devised this plan to kill him
and then later when she's presented with another problem Jace and her husband she
decides to get rid of Jason and this is the only way that she knows to how to handle these problems that she's created
that she's taken on in her life is is to end them with murder now a scary thought though here before
we leave Captain former police chief Laura frizzo she had a comment on possible other victims she said quote I
do not think that Chris is the first person that they murdered she explained there's no way that the first person you
choose to kill you're going to be able to clean clean up the blood and get rid of the body so that the FBI agents can't
pull DNA off the walls to do what they did to him I don't know how you could do that if it
was the first person you've ever killed shooting someone that's one thing you can be far away pull out your gun and
it's done but to sit there take a cut up body and then wrap its parts put it in your vehicle and haul it
over to the woods and bury it there's no possible way you could logically think that through I truly believe there are
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Where was Chris Regan? That is what started this whole messed up situation. Jealousy and revenge murders are pretty common but Kelly Cochran is as cold as they come. She set up her lover to be killed. Then she killed her husband for revenge. This is the story of a love triangle with only one side remaining. Tonight we introduce you to a manipulative and heartless woman. Beer of the Week - Mind Games by Answer Brew PubGarage Grade - 4 out of 5 bottle caps

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Brief Summary

Kelly Cochran murdered her lover Chris Regan and later her husband Jason, revealing a web of lies and abuse.

Key points

Kelly Cochran's Testimony. Kelly reveals the abuse she suffered and the affair that led to murder.
The Shocking Murder. Jason Cochran kills Chris Regan in a fit of rage after discovering the affair.
The Death of Jason Cochran. Jason's death is initially ruled an overdose but later changes to homicide.
Kelly's Confession. Kelly Cochran confesses to her involvement in the murder of Chris Regan, claiming her husband was the killer.
The Shocking Plea Agreement. Kelly pleads guilty to killing her husband, Jason, and reveals it was a revenge killing.
The Serial Killer Claims. Kelly claims her husband was a serial killer and may have killed others.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I wasn't going to be part of him being treated like garbage.

Kelly's defiance during her husband's crime

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Tension

85/ 100High tension

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