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true [Music] crime [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 rean 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 an electric Court 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 saww 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 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 pentoga 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 hi trffic 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 [Music] here Chris Carl Regan was a funloving divorce father of two grown boys Chris
found his love for the outdoors when he was stationed at KI 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 odonnell they first met in the 80s this was an onag again and off
again relationship that lasted until 2014 but even when they were off and Chris and Terry remained close Chris's
Sons said that Chris was the type of friend and father that always answered phone calls in return text and when they
didn't hear from him for a week they knew something was wrong on October 27th 2014 Terry O'Donnell went to the police
and reported Chris is missing Chief Laura frizo 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 he had 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 parking 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 2 weeks prior to the reporting of him
missing Chris used his bank card at a local gas station around 400 p.m. on October 14th Chief frizzo 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 mhm 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 2 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 mhm well at some point they're told that Chris is having an affair with
a coworker 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 portions 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 DEC ision 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 is this like a loud is it a
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 MH 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 extra marital 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 they 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 mm 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 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 with the FBI and this takes place in March of 2015 now they find no obvious sign of
Chris or of murder mhm but while they're there They seized two guns the couple 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 Merillville in 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 state of way right and I think the the important thing here is the Cochrans moved quickly so this is one of
those running out of town in the middle of the night situations the Cochran move
like cockroaches and I'm pretty certain that they moved in with Jason's mother mhm uh 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 plant behind now despite speaking with the
couple back in 2014 after learning of the extramarital affair detective said the rean 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 3 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 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 911 call on the call a woman stated that something was wrong
with her husband and she needed help mhm 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 par 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 onsite Kelly the wife that had
called 911 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 person's case mhm which could possibly
actually be a murder case right this paired with Kelly's confusing in inconsistencies in her stories about
what had happened to 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 exfix well surprise surprise yeah changing the cause of death from accidental overdose
to homicide caused by xixia by strangulation right but you you would think that there was some
drugs in his system well it was be 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 have hold on 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 MH
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 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 mhm 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 rean 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 is 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 [Music]
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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
this a pretty an 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 US
Marshals and the Kentucky State Police in 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 everchanging stories of Kelly Cochran and I don't know why I've seen this in
several cases not all 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 mhm and what I mean is the everchanging stories so basically what
Kelly does is that she throws you one story and she's going to 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 in in the crime that took place than 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 so great about this letter this this whole letter
ruse that was come up by the Indiana detective MH okay so basically you have a situation where Kelly Cochran and her
husband Jason are questioned 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 want to see that letter let me see that letter right detective Ogden
the guy that created the letter mhm he basically he just goes well he he created the IDE of the letter yeah 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
questioning 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 Veil case that we covered MH with our friend Gina mhm 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 yeah 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 Veil believing that Gina was from the insurance company 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 mhm and try to get them to confess the crimes we couldn't get anybody to buy that show yeah cuz 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 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 the 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 suffer 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 13th 2014 Jason and Kelly came up with a plan to
quote save their marriage and this was To Kill Chris rean 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 Cochrans 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
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 the scene but hold on to your horse people because
it's the story is going to get a little more Twisted cuz 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 um 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 I'm a little uncertain as to the details of that but for whatever
reason did they hide them at these trophies ended up roughly in the same location as Chris's body okay
so 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 M who very likely and very soon should be charged
with two potential homicides now you're handed this list of other victims and in a whole uh Buffet of
potential other crimes M this could really mess up your investigation the thing here is though
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 realized 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 deface 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
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 rean now what's weird here Captain is that they were able to prove
that Kelly Cochran was okay so Chris was communic 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 parking 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 actually did it's 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 then when we go back and we review the the trial I
believe the trial lasted almost 3 weeks when we review 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 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 MH 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 I see 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 jokes on you I'm only going to fill fill one of those well these are
12 20 separate incidences oh yeah it 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 sorry I'm a little slow today well
here's here's a big problem so the prosecution question Kelly this is a great question they said so just to be
clear for the jury MH 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 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 went trembling trembling hey why to 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 threaten 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 2 in 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 mhm well and the other thing that she was questioning about was her unwillingness to help
during the or deal and even after her husb 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
going to sit and question Jason and Kelly but here's a big red flag in separate rooms mhm 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 when 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 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 mhm you know so 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 verba abused and and and they feel bad for her but I don't we don't even know if that was
true right we 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 so we have the the
original investigator this is Chief frizo 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 Cochran'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
murderers that how do you know that Kelly Cochran is lying it's pretty easy her mouth is 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 rean yeah and 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 rean
her boyfriend and cooworker okay now we have a sit schn we have a situation Captain where we always have a
situation she's going to end up ping 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 mhm okay and he was
vomiting like she said in the 911 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 enfor
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's stating that she even 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 that she may have killed as many as 21 people MH 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 P 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 she outsmart in them she and it's I don't even think she's smart she just has a level of evil mhm 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 and the the supposed extra murders that
she may have have done what information she provided them was taken to the prosecutor so that was taken into
account before they agreed on this plea agreement in the state of Indiana and the prosecution firmly believed that
there there's nothing here there's nothing of any truthfulness here in any of these statements right now to the
other end of that argument uh 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 uh 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 the past week what I think we're dealing with here is a situation where I think Kelly Cochran
was the ring leader 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 Jason her
husband she decides to get rid of Jason and this is the only way that she knows 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 friso 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 bble 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 other people out
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Brief Summary

Kelly Cochran's affair leads to the murder of Chris Rean by her husband, 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.
Murder and Dismemberment. Jason Cochran shot Chris and forced Kelly to assist in the cover-up.
Death of Jason Cochran. Jason's death is initially ruled an overdose but later changed to homicide.
Kelly Cochran's Arrest. Nine weeks after Jason Cochran's death, Kelly is charged with murder.
Kelly's Everchanging Stories. Kelly's inconsistent narratives raise suspicion during the investigation.
The Dismemberment Plan. Kelly and Jason's plan to kill Chris unfolds in a shocking confession.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

He was going to shoot me.

Kelly's testimony about her husband's threats.

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