1 00:00:12,825 --> 00:00:15,883 [music playing] 2 00:00:25,998 --> 00:00:29,196 In the woods of Michigan's upper peninsula, 3 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,566 Terri O'Donnell is searching for signs of her ex-boyfriend, 4 00:00:32,671 --> 00:00:35,451 Chris Regan, who suddenly disappeared one day 5 00:00:35,556 --> 00:00:38,510 back in 2014 after Terri offered to help 6 00:00:38,615 --> 00:00:41,812 him move into a new house. 7 00:00:41,916 --> 00:00:43,168 What's going on? 8 00:00:43,271 --> 00:00:48,312 I kept texting, messaging him, and I got no response. 9 00:00:48,416 --> 00:00:53,247 And a week went by, and I still hadn't heard from him. 10 00:00:53,351 --> 00:00:56,655 LAURA FRIZZO: On October 27 of 2014, 11 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:00,129 I met Terri O'Donnell, who came to the police department 12 00:01:00,233 --> 00:01:02,250 as I was leaving for the day. 13 00:01:02,354 --> 00:01:03,222 She was shook up. 14 00:01:03,326 --> 00:01:05,309 She was crying. 15 00:01:05,412 --> 00:01:08,158 That's when she told me that something was wrong. 16 00:01:08,262 --> 00:01:10,591 Her friend was missing. 17 00:01:10,695 --> 00:01:13,581 She came into the office and explained to me what 18 00:01:13,685 --> 00:01:15,145 she had-- what she had found. 19 00:01:15,249 --> 00:01:17,995 She hadn't heard from him since October 14. 20 00:01:18,099 --> 00:01:24,876 And then I got panicky, and then he told me that he 21 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:27,900 saw Christopher's car at the-- 22 00:01:28,004 --> 00:01:32,036 at the Park and Ride in Bates. 23 00:01:32,141 --> 00:01:35,616 And so I drove out that evening to the Park and Ride, 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:36,937 and his car was there. 25 00:01:37,042 --> 00:01:38,745 I couldn't get in the car and I was afraid 26 00:01:38,850 --> 00:01:41,213 that he was in the trunk. 27 00:01:41,317 --> 00:01:43,194 I knew something happened to him. 28 00:01:43,297 --> 00:01:46,461 I knew he wasn't coming back. 29 00:01:46,565 --> 00:01:48,895 LAURA FRIZZO: Terri had told me where Chris had been working, 30 00:01:48,998 --> 00:01:52,890 and I happen to know the human resource director there very 31 00:01:52,995 --> 00:01:55,219 well and told me that there was a woman 32 00:01:55,323 --> 00:01:57,061 that he was allegedly having an affair 33 00:01:57,166 --> 00:01:59,911 with that also worked there. 34 00:02:00,016 --> 00:02:01,997 So I asked her who that woman was. 35 00:02:02,101 --> 00:02:05,299 This woman was, you know, Kelly Cochran. 36 00:02:05,402 --> 00:02:06,759 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Within days 37 00:02:06,862 --> 00:02:09,366 of hearing that Chris Regan was missing, 38 00:02:09,470 --> 00:02:14,510 Detective Frizzo strongly suspected he had been murdered. 39 00:02:14,614 --> 00:02:19,618 This woman, Kelly Cochran, was someone she needed to speak to, 40 00:02:19,723 --> 00:02:23,582 a woman who police would one day also want 41 00:02:23,686 --> 00:02:28,413 to talk about the death of her husband, Jason Cochran. 42 00:02:28,517 --> 00:02:33,243 This is "Meet, Marry, Murder" with a difference. 43 00:02:33,348 --> 00:02:36,997 Not one mystery death, but two. 44 00:02:37,101 --> 00:02:40,403 [music playing] 45 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:02,370 Kelly Gaboyan grew up in Maryville, Indiana. 46 00:03:06,576 --> 00:03:10,816 By the late '90s, the small town her family lived in 47 00:03:10,921 --> 00:03:17,802 had kind of been gobbled up by Hobert south of Chicago. 48 00:03:17,906 --> 00:03:22,077 Kelly was the oldest of three sisters, 49 00:03:22,181 --> 00:03:26,734 and life was about rearing and tending to animals. 50 00:03:26,838 --> 00:03:28,577 But not for Kelly. 51 00:03:28,681 --> 00:03:34,276 She's known as an out and out hellraiser. 52 00:03:34,381 --> 00:03:36,466 LAURA FRIZZO: I know that Kelly had gotten into, you know, 53 00:03:36,571 --> 00:03:38,135 trouble, and this is, you know, based 54 00:03:38,239 --> 00:03:40,046 on what her mother reported. 55 00:03:40,150 --> 00:03:42,167 As a juvenile, she had a lot of troubles. 56 00:03:42,271 --> 00:03:44,634 You know, they couldn't keep her under control. 57 00:03:44,738 --> 00:03:47,623 She ended up in a juvenile facility. 58 00:03:47,727 --> 00:03:50,161 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): At the age of 18, 59 00:03:50,265 --> 00:03:53,393 Kelly's mom threatens to throw her out. 60 00:03:53,497 --> 00:03:57,043 She's using serious drugs, like heroin, 61 00:03:57,147 --> 00:03:59,058 and so is her boyfriend. 62 00:03:59,163 --> 00:04:02,325 Kelly and Jason started dating shortly after high school. 63 00:04:02,430 --> 00:04:03,472 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 64 00:04:03,577 --> 00:04:05,802 Jason Cochran is his name. 65 00:04:05,906 --> 00:04:07,608 LAURA FRIZZO: Kelly indicated that they were neighbors. 66 00:04:07,712 --> 00:04:10,111 You know, she referred to him as the boy next door. 67 00:04:10,216 --> 00:04:14,491 You know, from people that knew them, went to school with them, 68 00:04:14,594 --> 00:04:17,375 it sounds like Jason was kind of a quiet guy. 69 00:04:17,479 --> 00:04:18,974 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): The year 70 00:04:19,078 --> 00:04:21,546 2000 is a big one for Kelly. 71 00:04:21,651 --> 00:04:24,292 Graduation is right around the corner. 72 00:04:24,396 --> 00:04:27,454 And it's a big year for Kelly and Jason's relationship 73 00:04:27,558 --> 00:04:28,707 as well. 74 00:04:32,182 --> 00:04:34,857 Walt Ammerman has the dubious honor 75 00:04:34,963 --> 00:04:36,631 of knowing the couple well. 76 00:04:36,734 --> 00:04:39,516 High school sweethearts, and-- and married 77 00:04:39,620 --> 00:04:46,467 since she got out of school, and, you know, sounded like-- 78 00:04:46,572 --> 00:04:50,012 sounded like any happy couple, you 79 00:04:50,116 --> 00:04:53,140 know, is what it looked like on the outside and-- 80 00:04:53,244 --> 00:04:55,261 and what I felt I was dealing with. 81 00:04:55,364 --> 00:04:57,138 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): But from the start 82 00:04:57,242 --> 00:05:03,012 it's one of those romances that could blow up at any minute. 83 00:05:03,117 --> 00:05:05,097 CAROLYN CANVILLE: Were they a good match? 84 00:05:05,201 --> 00:05:07,217 Kelly's brother, Colton, didn't think so. 85 00:05:07,321 --> 00:05:10,032 He thought they were like oil and water. 86 00:05:10,137 --> 00:05:12,257 They just were so opposites and never should 87 00:05:12,361 --> 00:05:14,550 have gotten together, and he really told them that they 88 00:05:14,654 --> 00:05:17,504 just never should have done it. 89 00:05:17,609 --> 00:05:18,757 LAURA FRIZZO: They ended up marrying. 90 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:20,389 Her mother says, you know, they had 91 00:05:20,493 --> 00:05:22,823 a nice church wedding for them, and everything seemed normal. 92 00:05:22,927 --> 00:05:24,664 But I think a lot of times, her mother 93 00:05:24,769 --> 00:05:28,175 tried to see her as normal or make her seem normal 94 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,504 and she always knew there was something not-- 95 00:05:30,609 --> 00:05:31,755 not right. 96 00:05:31,859 --> 00:05:33,667 Looking at the relationship, did not seem to be 97 00:05:33,772 --> 00:05:35,231 the strongest relationship. 98 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:38,429 There were phone calls and texts that went back and forth. 99 00:05:38,533 --> 00:05:41,627 Some were rather demeaning from Jason to Kelly. 100 00:05:41,730 --> 00:05:42,807 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 101 00:05:42,912 --> 00:05:45,032 Detective Laura Frizzo working out 102 00:05:45,137 --> 00:05:47,014 of the upper peninsula of Michigan 103 00:05:47,118 --> 00:05:50,559 knows there is two sides to this story. 104 00:05:50,663 --> 00:05:54,973 She's spent years trying to wrap your head around this bizarre, 105 00:05:55,077 --> 00:05:57,337 kind of twisted marriage. 106 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,734 It sounds like Jason was kind of a quiet guy, 107 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:05,157 and Kelly was more always a dominant, strong, you know, 108 00:06:05,260 --> 00:06:06,165 female. 109 00:06:06,269 --> 00:06:07,589 He would have dinner ready for her 110 00:06:07,694 --> 00:06:10,544 and waiting, begging her to come home. 111 00:06:10,649 --> 00:06:11,760 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 112 00:06:11,865 --> 00:06:13,950 Kelly makes out Jason as controlling, 113 00:06:14,054 --> 00:06:18,400 passive aggressive, sometimes even violent, 114 00:06:18,504 --> 00:06:22,048 but friends who know them in the first few years of marriage 115 00:06:22,152 --> 00:06:25,212 when they're living in Hobart tell a different tale. 116 00:06:25,315 --> 00:06:27,123 I would say that their marriage was 117 00:06:27,228 --> 00:06:30,913 controlled by Kelly, their lives together 118 00:06:31,016 --> 00:06:32,719 were controlled by her. 119 00:06:32,823 --> 00:06:36,924 She did all the cooking, the financing, the-- 120 00:06:37,028 --> 00:06:39,184 everything, the grocery shopping. 121 00:06:39,288 --> 00:06:40,713 He didn't really do much of anything. 122 00:06:40,818 --> 00:06:43,355 He just did what he could to keep her happy. 123 00:06:43,459 --> 00:06:44,849 MICHAEL SCHOLKE: It was really hard to say who 124 00:06:44,953 --> 00:06:47,039 the dominant figure was in the relationship 125 00:06:47,143 --> 00:06:48,464 between Kelly and Jason. 126 00:06:48,569 --> 00:06:50,966 Certainly, it can be inferred that Kelly 127 00:06:51,070 --> 00:06:52,564 was the dominant figure. 128 00:06:52,669 --> 00:06:54,824 That was something the jury certainly believed. 129 00:06:54,928 --> 00:06:56,424 But when you look at the evidence, 130 00:06:56,528 --> 00:06:58,891 and looking at the texts and the tenor of some of these texts 131 00:06:58,995 --> 00:07:02,297 that were sent back and forth and some the messages, 132 00:07:02,401 --> 00:07:06,086 it doesn't necessarily lead me to the conclusion 133 00:07:06,190 --> 00:07:09,284 that Kelly was a dominant person. 134 00:07:09,388 --> 00:07:10,605 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 135 00:07:10,709 --> 00:07:13,489 Is anyone else feeling confused right now? 136 00:07:13,594 --> 00:07:17,520 It seems like no one can really agree who rules the roost 137 00:07:17,625 --> 00:07:19,745 in the Cochran household. 138 00:07:19,849 --> 00:07:24,229 Walt Ammerman gets to know Jason first, then Kelly 139 00:07:24,333 --> 00:07:26,314 through playing video games online. 140 00:07:26,418 --> 00:07:27,460 WALT AMMERMAN: I think I could use 141 00:07:27,564 --> 00:07:29,859 the examples of their relationship 142 00:07:29,964 --> 00:07:31,632 like, we would be playing the game, 143 00:07:31,735 --> 00:07:36,150 and if I was playing the game and somebody came over, 144 00:07:36,255 --> 00:07:39,765 my wife or anybody came home, I would-- 145 00:07:39,869 --> 00:07:41,642 I would say, hey, somebody's home. 146 00:07:41,746 --> 00:07:43,171 I'm gonna have to go in a little bit. 147 00:07:43,276 --> 00:07:46,751 But with him, it was, Kelly's home, I gotta go, 148 00:07:46,855 --> 00:07:48,559 and he was gone. 149 00:07:48,663 --> 00:07:51,026 And you might not talk to him till the next day. 150 00:07:51,131 --> 00:07:53,842 It was like, he didn't wanna be-- 151 00:07:53,946 --> 00:07:55,093 it was almost like he didn't wanna be 152 00:07:55,197 --> 00:07:57,699 doing anything fun without her. 153 00:07:57,804 --> 00:07:59,924 It would be OK if she wanted to play the game 154 00:08:00,028 --> 00:08:04,338 and get online later, he would be back, but, you know, 155 00:08:04,442 --> 00:08:06,041 he didn't really-- 156 00:08:06,145 --> 00:08:08,440 I don't feel he ever really wanted to cross her. 157 00:08:08,545 --> 00:08:09,760 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 158 00:08:09,865 --> 00:08:13,167 In 2013, the Cochrans up and leave Hobart. 159 00:08:13,271 --> 00:08:15,704 It's 13 years into their marriage, 160 00:08:15,808 --> 00:08:17,894 but there is no sign of babies. 161 00:08:17,998 --> 00:08:21,960 They wind up in the upper peninsula where they no one, 162 00:08:22,064 --> 00:08:25,332 no friends, no family, nothing. 163 00:08:25,436 --> 00:08:29,155 No one can figure out why they make the move. 164 00:08:29,259 --> 00:08:32,179 Kelly and Jason Cochran weren't from Iron River. 165 00:08:32,283 --> 00:08:36,001 They were some of those people that just showed up. 166 00:08:36,107 --> 00:08:39,304 All of a sudden one day, they were here. 167 00:08:39,408 --> 00:08:40,937 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 168 00:08:41,042 --> 00:08:44,586 They do give people a reason for the move, but, honestly, am I 169 00:08:44,691 --> 00:08:47,890 the only one who finds it rather fishy? 170 00:08:47,994 --> 00:08:49,696 LAURA FRIZZO: Through my discussions with Kelly 171 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,075 and Jason Cochran early on, I inquired as to why they moved 172 00:08:54,180 --> 00:08:57,865 to upper Michigan from Indiana, and Kelly's response 173 00:08:57,969 --> 00:09:01,445 was, you know, Jason's got medical issues, 174 00:09:01,549 --> 00:09:07,179 and Michigan has the medical marijuana law now so that, you 175 00:09:07,283 --> 00:09:09,577 know, he can smoke marijuana in Michigan 176 00:09:09,681 --> 00:09:11,941 legally for his medical issues, and that-- 177 00:09:12,045 --> 00:09:15,902 that too was a red flag for me, being that, you know, 178 00:09:16,007 --> 00:09:19,449 where they resided in Indiana was-- was only, 179 00:09:19,552 --> 00:09:22,367 you know, 40 miles or so from the Michigan border 180 00:09:22,472 --> 00:09:24,071 in lower Michigan. 181 00:09:24,176 --> 00:09:28,659 So why would you move, you know, 6 and 1/2 hours 182 00:09:28,763 --> 00:09:31,127 into Michigan from Indiana? 183 00:09:31,231 --> 00:09:32,517 It didn't really make sense. 184 00:09:34,915 --> 00:09:37,661 To me, they were running from something. 185 00:09:41,554 --> 00:09:44,786 I was having dinner with Jason and Kelly at-- 186 00:09:44,890 --> 00:09:52,607 at a restaurant there in their town, and, oddly, 187 00:09:52,712 --> 00:09:59,106 she asked him, did you show Walt our friend? 188 00:09:59,210 --> 00:10:02,373 I had no idea what she was talking about. 189 00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:04,493 And he showed me a picture of a half-naked 190 00:10:04,597 --> 00:10:06,857 woman on his phone and-- 191 00:10:06,961 --> 00:10:09,776 and Kelly said, yeah, I found a friend for Jason and I 192 00:10:09,881 --> 00:10:14,886 because I love him so much that I wanted to keep him happy. 193 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:19,057 And I just-- I just-- 194 00:10:19,161 --> 00:10:20,898 that threw me for a loop. 195 00:10:21,003 --> 00:10:22,393 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 196 00:10:22,498 --> 00:10:27,225 That's right, folks, the Cochrans are having threesomes. 197 00:10:27,328 --> 00:10:29,518 Kelly starts picking out these women 198 00:10:29,622 --> 00:10:34,801 she thinks Jason will like and bringing on home for sex. 199 00:10:34,906 --> 00:10:39,041 And alarm bells aren't ringing for you too? 200 00:10:39,146 --> 00:10:41,266 Sounds like a recipe for disaster, 201 00:10:41,371 --> 00:10:44,325 especially when Kelly decides she also 202 00:10:44,428 --> 00:10:47,697 has a license to play away. 203 00:10:47,801 --> 00:10:51,381 Kelly talked about the affair she was having 204 00:10:51,485 --> 00:10:53,571 with Chris and how Jason was aware of it 205 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:56,837 and he was OK with it, that they had an open marriage. 206 00:10:56,941 --> 00:10:58,402 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: So Kelly's sleeping 207 00:10:58,506 --> 00:11:00,001 with this guy, Chris Regan. 208 00:11:00,106 --> 00:11:04,726 Kelly and Jason's marriage starts as a teenage romance, 209 00:11:04,831 --> 00:11:07,751 but seems to have been nothing but twists 210 00:11:07,856 --> 00:11:11,331 and turns and drama ever since. 211 00:11:11,435 --> 00:11:16,128 I wonder if the next twist is going to be deadly? 212 00:11:16,232 --> 00:11:19,498 [music playing] 213 00:11:37,677 --> 00:11:39,588 This is Kelly and Jason Cochran's 214 00:11:39,692 --> 00:11:41,466 home in the upper peninsula. 215 00:11:41,569 --> 00:11:43,898 In 2013, Kelly's working as a gardener 216 00:11:44,003 --> 00:11:46,574 and maintaining people's swimming pools. 217 00:11:46,678 --> 00:11:50,572 Jason's bad back means he's barely working at all. 218 00:11:50,676 --> 00:11:52,308 It's around this time the couple tell 219 00:11:52,413 --> 00:11:57,767 friends about a bizarre pact they made on their wedding day. 220 00:11:57,871 --> 00:11:59,957 Brace yourselves. 221 00:12:00,061 --> 00:12:03,883 If either of them cheats, the other one 222 00:12:03,988 --> 00:12:05,692 will kill their lover. 223 00:12:05,796 --> 00:12:12,364 She says that, her and her husband entered into this pact 224 00:12:12,469 --> 00:12:13,928 on their marriage night. 225 00:12:14,033 --> 00:12:16,327 And so she tells me about the marriage pact, 226 00:12:16,431 --> 00:12:20,358 about killing each other's lovers or killing the lover. 227 00:12:20,462 --> 00:12:21,783 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 228 00:12:21,887 --> 00:12:26,058 This is where things get hairy because, of course, 229 00:12:26,162 --> 00:12:28,631 Kelly has this lover, Chris Regan, who's 230 00:12:28,735 --> 00:12:31,863 drawn to the upper peninsula. 231 00:12:31,967 --> 00:12:33,531 It's beautiful. 232 00:12:33,636 --> 00:12:35,478 Lots of rivers and lakes. 233 00:12:35,582 --> 00:12:38,467 And, actually, that's one thing Christopher liked about Iron 234 00:12:38,571 --> 00:12:40,483 River, is he loved nature. 235 00:12:40,588 --> 00:12:41,942 He loved the woods. 236 00:12:42,046 --> 00:12:44,166 And so that part is beautiful. 237 00:12:44,272 --> 00:12:45,939 And the people are nice. 238 00:12:46,043 --> 00:12:49,379 The people I work with are very kind. 239 00:12:49,484 --> 00:12:51,083 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Chris first 240 00:12:51,187 --> 00:12:53,724 meets Terri O'Donnell in 1980. 241 00:12:53,829 --> 00:12:55,498 They're just friends back then. 242 00:12:55,602 --> 00:12:58,869 They both marry, and they both end up divorced. 243 00:12:58,973 --> 00:13:01,476 Terri stays in the upper Peninsula. 244 00:13:01,579 --> 00:13:03,631 Chris moves away. 245 00:13:03,735 --> 00:13:07,384 We got back together through the internet 246 00:13:07,489 --> 00:13:10,270 and we started chatting, and he was divorced 247 00:13:10,374 --> 00:13:14,997 and I was divorced, and so we decided to meet up again. 248 00:13:15,101 --> 00:13:17,082 And so we met up and wined and dined 249 00:13:17,187 --> 00:13:24,694 and just had a wonderful time and just started dating again. 250 00:13:24,798 --> 00:13:26,431 It was-- it was awesome. 251 00:13:26,535 --> 00:13:29,317 It was wonderful. 252 00:13:29,420 --> 00:13:30,602 When he looked at me, I-- 253 00:13:30,707 --> 00:13:33,209 when Chris would look at me, I just-- 254 00:13:33,313 --> 00:13:36,302 just melt. I mean, he just had that charis-- 255 00:13:36,407 --> 00:13:39,360 was charismatic, and he just made 256 00:13:39,465 --> 00:13:42,940 you feel like you were everything, you know, 257 00:13:43,045 --> 00:13:46,068 that you were the only person in the room when he looked at you. 258 00:13:48,224 --> 00:13:49,963 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Chris moves back, 259 00:13:50,066 --> 00:13:52,187 and he and Terri get together. 260 00:13:52,291 --> 00:13:54,202 The relationship hits the rocks when 261 00:13:54,306 --> 00:14:00,076 Terri finds out her charming guy is hiding a dirty secret. 262 00:14:00,180 --> 00:14:04,490 Christopher had an issue with pornography 263 00:14:04,594 --> 00:14:08,592 that I found out afterwards when him and I started talking 264 00:14:08,695 --> 00:14:14,153 more about, you know, why he needed a little bit more 265 00:14:14,257 --> 00:14:15,196 alone time. 266 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:18,740 He was hooked on things on the internet, 267 00:14:18,844 --> 00:14:22,217 and I didn't agree with that. 268 00:14:22,321 --> 00:14:23,780 And that's why we broke up. 269 00:14:23,884 --> 00:14:25,379 I still loved him. 270 00:14:25,483 --> 00:14:28,611 And maybe that's why, you know, we stayed friends. 271 00:14:28,715 --> 00:14:31,287 We kept-- I kept in touch with him. 272 00:14:31,393 --> 00:14:33,929 He would still call and text. 273 00:14:34,033 --> 00:14:35,390 But we couldn't date. 274 00:14:35,494 --> 00:14:40,950 We couldn't be a couple because it just wasn't right, at least, 275 00:14:41,055 --> 00:14:42,896 for me, that wasn't right. 276 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:44,043 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 277 00:14:44,148 --> 00:14:46,303 Chris is on the rebound from Terri 278 00:14:46,407 --> 00:14:48,284 when, a few weeks later, he starts 279 00:14:48,389 --> 00:14:50,717 getting close to Kelly Cochran. 280 00:14:50,821 --> 00:14:53,568 TERRI O'CONNELL: That's when him and Kelly hooked up. 281 00:14:53,671 --> 00:14:57,321 CAROLYN CANVILLE: She winds up meeting Chris Regan on this job 282 00:14:57,425 --> 00:15:00,761 at a mine equipment company. 283 00:15:00,866 --> 00:15:02,396 TERRI O'CONNELL: I think she gave him 284 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:09,346 that part of his life, whatever he wanted to satisfy that need. 285 00:15:09,450 --> 00:15:14,316 Because it wasn't love, but it was sex. 286 00:15:14,421 --> 00:15:17,896 CAROLYN CANVILLE: Kelly wasn't exactly loyal to her husband. 287 00:15:18,001 --> 00:15:19,252 She cheated on him. 288 00:15:19,356 --> 00:15:22,380 She'd had a number of affairs over the course 289 00:15:22,486 --> 00:15:26,308 of the marriage, and this was an issue for Jason. 290 00:15:26,413 --> 00:15:29,020 Jason would get really depressed when she was having 291 00:15:29,124 --> 00:15:31,314 these affairs, and even, you know, to the point 292 00:15:31,418 --> 00:15:34,650 where he thought about committing suicide. 293 00:15:34,755 --> 00:15:37,779 It bothered him, but he was afraid of losing his wife, 294 00:15:37,882 --> 00:15:41,427 so he tried to allow her to basically live her life 295 00:15:41,532 --> 00:15:43,340 and not interfere with it. 296 00:15:43,444 --> 00:15:45,737 But it was clearly driving him crazy. 297 00:15:45,841 --> 00:15:47,301 WALT AMMERMAN: When they were in the UP, 298 00:15:47,405 --> 00:15:51,611 I was of aware that Jason had went to a mental hospital 299 00:15:51,715 --> 00:15:53,106 for a few weeks. 300 00:15:53,210 --> 00:15:56,755 I want to say it was probably mentioned that there was 301 00:15:56,859 --> 00:15:59,606 a possible affair with somebody or the marriage 302 00:15:59,710 --> 00:16:02,212 wasn't going well. 303 00:16:02,317 --> 00:16:03,811 CAROLYN CANVILLE: So Kelly's really liking 304 00:16:03,915 --> 00:16:05,305 this relationship with Chris. 305 00:16:05,410 --> 00:16:06,869 She's having a good time. 306 00:16:06,975 --> 00:16:10,901 But Chris isn't liking the job, and he's got a bad knee, 307 00:16:11,005 --> 00:16:13,509 and he's not gonna able to continue this job for long. 308 00:16:13,612 --> 00:16:16,636 So he applies for this office job in Asheville, 309 00:16:16,740 --> 00:16:19,070 North Carolina, and he gets it. 310 00:16:19,174 --> 00:16:23,379 And he's really excited, and Kelly is not. 311 00:16:23,484 --> 00:16:26,645 For his new job, he had to have a physical, 312 00:16:26,751 --> 00:16:30,886 and, actually, that's the last day I spoke to him, 313 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:34,815 was October 14, 2014. 314 00:16:34,919 --> 00:16:37,039 That morning, it was about 6:00 AM in the morning. 315 00:16:37,143 --> 00:16:40,515 Called me and told me that he was gonna 316 00:16:40,619 --> 00:16:43,435 be going to Marshfield the next day, 317 00:16:43,539 --> 00:16:47,606 and as long as everything came back OK with his-- 318 00:16:47,710 --> 00:16:51,150 with his physical, that he would have the job, 319 00:16:51,254 --> 00:16:53,791 and he would call me when he got back. 320 00:16:56,224 --> 00:16:57,302 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 321 00:16:57,406 --> 00:16:59,039 So let's do a head count. 322 00:16:59,144 --> 00:17:03,871 You've got Kelly, Jason, those women Kelly sometimes brings 323 00:17:03,975 --> 00:17:07,243 home, and now, Chris Regan. 324 00:17:07,347 --> 00:17:11,761 This marriage is sure getting crowded. 325 00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:14,542 A little too crowded, in Jason's opinion. 326 00:17:14,646 --> 00:17:17,010 He isn't happy about Chris, and let's not 327 00:17:17,114 --> 00:17:19,512 forget that wedding day pact. 328 00:17:19,616 --> 00:17:24,343 Technically, Jason now has the right to kill Kelly's lover. 329 00:17:24,447 --> 00:17:26,567 Oh, my. 330 00:17:26,671 --> 00:17:28,826 But Chris is leaving, right? 331 00:17:28,931 --> 00:17:30,738 Ahead of the move to North Carolina, 332 00:17:30,842 --> 00:17:34,701 he asks Terri to help him out. 333 00:17:34,805 --> 00:17:36,542 We were gonna make plans to go for-- 334 00:17:36,646 --> 00:17:41,026 and eat, and then, I was gonna help him pack and move things 335 00:17:41,130 --> 00:17:43,146 and source-- and store some of his things 336 00:17:43,251 --> 00:17:47,942 for him while he was in North Carolina. 337 00:17:48,047 --> 00:17:51,001 [music playing] 338 00:17:54,860 --> 00:17:56,285 CAROLYN CANVILLE: So Chris Regan's really 339 00:17:56,388 --> 00:17:57,640 excited about his new job. 340 00:17:57,744 --> 00:18:01,081 The day before he's supposed to leave Iron River to go 341 00:18:01,185 --> 00:18:03,305 to the Carolinas and take this new job, 342 00:18:03,410 --> 00:18:04,905 Kelly invites him over for dinner. 343 00:18:05,008 --> 00:18:05,842 Come on over. 344 00:18:05,947 --> 00:18:07,198 Have some lasagna. 345 00:18:07,302 --> 00:18:08,866 There might be something else in it for you, too. 346 00:18:08,971 --> 00:18:12,169 So she figures some farewell sex, you know, 347 00:18:12,273 --> 00:18:15,193 that'll lure him over. 348 00:18:15,297 --> 00:18:19,677 BRIAN HARRIS: So off he went to Kelly Cochran's house. 349 00:18:19,781 --> 00:18:22,561 When he arrived, they had their dinner, 350 00:18:22,665 --> 00:18:23,916 and they had their embrace. 351 00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:30,346 And while embraced in each other's arms, 352 00:18:30,451 --> 00:18:37,228 their bodies intertwined, Kelly's husband sneaks up 353 00:18:37,333 --> 00:18:43,728 onto Chris while Chris is still in the arms of Kelly, 354 00:18:43,832 --> 00:18:48,976 and Kelly's husband pulls the trigger. 355 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:53,877 A single shotgun blast to his head. 356 00:18:53,981 --> 00:18:55,581 And Kelly was in on it. 357 00:18:55,684 --> 00:18:56,971 She knew. 358 00:18:57,075 --> 00:19:00,133 How she held him there, she could see that shotgun being 359 00:19:00,238 --> 00:19:04,687 raised up and put to the head of Chris, 360 00:19:04,791 --> 00:19:08,231 and a single loud explosion. 361 00:19:08,336 --> 00:19:09,761 There would have been blood. 362 00:19:09,865 --> 00:19:13,792 There would have been brains everywhere, 363 00:19:13,897 --> 00:19:16,121 including on Kelly herself. 364 00:19:16,225 --> 00:19:20,570 She would have been covered in brain matter and blood 365 00:19:20,674 --> 00:19:27,174 from somebody that she was just sexually intertwined with. 366 00:19:27,278 --> 00:19:28,564 So now, Chris is dead. 367 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,163 What do they do? 368 00:19:30,268 --> 00:19:33,812 They take Chris's body, they bring it down to the basement, 369 00:19:33,917 --> 00:19:36,767 they lie it on a sheet of plastic, 370 00:19:36,872 --> 00:19:39,547 and they take an electric buzz saw 371 00:19:39,653 --> 00:19:43,613 and they start carving up Chris Regan's body. 372 00:19:43,717 --> 00:19:45,943 And they're using this electric handsaw. 373 00:19:46,047 --> 00:19:49,592 In fact, Kelly later admits that she had to go out and buy 374 00:19:49,698 --> 00:19:51,398 a cord for this handsaw. 375 00:19:51,505 --> 00:19:53,033 And they're cutting his body. 376 00:19:53,138 --> 00:19:55,987 They're sawing it into pieces and they're dumping 377 00:19:56,092 --> 00:19:58,977 the parts into garbage bags. 378 00:19:59,082 --> 00:20:03,529 They take the garbage bags, then they get the electric saw, 379 00:20:03,634 --> 00:20:05,998 they take the plastic, they take it out, 380 00:20:06,102 --> 00:20:08,292 they have a burn pit in their backyard, all 381 00:20:08,396 --> 00:20:11,349 of the evidence there, and they burn it in the burn pit 382 00:20:11,455 --> 00:20:12,706 in their backyard. 383 00:20:12,809 --> 00:20:16,460 Then they take this burn barrel and they load it 384 00:20:16,564 --> 00:20:18,787 in their vehicle and they take it to a place 385 00:20:18,893 --> 00:20:20,838 called the Caspian Pit. 386 00:20:23,237 --> 00:20:27,373 It's this-- this big mining area. 387 00:20:27,478 --> 00:20:30,397 And that's where they bury the burn barrel, 388 00:20:30,502 --> 00:20:33,351 the evidence of their crime. 389 00:20:33,456 --> 00:20:37,627 Then they take the body parts to a remote field 390 00:20:37,731 --> 00:20:40,824 and they just dump it in the woods. 391 00:20:40,928 --> 00:20:42,702 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Once Terri catches 392 00:20:42,805 --> 00:20:46,142 on to the illicit relationship Chris is having with Kelly, she 393 00:20:46,246 --> 00:20:48,853 starts thinking Kelly might know something 394 00:20:48,958 --> 00:20:51,460 about his disappearance. 395 00:20:51,564 --> 00:20:53,857 The Caspian Pit is a couple of minutes' 396 00:20:53,963 --> 00:20:56,952 walk from the Cochrans' home. 397 00:20:57,055 --> 00:21:02,790 As Terri searches the area day after day for signs of Chris, 398 00:21:02,895 --> 00:21:05,779 she has no idea she's passing the spot 399 00:21:05,883 --> 00:21:09,638 where his body has been dumped. 400 00:21:09,742 --> 00:21:12,558 I kept looking and searching for Christopher. 401 00:21:12,662 --> 00:21:14,574 I would walk back behind Cochran's 402 00:21:14,678 --> 00:21:17,667 home, trying to find something. 403 00:21:17,771 --> 00:21:22,603 I was afraid if Kelly ever found out that I was the one who 404 00:21:22,707 --> 00:21:26,077 reported him missing, I was afraid her or her husband 405 00:21:26,181 --> 00:21:28,788 might come looking for me. 406 00:21:28,894 --> 00:21:31,048 LAURA FRIZZO: So it would be, you know, not long after 407 00:21:31,152 --> 00:21:33,863 that my sergeant makes contact with Chris Regan's, you know, 408 00:21:33,969 --> 00:21:38,416 vehicle in the Park and Ride and gain entry to it, 409 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,476 just to be sure that, you know, there's not someone 410 00:21:41,580 --> 00:21:45,542 in the trunk or whatever, and notices, you know, 411 00:21:45,646 --> 00:21:48,009 on the front seat flipped upside down 412 00:21:48,114 --> 00:21:49,713 is a piece of paper with directions. 413 00:21:49,818 --> 00:21:52,702 And I just remember her saying, I can't make heads or tails 414 00:21:52,805 --> 00:21:54,753 of these directions, but this is what's lying 415 00:21:54,857 --> 00:21:56,386 on the front seat of his car. 416 00:21:56,490 --> 00:21:58,089 And as she reads me the directions, 417 00:21:58,193 --> 00:22:02,086 it matches the directions to Kelly Cochran's house. 418 00:22:02,190 --> 00:22:05,492 So immediately, I've got some red flags. 419 00:22:05,596 --> 00:22:09,211 Detective Frizzo is convinced that Chris died the night 420 00:22:09,315 --> 00:22:12,443 he went to Kelly's, but she can't prove it, 421 00:22:12,549 --> 00:22:15,640 and they aren't admitting a thing. 422 00:22:15,745 --> 00:22:18,944 So with the irritation in their marriage dealt with, 423 00:22:19,048 --> 00:22:21,863 they get back to being Mister and Mrs. Cochran. 424 00:22:21,968 --> 00:22:25,859 But how long will they be left in peace? 425 00:22:25,964 --> 00:22:29,961 They are the prime suspects in what's about to become 426 00:22:30,065 --> 00:22:31,560 a murder investigation. 427 00:22:31,664 --> 00:22:34,723 [music playing] 428 00:22:50,537 --> 00:22:52,935 Chris Regan is missing. 429 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,264 Married couple Kelly and Jason Cochran 430 00:22:55,368 --> 00:22:59,505 are top of the list of suspects in this disappearance. 431 00:22:59,609 --> 00:23:02,111 So they get a surprise visit at home one 432 00:23:02,215 --> 00:23:05,413 day from state troopers. 433 00:23:05,517 --> 00:23:07,464 LAURA FRIZZO: They were met by Jason Cochran, 434 00:23:07,568 --> 00:23:10,591 and Kelly presents herself. 435 00:23:10,696 --> 00:23:12,260 They talk to her outside. 436 00:23:12,365 --> 00:23:14,901 She admits that she's been having an affair with Chris. 437 00:23:15,005 --> 00:23:17,126 She admits that she knew he was supposed 438 00:23:17,231 --> 00:23:19,420 to have shown up for a medical appointment 439 00:23:19,525 --> 00:23:22,236 for his new job, that-- 440 00:23:22,340 --> 00:23:24,912 but she claims that she hadn't seen 441 00:23:25,016 --> 00:23:29,917 him since, you know, around the 12th, 13th of October. 442 00:23:30,021 --> 00:23:31,272 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 443 00:23:31,377 --> 00:23:34,262 Now, this is pretty interesting. 444 00:23:34,366 --> 00:23:37,042 What leads detectives to the Cochrans' home 445 00:23:37,146 --> 00:23:40,379 is a clue that they find in Chris Regan's car, which 446 00:23:40,483 --> 00:23:43,540 was left at the Park and Ride just outside of Iron 447 00:23:43,647 --> 00:23:47,990 River, a yellow Post-it note with directions 448 00:23:48,094 --> 00:23:51,189 to Kelly's home on it. 449 00:23:51,292 --> 00:23:53,760 I asked Kelly if she thought it was odd 450 00:23:53,865 --> 00:23:57,166 that Chris's car would be parked in the Park and Ride, 451 00:23:57,270 --> 00:24:01,685 and her response, Kelly's response to the sergeant was, 452 00:24:01,790 --> 00:24:03,248 yeah, I'd find that very odd. 453 00:24:03,353 --> 00:24:04,605 He loved that car. 454 00:24:04,709 --> 00:24:06,065 Past tense. 455 00:24:06,169 --> 00:24:09,818 And she found that to be very odd as well. 456 00:24:09,922 --> 00:24:12,876 TERRI O'CONNELL: I knew that Christopher wasn't alive 457 00:24:12,980 --> 00:24:13,850 anymore. 458 00:24:13,954 --> 00:24:15,483 I knew he was-- 459 00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:17,534 something's happened to him, that somebody 460 00:24:17,638 --> 00:24:19,376 did something to him. 461 00:24:19,481 --> 00:24:20,731 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 462 00:24:20,835 --> 00:24:23,616 Terri and the detectives are on the same page. 463 00:24:23,721 --> 00:24:25,459 They're sure Chris has been murdered, 464 00:24:25,562 --> 00:24:29,352 and they're pretty damn sure the Cochrans were involved, 465 00:24:29,456 --> 00:24:35,156 but there's no body and not a shred of proof. 466 00:24:35,260 --> 00:24:39,083 That is where a former cop Michael Neiger comes in. 467 00:24:39,187 --> 00:24:43,985 He and his team volunteer their help with unsolved homicides 468 00:24:44,088 --> 00:24:46,070 and missing person cases. 469 00:24:46,174 --> 00:24:47,806 MICHAEL NEIGER: I got involved about three weeks 470 00:24:47,912 --> 00:24:50,310 after Chris went missing and say that, you know, 471 00:24:50,414 --> 00:24:51,840 they hadn't found him. 472 00:24:51,943 --> 00:24:53,647 And it may be that he wasn't around the Park and Ride, 473 00:24:53,751 --> 00:24:55,523 his body wasn't out there and they hadn't missed him. 474 00:24:55,627 --> 00:24:57,956 But I-- so I do a lot of double checking on stuff 475 00:24:58,061 --> 00:24:59,765 and looking at stuff. 476 00:24:59,868 --> 00:25:02,682 By that time, you know, the chief, Chief Frizzo 477 00:25:02,787 --> 00:25:05,672 had a good handle on the case, and I 478 00:25:05,776 --> 00:25:08,140 became like a foot soldier for her, doing 479 00:25:08,244 --> 00:25:09,635 what she needed to get done. 480 00:25:09,740 --> 00:25:11,165 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Neiger 481 00:25:11,268 --> 00:25:13,075 doesn't turn up anything new. 482 00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:16,273 It's only three weeks since Chris disappeared, 483 00:25:16,378 --> 00:25:18,115 and the trail's gone cold. 484 00:25:18,219 --> 00:25:21,592 Jason Cochran is feeling the heat. 485 00:25:21,696 --> 00:25:24,372 LAURA FRIZZO: I remember during the interview of Jason Cochran 486 00:25:24,476 --> 00:25:26,666 how he immediately entered the interview room 487 00:25:26,770 --> 00:25:29,515 and immediately, you know, broke down, began 488 00:25:29,621 --> 00:25:34,346 to cry about his health issues and his life, 489 00:25:34,451 --> 00:25:37,892 and it was just my opinion at that time 490 00:25:37,996 --> 00:25:40,637 that people don't generally act that way, that that, to me, 491 00:25:40,742 --> 00:25:45,573 was a sign of guilt or nervousness or anxiety 492 00:25:45,677 --> 00:25:46,860 or whatever it was. 493 00:25:46,964 --> 00:25:48,180 But to me, it wasn't normal. 494 00:25:48,284 --> 00:25:50,439 And to me, it was a huge red flag. 495 00:25:50,543 --> 00:25:52,246 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Jason's a mess, 496 00:25:52,351 --> 00:25:56,349 but Kelly has nerves of steel. 497 00:25:56,453 --> 00:25:57,912 Kelly was so-- 498 00:25:58,016 --> 00:26:03,787 just so calm and cool and relaxed that anyone that would 499 00:26:03,891 --> 00:26:06,254 have met her for the first time would have thought, 500 00:26:06,358 --> 00:26:07,782 there's no way she can hold it together 501 00:26:07,887 --> 00:26:09,556 this well if she had been-- you know, taken 502 00:26:09,660 --> 00:26:11,051 part in something like this. 503 00:26:11,156 --> 00:26:13,310 The body language she was able to control. 504 00:26:13,414 --> 00:26:15,742 Jason was completely the opposite. 505 00:26:15,847 --> 00:26:19,601 You know, Kelly said, oh, I stopped by and he wasn't home. 506 00:26:19,705 --> 00:26:22,415 I didn't know where he was, and, you know, 507 00:26:22,521 --> 00:26:26,656 just like it was just another day. 508 00:26:30,236 --> 00:26:31,453 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 509 00:26:31,557 --> 00:26:33,643 What is it going to take for cops 510 00:26:33,747 --> 00:26:35,693 to catch a break on this case? 511 00:26:35,798 --> 00:26:39,134 After five months, all they have is a Post-it note 512 00:26:39,238 --> 00:26:42,227 and a grubby affair. 513 00:26:42,332 --> 00:26:45,668 There's no body, no proof of guilt. 514 00:26:45,773 --> 00:26:50,533 Iron River Police are running short on options. 515 00:26:50,638 --> 00:26:52,063 It was the first week of March, 516 00:26:52,167 --> 00:26:55,992 and there was still snow on the ground and, you know-- 517 00:26:56,096 --> 00:26:57,902 and we decide we're gonna go-- go ahead 518 00:26:58,007 --> 00:26:59,224 and do this first search warrant, 519 00:26:59,328 --> 00:27:00,823 that I finally have enough probable cause 520 00:27:00,927 --> 00:27:03,395 where I just need to do it. 521 00:27:03,499 --> 00:27:04,611 We conduct the search warrant. 522 00:27:04,716 --> 00:27:06,974 The Michigan State Police lab personnel 523 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:11,388 comes down from Marquette, collects evidence, and based 524 00:27:11,493 --> 00:27:12,917 on their findings, we really, you 525 00:27:13,021 --> 00:27:16,359 know, felt positive that we were gonna have something, 526 00:27:16,463 --> 00:27:17,957 we were gonna have enough. 527 00:27:18,062 --> 00:27:19,592 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): The search 528 00:27:19,696 --> 00:27:22,233 turns up a big fat nothing. 529 00:27:22,337 --> 00:27:25,638 They set up more searches of the upper peninsula. 530 00:27:25,744 --> 00:27:29,427 Can Chris Regan's body just have vanished? 531 00:27:29,532 --> 00:27:31,234 MICHAEL NEIGER: Iron County is a very rugged area 532 00:27:31,339 --> 00:27:35,439 and it's a historic area with a lot of old mining. 533 00:27:35,544 --> 00:27:39,367 So we have a lot of old mines and mining relics. 534 00:27:39,472 --> 00:27:41,071 And we have a lot of caving grounds 535 00:27:41,175 --> 00:27:44,721 where old mine shafts and stuff have caved in, 536 00:27:44,824 --> 00:27:46,632 and then they fill them with water. 537 00:27:46,737 --> 00:27:48,057 So you have a-- 538 00:27:48,162 --> 00:27:52,506 a lot of those types of areas which are common, 539 00:27:52,609 --> 00:27:56,329 often, you know, very easy to conceal evidence, 540 00:27:56,433 --> 00:27:58,589 to dispose of evidence, to hide evidence, 541 00:27:58,693 --> 00:28:01,438 and a lot of places for potential clandestine burial 542 00:28:01,543 --> 00:28:02,828 sites. 543 00:28:02,933 --> 00:28:04,254 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 544 00:28:04,358 --> 00:28:06,930 Chris and Kelly must have known that all of this 545 00:28:07,034 --> 00:28:08,738 was going on, right? 546 00:28:08,842 --> 00:28:11,899 OK, the investigation's turning up nothing, 547 00:28:12,005 --> 00:28:13,603 but would you stick around if you 548 00:28:13,708 --> 00:28:15,584 were in the frame for murder? 549 00:28:15,689 --> 00:28:19,512 Kelly and Jason pack up and head back to Hobart. 550 00:28:19,617 --> 00:28:24,968 And there's nothing Frizzo and her team can do to stop them. 551 00:28:25,072 --> 00:28:29,453 The following morning, Kelly and Jason Cochran take off. 552 00:28:29,557 --> 00:28:32,823 They completely leave, taking just what 553 00:28:32,927 --> 00:28:34,874 they could fit in their truck, and would 554 00:28:34,979 --> 00:28:36,404 never return to Michigan. 555 00:28:36,508 --> 00:28:38,003 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Homeward 556 00:28:38,108 --> 00:28:40,297 bound, but not home safe. 557 00:28:40,401 --> 00:28:42,729 Jason started getting jumpy. 558 00:28:42,834 --> 00:28:44,815 LAURA FRIZZO: [inaudible],, and it was very apparent that he 559 00:28:44,919 --> 00:28:48,883 had become somewhat suicidal at times and was falling apart, 560 00:28:48,986 --> 00:28:52,948 and she, I think, noticed that was happening, 561 00:28:53,054 --> 00:28:56,702 and I think she became fearful that he may say 562 00:28:56,807 --> 00:28:58,301 things to get her in trouble. 563 00:29:00,491 --> 00:29:01,915 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 564 00:29:02,019 --> 00:29:03,897 Don't you think their buddies must be finding 565 00:29:04,001 --> 00:29:06,886 all of this a bit bizarre? 566 00:29:06,990 --> 00:29:09,804 WALT AMMERMAN: I didn't hear from them for close to a month. 567 00:29:09,909 --> 00:29:13,768 And I guess it always bugged me that as soon as he called me, 568 00:29:13,872 --> 00:29:17,625 he told me that they just got their phones and computers back 569 00:29:17,729 --> 00:29:19,919 because the police had took them, 570 00:29:20,023 --> 00:29:23,326 and they think they're responsible for a person who's 571 00:29:23,430 --> 00:29:24,785 missing. 572 00:29:24,889 --> 00:29:27,462 Now, he could have called me and told me that his internet was 573 00:29:27,566 --> 00:29:29,790 shut off and he didn't pay his electric bill 574 00:29:29,894 --> 00:29:35,352 or anything for a month and I would have believed that. 575 00:29:35,456 --> 00:29:37,125 I knew they had some money problems. 576 00:29:37,229 --> 00:29:40,670 But that seemed really odd to me that that would 577 00:29:40,774 --> 00:29:42,025 be the first thing he would tell me, 578 00:29:42,129 --> 00:29:44,041 openly told me that they're being-- 579 00:29:44,145 --> 00:29:46,265 being investigated for a person that's missing. 580 00:29:46,370 --> 00:29:47,620 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 581 00:29:47,724 --> 00:29:49,394 Walt Ammerman knows the couple well 582 00:29:49,498 --> 00:29:52,139 enough to see that Kelly has really 583 00:29:52,244 --> 00:29:53,809 started controlling Jason. 584 00:29:53,913 --> 00:29:55,580 WALT AMMERMAN: I felt like he never really wanted 585 00:29:55,685 --> 00:29:57,353 to make Kelly mad at anything. 586 00:29:57,457 --> 00:30:03,331 I felt like he was, at times, maybe, 587 00:30:03,435 --> 00:30:05,591 I don't want to say afraid of her, 588 00:30:05,695 --> 00:30:08,789 but I think that there was some apprehension 589 00:30:08,893 --> 00:30:10,213 there of some sort. 590 00:30:10,318 --> 00:30:14,175 On the other hand, Kelly was very controlling, very 591 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,366 wanting to control everything. 592 00:30:16,470 --> 00:30:17,685 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 593 00:30:17,790 --> 00:30:21,961 It's hardly a recipe for a happy marriage. 594 00:30:22,065 --> 00:30:27,625 February, 2016, Kelly and Jason are still using heroin. 595 00:30:27,729 --> 00:30:31,172 One night, she makes a phone call from her home. 596 00:30:31,276 --> 00:30:32,249 Kelly calls 911. 597 00:30:32,353 --> 00:30:33,361 He's not breathing. 598 00:30:33,466 --> 00:30:35,864 There's-- his mouth is like-- he's not-- 599 00:30:35,968 --> 00:30:37,601 he's-- I don't know what's going on. 600 00:30:37,706 --> 00:30:38,854 I don't-- it might be an overdose. 601 00:30:38,957 --> 00:30:39,825 I don't know what's wrong. 602 00:30:39,930 --> 00:30:41,043 She's like, panicking. 603 00:30:41,147 --> 00:30:43,093 BRIAN HARRIS: The police arrive, and 604 00:30:43,199 --> 00:30:45,562 from all apparent appearances, it 605 00:30:45,666 --> 00:30:48,863 looks as though Jason is a heroin user 606 00:30:48,966 --> 00:30:52,791 and Jason has overdosed on heroin. 607 00:30:52,895 --> 00:30:54,980 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): It's not uncommon. 608 00:30:55,084 --> 00:30:57,239 So at first, cops conclude this is 609 00:30:57,344 --> 00:31:00,333 another heroin user who has accidentally 610 00:31:00,436 --> 00:31:02,695 taken their own life. 611 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,199 Hours later, Kelly calls Walt. 612 00:31:05,304 --> 00:31:08,779 So there was a phone call on February 20. 613 00:31:08,884 --> 00:31:12,881 Kelly contacted me to say that Jason had died that night. 614 00:31:12,985 --> 00:31:19,415 And immediately, my wife told me, well, she did it. 615 00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:22,576 So I contacted the FBI, and I said 616 00:31:22,681 --> 00:31:25,567 I knew Jason and Kelly very good, 617 00:31:25,671 --> 00:31:29,215 and they had told me that they were being looked 618 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,822 at for this person missing. 619 00:31:31,927 --> 00:31:34,603 They have not told me anything about the fact that they did it 620 00:31:34,707 --> 00:31:38,670 or-- or anything like that, but my-- my wife really 621 00:31:38,774 --> 00:31:42,423 feels that I needed to let you know that one of them 622 00:31:42,526 --> 00:31:45,134 died on Saturday, and this is Monday. 623 00:31:45,239 --> 00:31:49,375 And right away, the guy said, how did Jason die? 624 00:31:49,479 --> 00:31:51,425 Said, I didn't even tell you it was Jason. 625 00:31:51,529 --> 00:31:54,449 He said, if one of them died, it was Jason, 626 00:31:54,553 --> 00:31:59,802 and we need to-- we need to get on that. 627 00:31:59,906 --> 00:32:01,887 LAURA FRIZZO: I get a call from two the FBI agents 628 00:32:01,991 --> 00:32:03,869 that I've been working with who tell me 629 00:32:03,973 --> 00:32:06,162 they got a call on their tip line 630 00:32:06,267 --> 00:32:10,125 saying that, you know, something was not right, 631 00:32:10,230 --> 00:32:14,017 that they feel like Kelly was involved in Jason's death. 632 00:32:14,122 --> 00:32:17,911 They feel that there's something more to this Michigan case 633 00:32:18,015 --> 00:32:19,578 with the missing man. 634 00:32:19,682 --> 00:32:20,900 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 635 00:32:21,004 --> 00:32:23,089 While Frizzo reopens her cold case, 636 00:32:23,193 --> 00:32:25,905 another detective is about to get involved 637 00:32:26,009 --> 00:32:28,859 nine hours away in Indiana. 638 00:32:28,962 --> 00:32:32,230 This is Jeremy Ogden of Hobart PD. 639 00:32:32,334 --> 00:32:35,323 I answered a phone call from the FBI tip line, 640 00:32:35,428 --> 00:32:39,564 and they said that they had received an anonymous call. 641 00:32:39,667 --> 00:32:44,499 We needed to take a closer look at Jason Cochran's death. 642 00:32:44,602 --> 00:32:47,627 And at that time, I didn't even know that he had died. 643 00:32:47,732 --> 00:32:49,435 They said that it was a possibility 644 00:32:49,539 --> 00:32:51,451 that Jason Cochran and Kelly Cochran 645 00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:52,911 had been involved in a-- 646 00:32:53,015 --> 00:32:57,115 a missing persons case up in the UP, and that, 647 00:32:57,220 --> 00:33:01,565 you know, they fled to, you know, Hobart, Indiana. 648 00:33:01,669 --> 00:33:02,782 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 649 00:33:02,886 --> 00:33:04,901 The list of people who don't believe 650 00:33:05,006 --> 00:33:08,725 Jason died of an overdose is getting longer. 651 00:33:08,830 --> 00:33:12,618 We've got Walt Ammerman, his wife, Laura Frizzo, 652 00:33:12,722 --> 00:33:17,448 Jeremy Ogden, then there are all of the suspicions 653 00:33:17,553 --> 00:33:19,152 about Chris Regan. 654 00:33:19,256 --> 00:33:21,898 There's no way law enforcement is letting 655 00:33:22,002 --> 00:33:24,747 Kelly slip away this time. 656 00:33:24,852 --> 00:33:29,475 Jeremy Ogden drops in on Jason's funeral. 657 00:33:29,579 --> 00:33:32,081 I had been standing in the back of the room watching her 658 00:33:32,185 --> 00:33:34,375 before I ever walked up there. 659 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,121 And she had sat there pretty silent, 660 00:33:37,225 --> 00:33:39,832 and I hadn't seen her shed a tear. 661 00:33:39,936 --> 00:33:42,370 You know, she was just sitting there very quiet 662 00:33:42,474 --> 00:33:45,116 and she looked angry, almost. 663 00:33:45,221 --> 00:33:49,911 And-- so after I paid my respects, I walked up to her 664 00:33:50,016 --> 00:33:53,179 and I gave her a hug. 665 00:33:53,283 --> 00:33:55,161 And I think it shocked her. 666 00:33:55,266 --> 00:33:58,115 She, you know, acted as though she was crying at that point. 667 00:33:58,219 --> 00:33:59,992 She seemed like she was upset. 668 00:34:00,097 --> 00:34:03,189 And I just went on my way and I sat in the back of the room 669 00:34:03,293 --> 00:34:04,683 and I sat there. 670 00:34:04,787 --> 00:34:08,438 There's a cousin to the family who knew me from my law 671 00:34:08,542 --> 00:34:12,609 enforcement career, and he followed me outside 672 00:34:12,713 --> 00:34:16,327 and he said, what are you doing here? 673 00:34:16,431 --> 00:34:21,124 And I said, I'm looking into Jason's death. 674 00:34:21,228 --> 00:34:25,921 And he said, well, you're gonna wanna pay attention. 675 00:34:26,024 --> 00:34:26,962 I said, OK. 676 00:34:29,778 --> 00:34:33,983 Ogden's tip off tells him to dig deeper into Jason's death. 677 00:34:34,087 --> 00:34:35,931 Will he discover that Kelly Cochran 678 00:34:36,034 --> 00:34:39,128 is the killer twice over? 679 00:34:39,232 --> 00:34:43,264 To get there, Ogden's going to need a plan. 680 00:34:43,368 --> 00:34:47,504 I promise you, you're gonna love it. 681 00:34:47,609 --> 00:34:49,903 I said, I need you to do something for me. 682 00:34:50,007 --> 00:34:52,266 I want you to be my confidential informant. 683 00:34:52,371 --> 00:34:56,541 Walt looked at me and he said, am I-- am I gonna be in danger? 684 00:34:56,645 --> 00:34:59,878 [music playing] 685 00:35:14,928 --> 00:35:18,299 Detectives Laura Frizzo and Jeremy Ogden 686 00:35:18,403 --> 00:35:20,003 come to a conclusion. 687 00:35:20,107 --> 00:35:22,817 The key to getting Kelly Cochran to admit what she did 688 00:35:22,923 --> 00:35:25,529 to her husband, Jason, is to find out once 689 00:35:25,633 --> 00:35:31,158 and for all what happened to her lover, Chris Regan. 690 00:35:31,264 --> 00:35:33,140 I had to find out where Christopher 691 00:35:33,244 --> 00:35:36,512 Regan was disposed of in order for Kelly 692 00:35:36,616 --> 00:35:39,432 to confess to killing Jason. 693 00:35:39,535 --> 00:35:41,030 I knew this from the very beginning. 694 00:35:41,134 --> 00:35:44,854 And I knew that she would never confess to killing Jason 695 00:35:44,958 --> 00:35:48,364 unless I somehow got her to admit 696 00:35:48,468 --> 00:35:50,588 what happened to Chris Regan. 697 00:35:50,692 --> 00:35:52,187 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 698 00:35:52,292 --> 00:35:56,427 The upper peninsula has hundreds of square miles of forests, 699 00:35:56,532 --> 00:35:59,173 swamps, and rocky hills. 700 00:35:59,277 --> 00:36:02,962 Law enforcement could search for half of a lifetime 701 00:36:03,067 --> 00:36:07,585 and still never stumble across the body of Chris Regan. 702 00:36:07,689 --> 00:36:12,485 But in early 2017, Mike Neiger and his team 703 00:36:12,589 --> 00:36:15,857 hit on a breakthrough. 704 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,290 By tracing where Kelly's phone had been, 705 00:36:18,394 --> 00:36:21,244 a new technique at the time, detectives 706 00:36:21,348 --> 00:36:25,554 prove that she was at the same Iron River Park and Ride 707 00:36:25,658 --> 00:36:29,273 where Chris's car was abandoned. 708 00:36:29,377 --> 00:36:32,157 Next, they search her computer and they 709 00:36:32,263 --> 00:36:34,730 find an intriguing picture. 710 00:36:34,834 --> 00:36:37,754 It's a satellite image of a particular place 711 00:36:37,858 --> 00:36:40,848 in upper Michigan, a place Kelly and Jason 712 00:36:40,951 --> 00:36:43,072 would have known well. 713 00:36:43,175 --> 00:36:46,095 We ended up finding a satellite image, Google 714 00:36:46,199 --> 00:36:50,544 satellite imagery that zoomed right in several times 715 00:36:50,649 --> 00:36:54,750 focused in on the Caspian Pit, on a specific piece 716 00:36:54,854 --> 00:36:56,522 of the bank of the Caspian Pit. 717 00:36:56,627 --> 00:36:58,155 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 718 00:36:58,260 --> 00:37:01,874 The pit is just a few hundred yards from the Cochran house. 719 00:37:01,979 --> 00:37:05,976 And there are more revelations from the computer's hard drive. 720 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,069 In the end, we were able to establish that by looking 721 00:37:09,173 --> 00:37:12,928 at the date when that was downloaded from Google, 722 00:37:13,032 --> 00:37:14,387 it was prior to-- 723 00:37:14,492 --> 00:37:16,125 in the end, we learned it was prior 724 00:37:16,229 --> 00:37:17,481 to when Chris was murdered. 725 00:37:17,585 --> 00:37:19,149 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Detectives 726 00:37:19,253 --> 00:37:21,339 descend on the Caspian Pit. 727 00:37:21,443 --> 00:37:26,134 They need more evidence, and boy, are they not disappointed. 728 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:32,149 They find a large burn barrel, big enough for a body of parts. 729 00:37:32,253 --> 00:37:35,519 It matches the size and shape of a space 730 00:37:35,624 --> 00:37:37,919 in the Cochran's garden. 731 00:37:38,023 --> 00:37:40,455 Chief Frizzo uses state police divers 732 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,313 and found the barrel for the weapon 733 00:37:44,417 --> 00:37:47,059 that was used to kill Chris. 734 00:37:47,164 --> 00:37:51,820 And so-- and that was relatively near the Cochrans' house. 735 00:37:51,924 --> 00:37:53,698 It was just a couple of roads away. 736 00:37:53,801 --> 00:37:56,130 I mean, you could basically see that, you 737 00:37:56,235 --> 00:38:00,231 know, from their house, almost, if it wasn't for some trees. 738 00:38:00,336 --> 00:38:01,864 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Back in Indiana, 739 00:38:01,969 --> 00:38:06,384 Jeremy Ogden's throwing all of these discoveries at Kelly. 740 00:38:06,488 --> 00:38:09,999 Why has her burn barrel shown up at the Caspian Pit? 741 00:38:10,103 --> 00:38:12,919 Why was her car in the same parking lot 742 00:38:13,023 --> 00:38:16,463 as Chris Regan's the day he disappeared? 743 00:38:16,567 --> 00:38:20,114 But still, she's confessing to nothing. 744 00:38:20,217 --> 00:38:25,187 It's time for Ogden to set this up as his sting operation. 745 00:38:25,291 --> 00:38:26,995 JEREMY OGDEN: I sat down with Walt and his wife. 746 00:38:27,099 --> 00:38:30,436 I talked to Walt for all of about five minutes, and I said, 747 00:38:30,540 --> 00:38:35,128 you are the kind of man that every detective 748 00:38:35,232 --> 00:38:37,491 hopes walks into his case. 749 00:38:37,595 --> 00:38:41,314 And I need you to do something for me. 750 00:38:41,419 --> 00:38:44,234 I want you to be my confidential informant. 751 00:38:44,338 --> 00:38:47,154 And I said I'd do whatever I could, 752 00:38:47,259 --> 00:38:48,370 but I don't know what I can do. 753 00:38:48,474 --> 00:38:50,456 And he said, I have an idea. 754 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,924 And I want you to call her on a recorded call, 755 00:38:53,027 --> 00:38:56,260 and I'd like you to tell her that Jason mailed you 756 00:38:56,364 --> 00:38:59,632 a letter a while back and wanted you to hold onto it in case 757 00:38:59,736 --> 00:39:01,231 something ever happened to him. 758 00:39:01,335 --> 00:39:05,296 If, in the event something occurs to me, if I were to die, 759 00:39:05,402 --> 00:39:07,244 please forward this letter to the Iron 760 00:39:07,347 --> 00:39:11,448 River Police Department attention Chief Laura Frizzo. 761 00:39:11,553 --> 00:39:15,237 Do not open the letter that's contained within this manila 762 00:39:15,341 --> 00:39:18,400 envelope, please. 763 00:39:18,505 --> 00:39:20,520 And I signed it Jason or whatever. 764 00:39:20,625 --> 00:39:24,483 And he said, OK, well, we have to make some changes. 765 00:39:24,587 --> 00:39:26,256 And I said, OK, well, what do we need to change? 766 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,210 And he said, well, he would never sign Jason to me. 767 00:39:29,314 --> 00:39:31,155 He would sign quack quack. 768 00:39:31,260 --> 00:39:33,901 He goes, it's what he always called himself to me. 769 00:39:34,005 --> 00:39:36,647 I said, OK, so we make it quack quack. 770 00:39:36,751 --> 00:39:39,289 So, you know, we kind of fine-tune the letter, 771 00:39:39,394 --> 00:39:41,756 and Walt added his two cents into it, 772 00:39:41,861 --> 00:39:43,182 made it very authentic. 773 00:39:43,286 --> 00:39:45,893 And, honestly, my first thought was, 774 00:39:45,997 --> 00:39:47,318 this is never gonna work. 775 00:39:47,422 --> 00:39:49,299 You know, she is too smart. 776 00:39:49,405 --> 00:39:51,037 She knows everyone's looking at her 777 00:39:51,141 --> 00:39:53,921 closely right now, especially with her husband dying. 778 00:39:54,026 --> 00:39:55,764 There is no way she's gonna fall for this. 779 00:39:55,868 --> 00:39:59,414 But I-- you know, I was willing to try anything. 780 00:40:02,125 --> 00:40:04,244 WALT AMMERMAN: I was very apprehensive. 781 00:40:04,349 --> 00:40:06,469 I didn't really think she was gonna believe it. 782 00:40:06,573 --> 00:40:08,797 He'd assured me that he could probably get a lawyer 783 00:40:08,901 --> 00:40:13,246 to do it in town, a local one, and say Jason contacted him, 784 00:40:13,350 --> 00:40:15,680 but he really felt that it would be 785 00:40:15,784 --> 00:40:19,990 more believable coming from me. 786 00:40:20,095 --> 00:40:21,623 JEREMY OGDEN: The letter brought things 787 00:40:21,727 --> 00:40:27,776 along quickly, because Walt Ammerman, he was so convincing. 788 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,076 I mean, you know, when Steve and I met with Walt and set him up 789 00:40:31,182 --> 00:40:32,954 and said, OK, we're gonna do this call, 790 00:40:33,058 --> 00:40:35,873 Walt's sitting in the truck, and he's shaken, and he's-- 791 00:40:35,977 --> 00:40:38,133 he's like, Jeremy, I don't know, you know. 792 00:40:38,237 --> 00:40:40,671 And I said, Walt, be yourself. 793 00:40:40,775 --> 00:40:42,512 Take a breath. 794 00:40:42,616 --> 00:40:46,162 You know, your friend's dead. 795 00:40:46,266 --> 00:40:47,866 He was your friend no matter what he did. 796 00:40:47,970 --> 00:40:49,291 He was your friend. 797 00:40:49,395 --> 00:40:51,340 I called her, and it was kind of convenient 798 00:40:51,444 --> 00:40:54,608 that she was kind of busy so it was gonna be a short call. 799 00:40:54,712 --> 00:40:57,978 I found out later she was at his parent's house. 800 00:40:58,083 --> 00:41:01,420 I-- I just said I had this letter that Jason mailed 801 00:41:01,525 --> 00:41:03,540 me and told me to hold onto another letter 802 00:41:03,645 --> 00:41:05,243 and said if anything ever happened to him, 803 00:41:05,347 --> 00:41:08,857 I needed to send this on to the police in the upper peninsula, 804 00:41:08,962 --> 00:41:13,202 and her sigh and her cry and her please don't are 805 00:41:13,307 --> 00:41:15,635 three things I'll never forget. 806 00:41:15,741 --> 00:41:17,200 It was incredible. 807 00:41:17,304 --> 00:41:19,737 I was sitting in the passenger seat, and I was listening, 808 00:41:19,842 --> 00:41:22,934 and as soon as he said Jason had sent him this letter, 809 00:41:23,039 --> 00:41:26,549 there's this huge gasp for air by her. 810 00:41:26,654 --> 00:41:29,747 And at that moment, I'm like, OK, OK, hang on, 811 00:41:29,851 --> 00:41:31,553 hang on, what's coming next? 812 00:41:31,659 --> 00:41:34,543 And she-- and the next words are, like, don't send it. 813 00:41:34,648 --> 00:41:35,864 Don't do that. 814 00:41:35,968 --> 00:41:38,783 Throw it away, whatever it is that she uses. 815 00:41:38,888 --> 00:41:41,182 But it's to get rid of it. 816 00:41:41,286 --> 00:41:42,711 Distance yourself from it. 817 00:41:42,816 --> 00:41:44,414 Distance me from it. 818 00:41:44,518 --> 00:41:46,151 Don't do this to me. 819 00:41:46,256 --> 00:41:50,322 And for those 30 seconds, it was like I-- 820 00:41:50,428 --> 00:41:52,026 I had the biggest fish of a lifetime 821 00:41:52,131 --> 00:41:56,475 on because I knew that she had taken it all the way. 822 00:41:56,578 --> 00:41:58,526 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Ogden's plan works 823 00:41:58,630 --> 00:41:59,951 like a charm. 824 00:42:00,055 --> 00:42:02,662 Kelly thinks the letter is the real deal. 825 00:42:02,767 --> 00:42:06,624 JEREMY OGDEN: They don't want to tell you until you catch them. 826 00:42:06,728 --> 00:42:09,405 Once you catch a person like this, 827 00:42:09,509 --> 00:42:11,907 then they want to tell you. 828 00:42:12,012 --> 00:42:15,800 They don't want to tell anybody because they still have that 829 00:42:15,903 --> 00:42:17,989 survival mode in their mind where 830 00:42:18,093 --> 00:42:20,561 they're-- they're protecting themselves, 831 00:42:20,667 --> 00:42:22,960 and they don't want to go to jail and they 832 00:42:23,064 --> 00:42:24,663 don't want to be discovered. 833 00:42:24,768 --> 00:42:27,062 I think after you catch them, then 834 00:42:27,166 --> 00:42:30,223 they want to tell you because they want everyone 835 00:42:30,328 --> 00:42:32,101 to know what they really are. 836 00:42:32,206 --> 00:42:34,708 [music playing] 837 00:42:35,854 --> 00:42:37,837 LAURA FRIZZO: He just sent me an email, and I, 838 00:42:37,940 --> 00:42:39,608 of course, right away opened the email, 839 00:42:39,712 --> 00:42:42,632 and there's a copy of the recording in my email 840 00:42:42,736 --> 00:42:44,162 from this phone call. 841 00:42:44,266 --> 00:42:46,977 And I thought, obviously, it didn't go well because he 842 00:42:47,082 --> 00:42:48,402 would have called and told me. 843 00:42:48,506 --> 00:42:51,287 So I'm sitting in my, you know, office, and I 844 00:42:51,391 --> 00:42:55,284 opened this recording, and when I listened to it, 845 00:42:55,388 --> 00:42:58,204 I just about fell off my chair. 846 00:42:58,308 --> 00:43:01,575 And I thought, you know, you got her. 847 00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:02,999 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 848 00:43:03,104 --> 00:43:06,302 Cochran admits that Chris was killed near her home 849 00:43:06,406 --> 00:43:07,797 in the upper peninsula. 850 00:43:07,901 --> 00:43:11,167 She's taken to the Pentoga Trail to show the cops 851 00:43:11,271 --> 00:43:13,427 where his remains are hidden. 852 00:43:13,531 --> 00:43:16,452 LAURA FRIZZO: End of the day, we go back to that marked area, 853 00:43:16,555 --> 00:43:19,613 and it was myself and the cadaver dog and the dog 854 00:43:19,718 --> 00:43:22,985 handler, and within 10 minutes of being there, 855 00:43:23,089 --> 00:43:25,697 locate Chris Regan's skull. 856 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,684 You know, another thing she showed us that day was where 857 00:43:28,789 --> 00:43:31,709 she threw the gun, which the Michigan State 858 00:43:31,814 --> 00:43:33,134 Police Dive Team did recover. 859 00:43:34,942 --> 00:43:36,088 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 860 00:43:36,192 --> 00:43:38,729 Even now, she is not giving it all up. 861 00:43:38,834 --> 00:43:43,665 She tells detectives that this was all Jason, that she was 862 00:43:43,769 --> 00:43:47,454 just making out with Chris at the top of the basement stairs 863 00:43:47,558 --> 00:43:50,512 when Jason came upon them and killed 864 00:43:50,617 --> 00:43:55,065 Chris with a single rifle shot to the head. 865 00:43:55,169 --> 00:43:58,403 She later tells the court she was furious with Jason 866 00:43:58,507 --> 00:44:03,650 for shooting Chris, and that's why she killed her husband. 867 00:44:03,754 --> 00:44:06,640 WALT AMMERMAN: Her story is she sat on Jason's chest 868 00:44:06,745 --> 00:44:08,794 and held her hands over his nose and mouth 869 00:44:08,899 --> 00:44:12,201 as he was trying to throw up from the heroin overdose 870 00:44:12,305 --> 00:44:14,426 that she gave him. 871 00:44:14,530 --> 00:44:20,230 And she wanted him to see her and know 872 00:44:20,334 --> 00:44:22,940 that she did that, I think. 873 00:44:23,045 --> 00:44:27,043 And I can't wrap my head around that. 874 00:44:27,147 --> 00:44:29,649 I don't think any normal person can. 875 00:44:29,753 --> 00:44:32,707 [music playing] 876 00:44:34,064 --> 00:44:35,523 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 877 00:44:35,627 --> 00:44:38,720 One of the jurors at Kelly Cochran's trial remembers being 878 00:44:38,825 --> 00:44:43,725 horrified about the cold, callous way Chris Regan had 879 00:44:43,830 --> 00:44:46,054 been drawn to his death. 880 00:44:46,158 --> 00:44:48,418 The hardest part, I think, was when they 881 00:44:48,522 --> 00:44:52,833 brought his skull as evidence. 882 00:44:52,936 --> 00:44:56,481 Just listening to how things went down, 883 00:44:56,585 --> 00:45:00,860 luring him into their house, in my mind, 884 00:45:00,965 --> 00:45:02,321 how could anybody do that? 885 00:45:02,425 --> 00:45:04,754 It's all like, kind of out of my mind. 886 00:45:04,859 --> 00:45:08,507 How could somebody be so ruthless? 887 00:45:08,610 --> 00:45:10,106 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 888 00:45:10,210 --> 00:45:13,095 Let's not forget the Cochrans made a pact on their wedding 889 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,344 day that, to them, justified what they did. 890 00:45:18,448 --> 00:45:20,915 Their marriage pact was that if one of them 891 00:45:21,019 --> 00:45:26,477 had an affair with somebody, they would kill that person, 892 00:45:26,581 --> 00:45:28,666 whether it be her or Jason. 893 00:45:28,771 --> 00:45:32,698 So if Jason had an affair, the person Jason had an affair with 894 00:45:32,802 --> 00:45:35,548 would get killed and vice versa. 895 00:45:35,653 --> 00:45:38,955 [music playing] 896 00:45:44,864 --> 00:45:47,574 TERRI O'CONNELL: These are the woods where Kelly and Jason had 897 00:45:47,678 --> 00:45:49,417 brought Christopher's remains. 898 00:45:51,989 --> 00:45:54,249 The marks that are on the ground right 899 00:45:54,352 --> 00:45:58,731 now is where they were searching. 900 00:45:58,836 --> 00:46:03,354 I got shivers, not because of the cold, 901 00:46:03,458 --> 00:46:05,960 just because of where I am right now. 902 00:46:06,064 --> 00:46:09,506 When I came out here on October 14 for Christmas, 903 00:46:09,610 --> 00:46:14,024 five-year anniversary of his death, I just got chills, 904 00:46:14,129 --> 00:46:15,623 and I could-- 905 00:46:15,726 --> 00:46:18,787 I could feel him, and it was just real eerie, eerie feeling. 906 00:46:18,891 --> 00:46:20,558 And knowing that he's still-- 907 00:46:20,663 --> 00:46:23,339 parts of him are still not found. 908 00:46:23,444 --> 00:46:27,301 Only his skull has been found. 909 00:46:27,405 --> 00:46:30,325 [music playing] 910 00:46:30,429 --> 00:46:33,419 Kelly and Jason Cochran found common ground when they met 911 00:46:33,523 --> 00:46:36,374 as two troubled kids in Hobart. 912 00:46:36,477 --> 00:46:38,945 For a while, they even seemed like the answer 913 00:46:39,049 --> 00:46:41,101 to each other's troubles. 914 00:46:41,205 --> 00:46:43,220 But their complicated relationship 915 00:46:43,324 --> 00:46:47,704 and twisted sex life was only fueled by their addiction 916 00:46:47,809 --> 00:46:49,267 to drugs. 917 00:46:49,372 --> 00:46:53,995 It was a combination that made for a volatile marriage. 918 00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:58,444 In the end, two men lost their lives at Kelly's hands. 919 00:46:58,548 --> 00:47:03,900 In May, 2017, Kelly was sentenced to life in prison 920 00:47:04,006 --> 00:47:05,325 without parole. 921 00:47:05,430 --> 00:47:08,245 It's a reminder to all of us, the person 922 00:47:08,349 --> 00:47:14,362 most likely to kill you may well be the person you marry. 923 00:47:14,467 --> 00:47:19,020 I'm Michelle Trachtenberg, and I'll see you next time 924 00:47:19,125 --> 00:47:22,392 on "Meet, Marry, Murder." 925 00:47:25,346 --> 00:47:28,683 [music playing]