A new documentary is shedding light on the victims of an alleged serial killer who authorities say injected her husband with a lethal dose of heroin and also killed her former lover before serving remains at a neighborhood bbq.
Kelly Cochran pleaded guilty earlier this year to killing her husband with the lethal dose but was already serving time in prison for the murder of Chris Regan in Iron River, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
She pleaded guilty in April to the death of her husband, Jason Cochran, at their home in Indiana. Court documents say Kelly Cochran told investigators she killed her husband because he took "the only good thing" in her life in Regan's death.
In a new docuseries on Investigation Discovery titled "Dead North," Cochran is being described 'like the devil' in court.
Regan disappeared in 2014. Iron River Police Chief Laura Frizzo, who investigated Regan's disappearance, said she met Cochran and her husband during the probe, court documents stated. The investigator learned Cochran was having an affair with Regan but the case went cold until Jason Cochran died in February 2016 of a suspected overdose.
Cochran admitted to prosecutors that she and her husband lured Regan inside their home, shot him and dismembered him, before dumping his remains in the woods. Cochran said she and her husband made a "pact" on their wedding night to "kill off anyone involved in their extramarital affairs."
Investigation Discovery said in a statement that Cochran's own brother, Colton Caboyan, told investigators he feared his sister was a serial killer and neighbors said they believed they were served human remains, possibly Regan's, at a barbecue. One friend who participated in the documentary also described eating a strange-tasting burger without realizing at the time it could have been human.
In February 2016, when Jason died of an apparent heroin overdose, the Regan case was reopened. Michigan authorities charged Cochran with Regan's death but she fled the state.
The U.S. Marshals Service eventually tracked her down in Kentucky, where she was arrested and taken into custody. Court documents revealed Cochran spent her time in jail turning her glasses into shanks and threatening to commit suicide, as well as bodily harm to anyone who came near her.
After Regan was killed, Kelly said she was angry at her husband. She said she gave him a lethal overdose of heroin and then choked him until he died. She said she killed him out of revenge for killing Regan.
Cochran cannot be prosecuted in Indiana for any additional murders. That was part of her plea deal in Jason's death: if she provides locations of other victims, she can do so and not face additional charges in the Hoosier state.
She claimed to having other “friends” buried in Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee and Minnesota. However, the identities and specific locations of these bodies remain a mystery to this day.