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The Criminal Makeup

69: The Toxic Couple Whose Deadly Wedding Vows Led To Evil Double Murder – Kelly Cochran

The Criminal Makeup

The Criminal Makeup

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everyone I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the criminal

0:13.6

makeup podcast each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in

0:17.7

history and today we are going to be talking about the case of Kelly Cochran.

0:21.7

So Kelly Cochran oh boy was she a piece of work. She has been

0:26.7

described as someone that just did whatever the hell she wanted to. She was called

0:31.6

calculating, manipulative, and she was also the dominant force in a very toxic

0:36.7

relationship that she had with her husband, Jason. And when I first started looking into this case,

0:41.5

there was one significant thing about it that

0:44.0

immediately caught my attention. Because it turns out that Kelly and her husband, Jason, they had

0:49.6

made what is called a blood pact on the evening of their wedding.

0:54.2

Kelly and Jason made an agreement which said that

0:58.3

if either one of them ever cheated,

1:00.6

the cheater would be forced to murder the person they cheated with.

1:05.0

And when I first read that I was like,

1:07.0

Surely that's a joke.

1:09.0

Like, surely they don't actually follow through with that.

1:13.0

Surely no one would ever make a pact like that.

1:16.0

On their wedding night, because you have to remember that,

1:18.0

this was on their wedding night.

1:20.0

Why the bloody hell are you getting married to somebody if you're already making a pact about whether you're going to cheat or not and if you're going to murder somebody? No. But unfortunately, this was very real and the consequences were deadly and on top of that it's also believed

1:36.9

that Kelly may be responsible for even more terrible things that we don't even know

1:41.7

about to this day so as always we have a lot to

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