Episode 258 - Tactical Solutions - The Murder of Michael Cochran
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A story of ambition, deception, and betrayal. And a truth so devastating… it cost him everything.
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MURDER: TRUE CRIME STORIES
Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Editing:
Aiden Wolf
Sources:
LIVE: WV v. Natalie Cochran, Day 1 | Ponzi Scheme Murder Trial
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LIVE: WV v. Natalie Cochran, Day 3 | Ponzi Scheme Murder Trial
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Natalie Cochran Indictment Wire Fraud
Natalie Cochran found guilty of murder; victim's family says justice is served
Former pharmacist convicted in Ponzi scheme indicted for 1st-degree murder
Natalie Cochran's Ponzi scheme convictions to be used in murder trial
Natalie Cochran's attorneys say dead husband's medical and financial records are incomplete
Former pharmacist Cochran sentenced to 11 years in prison for ponzi scheme
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| 0:24.8 | The opinions expressed |
| 0:26.3 | in the following episode |
| 0:27.5 | do not necessarily reflect |
| 0:29.0 | those of the minds |
| 0:29.8 | of madness podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:33.3 | Music The In the movies, financial fraud is often depicted as elaborate schemes, shadowy boardrooms, high-powered |
| 1:13.2 | executives, and complex financial tricks designed by mathematical geniuses. |
| 1:19.7 | But the truth is far more ordinary and far more devastating, because the worst frauds |
| 1:26.1 | don't happen in back alleys or on distant computer screens in other countries. |
| 1:31.6 | They happen in the places we feel safest, at kitchen tables, at backyard barbecues. |
| 1:39.3 | And they're not built on numbers or equations. |
| 1:42.3 | They're built on something much simpler, stories. Stories about |
| 1:48.1 | success and opportunity, stories about trust and loyalty, stories that become so familiar, |
| 1:56.4 | so comfortable that we stop questioning them. And when those stories come from someone we love, |
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