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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In 1991 Curtis "Cochise" Smith, 29, heads out for diapers in Plaquemine, Louisiana and vanishes. Twenty-five-years later, a body surfaces in the bayou and Cochise's murder case reignites. A local with a long rap sheet becomes the prime suspect.
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0:00.0 | Hi, Cold Case listeners. I'm Marissa Pinson. And before we get into this week's episode, I just wanted to remind you that episodes of Cold Case Files, as well as the A&E Classic Podcasts, I Survived, American Justice, and City Confidential, are all available ad-free on the new A&E Crime and Investigation Channel on Apple Podcasts and Apple Plus for just $4.99 a month or $3999 a year. |
0:23.6 | And now on to the show. |
0:25.7 | The following episode contains intensely disturbing accounts of violence. |
0:30.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:32.6 | When Coach East didn't come on, yeah, we know something was wrong. |
0:36.8 | In by your pigeon, there's total darkness. |
0:38.3 | We got some places that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. |
0:42.3 | Remember what the weather was that night? |
0:44.3 | It was rainy. |
0:45.3 | He reached to turn on that light when he did pile. |
0:49.3 | When they told us that he made a confession. That's enough evidence for me. |
1:00.0 | I think he loved the challenge of, |
1:02.7 | You Can't Catch Me. |
1:04.1 | We did everything that we possibly can |
1:07.6 | to find Coach's and it never happened. |
1:14.3 | Somebody calls us, look, there's a barrel washed up in the bayou. |
1:18.3 | After all these years, we're thinking, oh, shit, this may be the one. |
1:22.2 | There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. |
1:25.3 | Only 1% are ever solved. |
1:28.3 | This is one of those rare stories. |
1:40.3 | February 21st, 1991. It's a gray rainy day in Iberville parish. 29-year-old Curtis Cochise-Smith is spending a quiet day with family. |
1:45.8 | Chris Ann Georgetown is Cochise's sister. |
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