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Cold Case Files

Murder in the Bayou: Monster in Bayou Pigeon

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.88.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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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