GUILTY WV - Michael Cochran, 38, allegedly killed by wife in ponzi scheme, Feb 2019 *arrest*

Did Natalie kill her husband??

  • Yes

    Votes: 20 87.0%
  • No

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Total voters
    23
A post-trial hearing has been set for February 25 at 9 a.m.


2/13/2025
 
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“We tend to not like scammers and murderers.” #NatalieCochran’s appeal for a re-trial is denied.Her attorneys argued jurors were prejudiced against her because of pervasive negative publicity surrounding her federal Ponzi scheme case. Natalie Cochran was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for the convicted murder of her husband Michael Cochran.

 
I think Michael was not aware that that there were zero accepted bids. That the business was not legitimate in any way.

That meeting with the bank could not happen and she made sure it didn't happen. He would have learned the true depths of her depravity....

Should he have known? I think he should have been asking a heck of a lot more questions. The fact his own family couldn't discuss the business with him... only her. She controlled it all.

I was absolutely shocked at the money these families had kicking around.. three interviewed invested between $250,000 and $500,000. This is not the middle class.
 
I don't remember hearing about this case until last night, when I popped over to a health care professionals' board I visit once every few months, and there it was. My interest was piqued enough to watch the 20/20 episode on Hulu, all of it, and I have a feeling things go a lot deeper than what was just mentioned on the show. Michael had FOUR hospitalizations for what was said to be illnesses resulting from abusing supplements? (That "Biclomiphene" vial? Couldn't find a drug with that name, but clomiphene is an estrogen blocker often used to stimulate fertility in both men and women.) That lawyer and his wife, the one with the diabetic child, were probably subjected to some big-time questioning to see if they were knowing accomplices in any way.

One would think that Natalie, of all people, would have known that many insulins can actually be purchased without a prescription! She didn't need to "borrow" a prescription one, which Humalog is, from her alleged best friends. Or that if you say you have cancer, people are going to ask questions?

I, too wondered how she managed to get multiple people to sign over 6-figure retirement accounts to her, seemingly no questions asked!

Of course, the people I feel the worst for were the kids. I also wonder about her side of the family's apparent estrangement from his.
 
So the victim was in on the ponzi scheme? He did it on his own parents? Wow.

What was the motive? Just getting into this case...
I have a feeling that the victim just knew about her soliciting their friends and family for money, and that he confronted her about the Ponzi-scheme thing and that's when she killed him.
 
p.s. It just now occurred to me that perhaps she "borrowed" the insulin so she could frame these people with a diabetic son, who thought she was their friend?
 
That meeting with the bank could not happen and she made sure it didn't happen. He would have learned the true depths of her depravity....
Agree about the upcoming bank meeting. It could not happen! How in the heck would Natalie explain this to Michael.

Similar to Lori Hacking killed by her husband when she was about to find out he wasn’t enrolled in medical school; similar to Heidi Firkus killed by her husband when they were about to be foreclosed on their house and she had no idea. These situations where the gig is up and the spouse freaks out and kills because they don’t want their lies to be exposed.

I 100% believe Natalie is guilty. Like Monica Sementilli, I’m sorry her kids are orphaneded and manipulated to believe their mom is innocent.
 

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