Natalie Cochran Trial

Court Junkie

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True Crime, News, Talk Radio, Government

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In January 2025, Natalie Cochran went on trial for the murder of her husband, Michael Cochran. According to prosecutors, Natalie had scammed her loved ones out of thousands of dollars, but was she also a murderer?

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0:00.0	Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original
0:05.2	from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth
0:10.2	Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale,
0:15.5	set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie,
0:22.1	a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing
0:26.5	together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the
0:31.7	impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong
0:38.2	and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in,
0:41.3	Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated
0:44.0	than she ever planned.
0:45.8	She's in over her head and head over heels.
0:48.5	Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible.
0:51.2	Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer.
0:54.9	Natalie and Michael Cochran lived a life of enviable extravagance in a coal mining community in West Virginia's Appalachian Mountains.
1:03.6	They owned multiple homes and drove a 1965 Shelby Cobra, among other nice cars.
1:10.4	They jetted off to destinations like Hawaii in Paris, Disney World.
1:15.5	They were shopping for a boat and a helicopter. They were also generous with their wealth, too.
1:22.4	They gave scholarships for young people to go to college, for instance. How did they pay for all of these nice things?
1:29.9	Michael had initially worked in IT,
1:32.5	and Natalie previously worked as a pharmacist,
1:35.3	although she quit to stay home with the kids.
1:38.5	Together, the Cochran's launched startup businesses.
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