Post Mortem | The Woman Who Died Twice
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
48 Hours correspondents Erin Moriarty and Anne-Marie Green discuss the murder of Mindi Kassotis, whose dismembered remains were discovered in the woods in 2022. Her husband, Nick Kassotis, told family and friends that Mindi had died in a hospital, but he was later charged with her murder and sentenced to life without parole. The team discusses the couple’s isolated lives in the months leading up to the murder, why Mindi’s loved ones didn’t question Kassotis’s bizarre stories, and his unemotional testimony in court.
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
| 0:21.7 | Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel, on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:45.7 | Music Hello, I'm Anne-Marie Green, and welcome back to post-mortem. |
| 0:55.0 | This week, we're discussing the case of Mindy Mebben Kosodas, whose dismembered remains were found in the woods near Savannah, Georgia on December 2nd, 2022. |
| 1:01.1 | Now, it took five months to identify her remains, and when her family and friends found out, |
| 1:06.1 | they were shocked by the discovery because Mindy's husband, Nick Cosodas, |
| 1:10.8 | had told them that Mindy died in the hospital in December and that her body had been cremated. |
| 1:17.5 | When investigators zeroed in on Nick Cosotis, he denied any involvement in Mindy's murder, |
| 1:23.8 | but told them a real sort of detailed story about how he and Mindy had been targeted and harassed by shadowy figures for years. So joining me today to give us some insight into this case, |
| 1:30.1 | it's very unusual case, is 48 hours correspondent Aaron Moriarty. Thank you for joining us, Aaron. |
| 1:35.2 | Well, it's a thrill to be here, Amory, and I have to agree with you. We've never really had a |
| 1:41.0 | case like this where there really were two realities. So if you look at the |
| 1:46.3 | evidence, the cops did, it's an ordinary, well, ordinary premeditated murder. But if you listen to |
| 1:53.7 | Nick Cosodos, he's a former naval officer and lawyer, he tells a very different story. So the |
| 2:00.5 | bottom line was, who do you believe? So true. And so many |
| 2:04.5 | people believed him for years. Before we get into it, a quick reminder, if you haven't watched or |
| 2:10.1 | listened to the 48 hours episode, The Woman Who Died Twice, check it out and then come on back |
| 2:17.2 | and join us for this conversation. Okay. So let's |
| 2:21.4 | dig into these two realities as you put it. Mindy and Nick Cosota started dating back in 2015. |
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