Hi, everyone. I'm Blaine Alexander, and this is Talking Dateline. I'm joined today by Andrea Canning to discuss her latest episode, The Devils in the Details. Hi, Andrea. Hey, Blaine. Hey. Okay, so if you haven't seen it, it's the episode right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed.

So go there, listen to it, or stream it on Peacock, and then come right back here.

Just a quick recap. In 2019, the sudden death of Michael Cochran, a young dad from West Virginia,

left his family and friends reeling. But an investigation pulled back the curtain on their

storybook family life to reveal a planned killing

and a sinister scheme. For this talking Dateline episode, we have an extra clip from Andrea's

interview with Michael's best friend, Chris Davis. All right, Andrea, so let's talk Dateline. Let's do it.

So, Andrea, I always kind of like rank Dateline episodes by the amount of times that I talk to myself

while I'm watching

the episode. And this one I was giving very authentic exclamations throughout the entire episode.

Yeah, this one had a lot in it. You know, not usually, obviously we deal with murder on Dateline,

but this had a whole other layer to the betrayal. Let's kind of go to the beginning and just talk about the storybook life, right?

I mean, because that's a really good way to put it.

They were a gorgeous family.

She's a pharmacist.

I mean, they were very much a successful family, two cute kids.

Yeah, I mean, they grew up in the area and the Beckley area.

This is, you know, as we opened the whole show, you know, it's like

where, you know, friends are like family and everyone just trusts each other. And yes, they had the

two kids and they went to West Virginia University. She got her pharmacy degree and he got his

degree in IT and they had all these toys, you know, they had, they were buying boats and motorcycles and

properties and going on lavish international trips, you know, they really seemed like they were

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