The Murder of Michael Cochran - 678
Generation Why: True Crime
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4.5 • 18.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
February 6th, 2019. Beckley, West Virginia. On the day he and his wife were scheduled to have an important business meeting, Michael Cochran collapsed in his kitchen. He was admitted to the hospital for critically low blood sugar and died in hospice days later. A discovery made after a search of the Cochran home would raise suspicions that his death was no accident.
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| 0:11.9 | Music It's only a rest of the way. I'm not. How are you doing tonight, Aaron? |
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