Warren Barnes (Brian Cohee Jr.) | Ep 211
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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When 19-year-old Brian Cohee Jr. drove his car into the Colorado River, his parents thought it was just a mistake. But a day later, his mother made a chilling 911 call: she’d found something in his closet that no parent should ever see. As police began digging into Brian’s story, a missing person report came in—Warren Barnes, a kind and quiet man known around town for always having his nose in a paperback, hadn’t been seen in days. What unfolded next was a horrifying confession, spoken with a smile, by a teenager who’d been fantasizing about murder for years. Allison tells us the rest of this story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's |
| 0:07.9 | Allison. And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hello, darling. How you doing this fine, fine morning? |
| 0:12.2 | I am pretty darn good. How are you doing? Great. You know, life can't get much better when you got a hot |
| 0:16.6 | cup of coffee here. You got your beautiful, you know, wife, I believe you are of mine. |
| 0:21.2 | Yes, I'm your partner. I was going to say partner, life partner, anybody, any person that you love next to you, it's a Sunday morning. I mean, that's when we're recording this. These are my favorites when we're actually recording on Sunday morning. So it's, it's just kind of nice. Not to mention, NFL football season's coming. |
| 0:35.6 | I got scolded before we started. |
| 0:37.0 | She said, don't talk too much about that in NFL. |
| 0:38.9 | Most people don't even care. |
| 0:40.3 | So this is, I. I got scolded before we started. She said, don't talk too |
| 0:37.9 | much about the NFL. Most people don't even care. So this is, I think I got three more seconds. So I'm really excited to go Chicago Bears. Is that good? Yeah, Michael. So I'm going to talk about the NFL. I'm like, I don't think a lot of people care. So please don't dwell on it. That was way nicer than what you said to me. And then he goes, I'm a battered man. I know. I just sat here just looking |
| 0:54.4 | scorn and shored, shorn, I don't know. Shorn. No, you're not shorn. If you're watching our Instagram, um, you see that Alison comes up with all sorts of big words all the time now for some reason. It's just like lately. It's not even like something that's in your DNA. You're just like, You just mentioned what was that word? Perseverating. How do you remember that? |
| 1:12.1 | I just do. |
| 1:12.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:11.4 | And then like I always say, there's times when I can't. You just like, you just mentioned, what was that word? Perseverating. How do you remember that? |
| 1:12.1 | I just do. |
| 1:12.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:16.9 | And then like I always say, there's times when I can't like come up with the most basic. See, basic. |
| 1:18.3 | There you go. |
| 1:19.1 | That is a prime example. |
| 1:20.6 | I can't speak. |
| 1:21.6 | But yet I could come up with something out of my hat called perseverating. |
| 1:24.6 | You're like, instead of saying basic, I say bastic, but I can say perseverating. |
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