In October 2014, Jason and Kelly Cochran hosted dinners for their neighbors about three times in a particular week in Caspian, Michigan. One of the neighbors later recounted, "There was so much meat to eat." The neighbors later came to the grim realization that they must have been fed human meat by the couple.

In October 2014, Chris Regan, a divorced father of two was reported missing after he didn't turn up for work for several days and there was no way of reaching him. Investigators kept digging, but they came up with nothing.

Image: Chris Regan(top right), Kelly and her husband(top left)

 

A tip redirected their focus to Regan's co-worker, Kelly Cochran, but not enough information to lead to an arrest.

Kelly Cochran and her husband Jason Cochran had a pact on their wedding night: to kill anyone they had an affair with. Kelly who was having an affair with Chris Regan lured him to their house where the pair killed and dis-membered him.

When Kelly Cochran's husband learned of her unfaithfulness, he had one task for her- to get rid of her boyfriend. They came up with a plan; she is to entice her boyfriend to their home with the promise of sex and then he would blow the guy's brains out.

Christopher Regan, Kelly Cochran's coworker and fling, was fatally taken off surprise. When Jason Cochran materialized from the shadows to shoot him dead at close range with a.22 rifle, he was in the middle of coitus. Later, Kelly Cochran handed her husband a buzz saw so he could cut him into pieces.

Kelly Cochran’s Unstable Marriage

Kelly and Jason Cochran were high school sweethearts and neighbors who were both born and raised in Merrillville, Indiana. After Kelly Cochran finished from high school in 2002, they got married and made a lifelong vow to kill anyone they may cheat on. They were so in love with one another.

Jason Cochran put in ten years of arduous physical labor maintaining swimming pools until his back gave up. Even though his wife made a valiant effort to pay the bills, they kept accruing debt. In 2013, the pair left the situation behind and relocated to Caspian, Michigan, hoping that Jason's debilitating pain might be relieved by legal marijuana.

Kelly Cochran met Christopher Regan while working at a business that produced parts for naval ships. He was a former Air Force officer and a native of Detroit; despite being 20 years apart in age, he and Cochran grew close and fell in love.

Regan had no idea Kelly had argued with her husband the night before he was invited to spend the night on October 14, 2014. Cochran brought him over and had sex with him before her husband shot him in the head.

Ten days later, Regan was declared missing, but the Cochrans had already thrown his body parts in the woods. They packed his car outside of town but didn't realize there was a note in the car that detailed the direction to their house.

Kelly and Jason Cochran were visited by police, who observed that Kelly was completely at ease and that Jason Cochran was uncomfortable. Later, they interrogated them one by one. Although Kelly acknowledged having an affair with Regan, she insisted that her marriage to her husband was open. Jason, in contrast, exhibited signs of annoyance at her cheating.

The FBI searched the Cochrans' home in March 2015, which caused the terrified couple to flee the area for Hobart, Indiana, even though the Cochrans had been able to destroy all evidence of their crimes and the case had gone cold, on February 20, 2016, Cochran killed her husband.

The Arrest of Kelly Cochran

The medical team found Jason Cochran unconscious when they got to the Mississippi Street home, and Kelly apparently caused trouble as they tried to revive him.

The Emergency medical team pronounced him dead of an overdose — She had intentionally overdosed him before smothering him.

Days later, she held a memorial service and called Jason's passing "the toughest thing I will ever have to live with." On April 26, she left Indiana without telling anybody, and when the Hobart Medical Examiner discovered Jason had died of asphyxiation, she was declared a wanted person.

Authorities accused her of murder, home invasion, conspiracy to commit disinterment and mutilation of remains, hiding a person's death, and lying to a police officer. Cochran foolishly continued to text detectives while she was on the run.

They merely followed her phone's location to Wingo, Kentucky, where she was arrested on April 29. Finally, Cochran directed police to the murder weapon and Regan's remains.

According to testimony at Kelly Cochran's trial, "she considered killing Jason instead of Chris." "The one good thing I had in my life," she thought he had slain, and she said, "I still detest him, and yes, it was revenge. I made the score equal.

She received an additional 65 years in April 2018 for murdering her husband while still serving a life sentence for Regan's passing.

In the end, Kelly Cochran's horror deeds become clearer when she was behind bars. She made further confessions which made her friends and neighbors suspect they had eaten Christopher Regan's roasted remains at a BBQ thrown by the Cochran around the time Regan was missing.