Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery.
In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexing missing-person case. It was not like Chris Regan, a devoted father and dependable employee, to take off without explanation. When Frizzo learned Chris was having an affair with Kelly Cochran, a married co-worker, suspicion fell on Kelly’s hulking husband, Jason. Soon after that the Cochrans abruptly moved to Indiana.
Sixteen months later, Jason Cochran died from a drug overdose. Friends and family rallied around the grieving Kelly. But when the coroner ruled Jason’s death a homicide, no one reacted more bizarrely than his widow. Detectives tried to put Kelly’s past into focus. But the horrific truth was hidden under a near-perfect patchwork of lies. Veteran investigative journalist M. William Phelps expertly reveals Kelly Cochran’s staggering saga of murder, revenge, and payback.
“Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience.”
—Suspense Magazine
“Phelps knows how to work it.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“Master of true crime.”
—Real Crime magazine
In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexing missing-person case. It was not like Chris Regan, a devoted father and dependable employee, to take off without explanation. When Frizzo learned Chris was having an affair with Kelly Cochran, a married co-worker, suspicion fell on Kelly’s hulking husband, Jason. Soon after that the Cochrans abruptly moved to Indiana.
Sixteen months later, Jason Cochran died from a drug overdose. Friends and family rallied around the grieving Kelly. But when the coroner ruled Jason’s death a homicide, no one reacted more bizarrely than his widow. Detectives tried to put Kelly’s past into focus. But the horrific truth was hidden under a near-perfect patchwork of lies. Veteran investigative journalist M. William Phelps expertly reveals Kelly Cochran’s staggering saga of murder, revenge, and payback.
“Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience.”
—Suspense Magazine
“Phelps knows how to work it.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“Master of true crime.”
—Real Crime magazine
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It's very difficult for a true-crime novel to earn a really high rating for me. It has to be a good combination of a very interesting story that is really well told. There are so many things that can go off the chain with the story that is not the fault of the author. Fiction novels are easy for the writers to manipulate the story so that everything fits AND is interesting. This is perhaps the best true-crime book that I have yet to read. It is a great story very well told by an experienced true crime author. The main character doing the investigation is very likeable, and I love the way that her story is told. The ending (without giving away spoilers) is one of THE most satisfying endings to a true-crime book that I can remember.
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