COATS, COLIN et al: Reported Missing: What Happened to Lynda Spence? TV
Lynda Spence disappeared 11 years ago [2011]. Reported Missing: What Happened to Lynda Spence? aka The Kidnap & Murder of Lynda Spence, caption, Channel 5 2024
It was in the spring of 2022 that we learned that the police had began a search of a remote area near Dunoon, which is about 40 miles from Glasgow. ibid. rozzer
The one person she always kept in contact with was her mum. ibid.
She was able to wipe out her debts and start Frazer’s Property Management. ibid.
We assume that some of the transactions were legitimate. ibid.
When Lynda can’t pay back the money people start to get angry. She’s threatened by both John Glen and Colin Coats. ibid.
She was now walking around with a target on her back. ibid.
In consultation with the Crown, we’ve now got enough to go for Coats, Wade, Smith and Parker and arrest them all. ibid.
Lynda was in the process of being recruited as an informant by the Scottish Crime & Drug Enforcement Agency. ibid.
A witness gives evidence about Coats and Wade wanting to use his boat. ibid. caption
Parker and Smith would become available to the prosecution as witnesses. ibid.
The foreman delivered guilty verdicts on all changes against Colin Coats and Philip Wade. ibid.
COBB, RICHARD & BEUNKA ADAMS: Life and Death Row TV -
Many states in America use the death penalty to punish the worst crimes. On average 45 prisoners are executed each year. Over half of those on Death Row were arrested for murder in their teens or twenties. For two of the youngest men on Death Row in Texas execution day has arrived. Life and Death Row s1e1: Execution, BBC 2014
‘In 2002 Richard Cobb and Beunka Adams kidnapped three people from a convenience store … one of their victims wound up dead. Adams was executed in April last year; now Richard Cobb faces death by lethal injection.’ ibid. news report
COBBY, ANITA murder: Australian Families of Crime TV - Justice Alan Maxwell -
On a hot February evening in 1986 a gang of five suburban thugs are drinking at a hotel near Blacktown in western Sydney. They are burglars, armed robbers and rapists. One is also an escaped prisoner on the run. At the same time forty kilometres away ... Anita Cobby, a twenty-six-year-old nurse and former beauty queen, is having dinner at a city restaurant with two of her workmates. Within a few hours she will be abducted by the gang, tortured, raped and murdered. Australian Families of Crime: Blood Brothers s1e8: the Anita Cobby Killers, Nine Network 2010
Anita Cobby’s abduction in Newton Road is witnessed by two teenagers. ibid.
The murder makes international news. ibid.
The defendants shock Australia with their callous attitude – laughing and sniggering in the dock. ibid.
One of the most horrifying crimes I have seen in my 40 years with the law. Mr Justice Alan Maxwell
COBLE, BILLIE WAYNE: Death Row: Countdown to Execution TV -
Billie Wayne Coble is condemned to die by lethal injection. Death Row: Countdown to Execution II, ITV 2019
Billie Coble slayed three innocent members of the same family in 1989 and has been languishing on Death Row ever since. ibid.
29 August 1989 Axtell, Texas: ‘Relatives say the motive was revenge; a 40-year-old man out on bond went on a shooting rampage killing three of his in-laws.’ ibid. news report
‘To me it really no longer matters.’ ibid. Coble
COCHRAN, KELLY: True Crime Recaps 2023 - A Killer’s Mistake TV - Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
For Kelly Cochran and her husband Jason ‘till death do you part’ came with a little extra meaning. When these high school sweethearts got married they made a secret pact behind the pastor’s back: they vowed that if either of them ever cheated on the other, they’d have to kill the person they cheated with or be killed themselves. True Crime Recaps: A Twisted Marriage Pact: The Kelly Cochran Case, Youtube 14.37, 2023
When 53-year-old Chris Regan went missing in Iron River, Michigan … Chris went to Kelly’s house for sex; nobody ever saw him again. ibid.
The cops got a warrant to search the Cochran’s abandoned home … They found what looked like blood splatter on the ceiling. They also found a .22 calibre pistol in the living room. Then they checked her computer. ibid.
Meanwhile back in Indiana Kelly was up to her old shenanigans: she cheated on Jason left and right. ibid.
Kelly claimed Jason was overdosing on heroin … The medical examiner … said Jason was smothered to death … Kelly broke down; she lost it … She promised to tell the police everything. ibid.
Detectives were about to delve into a bizarre world of easy sex and a pact to kill. A Killer’s Mistake s2e6: Kelly Cochran, DiscoveryPlus 2023
The sting had been set up to get to the truth about what two people – Jason and Kelly Cochran – had got up to shortly after moving from Indiana. ibid.
Iron Mountain police get permission to search the Cochran household. ibid.
Pentoga Trail, Michigan: She has been searching for signs of her former lover, Chris Regan, who one day in 2014 simply disappeared. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e1, Netflix 2022
A woman who police would one day also want to talk about the death of her husband, Jason Cochran. ibid.
COCHRANE, KELSO: Black Power: A British Story of Resistance TV -
Kelso Cochrane, a carpenter from Antigua, was stabbed to death by a white gang one night near Notting Hill. The police denied that the killing was racially motivated and nobody was prosecuted. Black Power: A British Story of Resistance, BBC 2021
COHEE, TERRI: Signs of a Psychopath TV -
March 1st 2021, Grand Junction, Colorado: 69-year-old town fixture Warren Barnes is reported missing by a local shopkeeper. Signs of a Psychopath s7e3: It Was a Frenzy, caption
Later that day, police receive a harrowing call from 54-year-old Terri Cohee. ibid.
Mesa County Sheriff’s deputies arrive at the scene to find a severed head and a pair of severed hands. ibid.
Later that day authorities confirm the victim is Warren Barnes. ibid.
At the time I was growling and making animalistic noises … Then I cut off his head … ibid. Cohee