A West Virginia pharmacist already serving a federal jail sentence in a fraud case was convicted Wednesday in state court docket for killing her husband.
Jurors discovered Natalie Cochran responsible of first-degree homicide in Raleigh County Circuit Court docket, CBS affiliate WDTV reported. The jury now should decide whether or not Cochran can be eligible for parole after serving 15 years. The cost carries a most penalty of life in jail.
Cochran’s husband, Michael Cochran, 38, died in February 2019. Prosecutors stated Natalie Cochran poisoned him with insulin in order that he wouldn’t discover out a few $2 million Ponzi scheme that she admitted to working from 2017 to 2019.
Natalie Cochran
WOWK-TV
Natalie Cochran was initially indicted on a first-degree homicide cost on Nov. 19, 2021, in her husband’s loss of life, CBS affiliate WOWK-TV reported, however prosecutors dropped the cost with a purpose to re-exhume Michael’s physique for superior testing by forensic pathologist Dr. Paul Urbie.
The outcomes of that testing confirmed that Michael Cochran died as a result of nonprescribed insulin was launched to his physique, the station reported. Urbie additionally concluded Michael’s loss of life was a murder, WOWK-TV reported.
Natalie Cochran was sentenced in March 2021 to 11 years for pretending to be a authorities contractor and defrauding buyers out of thousands and thousands of {dollars}. Federal prosecutors stated she tricked buyers into pondering she owned two profitable companies with authorities contracts. Authorities stated she by no means invested the cash, as a substitute utilizing a few of it to purchase a 1965 Shelby Cobra traditional automobile, two properties and jewellery.
A number of individuals in current months have been accused of utilizing poison to kill their partner or companion within the U.S.
Final October, a North Dakota lady was sentenced to 25 years in jail for the poisoning loss of life of her boyfriend.
In October 2023, a poison specialist and former medical resident on the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota was charged with fatally poisoning his spouse, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died in August.
In Might 2023, the creator of a kids’s guide on grief was accused of killing her husband by poisoning him with a deadly dose of fentanyl at their dwelling in Utah. And, in March 2023, a Colorado dentist was arrested on suspicion of first-degree homicide after police say he laced his spouse’s pre-workout shakes with arsenic and cyanide.
