COASTAL KILLER, OREGON: Dark Minds TV -
An elusive predator haunts the Oregon coast roads at night taking teenage girls for the last ride of their lives. But a killer who hunts on the highways can strike anywhere. And he could kill again. Dark Minds s2e3: Coastal Killer, Discovery 2012
The similarity between victims, their ages and where they were last seen makes me think these five murders are the work of one killer. ibid.
COATS, COLIN et al: Reported Missing: What Happened to Lynda Spence? TV
I have seldom come across any kind of work of fiction which had the twists and turns of a story that this apparently real-life story had. Reported Missing: What Happened to Lynda Spence? legal brief, Channel 5 2023
Detectives in Glasgow have revealed that the missing woman Lynda Spence owes a six-figure sum to the people in the criminal underworld. ibid. TV news
It was in the spring of 2022 that we learned that the police had begun a search of a remote area of land … I knew this was something really out of the ordinary. ibid. journalist
She was able to con people out of significant sums of money. ibid.
Another character who had invested a considerable sum of money with Lynda Spence and he was Colin Coats. 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
COHEN, MICKEY: Mobsters: Mickey Cohen TV - James Ellroy - Bruce Henstell -
When Mickey wasn’t selling papers and hustling on the streets he was boxing. Mobsters: Mickey Cohen, Biography
Where he had failed as a boxer he hoped to succeed as a gangster. Mickey Cohen would soon meet another notorious Jewish mobster – Bugsy Siegel. Together they would re-write mob history in Los Angeles. ibid.
Mickey Cohen was ready to take on Hollywood. ibid.
When visionary New York gangster Meyer Lansky looked west he saw an untapped resource. Lansky wanted to secure some of the rackets for himself ... Siegel was the perfect choice for Lansky. ibid.
Off-track betting was still illegal. It was a high-stakes racket. Bookmakers would pay as much as $1,200 a week for access. ibid.
And when Mickey went out he liked attention. ibid.
For the first time in his life Mickey Cohen felt he was on the A-List. ibid.
While Mickey embraced life in LA, Bugsy Siegel was bored with the same old Hollywood scene. In 1945 Bugsy came up with an idea that he pitched to the Mob families – an investment opportunity. The Flamingo hotel. A first-class destination in Las Vegas, Nevada, complete with a 105 rooms, private bungalows, and a casino. Siegel told them all they had to do was put up the money to build the place and watch their wallets grow. ibid.
By the time Mickey arrived in Las Vegas it was too late. The hotel was already $5 million over budget. Bugsy had promised the Mob a sure thing; the Flamingo was anything but ... The Assassin fired into the house hitting Bugsy three times in the head, killing him instantly. Bugsy Segal had bet everything on Vegas. And lost. ibid.
With Bugsy dead, Mickey Cohen operated LA’s illegal gambling and wire service himself: Mickey Cohen was now the boss of Hollywood. And when Mickey went out, the locals took notice. ibid.
The underworld attracted the attention of the Senate sub-committee on organised crime ... For hours Mickey answered questions. ibid.
In April 1951 the once lucky gangster was formally charged with tax evasion. ibid.
Even in prison Mickey was a big player ... After almost four years in prison Mickey was released for good behaviour. Cohen was a free man again. ibid.
Mickey took divorce badly. ibid.
Mickey agreed to an unprecedented interview on The Mike Wallace Show ... ‘I have killed no men that in the first place didn’t deserve killing.’ ibid.
The Feds sent him away again: for tax evasion. This time he was sent to Alcatraz. ibid.
The Mobster was partially paralysed and would have to walk with sticks for the rest of his life. ibid.
Times had changed and many of his associates had died. By the end of 1973 Mickey was a shell of his former self. But still enjoyed watching a fight. ibid.
Mickey Cohen died in his sleep. ibid.
The race-wire broadcast the results to bookmaking runs throughout Los Angeles. So that people could lay bets up to the last moment. It was split-second timing. And Mickey [Cohen] was the king. James Ellroy, author L A Confidential
Mickey Cohen didn’t spend time at school; he spent time on the street as a newsboy scuffling for pennies and for coins. Bruce Henstell, author Sunshine and Wealth