West Virginia Pharmacist Found Guilty in Husband’s Poisoning Death
Miamistandard– A pharmacist from West Virginia was found guilty of murdering her husband on Wednesday in a state court. She is already serving a federal prison sentence for a fraud case.
According to CBS station WDTV, Natalie Cochran was convicted guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in Raleigh County Circuit Court. The jury must now decide whether or not Cochran would be eligible for parole after serving 15 years. The maximum penalty for the offense is life in prison.
Michael Cochran, who was 38 years old and married to Cochran, passed away in February 2019. According to prosecutors, Natalie Cochran poisoned him with insulin to prevent him from discovering that she had been running a Ponzi scam for $2 million from 2017 to 2019, which she later confessed to.
According to CBS station WOWK-TV, Natalie Cochran was first charged with first-degree murder in connection with her husband’s death on November 19, 2021. However, the prosecutors dropped the charge so that Michael’s body could be re-exhumed for advanced testing by forensic pathologist Dr. Paul Urbie.
According to the station, the findings of that tests indicated that Michael Cochran died as a result of nonprescribed insulin being put into his body. According to WOWK-TV, Urbie also determined that Michael’s death was a homicide.
In March 2021, Natalie Cochran was sentenced to 11 years in prison for impersonating a government contractor and stealing millions of dollars from investors. According to federal authorities, she deceived investors into believing that she ran two thriving enterprises that had contracts with the government. According to the authorities, she never put the money into investments. Instead, she used some of it to purchase a 1965 Shelby Cobra vintage automobile, two pieces of real estate, and jewelry.
In the United States, there have been multiple accusations in recent months against persons who are said to have poisoned their spouses or partners to death.
A lady from North Dakota was sentenced to 25 years in prison last October for poisoning her partner, which led to his death.
A poison specialist who used to be a medical resident at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota was accused in October 2023 with fatally poisoning his wife, who was a pharmacist and died in August at the age of 32.
In May 2023, the author of a children’s book on mourning was accused of murdering her husband by poisoning him with a fatal amount of fentanyl at their house in Utah. In March 2023, a dentist in Colorado was arrested on charges of first-degree murder. According to the authorities, he added arsenic and cyanide to his wife’s pre-workout smoothies.
