STATE OF MAINE COVER UP OF

MIKE COCHRAN MURDER

FEBRUARY 18, 1981

INDEX
Mike with nephew,
Jamie Michael
ORDER  BOOK
PHOTOS OF MIKE'S LIFE
School Days
His years with Linda
With his Family
His World

MY SON 
 
PHOTOS AFTER MIKE'S MURDER
Cottage before Arson/Murder
Cottage after Arson/Murder
Memorial Service
VIDEO DEPOSITION OF FIRE INSPECTOR  WILBUR RICKER
Fire Inspector Wilbur Ricker video deposition #1
Fire Inspector Wilbur Ricker video deposition #2
Fire Inspector Wilbur Ricker video deposition #3
VIDEO DEPOSITION OF FIRE CHIEF NORMAN HERRIN
Fire Chief Norman Herrin's video deposition  #1
Fire Chief Norman Herrin  shows where he saw a man fleeing into the woods away from the murder scene.  #2
NEWS ARTICLE
This is my struggle

18 February 2019
WVII Channel 7

Mom talks about 1981 Dedham homicide
My many years of trying to get justice for my son, Mike.
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COTTAGE AFTER ARSON/MURDER
Front View: This is the scene I saw when Mike's girlfriend (Linda Gray) took us to the murder scene after the memorial service. She showed us where Mike's body was found. The state police cleaned up the fire rubble and trucked it all to the dump.
   
 
 
 
  Side View: Insurance adjuster took this photo on Feb. 18, 1981 while Mike's body still lay under this pile of fire rubble. He lay in this burned pile of fire rubble for six days for animals to attack along with the murderers. His body was buried for 6 days under the rubble near the round object in the lower left corner in the photo.  
     
  Back View  
   
  Back view with gas can: Fire Marshal Ricker took this photo the day he found Mike’s body. A gas can that was used in the arson can be seen under the back door with fire rubble around and on it. The back door had no stairs and there was 5 feet of cement under the door.
     Paul Pollard, the man seen fleeing the murder scen, testified that he made a couple trips in and out of the back door while getting dressed. Ricker's expert opinion was that the building exploded from the gas fumes. He said it was like someone reached out the back door and dropped the can on the ground after pouring the gas. Pollard's height is 5′ 3ʺ; and I would describe him as being overweight.
 
     
   
  Small garage firemen saved:  Fire Marshal Ricker had just found Mike's body when he heard an old car coming. He hid behind this little garage and saw two men, Lionel Cormier and Percy Sargent, walk toward the murder scene.  He waited until they were near the scene before he stepped in view with his uniform on. He said "they looked like two deer caught under a jack lantern or something, and they kind of froze there." There was no report on the news about a body being found until the next day. Neither were ever questioned.  
     
   
  Two more gas cans used in the murder of Mike. Mike's  name and date of death are on the tags. Detectives Shuman never picked up the cans from Fire Marshal Wilbur Ricker. I got them in 1990 during my US Civil lawsuit against Paul Pollard, man seen fleeing the murder scene with a .357 handgun on him. The cans were in my possession for 11 years until a new detective came on the case in 2002, 21 years later.  
     
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