Cold Case - State of Maine forty three year Cover up of my son Michael Craig Cochran's Murder

My many years of trying to get justice for my son, Mike.
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Cold Case Foundation Meeting
MIKE COCHRAN
43 years ago today.

FIGHTING FOR JUTICE

MY TWENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD SON, MIKE

Maine State Police Det. Kenneth MacMaster says
"TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE"

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD reported on December 3, 2017 that "Kenneth MacMaster, a former Maine State Police detective who wasn’t assigned to the Cochran investigation but knew the victim and many of the people involved, agreed with the victim’s mother that the case was mishandled. In an interview last month, he called the case a “travesty of justice,” and said the details were etched into his memory. After MacMaster offered to share those details, though, he stopped returning a reporter’s calls and emails." Mr. MacMaster, I am now nearly 88 years old and have suffered my son's murder for nearly 43 years, half of my life. Please tell me what you know about what happened the night Mike was murdered that is etched in your memory. Please tell me! Tell me why the State of Maine would not investigate Mike's savage murder. What did they do wrong the night Mike's life was taken? I beg of you please tell me!

A Sept. 5, 2006 letter from State of Maine Deputy Attorney General William Stokes informing me that "there remains tremendous difficulties with prosecuting this case particularly in view of the fact that the "homicide scene" was not treated as such until a significant period of time after your son’s death, potentially jeopardizing important evidence in the meantime." I have evidence that disputes Stokes information.

State of Maine Cover-up of Mike Cochran Murder

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COLD CASE FOUNDATION UNCOVERED INVESTIGATES MIKE'S MURDER
AND CAVES TO THE COVER-UP

I contacted a Cold Case Organization in June of 2022 trying to find justice for my son. Their website was so impressive with many Investigative and Forensic teams. They accepted Mike's case and I worked for months with Cathie Vallas-McKinzie who was Victum/ Advocate/Executive Assistant at that time. Last November she said they wanted to let me know the results of their investigation and set up a zoom meeting. This was after they had contacted Law Enforcement in Maine During the meeting, the Arson Investigator denigrated me and my years of work on my son's murder. He said that Mike wasn't murdered that it was an accident. The same as I was told when Mike was found in 6 day old fire rubble in 1981. The Deputy Executive Director told me to find something else to do with my life. I was completely devastated and it has taken a full year for me to start working on my son's brutal murder again. Their website still has Mike's murder listed as an unsolved murder as well as the Maine State Police website for unsolved homicides. Gerald Coleman, a great Maine State Police detective, was assigned Mike's case in 2002, 21 years after his murder. He starting investigating Lionel Cormier and told me Cormier was guilty of Mike's murder. But Cold Case Foundation Arson Investigator Bryan Crumb told me that Maine fire investigators (32 year veteran Fire Chief Norman Herrin and forty three year veteran Fire Inspector Wilbur Ricker ) didn't do a good job of investigating the fire. Crumb denigrates these two Maine experts that were at the arson/murder scene and makes himself the expert while saying it was just an accident. And to top it all off Cold Case Foundation Deputy Executive Director Dean Jackson tells me to find something else to do with my life.

Recent communication from Maine Attorney General's Victim Advocate. I put this here to show that this also contradicts Cold Case Foundation's finding that Mike's death was an accident and that I need to do something different with my life.

From:
Date: February 6, 2024 at 2:10:45 PM EST
To: mcbreairty03@yahoo.com

Subject: Connecting

Good afternoon,

I am reaching out to you this afternoon as I have been assigned as the victim advocate to the unsolved homicide cases in our office.... I’d like to introduce myself and offer to set up a time to talk by phone, if you’d like.... I would like to share my hopes and intentions as well as learn more about Michael. If you would like to set up a time to talk further, please let me know what days and times work best for you. If you prefer to email, that works as well. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.