Where Monsters Hide

Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive at his new job, his ex-girlfriend filed a missing-person report. Something was off. It was not like Chris, a devoted father, avid hiker, and all-around great guy, not to show up. When local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo learned Chris was having an affair with Kelly Cochran, a married coworker, suspicion fell on her husband, Jason. After a search warrant on their house revealed several suspicious items, the Cochrans abruptly moved to Indiana. As questions swirled around the case, the whereabouts of Chris Regan remained unknown. 

Sixteen months later Jason Cochran died from a drug overdose. Friends and family rallied around the grieving and distraught Kelly. But when the coroner ruled Jason's death a homicide, no one reacted more bizarrely than his widow. For months detectives tried to put Kelly's past into focus, but the truth was buried under a patchwork of lies, contradictions, and brutally horrific revelations. As Kelly Cochran, a Purdue graduate and psychology major, played "catch me if you can", a mesmerizing story emerged that rivals today's best-selling fiction in its drama and fascination.

©2019 M. William Phelps (P)2019 Tantor

Critic reviews

“Phelps is the king of true crime.” (Lynda Hirsch, Creators Syndicate columnist)

Did not finish

It was a struggle to get through this one. I'm not sure if it was the narrator or the writer. No one talks like this the time : I can not, I do not.

Great story.

A great listen, with great narration, an
interesting story. Mr Phelps never fails to please!

NOT impressed

The author really seems to believe the nonsense being spouted by the murderer in this case when it suits a more dramatic narrative (i.e. a genuine psychopath serial killer in the making WOMAN oooohooo) but dismisses what she says the rest of the time. There's no corroborating evidence in this case to support the exciting tale being woven by the author and the main two investigators in the book about the perpetrator. There aren't even any anecdotes about the murderers "psychopathic" behavior from outsiders beyond the fact that she was promiscuous. it's all self reported stuff from her, but the author has the utmost disdain for anything else she says. I do not understand why Phelps thinks there is anything interesting or unique about this sensation-seeking, addiction-driven killer.

Mediocre

Interesting story. Oddest narration. One reviewer compared it to William Shatner pauses. It is so distracting.

The narration was terrible.

The writing itself was fine, but in the beginning I thought it was some sort of parody because if all the pausing and changing of tone. Then I realized it was just how the narrator was reading. There re times when the intonations are limited, but other times when it is several times in one sentence. It is very distracting and annoying.