Courtney Coco | 228

Rachel Kassinger (0:02)

He launched the first episode in September 2019 with the hope that it would gain some attention. Stephanie could have never imagined that within seven weeks, her case would be solved. Shut up by a podcaster. That's right.

We're back. We are back. Hello.

Rebecca Blackstock (0:28)

Hello. Four eyes.

Rachel Kassinger (0:29)

I know. I'm sorry. What am I sorry about? What are you sorry for? That was so stupid. Because I'm hiding behind my glasses because, you know, I didn't have time to do a full face. No, we're not doing it. All right. We're not doing it. All right. Here we go, then. Well, I was going to point out that you were soft launching some bangs, but I'm talking about that. Yeah, yeah, I am. I want to grow my hair out and have curtain bangs. Oh, jealous. Why not? Just give it a go. Sure. Why not? Zero risk. No, no. So, yeah. So, do it. I'm bread crumming some curtain bangs.

I'm into it. And if they look good on you, yeah, they look good on me. There you go. So, there it is. Except not because you have different hair now and it's so much better than mine. Whatever. This is boring. That's not why we're here. That's not why we're here. You know why we're here?

To talk about Courtney Coco.

And I'm going to give a little warning. If you're multitasking, don't at me, because there are a lot of players in this. If you're multitasking, we invite you to stop. Stop it and go listen to this episode while you're staring at a blank wall. Oh, God.

Rebecca Blackstock (1:41)

With a pen and paper. Grab your Adderall, everyone.

Rachel Kassinger (1:44)

I'm kidding, but listen. I tried to keep it to the necessities, but it just kept getting more batshit. I was like, I'm sorry, I'm telling the story and I have to use an A. Whatever, you'll be fine. It's a crazy effing story. Well, tell me about it already. I'm gonna tell you about it. So sources. Sorry.

Sources. Court documents, a few of them. The Marksville Weekly News, The Town Talk, Marksville, oh, sorry, Marksville Weekly News twice, might be. Louisiana Illuminator, KALB News Channel 5, a cold case files called Murder in the Bayou, Season 1, Episode 5

And an investigator named Woody Overton, who has a podcast, we're gonna talk about that later, but I just wanted to shout them out here. We're gonna talk about later. I didn't listen really to the podcast. You'll see. Okay.

On Monday, October 4th, 2004, a farmer was driving his tractor in Winnie, Texas, which is like an hour outside of Houston, when he passed an abandoned house and caught the smell of a dead animal.

So he looked over to said abandoned house and saw something in the entrance of the garage. Upon further inspection, he realized it was a very decomposed body.

The farmer called 911 Wait, how did he see it? What do you mean? He's, I think he's driving on the road. Uh-huh. Tractor on the road. Oh, okay. Smells something horrendous, looks over and sees a sizable object lying essentially in the driveway. Oh, okay. Got it. So he checked it out. So he is just a man with eyes. Yes, and a nose. So the farmer calls 911, and when Detective David Rebele of Chambers County Sheriff's Office heard where the body was found, he quickly turned his patrol car around to respond because it was literally 150 yards from his own house. Oh, wow. He lived right down the street, and he was nervous that it could be the body of one of his neighbors. So he hauls ass. When he gets there, he sees that it is not one of his neighbors. In fact, he had no idea who it was, which was surprising considering this is a town of like 3,000 people. Just under it, I think. Didn't you say it was badly decomposed? How the hell does he know? Well, they can see some things. We'll get to that. So it was pretty decomposed. We're going to get to it right now. Okay. All right. Tell me. It was pretty decomposed, but he could tell it was a young white woman. She was wearing an LSU t-shirt. That's Louisiana State University.

Fuck them. Fuck their football coach. Fuck Lane Cuthen. If you know, you know, and I think everyone knows he sucks. And hotty toddy. Anyway, neither here nor there.

Her shirt had been pulled up to her neck, exposing her bra. She was nude from the waist down, and she had been posed. She was lying on her back with her knees bent, legs open.