A 44-year-old man who disappeared on Monday was later found dead inside a neighbor’s closet in Alexandria, Virginia, and his family is devastated.
\n\nWhen Joshua Cochran, a video editor for Fox News Media, was reported missing after his mother could not reach him, his family called police and asked them to check his apartment in the 5700 block of Merton Court, NBC Washington reported Wednesday.
\n\nOfficers did not find anything inside his apartment, but when Cochran’s family called again on Tuesday, police dug deeper and learned he had been at a bar with a neighbor named John Stremple III.
\n\nAuthorities found Stremple’s apartment and made contact with him. Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire explained the suspect confessed to killing the victim.
\n\n“When our detectives knocked on the door, they were just following up on the leads that had been established. And when they opened that door, the suspect gave an immediate confession,” he said.
\n\nDuring their search of the suspect’s apartment, they found Cochran’s body inside a closet, noting he had suffered blunt force trauma to his head.
\n\nPolice arrested the 63-year-old, charged him with second-degree murder, and booked him into the Alexandria Detention Center, law enforcement said in a…
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