Nikki Younk/Daily News Photo MURDER SUSPECT KELLY COCHRAN, right, and defense attorney Michael Scholke listen to testimony at a motion hearing Monday in Iron County Trial Court. A judge ruled some of Cochran’s statements will be inadmissible at trial, which still is scheduled for Jan. 30 through Feb. 17.

CRYSTAL FALLS — Statements that Iron County murder suspect Kelly Cochran made during an April 29 police interview in Kentucky will not be admissible at trial, but jury members will hear what she told authorities at similar meetings on April 30 and May 1.

Iron County Trial Court Judge C. Joseph Schwedler ruled at a motion hearing Monday that Cochran, 34, was fatigued after officers woke her up at 6 a.m. April 29 while jailed in Graves County, Kentucky, and noted the officers had Cochran read her Miranda rights instead of reading them to her. Cochran remained “groggy” during the interview and may have been under the influence of drugs, the judge added.

However, Cochran appeared alert and responsive during the April 30 and May 1 meetings, Schwedler said.

Cochran, formerly of Caspian, is accused of helping her now-deceased husband murder and hide the remains of 53-year-old Christopher Regan of Iron River in October 2014.

A three-week jury trial is set to begin Jan. 30.

Cochran faces charges of homicide-open murder, a life felony; conspiracy to commit dead bodies-disinterment and mutilation, a 10-year felony; concealing the death of an individual, a five-year felony; accessory after the fact to a felony, a five-year felony; larceny in a building, a four-year felony; and lying to a peace officer-violent crime investigation, a four-year felony.

Officers Jeremy Ogden and Steven Houck of the Hobart Police Department in Indiana testified at Monday’s hearing they traveled to Graves County on April 28 after a Kentucky State Police trooper informed them Cochran wanted to talk.

Although the two admitted Cochran was tired April 29, they said that wasn’t out of the ordinary for her. Furthermore, Houck claimed Cochran had an “infatuation” with Ogden and only started acting fatigued when he left the room.

Cochran was “calculating, knew exactly what she was doing, and likely setting her defense up,” Houck said.

Cochran told the officers she took 30 pills that were in her bra when she was arrested. Medical records showed she had 300 milligrams of Xanax as well as other prescribed medications in her system April 29, but a doctor testified it was impossible to determine if that was enough to impair her.

Cochran and Regan were coworkers who became involved in an intimate relationship that Cochran’s husband, Jason Cochran, knew was happening, witnesses had testified.

Cochran claimed she felt victimized by her husband, leading her to lure Regan to their Caspian home Oct. 14, 2014, according to various police interviews cited in court documents.

They began to have sex when Jason Cochran emerged from the basement and fatally shot Regan in the back of the head with a rifle.

The Cochrans dragged Regan’s body to the basement, where Jason Cochran dismembered it with a saw and then placed the body parts in 10 to 15 black garbage bags they later dumped in a wooded area off of Pentoga Trail in Crystal Falls Township, according to testimony.

After police searched the Cochran home in March 2015, the pair left the Upper Peninsula to stay with family in Hobart, Ind.

Jason Cochran died Feb. 20; his wife now faces a homicide charge in Indiana’s Lake County in that death as well. She told authorities she killed her husband as revenge for what happened to Regan, according to court records, by giving him a heroin overdose and then covering his face when he began to vomit.

Kelly Cochran was arrested April 28 in Wingo, Kentucky, two days after leaving Indiana.

Investigators — with Cochran’s cooperation — found Regan’s skull in May, more than a year and a half after his disappearance.

Nikki Younk can be reached at 906-774-2772, ext. 41, or nyounk@ironmountaindailynews.com.