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Joshua Cochran, a 44-year-old video editor at Fox News Media, was found dead inside a closet in a neighbor’s apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, and police say the neighbor confessed as soon as detectives knocked on his door, NBC Washington reports.
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Shop NowCochran was reported missing on Monday after his mother could not reach him. Officers checked his apartment but found nothing out of the ordinary.
When the family called again on Tuesday, police learned Cochran had been drinking at a bar with John Stremple III, who lives in the same complex.
“When they opened that door, the suspect gave an immediate confession,” Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire said.
Cochran suffered serious blunt force trauma to the head, police said.
Stremple, 63, is charged with second-degree murder. NBC Washington reported that he is a registered sex offender, convicted in Alexandria in 2014 of sodomy against a minor.
Fox News Media said it was “deeply saddened” by the death of a colleague who “will be dearly missed.”
His family remembers a loving father devoted to his son and his dog, who loved philosophy and wrote poetry in his free time. “Had a soft soul about him,” his mother said.
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