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Shocking bodycam footage shows moment Brian Cohee Jr admits severed head is in his room

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Published 14:08 27 Mar 2024 GMT

Shocking bodycam footage shows moment Brian Cohee Jr admits severed head is in his room

The then 19-year-old openly admitted to police what was in his bedroom

Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton

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Chilling bodycam footage of Brian Cohee Jr shows the moment he told police about the severed head in his bedroom.

Cohee Jr murdered homeless man Warren Barnes in 2021 and was later sentenced to life behind bars.

He was just 19-years-old at the time of his crime, in which he murdered and dismembered the innocent man's body.

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While Cohee Jr's case dates a few years back, it's been a topic of discussion of late in the wake of a chilling documentary on the murder recently having dropped on YouTube.

Titled Parents Discover Teen Son's Horrifying Secret, the almost two hour-long programme by EXPLORE WITH US shares Cohee Jr's story from start to finish, and includes the harrowing phone call his mother Terri made after finding what she suspected to be a human head in her son's wardrobe.

She also found another plastic bag, and took both of the items out of the closet and put them in the kitchen sink.

Elsewhere, the documentary shows police body cam footage of when an officer confronted Cohee Jr following his mother's alarming 911 call.

In the video, the policeman walks up to Cohee Jr, who is waiting for them on the drive of his family's home.

Brian Cohee Jr bodycam footage.
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"Your parents have some concerns about some stuff that they may have found in your room?" he asks the teen.

"Yeah, I believe so," Cohee Jr replies.

When asked to divulge exactly what it is they found, he then casually tells the officer: "A human head and hands."

The officer then asks Cohee Jr to put his hands behind his head and he proceeds to check he doesn't have any weapons on him.

In the meantime, his mother is on the grass sobbing.

While Cohee Jr later admitted to the murder of Barnes, he pleaded not guilty to first degree murder after claiming insanity prior to a trial date being set.

However, following a psych evaluation, Dr. Laura Serrano-Amerigo concluded Cohee Jr did not meet the legal standard of insanity during the murder.

As well as interviewing the murderer, she analyzed police body cam footage of Cohee Jr to come to her conclusion.

At the time, Cohee Jr's defense tried to challenge her conclusion by noting that he was only Serrano-Amerigo's fourth evaluation at the time.

Judge Richard Gurley went on to label Cohee Jr's crime as one of the worst cases he'd ever worked on and sentenced him to life behind bars without parole after a jury found him guilty.

You can watch the full documentary here.

Featured Image Credit: Mesa County / EXPLORE WITH US/YouTube

Topics: Crime, True crime, Police

Niamh Shackleton
Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton is an experienced journalist for UNILAD, specialising in topics including mental health and showbiz, as well as anything Henry Cavill and cat related. She has previously worked for OK! Magazine, Caters and Kennedy.

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