why? they started with that shredded marriage. brad s affair. his cutting off nancy financially. stopping her move back to canada. he was increasingly desperate. she said he s breaking me. i don t know how much i have left to fight. she told me that when she slept at night she slept with her jeans on and her keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. he never beat her, it wasn t physical but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this they said was a form of domestic violence. she is in this abrasive rough relationship at that point. he trapped her and controlled everything about her life. wait a minute, nancy s allowance was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidence of abuse? how do you tell a jury that. it s difficult but the facts still remain there s these signs
was 17,000. it was to reign in nancy s spending that he said that he put her on a cash allowance. how much cash? at least $300. nancy said brad was angry that they didn t have more money to spend. she referred to me as the budget nazi so i m sure she probably said that once or twice in the heated conversation. the other issue, brad s sexual relationship with brad s best friend heather. the issue finally brought the marriage to an end. he called it his indiscretion. i had sexual intercourse with heather once. it happened in 2004, 2005. where did it take place? in her home in the closet of the master bedroom. did you initially deny the relationship? yes, i actually denied it for
but the detective knew that a marriage, bitter though it may have been, did not prove murder. there was a lot more work to do. statistics say we should go back and key on the husband and things like that and we re not going to walk away from that but at the same time we re letting the investigation lead us where ever it goes. dateline returns after the break. there s no way to hide from potentially deadly heartworm disease. just one mosquito bite can transmit it. so protect your dog with delicious heartgard plus. digestive and neurological side effects have rarely been reported.
daniels kept his ears open because among nancy s friends and family people were talking. we re getting all of this information and we re having to separate what s important versus what is just part of a marriage. brad told detective daniels that he and nancy were getting past the tension his affair had caused but that wasn t the story he was hearing from nancy s family and friends. she felt very strapptrapped didn t know what she was going to do. the marriage had been rocky from the start. brad was more married to his job than to nancy. then nancy s close friend heather told her she slept with brad so nancy confronted her husband. she just wanted the truth so they could fix it and go on. he said it didn t happen. for a very long time. made her feel bad about thinking that it happened. until months later it was new year s eve day when brad finally came clean. yes, he told nancy, it happened.
back to canada to literature with crystal, their mother s twin and her husband. but brad had not been charged with any crime and wasn t even a declared suspect and he bought ha fought hard to get his daughter s back. three months after nancy s murder sitting for a video taped deposition in which he answered questions under oath about his marriage and affair and what happened. so they were. was nancy a good wife? i would say so, yes. she was supportive of myself and of the children. loving. but there were issues that troubled the marriage. one was money. the couple had serious debt. i looked at the american express card from january 2007 to december 2007. and of that $27,000 was credited to nancy s credit card and mine