we knew everything she had done. we had the billing so we could tell how much texting she did or didn t do. we already knew all her friends. and the idea the police might have inserted the google map search on brad s computer, well, they couldn t have, said detective daniels. none of the people that work for me or work in the department would have had the knowledge to go in and do something like that. the defense charged that police ignored those possible sightings of nancy and those mysterious vans for months. the defense was thinking that the jury wasn t listening. the police indicated that they followed up with every one of those people. as for john pearson, whose indiscretion with nancy should have made him a suspect, at least according to the defense, he had an alibi. on that friday night pearson spent the night with heather. the very same woman behind brad and nancy s breakup. at the beginning of the case still, as the long trial finally wound down, the defense ha
when i asked him why they had problems, he told me he had an affair. so daniels tucked that tidbit away and went on with the search for nancy. after her body was found, things were different. the cooper house became a crime scene. police in and out turning the place upside down. and daniels kept his ears open because among nancy s friends and family, people were certainly talking. we re getting all this information and having to separate what s important versus what s just part of a marriage. brad, remember, told detective daniels he and nancy were getting past the tension his affair had caused but that wasn t quite the story he was hearing from nancy s family and friends. she felt very trapped and didn t know what she was going to do. the marriage, it turned out, had been rocky from the start. brad seemed more married to his job than to nancy. then in the spring of 2007, nancy s close friend heather told her she had slept with brad
and she said, mom, i just want to come home. and i ll never forget that day. it was the last time they saw her alive. and now that she was dead, nancy s family was sure brad had to be involved somehow. but detective daniels knew the demise of 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, things like that. and we re not going to walk away from that. at the same time, we re letting the investigation lead us wherever it goes. dateline returns after the break. go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. i say, i ll go my own way with anoro. go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators,
issue. to get her away from her troubles, nancy s family took her and the girls on vacation. how was it at the end when you had to say good-bye? it was heartbreaking. i had nancy in my arms in the airport in charlotte, and she was sobbing. and she said, mom, i just want to come home. and i ll never forget that day. it was the last time they saw her alive. and now that she was dead, nancy s family was sure brad had to be involved somehow. but detective daniels knew the demise of 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, things like that. and we re not going to walk away from that. at the same time, we re letting the investigation lead us wherever it goes.
but it could be because he s frantic about the situation and didn t have time to call them. but then a little more talking and the detective learned there may have been another reason altogether. nancy and brad were having marital problems. he told me the last two months it seemed like they were getting better. and so when i asked him why they had problems, he told me he had had an affair. so daniels tucked that tidbit away and went on with the search for nancy. but after her body was found, things were different. the cooper house became a crime scene. police in and out turning the place upside down. and daniels kept his ears open because among nancy s friends and family people were certainly talking. we re getting all this information and we re having to separate what s important versus what s just part of a marriage. brad, remember, told detective daniels that he and nancy were getting past the tension his affair had caused but that wasn t quite the story he was hearing fro