the erasing of nancy s blackberry, for one thing, had to be intentional, said the defense. nonsense, said the prosecution. besides, they said they already found what they needed from that phone through other sources. we had her phone records, so 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 that 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 worked 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 lea
we start going back to where we started at saying, okay, let s look at everything again. there were reports from people who said they saw a woman who looked like nancy running that saturday morning. one man said he watched her for a good 30 seconds, then saw a van make a u-turn to follow her. and there were other reports of mysterious vans. friday night, one sped away from a cul-de-sac with no lights on. could any of this be tied to her killer? we re not walking away from anything at this point. everything becomes important. like conversations with her husband brad that weekend of the search. brad told detectives he and nancy were up at 4:00 a.m. saturday to calm their crying 2-year-old katie. then 6:00 or so, he made two trips to the grocery store after which nancy announced she was off to run. of course we went to find the video records of him going in and out of the store which we did in fact find. but one of those talks with brad struck detective daniels as odd when he
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. when i asked him why they had problems, he told me he had an affair. so daniels tucked that tidbit away and went on for 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 the story he was hearing from nancy s family and friends.
let s look at everything again. there were reports from people who said they saw a woman who looked like nancy running that saturday morning. one man said he watched her for a good 30 seconds, then saw a van make a u-turn to follow her. and there were other reports of mysterious vans. friday night, one sped away from a cul-de-sac with no light pops could any of this be tied to her killer? not walk away from anything at this point. everything becomes important. like conversations with her husband brad that weekend of the search. brad told detectives he and nancy were up at 4:00 a.m. saturday to calm their crying 2-year-old katie. then 6:00 or so, he made two trips to the grocery store after which nancy announced she was off to run. we went to find the video records of him going in and out of the store which we found. but one of those talks with brad struck detective daniels as odd when he asked brad, did you contact nancy s family? he had told us no, but it could be because
the defense charged the police more than dropped the ball, their investigation was dishonest. the erasing of nancy s blackberry, for one thing, had to be intentional, said the defense. nonsense, said the prosecution. besides, they said they already found what they needed from that phone through other sources. we had her phone records so 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 that 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 worked 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.