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. she felt very trapped and didn t know what she was going to do. the marriage 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
he made no counteroffer just told nancy the move was off. he saw what he was going to have to pay, and all bets are off. and then brad got a hold of the girls passports, found them in nancy s car. now they couldn t leave and nancy was trapped, too. but as the father, it s his perfect right to prevent those kids from leaving. yes. it s also a way to say, if i m doing half the child care then i m not going to have an alimony issue. to get her away from her troubles, nancy s family took her and the girls on vacation. how was it in the end when you had to say good-bye? 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
for two long months attorneys for both sides hammered at the question, what happened to nancy cooper? 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
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 he s frantic about the situation and didn t have time to call them. 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
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 so nancy confronted her husband. she just wanted the truth so they could fix it and go on. and 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. but he said only once and really it meant nothing.