and this is dateline. this doesn t happen in our happy little world. their world shattered, a young mother strangled. we had a homicide and no lso no evidence. but police found a dark side behind that bright suburban facade. she slept with the children and the door locked. and finally a vital clue. what happened to nancy the day she disappeared? welcome to dateline. a young mother disappeared one her husband said she went for a run and never came home. the puzzling case happened in a safe, suburban neighborhood where crime is unexpected. but sometimes there are secrets hidden behind closed. nothing about that morning made any sense. it seems like such a bad nightmare. this doesn t happen our happy little world. it was a saturday morning in july 2008. the happy total world of sweet and leafy suburb of raleigh north carolina, called carry. the sort of place a young family would aspire to. if you are someone like hannah pritchard, for example. there s always l
also no evidence. but police found a dark side behind that bright suburban facade. she slept with the children and the door locked. and finally a vital clue. what happened to nancy the day she disappeared? welcome to dateline. a young mother disappeared one her husband said she went for a run and never came home. the puzzling case happened in a safe, suburban neighborhood where crime is unexpected. but sometimes there are secrets hidden behind closed. it all seemed like such a bad . it. . at reporter: it was a saturday morning in july. the happy little world suburb of raleigh, north carolina, called cary, a place where a young family would aspire to if you were someone like hanna pritchard, for example. there s always lots of friend making going on through someone you meet. lots of cookouts and family functions. reporter: like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hanna would have heard party stories that saturday morning from her friend nancy co
regarding the laptop evidence. a new trial was ordered. but while awaiting his second trial, cooper pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to approximately 12 to 15 years. and nancy? there s a black granite bench in the cary park the place she once ran, her adopted town s way of remembering. the cooper girls bella and katey are growing up in canada with nancy s twin sister and her husband jim. their cousins were with them the day we came to call. and for the adults, bittersweet. so sad nancy s not here seeing it. absolutely, that s the tough part for me. what do they understand about mother and father? we told them that mother nancy was killed by a bad man,
one of just 152 such experts in the whole world. and best of all, two little girls, bella, born in 2004, katie, two years later. the best mother i ve ever seen. she played and played and played. she was just so hands-on. and now they were putting up missing posters. sunday went by, all day monday, then monday evening someone called 911. as the chief of the cary police department, it is my very sad duty to tell you that the search for our nancy is over. it was a man walking his dog who found her. lying face down in water at the edge of a storm drain near a housing construction site several miles from the cooper home. our investigation is now a homicide. now they have to say good-bye. it was a measure of the woman that total strangers joined nancy s family and friends to share in the sorrow.
bradley graham cooper, to be guilty of first degree murder. i cried for hours. yeah, i cried for hours. relief, yes, it s over. there s a conclusion. and it s justice for nancy. and now we can all go home. and brad? obviously brad was upset. he knows and feels that this is not over. in 2013, an appeals court overturned bradley cooper s conviction. deciding the judge should have allowed more defense testimony regarding the laptop evidence. a new trial was ordered. but while awaiting his second trial, cooper pleaded guilty to second degree murder, and was sentenced to approximately 12 to 15 years. and nancy there s a black granite bench in cary park, the police she once ran, her adopted town s way of remembering. the cooper girls bella and katie