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
we re not walking away from anything at this point. everything becomes important. like the conversations with nancy s husband brad during the search. he told detectives he and nancy were up at 4:00 a.m. saturday to calm their crying 2-year-old katie and 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. 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 wouldn t have time to call them. 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 they seemed like they were getting when i asked him why they had problems, he told
i don t know what it was. jenny was gone. occurred. because we never did get in that we start going back to where a house in flames. phone. the body of a woman inside. we started at, saying okay, let s look at everything again. reporter: and that call we have a body. i need a medic. reporter: there were reports from people who said they saw a saturday morly made himself wit woman who looked like nancy but it wasn t the fire that running that saturday morning. killed her. she was dead before it started. accidents will happen. this was no accident. who wanted her dead? her boyfriend said he knew. there s people after us. what does that mean? they re trying to get us. but police knew better. one man said he watched her for a good 30 seconds, then saw a van make a u-turn to follow her. there were other reports of mysterious vans. friday one sped away from a cul-de-sac with no lights on. could any of this be tied to her strangulation is a very killer? personal ki
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 wouldn t have time to call them. reporter: 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 they seemed like they were getting better. when i asked him why they had problems. he told me he had had an affair. reporter: so daniels tucked that tidbit away and went on for 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. reporter: brad remember told dete