nancy cooper never went for a run from her house on july 12th of 2008. reporter: the prosecutors howard, amy and boz, had their own idea of what happened to nancy the night she disappeared. we think she came home from this party and said some things in front of him that might have upset him a little bit and he choked her. reporter: killed her then, their theory goes, put her body in the trunk of his car, drove to that drainage ditch, returned home to manufacture an alibi. why? she started with the shredded marriage, brad s affair, cutting off nancy financially, stopping her move back to canada. she was, testified nancy s friends, increasingly desperate. she said he s breaking me. i don t know how much left i have to fight. she told me when she slept at night she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. reporter: he never beat her. it wasn t physical, said the prosecutors. but he used financial power to exert absolute contro
stopping her from moving back. she was increasingly desperate. jennifer, he s breaking me. i don t know how much i have left to fight. she told me when she slept at night, she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. he never beat her. it wasn t physical said the prosecutor, but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this was a form of domestic violence. she was in this abrasive, rough relationship at that point. he trapped her. he controlled everything about her life. wait a minute. nancy s allowance was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidence of abuse? how do you tell a jury that he s depriving her? it s difficult but the facts still remain that there are these signs of control emanating from that cooper household. it doesn t matter whether it s $1,000 a week or $10 a
they started with that shredded marriage. brad s affair. cutting off her financially, stopping her from moving back. she was increasingly desperate. jennifer, he s breaking me. i don t know how much i have left to fight. she told me when she slept at night, she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. he never beat her. it wasn t physical said the prosecutor, but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this was a form of domestic violence. she was in this abrasive, rough relationship at that point. he trapped her. he controlled everything about her life. wait a minute. nancy s allowance was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidence of abuse? how do you tell a jury that he s depriving her? it s difficult but the facts still remain that there are
his cutting off nancy financially, stopping her move back to canada. she was, her friends said, increasingly desperate. she said, jennifer, he s breaking me. i don t know how much i have left to fight. she told me when she slept at night, she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. he never beat her. it wasn t physical said the prosecutor, but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this, they said, was a form of domestic violence. she was in this abrasive, rough relationship at that point. he trapped her. he controlled everything about her life. wait a minute. nancy s allowance was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidence of abuse? how do you tell a jury that he s depriving her? it s difficult but the facts still remain that there are these signs of control emanating from that cooper household. it doesn t matter whether
she said, jennifer, he s breaking me. i don t know how much i have left to fight. she told me when she slept at night, she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. he never beat her. it wasn t physical said the prosecutor, but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this was a form of domestic violence. she was in this abrasive, rough relationship at that point. he trapped her. he controlled everything about her life. wait a minute. nancy s allowance was $300 a week. would a jury think that was evidence of abuse? how do you tell a jury that he s depriving her? it s difficult but the facts still remain that there are these signs of control emanating from that cooper household. it doesn t matter whether it s $1,000 a week or $10 a week. the fact of the matter is that it caused friction between the two of them. so the jury heard about that last week of nancy s life. the week of war with brad.