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
humanitarian crisis amid six weeks of fighting there. now back to dateline. brad cooper was arrested for the death of his wife nancy. he admitted to having an affair, admitted that their marriage went through tough times, but was he capable of her murder? once again here s keith morrison. he was just the right sort of guy when she found him, bright, quiet stable. now brad cooper was on trial for. murder. at this time we are ready to have the opening statements. it began this past march, 2 1/2 years after nancy s that. nancy cooper never went for a run from her house on july 12th of 2008. reporter: the prosecutors howard kum, amy fitz and boz had their own idea of what happened to nancy the night she disappeared.
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
at this time we are ready to have the opening statements. reporter: it began this past march, 2 1/2 years after nancy s death. nancy cooper never went for a run from her house on july 12th of 2008. reporter: the prosecutors howard kum, amy fitz 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.