why? they started with that shredded marriage. brad s affair. his cutting off nancy financially. stopping her move back to canada. he was increasingly desperate. she said he s breaking me. i don t know how much i have left to fight. she told me that when she slept at night she slept with her jeans on and her keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. he never beat her, it wasn t physical but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this they said was a form of domestic violence. she is in this abrasive rough relationship at that point. he trapped her and 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. it s difficult but the facts still remain there s these signs
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.
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 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. reporter: wait a minute. nancy s allowance, remember, 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. the facts still remain 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, is that it caused friction between the two of them. reporter: and so the jury heard about that last week of nancy s life, the week of war with brad.
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 control. this, they said, was a form of domestic violence. she was in this abriv rough relationship at that point. he trapped her. he controlled everything about her life. reporter: wait a minute. nancy s allowance, remember, 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. the facts still remain 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
locked. reporter: he never beat her. it wasn t physical, said the prosecutors. 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. reporter: wait a minute. nancy s allowance, remember, 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. the facts still remain 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, is that it caused friction between the two of them. reporter: and so the jury heard about that last week of nancy s life, the week of war with brad. with nancy s father on the stand, prosecutors played a phone message nancy left her parents after she returned home from that vacation with her family.