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
Circumstantial evidence, worried. if i was hearing this for the first time, would i feel comfortable sending someone to prison for the rest of their life? the jury stayed out for two days and then has the jury reached a unanimous verdict? yes, sir. the verdict of the jury reads, we the jury by unanimous verdict find the defendant, bradley graham cooper, to be guilty of first-degree murder. i cried for hours. i cried for hours. relief, yes, it s over. there s a conclusion and it s justice for nancy. now we can all go home. and brad? obviously brad was upset, but he knows and feels this is not over. reporter: in 2013 an appeals court overturned bradley cooper s conviction deciding the judge should have allowed mere defense testimony
people who had known the couple for years, did not jump on this bandwagon to paint this as an abusive relationship. remember that i hate brad day, the day the prosecution said the marriage hit its boiling on that very day, said laura hiller, nancy was making plans for saturday night, the day she disappeared. she wanted my husband and i to come over and play sequence with her and brad. was that a game you had played with the cops before? that s the introduced us to that game. when nancy s friend jessica testified they had plans to paint her house at 8:00 saturday morning she had to be have been mistaken, said the defense, because nancy knew brad had a tennis game at 9:00 a.m. with mike hiller. i specifically sought out nancy to make sure it was okay with her. did it indicate she had any other plans? there was talk she was going to jog and she would be back by then. there were people who claim
They can fix it and go on. he said it didn t happen? for a very long time. made her feel bad about thinking that it happened. until months later, new year s eve day when brad finally came clean. yes, he told nancy, it happened. but he said, only once. really it meant nothing. they went to counseling and that s when nancy heard what she said was the real story. brad says to the counselor, it s been going on for a long time. changes again from the one-night stand to i think i love the woman. nancy came away from that and said i m finished. they agreed to split, sell the house. nancy would move back to canada with the girls. and then suddenly, brad canceled nancy s credit cards. blocked her access to the bank account. put her on a cash allowance. i recall a time she was in the car with me and she called him and said, you know, i ve got $2 and we don t have any diapers. nancy couldn t get a job. she had no green card. she began painting a friend s house