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
lots of cookouts and family functions. like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hannah would have heard party stories that saturday morning from her friend nancy cooper. would have. because nancy didn t show up. i hadn t heard from her maybe by like 10:00 i called her house. brad answered and he said oh, she went for a run. nancy was an athlete, training for a half marathon. brad cooper was nancy s husband. i was like, okay. when did she leave? i don t know. 6:30 or 7:00. i was like, she s not back? weird. if nancy had to cancel their meeting, surely she would have called. hannah cooled her heels. at 1:00, the phone rang and i saw on the caller i.d. it was her house. i answered the phone. hey, where have you been? he said, no, hannah, it s brad. nancy is still not back. now brad was worried. so i really started to panic.
her tone at that point was angry but also there was a tone of, you re an idiot. brad went home with the girls around 8:00. nancy stayed on. bitterly complaining about brad, even to strangers like donna lopez. and once in a while, said donna, nancy nervously looked across the street to her own house. how did you feel when you left that night? i was very worried, for someone who i didn t know well. i thought i met someone really, really nice and told my husband something really bad was going to happen over there. it s really bad. so nancy disappeared. her friends eyes all turned to brad. after all, they knew about the conflict and jessica adam knew nancy was supposed to be at her house at 8:00 a.m. that saturday to paint. when nancy didn t show up, she called the police. i was very concerned. i had seen brad in my house, and
her friends eyes all turned to brad. after all, they knew about the conflict and jessica adam knew nancy was supposed to be at her house at 8:00 a.m. that saturday to paint. when nancy didn t show up, she called the police. i was very concerned. i had seen brad in my house, and he was agitated that week. related to the painting. it s a marriage gone bad. it s hardly proof of murder. nor was brad s conspicuous absence from her memorial service, nor his apparent lack of interest or cooperation as the police saw it in the murder investigation. these were suspicions. but there was no physical evidence linking brad to the crime. the prosecutor would say it was because he cleaned the house. he covered his tracks. well, but there it was. so what was the best evidence against brad? ironic perhaps, given the defendant s particular expertise. we knew we had this fabricated alibi to address. the issue was that phone
that s what drew my attention. she wasn t the only one. this man said he got a 30-second look at her as he was driving to work. i saw a lady jogging on the right-hand side of the road. jogging towards the bridge. but did the police follow up? not for a long time, said these witnesses. they ignored everybody that believed they saw nancy for three months. same with those suspicious vans, said the defense. it was clear that the police had focused on brad to the exclusion of other people. it wasn t just brad who had been unfaithful, implied the defense. could someone else have wanted to silence nancy permanently? someone suggested the defense john mcpherson who didn t tell the police about an indiscretion with nancy. it happened after a very tipsy halloween party back in 2005. she began taking her clothes off.