example. there s lots of cook outs and family functions. like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so she would have heard party stories from her friend nancy. but nancy didn t show up. i hadn t heard from her. maybe about 10:00 i called her house and brad answered and said she went for a run. nancy was an athlete and had been training for a half marathon and brad cooper was her husband. when did she leave? oh, 6:30 or 7:00. well, she s not back? weird. if nancy had to cancel their meeting, surely she would have called. at 1:00 the phone range an a saw it was her phone and he said
of nancy s children. the family acted so fast because according to their complaint, it was disturbing before she disappeared they had seen emotional abuse and they were sure she never went jogg g jogging. and contact everybody and just didn t want anybody around hill. . so they fear for bella and katie s safety. he s in a place where he can do this. then the answer to that. at the end of the day you have to live with the fact that if we re wrong and this is way over the line, we did it for the right reason. the judge determined that the intense scrutiny brad was likely to face during a murder investigation put the children at risk. in late july 2008 the girls went
one year. why? i thought that by ignoring it it would go away and we could remain as a whole family. but when it became time for the family to split brad found the terms of the agreement unreasonable. child support, medical, private school, extra activities, you know, kind of added it up and ballparked it at over 5,000 or $6,000. he also explained why he called off nancy s move back to canada. i realized that seeing the girls every other weekend would not be sufficient. and he gave his account of the hours before nancy went missing. they were at aparty across the street. he left and got the girls ready for bed. the kids fell asleep about 9:00 p.m.. i probably fell asleep right after. he was awakened about 12:30. i heard her come up the stairs. he was awakened again by katie crying and took her
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
he went back to the store. nancy was alive at 6:40, unless brad placed the call himself. brad is a world class expert in internet phone technology. if anyone could do that, it was the defendant. ultimately, he had the potential to make that phone call. in system that was frankly, mind numbing. that leverages something called either tap piapy. he explained about ten different ways someone could have remotely made that call. the main ways are using a computer where you can program something in your computer and delay it so that a phone cull can be made from the computers modem. but to do that he needed a certain router. that prosecutors said disappeared from the cooper