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
knew everything she had done. we had the billing to know how much texting she did or didn t do. we knew her friends. the idea the police might have inserted the google map search on brad s computer, they couldn t have, said detective daniels. none of the people that work for me or work in the department would have had the knowledge to go in and do something like that. reporter: the defense charged that police ignored those possible sightings of nancy and mysterious vans for months. the defense was thinking that jury wasn t listening. the police indicated that they followed up with every one of those people. as for john pearson, whose indiscretion with nancy should have made him a suspect, at least according to the defense, he had an alibi. on that friday night, pearson spent the night with heather. very same woman behind brad and nancy s breakup. at the beginning of the case still, as the long trial finally wound down, the defense hammered home its claim that
it s overwhelming. i am you one of the luckiest people in the world. i m a twin. sorry. blackberry, for one thing, had i have a bond with nancy that no one in the world has. all i have to do to remember her is look in the mirror. to be intentional, said the defense. nonsense, applied the prosecution. besides, they claim, they already found what they needed from that phone through other sources. we had her phone records. we knew everything she had done. she will always be half of me, of nancy. dea the police might have inserted the google map search on brad s computer, they i love you and i always will. couldn t have, said detective daniels. none of the people that work reporter: now, of course, a for me or work in the department homicide investigation was under would have had the knowledge to go in and do something like way. that. reporter: the defense charged that police ignored those possible sightings of nancy and mysterious vans for months. the idea that they re in a th
police ignored those possible sightings of nancy and those mysterious vans for months. the defense was thinking that the jury wasn t listening. the police indicated that they followed up with every one of those people. as for john pearson, whose indiscretion with nancy should have made him a suspect, at least according to the defense, he had an alibi. on that friday night pearson spent the night with heather. the very same woman behind brad and nancy s breakup. at the beginning of the tapes still, as the long trial finally wound down, the defense hammered home its claim that the police and prosecution bought in to a whispering campaign by nancy s friends against brad. it made it easier for them to simply let the gossip about brad become their reality even when the facts and the evidence did not fit it. and now, the police department and the prosecutors are willing to send an innocent man to rot in a dungeon in essence for the rest of his life.