safety places to live in the nation. isolated? how could she know really. and we still have not named a suspect or person of interest. oh, but nancy s family had. the very day krista learned her twin sister was missing, she called brad. and i asked him point blank at that point, what have you done? where is she? she didn t wait for an answer. she just hung up the phone. then the day after nancy s body was identified, her family went to court to try to get those two little girls away from brad. by 4:00 in the afternoon, we had papers in the judge s hand for temporary custody of nancy s children. the family acted so fast because, according to their complaint, brad s behavior was so disturbing. before she disappeared, they d seen emotional abuse. and they were sure she never went jogging july 12th. and then after she went missing?
obviously brad was upset, but he knows and feels this is not over. reporter: brad will appeal, based possibly on the judge s ruling excluding his expert computer witnesses. certainly these attorneys have strong views about the damage that ruling may have caused. it was crippling. reporter: nancy, there s a bench in a park, the place she once ran, her adopted town s way of remembering. the cooper girls, bela and katie, are growing up in canada with nancy s twin sister krista and her husband jim. they re doing great. it s like every other normal little toddler and little kid. reporter: their cousins were with them the day we came to call so seven of the little girls scampered about, their pleasure infectious.
it was strange enough to be alarming. reporter: and so they fear for bela and katie s safety. did you think they were in danger too? if she was a place to do this, the answer to that was absolutely. are we sure that this happened? at the end of the day you have to live with the fact that if we re wrong, then this is way over the line. we did it for the right reason. as a family we decided, we re going to take that step over the line. reporter: there was an emergency hearing, and the judge determined that the intense scrutiny brad was likely to face during a murder investigation put the children at risk. in late july the girls went back to canada to live with krista, their slain mother s twin and her husband. brad had not been charged with
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 reasons. the judge determined that the intense scrutiny brad was likely to face during a murder investigation placed the girls at risk. in late 2008, the girls went to canada to live with krista. kind of in a hurry. but brad, remember, had not been charged with any crime. wasn t even a declared suspect and he fought hard to get his daughters back. which meant three months after nancy s murder, sitting for a videotaped deposition in which brad answered questions under oath about his marriage, his affair and what happened the morning nancy disappeared. so were police investigators listening? oh, yes, they were. was nancy a good wife? i would say so, yes. she was supportive. myself and of the children. very loving and generous. but there were two issues that troubled the cooper s marriage.
but while awaiting his second trial, cooper pleaded guilty to second degree murder, and was sentenced to approximately 12 to 15 years. and nancy, there s a black granite bench in cary park, the place she once ran. her adopted town s way of remembering. the cooper girls bella and katie are growing up in canada with nancy s twin sister krista and her husband jim. their cousins were with them the day we came to call, and so, seven little girls scampered happily about, their pleasure infectious. and for the adults, bittersweet. here we go. it s sad that nancy s not here seeing it. absolutely. that s the tough part for me. what do they understand about mother and father? what we ve told them is that mommy nancy was killed by a bad man.