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
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they? that was the question the defense raised when it came to those apparently damming results of the fbi s search of brad s computer. you re talking about a computer that we know was tampered with. you re alleging what? i m not alleging. i m stating as fact the computer was tampered with. there were significant anomalies that we found in the computer it s so. meaning, he says, that brad s computer was hacked. the 41 second google map search was planted. the prosecution had no smoking gun. so you re saying he didn t even search for that map? that s right. somebody else put it on his computer? yes. an fbi agent had testified that he saw no evidence of tampering, but the defense said, it had experts who did. two of them. both of whom wrote reports. but, trials have referees and in this case, the judge ruled that neither one of those defense experts could
night. but brad s computer said otherwise. he was online, until about midnight when nancy came home. he s been awake on his computer and when she comes in shortly after midnight we think they argued and that a fight ensued and that s when he strangled her. and then? the closest thing the prosecution had to a smoking gun. a google map search. prosecutors alleged brad typed in the numbers 27518, the zip code for cary and zoomed in to the exact location where nancy s body was found. when did they claim he did this? 1:15 in the afternoon on friday, july 11, doesn t a, the day before nancy went missing. but proof of intent? maybe, maybe not. it wasn t much of a search. it lasted just 41 seconds. he didn t look anywhere else. generally you search a whole bunch of different places