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
punch it! [ menacing music playing ] yeah! we had a homicide, no suspects, so basically zero balance here. nancy cooper had been strangled, her barely clothed body found in a storm drain several miles from home. but why? there were no signs of rape or robbery or that any struggle had occurred. we start going back to where we started at, saying okay, let s look at everything again. there were reports from people who said they saw a woman who looked like nancy running that saturday morning. 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 killer?
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
zero balance here. nancy cooper had been strangled. her barely clothed body found in a storm drain several miles from home. but why? there were no signs of rape or robbery or that any struggle had occurred. we start going back to where we started at saying, okay, let s look at everything again. there were reports from people who said they saw a woman who looked like nancy running that saturday morning. one man said he watched her for a good 30 seconds, then saw a van make a u-turn to follow her. and there were other reports of mysterious vans. friday night, one sped away from a cul-de-sac with no light pops could any of this be tied to her killer? not walk away from anything at this point. everything becomes important. like conversations with her husband brad that weekend of the search. brad told detectives he and nancy were up at 4:00 a.m. saturday to calm their crying 2-year-old katie. then 6:00 or so, he made two trips to the grocery store after which nancy announced she w