she said was the real story. brad says to the counselor, it s been going on for a long time. changes again from this one-night stand to, i love the woman. so nancy came away from that and said i m finished. they agreed to split. sell the house. nancy would move back to canada with the girls. and then suddenly brad canceled nancy s credit cards, blocked her access to the bank accounts, put her on a cash allowance. i recall a time she was in the car with me and she called him and said i ve got $2 and we don t have any diapers. nancy couldn t get a job. she had no green card. she began painting a friend s house to earn some extra money. when she did, brad reduced her allowance. she must have been furious at him. furious would be on understatement. she s very proud and she d feel guilty. i m not going to take your money. no, this isn t your job to support me and my kids. nancy began locking important
one of just 152 such experts in the whole world. and best of all, two little girls, bella, born in 2004, katie, two years later. the best mother i ve ever seen. she played and played and played. she was just so hands-on. and now they were putting up missing posters. sunday went by, all day monday, then monday evening someone called 911. as the chief of the cary police department, it is my very sad duty to tell you that the search for our nancy is over. it was a man walking his dog who found her. lying face down in water at the edge of a storm drain near a housing construction site several miles from the cooper home. our investigation is now a homicide. now they have to say good-bye. it was a measure of the woman that total strangers joined nancy s family and friends to share in the sorrow.
disappeared. she wanted my husband and i to come over and play sequence with her and brad. was that a game you d played with them before? yes, nancy introduced us to that game. when nancy s friend jessica testified they had plans to paint her house at 8:00 saturday morning, she had to have been mistaken said the defense because nancy knew brad had a tennis game at 9:00 a.m. with mike hiller. i specifically sought out nancy to make sure it was okay with her. did he indicate she had any other plans? there was talk she was going to jog. and she would be back by then. and there were people who claim they saw a woman they believe was nancy running. and it was proof, the defense said, that she was alive that morning. she was about 5 9 , in good shape. this witness reported her sighting to the police after she saw nancy s missing poster. did that the next day when you saw the flyer, you believed it was her? because she was so close to
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. 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. and but she s in heaven, and that man went to prison. tell them the tragic story of a man and a woman who sank in the undertow of what once was love. we got an outcome that nancy deserved. but it s also not a winning hand
week. the fact of the matter is that it caused friction between the two of them. so the jury heard about that last week of nancy s life. the week of war with brad. with nancy s father on the stand, prosecutors played the phone message nancy left her parents after she returned home from that vacation with her family. the house was so dirty. there s an ant infestation on the table. i m so furious. it was disgusting when i got there. the fighting escalated. on the friday, friend diana duncan said nancy was shaking with anger when she revealed brad withheld her allowance. did she tell you what kind of day this was? this was an i hate brad day. she said that at least three times. i hate you, brad cooper. i hate you, i hate you. she lived across the street. it was her party that friday at which they fought openly.