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 any crime. wasn t even a declared suspect and he fought hard to get his daughters back. afterwards, i thought about it. reporter: 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, yeah. she was supportive of myself and of the children. very loving and generous. reporter: but there were two issues. the trouble with cooper s marriage, one was money. the couple had serious debts. this past week i looked at the american express card from january 2007 to december 2007. of that, $27,000 was accredited to nancy s credit card. and mine was
july 11th. the day before nancy went missing. no sign of nancy. this is the most pointed piece of premeditation, if you they called nancy s twin sister will. christa up in canada. reporter: but, proof of have you talked to nancy intent? stop dancing around the pain today? maybe. that keeps you up again, and again. maybe not. it wasn t much of a search. advil pm silences pain, she went for a run and she it lasted just 41 seconds. he didn t look anywhere else. and you sleep the whole night. hasn t returned yet and we re advil pm very worried about her. generally you search a whole bunch of different places and this is one place and it s only [ soft piano music playing ] can you call us back. 41 seconds long. mm, uh, what do you do for fun? you know about this kind of stuff? i don t think it would take -not this. very long if you look at the mapping, you immediately you would think. -oh, what am i into? recognize this desolate area, this beige area in a sea of mostly pro
three months. bench in a park, the place she reporter: those suspicious once ran, her adopted town s way vans, said the defense. of remembering. it was clear that the police the cooper girls, bela and had focused on brad to the katie, are growing up in canada exclusion of other people. with nancy s twin sister krista reporter: it wasn t just brad who had been unfaithful. and her husband jim. implied the defense. they re doing great. could someone else have wanted it s like every other normal to silence nancy permanently? little toddler and little kid. someone suggested the defense like john pearson who at first reporter: their cousins were didn t tell the police about an indiscretion with nancy. with them the day we came to he said he held back to protect call so seven of the little his family. it happened after a very tipsy halloween party back in 2005. girls scampered about, their pleasure infectious. she began taking her clothes office, i took my clothes off, and we, i b
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
carolina, tried to calm her jittery town. but her message was curious. seemed to imply that her officers knew something more than they were revealing. we still believe this san isolated case. cary continues to be one of the safest places. 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.