Full Coverage Of The Nancy Cooper Case

Affidavit from Shirley Hull (.pdf)
Affidavit from Detective George Daniels (.pdf)

In newly released court documents, a Cary Police detective said that Brad Cooper has not cooperated with the department’s murder investigation of his wife Nancy Cooper.

The filings come from attorneys representing Nancy Cooper’s family.  They include hours of video from a deposition Brad Cooper submitted to October 2.

Since the beginning of the investigation, Brad Cooper has maintained that the last memory he has of his wife was when she left to go for a morning run.

The video includes the following exhange.

Brad Cooper: "She left the home."

Alice Stubbs, attorney for Nancy Cooper's family: "How do you know that she left the home?"

Brad Cooper: "Either she said goodbye or the door closed or -- I'm not too sure if she actually said goodbye, but either way I somehow knew that she left.  Either the door closed or she said 'Later' or something."

In the deposition, he admits the days leading up to her disappearance were strained -- with an ongoing argument about $300.

Alice Stubbs: "Was she yelling at you when she talked to you about the money?"

Brad Cooper: "Yeah, I would say she had her voice raised.  Yes."

In the affidavit from Cary Detective George Daniels, he said Brad Cooper has not been willing to go the police department to help with the murder investigation.  Detective Daniels also says he watched Brad Cooper’s videotaped deposition:

"The testimony given under oath by Bradley Cooper during his video deposition is inconsistent with the statements made by Bradley Cooper to the Cary Police Department at his residence on July 12, 13, and 14, 2008 and evidence that we have gathered during the investigation of Nancy Cooper's murder."

In a brief statement from Cary Police Chief Pat Bazemore, she said the custody battle between Brad Cooper and Nancy Cooper’s family is a private civil matter.   And about Detective Daniels’ deposition she said, "his sworn statement stands on its own and speaks for itself."

A different affidavit is from a woman who describes a shouting match between Brad and Nancy Cooper.  Shirley Hull said she saw the fight at their children’s pre-school a month and a half before Nancy was found murdered.

In the two page statement she said:

"Nancy was crying and she and Brad were screaming at each other. Brad yelled at her and said, ‘Give me the girls!’  Nancy yelled at him that he could keep the house, but she was taking the girls."

Reached by phone, attorneys for Brad Cooper said there is no comment on the filings.

Nancy Cooper was reported missing by her friend Jessica Adam July 12 of this year. She was found dead a few miles from home on July 14.

No arrests have been made in the murder case.

Brad Cooper has not been named as a suspect or a person of interest in the murder investigation.

Brad and Nancy Cooper’s children are with Nancy’s family under an emergency custody order shortly after she was found dead.