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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.
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By Lynn's Daughter on 12/22 03:54 PM
Oh, this is nice. Let's piss all over the victim, since she can't defend herself. That's always pretty easy to do. I love this - never mind how fishy Brad's story is. Serious runners rarely change their minds about running with others and don't contact them, first all. Secondly, in the best of circumstances, she was much, much more likely to have been killed by her significant other, who had motive, opportunity, and ability.
By Mrs. Ruby on 12/19 09:39 PM
Not only were Brad Cooper's children ripped away without him even being notified or to have a chance to hug his children and reassure them without police present, but also, suddenly, he is only allowed supervised visitation, without any explaination for this bizarre ruling. It was wrong of him to have an affair and also wrong for him to do it with children nearby. But why weren't his rights to see his children taken away at the time it was found out? It was also wrong of Nancy to be yelling at Brad in front of her children and also at her children's school which would embarrass her children in front of teachers and peers. I'm still trying to figure out how Nancy would tell her parents and friends that she didn't have grocery money because of Brad, yet be able to afford an $8,000.00 painting and also treat her friends to cups of coffee sometimes, as indicated in some testimonies of how nice Nancy was. Brad also showed the $50.00 per dress receipts for the matching dresses that Nancy purchased for them along with a $100.00 jeans receipt. She also purchased a Louis Vitton laptop bag for Brad, so how could she be short on grocery money. When Nancy first went missing, Fox news interviewer Megan interviewed Nancy and Brad's next door neighbor, and it was the neighbor's response that she would never suspect Brad and that they had problems, but no more than the normal couple would in life. I'm just wondering how Brad's situation became so biased. Why did the judge decide that the lady who testified that she saw Nancy Cooper on a jog that morning did not seem "reliable"? What basis does she have? I thought the courts were to be based on facts and not just a feeling that someone's story does not seem reliable without anything to back it up. I ask myself, what if all courts treated accused this way before they were allowed to see the basis for these drastic decisions of removing children and sending them off to a foreign country so suddenly. Is that really in the child's best interest, when they are already missing their mother? The whole way the court has handled this, does not seem at all consistent with the Constitution. It's a scary thing to think it could happen to anyone the way it happened to Brad--to have someone suddenly move your children to a foreign country and seal the documents. To have affidavits by neighbors saying that that neighbor has a hunch that a parent killed their spouse, but giving no solid reason. Something seems very underhandedly manipulated. It's a scary thing.
By Mrs. ruby on 12/19 09:20 PM
I think that Brad Cooper may be guilty, but I have followed this case, and do not feel that the court has given him his rights of presumed innocent until proven guilty. Without any explanation, his children were suddenly ripped away from him even when the police reiterated that he was "not a suspect" and "not a person of interest" in his wife's murder. how can the court just take away a father's child without any explaination? Also, later at a hearing, there was testimony that he was a good father. The next-door neighbor indicated when Nancy first went missing that their relationship did not show any strain other than what any normal couple has. He was not allowed access to material that was used to sway the judge in order to try to defend himself. I just don't think that he has been given the rights that US citizens are supposed to get in the court system. Basically, it seems that he has had no rights...the judge seems to have her mind totally made up before he was even a suspect.
By Marvin L Foushee on 12/19 01:52 AM
If Detective Daniels turned over Brad Cooper's computer to the FBI, any chain of evidence transferal would have been signed by the FBI and would have been turned over as an exhibit at part of the disposition of Detective Daniels. No evidence of transferal was offer because the computer was not turned over to the FBI. The detective lied because he merely wanted to flash his criminal connection to the FBI and make himself Deputy CIA Agent in this serial killer crime. If you say that there are inconsistencies in the deposition and statements made by Brad Cooper at his home, and you do not note the differences in your deposition, you are just calling a person a liar and using your public safety status as a policeman as proof of the validity of your argument. You are a crooked cop, on the FBI political take, looking for a move up in the world and willing to lie on a stack of Bibles in the courthouse and on a disposition stand to prove a criminal politically motivated argument. You are demon piss, Detective Daniels, who has aided and abetted a murder after the fact. In California you would get the same sentence that Brad Cooper is looking at for the crime of murder.
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