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Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig mellin. This story involves a young mother who disappeared one morning. Her husband said she went for a run and never came home. It was a puzzling case. It happened in a safe suburban neighborhood, the kind of place where crime is unexpected. Even more unexpected, the tiny clue buried in a computer that unlocked a mystery. Heres keith morrison. Nothing about that morning made any sense. It all seemed like such a bad nightmare. This doesnt happen in o...

On Tuesday, former New Hanover County teacher Peter Michael Frank was sentenced to at least 50 years in prison for abusing students. WHQR’s Ben Schachtman spoke to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, whose office prosecuted the case.

Last month, a jury found Frank guilty on seventeen counts of sexual offenses involving three former students of Roland-Grise Middle School in the early 2000s. Today, a judge in Bladen County court sentenced Frank to between 50 to 62 years in prison.

Returning to our story, heres keith morrison. >> he was just the right sort of guy when she found him. bright, quiet, stable. and now, brad cooper was on trial for murder. >> we are ready to have the opening statements. >> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy rantz cooper never went for a run from her house. >> the prosecutors howard cummings, amy fitzhugh and bob zellinger. >> we think she came home from this party and she had said some things in front of him that...

>> he was just the right sort of guy when she found him. bright, quiet, stable. this computer genius so skilled, a multinational powerhouse had sought him out. and now, brad cooper was on trial for murder. >> we are ready to have the opening statements. >> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy rantz cooper never went for a run from her house. >> the prosecutors howard cummings, amy fitzhugh and bob zellinger. >> we think she came home from this party and she had sai...

He admitted that their marriage was going through tough times. but was he her murderer? once again, here is keith morrison. >> he was just the right sort of guy when she found him. bright, quiet, stable. now, brad cooper was on trial for murder. >> we are ready to have the opening statements. >> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy rantz cooper never went for a frun her house on july 12th, 2008. >> the prosecutors howard cummings, amy fitzhugh and bob zellinger had...

Except hawaii. now back to "dateline." >> brad cooper was arrested for the death of his wife nancy. he admitted to having an affair, admitted that their marriage went through tough times, but was he capable of her murder? once again, heres keith morrison. >> he was just the right sort of guy when she found him. bright, quiet, stable. and now, brad cooper was on trial for murder. >> we are ready to have the opening statements. >> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy...

>> we are ready to have the opening statements. >> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy rantz cooper never went for a run from her house. >> the prosecutors howard cummings, amy fitzhugh and bob zellinger. >> we think she came home from this party and she had said some things in front of him that might have upset him a little bit and that he choked her. >> killed her then, their theory goes. put her body in the trunk of the car, drove her to the drainage ditch and ...

>> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy rentz cooper never went for a run from her house. on july 12th of 2008. >> the prosecutors howard cummings, amy fitzhugh and bob zellinger had their own idea of what happened to nancy beginning the night before she disappeared. >> we think she came home from this party and she had said some things in front of him that might have upset him a little bit and that he choked her. >> killed her then, their theory goes. put her body...

>> we are ready to have the opening statements. >> it began in march of 2011, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy rantz cooper never went for a run from her house. >> the prosecutors howard cummings, amy fitzhugh and bob zellinger. >> we think she came home from this party and she had said some things in front of him that might have upset him a little bit and that he choked her. >> killed her then, their theory goes. put her body in the trunk of the car, drove her to the drainage ditch and ...