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Brathats computer was hacked. the 41 second google map search was planted. the prosecution had no smoking gun. so youre saying he didnt even search for that map? >> thats right. >> somebody else put it on his computer? >> yes. >> an fbi agent had testified that he saw no evidence of tampering, but the defense said, it had experts who didp. two of them. both of whom wrote reports. but, trials have referees and in this case, the judge ruled that neither one of those defense experts could testify a...

Nancy. >> nancy and i tag teamed off and on, trying to keep her occupied, calm her down. >> reporter: he said he made two trips to the store that morning. on the the second trip nancy called him. >> do you know what time that would have been? >> i think looking at the cell phone records i think it said it came in at 6:40 a.m. >> reporter: when he came back from the store the second time, katie had calmed down, he said, and nancy told brad she was going for a run. >> i took katie upstairs, went i...

Within wireless range had access to it. >> what possible reason would the police have to put that map on his computer? >> i cant say that the police put it on the computer. i dont know who manipulated the computer. what i can say is, that a possible reason is if you believe somebodys guilty and that you dont have any evidence against them, well, its perfect evidence. >> reporter: could those 41 seconds put brad cooper in prison for the rest of his life? at walgreens, how we care will change over...

Unless, that is, unless brad placed the call himself. brad, the world-class expert in internet phone technology. >> if anyone could do that, it was the defendant. ultimately, he had the potential to make that phone call. >> reporter: in testimony that was, frankly, mind numbing. >> that leverage is something called either tappy or j tappy. >> reporter: an expert from cisco, brads former company, explained about ten different ways someone as accomplished as brad could have remotely made that call...

The prosecution allege brad actually made himself with that now missing router. they claim that he checked out a router and never returned it. >> the question is, did he generate a phone call. not did he have the technological skill. they also took photographs of the house. they searched the house. and they have not once introduced any evidence that the router was in the house. >> reporter: hard drives dont lie. or do they? that was the question the defense raised when it came to those apparentl...

He was just the right sort of guy when she found him, bright, quiet, stable, this computer genius so skilled a natial powerhouse had sought him out. now, brad cooper was on trial for murder. >> at this time we are ready to have the opening statements. >> reporter: it began this past march, 2 1/2 years after nancys death. >> nancy cooper never went for a run from her house on july 12th of 2008. >> reporter: the prosecutors howard kum, amy fitz and boz had their own idea of what happened to nancy ...