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For two long months attorneys for both sides hammered at the question, what happened to nancy cooper? the defense charged the police more than dropped the ball, their investigation was dishonest. the erasing of nancys blackberry, for one thing, had to be intentional, said the defense. nonsense, said the prosecution. besides, they said they already found what they needed from that phone through other sources. >> we had her phone records so we knew everything she had done. we had the billing so we...

>> but there were facts, said the prosecution, to send broad cooper away for life. >> fact the defendant googled where he was going to place his wife peace body. fact the router that could help him automate a phone call is also now missing. fact, nancy cooper never left that house the morning of july 12th. >> so the jurors adjourned to deliberate. guilty of first degree murder, second degree, or not guilty. and nancys family, having listened to weeks of confusing circumstantial evidence, worried...

Police ignored those possible sightings of nancy and those mysterious vans for months. >> the defense was thinking that the jury wasnt listening. the police indicated that they followed up with every one of those people. >> as for john pearson, whose indiscretion with nancy should have made him a suspect, at least according to the defense, he had an alibi. on that friday night pearson spent the night with heather. the very same woman behind brad and nancys breakup. >> at the beginning of the tap...

Took it home, months before the murder. >> you know the defendant had one of those 3825 routers? >> thats correct. >> and you never got that 3825 router back? >> no. >> cisco doesnt have it back. where did it go? it was never returned. >> but it was brads own computer examined by the fbi which coughed up the most accusing evidence of all. evidence hed already lied under oath. >> the kids fell asleep around 9:00 p.m. i fell asleep soon after. >> brad said he was asleep with his daughters when nan...

Prosecutors allege brad typed in the numbers 27518. the zip code for cary. then zoomed into the exact location where nancys body was found. when do they claim he did this? 1:15 in the afternoon on friday july 11th, 2008. the day before nancy went missing. proof of intent? maybe. maybe not. it wasnt much of a search. it lasted just 41 seconds. >> he didnt look anywhere else. generally you search a whole bunch of different places, and this is one place and its only 41 seconds long. >> i dont think...

A coincidence? >> in may be coincidence but i didnt do it. >> youre being framed here? >> id say yes. if i had a paid attorney, somebody like o.j. simpson had, i wouldnt be here right now. id be out. >> the problem is here that you dont have enough money. >> it seems like money talks. if you had money, i will not be here. >> he was sentenced 15 years to life for killing marabel ramos. >> what do you think happened? >> i think she went to bed and i think what he did is got a pillow and smothered ...

Nancys friends against brad. >> it made it easier for them to simply let the gossip about brad become their reality even when the facts and the evidence did not fit it. and now, the police department and the prosecutors are willing to send an innocent man to rot in a dungeon in essence for the rest of his life. >> but there were facts, said the prosecution, to send broad cooper away for life. >> fact the defendant googled where he was going to place his wife peace body. fact the router that coul...

The zip code for cary. then zoomed into the exact location where nancys body was found. when do they claim he did this? 1:15 in the afternoon on friday july 11th, 2008. the day before nancy went missing. proof of intent? maybe. maybe not. it wasnt much of a search. it lasted just 41 seconds. >> he didnt look anywhere else. generally you search a whole bunch of different places, and this is one place and its only 41 seconds long. >> i dont think it would take very long if you look at the map and ...

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. >> hard drives dont lie. or do they? that was the question the defense raised when it came to those apparently damning results of the fbis search of brads computer. >> you are talking about a computer that we know was tampered with. >> youre alleging what? >> im not alleging. im stating as...

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 testified he saw no evidence of tampering, but the defense said it had experts who did. 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 about tampering. one, said the judge, wasnt sufficiently qualified. the other was broug...