remember, the couple had serious debt. and the defense offered contrasting scenes of the cooper marriage from another set of friends. >> people who had known the couple for years did not jump this to bandwagon to paint this as an abusive relationship. >> remember that i hate brad day? the day the prosecution said the marriage hit its boiling point? on that very day, said laura hiller, nancy was making plans for saturday night, the day she disappeared. >> she wanted my husband and i to come over and play sequence with her and brad. >> and was that a game you'd played with the coopers before? >> oh, yeah. nancy introduced us to that game. >> and when nancy's friend jessica testified they had plans to paint her house at 8:00 saturday morning, she had to have been mistaken said the defense because nancy knew brad had a tennis game at 9:00 a.m. with mike miller. >> i specifically sought out nancy to make sure it was okay