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>> for two long months attorneys hammered at the question who murdered nancy cooper. the defense charged the police more than dropped the ball, their investigation was dishonest. the erasing of nancy's 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 could tell how much texting she did or didn't do. we already knew all her friends. >> and the idea that police migh...

And that's when he strangled her. >> the closest thing the prosecution had to a smoking gun, a google map search. prosecutors alleged he typed in the numbers 27518. the zip code for cary and then zoomed into the exact location that nancy's 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 one much of a search. it lasted just 41 seconds. >> he didn't look anywhere else. he searched a whole bunch of different places and this is one place. >> i don't think it would take very lon...

The house. they searched the house. and they have not once introduced any evidence that the router was in the house. >> hard drives don't lie. or do they? that was the question the defense raised when it came to those apparently damning results of the fbi's search of brad's computer. >> you are talking about a computer that we know was tampered with. >> you're alleging what? >> i'm not alleging. i'm stating as a fact, the computer was tampered with. there were significant anomalies that we found in the computer itself. >> meaning, he says, that brad's computer was hacked. the 41-second google ...

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 wasn't much of a search. it lasted just 41 seconds. >> he didn't look anywhere else. generally you search a whole bunch of different places, and this is one place and it's only 41 seconds long. >> i don't think it would take very long if you look at the map and immediately recognize this desolate area, this beige area in a sea of green and then zoom into it, zoom into it, zoom into it and see where it is. >> of course, every prosecutio...

>> as for john pearson whose indiscretion should have made him a suspect, had an alibi. he spent the night with heather, the very same woman behind brad and nancy's break up. >> at the beginning of the case -- >> still, as the long trial finally wound down, the defense hammered home its claim that the police and prosecution bought into a whispering campaign by nancy's 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 s...