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There will be more to come on this tragic story. Please all feel free to fill in any links you may find. We need to cover this sad story. I am just starting to obtain the data. Husband Brad is not being looked at for this terrible crime yet as stated by LE.

May Nancy RIP. Blessings to her family.

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11- ABC News
Local
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | 12:59 AM

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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6265188

[/b]CARY, NC (WTVD) -- Police investigating the death of missing jogger Nancy Cooper.

The case of the missing jogger is now being investigated as a homicide. A medical examiner confirmed the identification of Nancy Cooper's body.
Police made the announcement at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. Cooper's parents, brother and identical twin sister were present. Nancy's husband, Brad Cooper, was scheduled to be there but declined to attend at the last moment.

Nancy is a mother, daughter and sister, and that's how we'll keep her alive in our hearts," Nancy's brother, Jeff Rentz, said.
Nancy's body was found by a man walking his dog Monday evening in the Oaks at Meadow Ridge neighborhood, which is under construction. It is in a 5-mile radius of the Cooper home.

Police are not saying what kind or how much evidence has been collected from the scene where the body was discovered.
Just minutes after announcing Nancy Cooper's death is a homicide investigation, Cary Police put crime scene tape around the Cooper's home on Wallsburg Court in Cary.

Authorities have not said whether Nancy was killed where her body was found, somewhere else or at her home.
"The last time that she [Nancy] was seen was by her husband, Brad Cooper, just before she was to go out for a jog, about 7 o'clock," Bazemore said.

Police have not done a search of the Cooper's home with a warrant. They say over the last two days Brad Cooper allowed police to search without one.
Chief Bazemore said Brad has been cooperating with police, letting them search two cars Monday night and giving them a purse.
"We've had a police car outside Brad's home and following him," Bazemore said. "We've also had a police car for her family, to do anything for them to make this less difficult."
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gozgals · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:27 am Post subject:

Brad admits he and his wife had a few problems but nothing that would indicate she would leave him and the family. Police say he is helping with the investigation at the current time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,382664,00.html

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Police: Body Found Is Missing North Carolina Mom
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Fox News

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The body of a woman found in a Wake County cul-de-sac is that of a missing North Carolina mother who vanished while jogging, police said.

Nancy Cooper, 34, went for a routine run early Saturday morning, but did not come home to meet friends as planned. Police Chief Pat Bazemore, of Cary, N.C., said Tuesday that medical examiners confirmed the body found the previous evening by a man walking his dog miles from Cooper’s home is that of the mother of two young girls.

“The search for our Nancy is over,” Bazemore said. “Nancy was murdered and our investigation is now a homicide.”

Bazemore said no suspects or persons of interest have been identified in the case. Cooper’s husband, Brad Cooper, has permitted authorities to search the couple’s home and vehicles.

“He was devastated,” Bazemore said. "He has cooperated with us today and we are still working with him.”

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Brad Cooper told detectives that his wife went jogging at about 7 a.m. Saturday and didn’t return by 9 a.m. as planned. The couple were reportedly having marital problems, but friends told FOX News they didn’t think Nancy left voluntarily or that Brad had anything to do with her disappearance.

A friend of Nancy Cooper reported her missing at 2:15 p.m. Saturday when she didn't show up for a get-together. Police said Monday they didn't know why her husband wasn't the one to alert authorities that his wife had disappeared.
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gozgals · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: search warrants executed

So far LE has not named any suspects in the death of Nancy. There is rumor that Brad may have purchased bleach before his wife's body was found.

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Search Warrant Executed for North Carolina Mom's House, Vehicles
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Fox news

Detectives executed a search warrant Wednesday for the house and vehicles belonging to a slain North Carolina mother and her husband.

6 bags of evidence were taken from the home on Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities launched a murder investigation a day earlier, after the body of 34-year-old Nancy Cooper was found in a Wake County, N.C. cul-de-sac, near where her husband said she'd gone jogging.

The search warrant includes the house that Nancy and Brad Cooper shared, their two vehicles and forensic evidence from Brad Cooper himself.

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Cary, N.C., Police Chief Patricia Bazemore told reporters Wednesday morning that Brad Cooper was cooperating with the investigation and detectives had no suspects.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,383502,00.html

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gozgals · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: Parents take custody of children

Before Nancy was killed she saw an atty. to look into seperating from Brad. Her parents won't comment on their relationship. Note he was having an affair. He, to me, is looking like a suspect in this murder.

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Grandparents Take Custody of Slain North Carolina Mom's Kids, Allege Dad Had Affair
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,384622,00.html

The family of a slain North Carolina woman were given custody of her children late Wednesday after alleging in court documents that her husband had been having an affair.

Nancy Cooper's parents, Garry and Donna Rentz, claimed Brad Cooper was having an affair when she was murdered and had belittled her in front of their two young daughters, according to the family's custody complaint filed Wednesday and cited by the Raleigh News & Observer.

The complaint, characterized by investigators as a private matter, also alleges Brad Cooper withheld money from his wife, took the girls' passports to bar her from traveling to Canada, is emotionally unstable, threatened suicide in the last year and "poses a danger to the physical safety of the minor children."

gozgals · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: update - husband denying rumors

This case reminds me of Drew Peterson's. Now the husband is claiming the media and all are spreading rumors about him and has his mouth peices talking for him.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,385683,00.html

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Attorney for Dead North Carolina Mom's Husband: 'He Did Not Kill His Wife'
Friday, July 18, 2008
Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386401,00.html

The lawyer for the widower of a slain North Carolina mother said Friday that his client did not kill his wife.

Seth Blum, one of two lawyers assisting Brad Cooper as investigators try to find the killer of his wife, Nancy, said wild speculation about his client's role in the case forced him to speak on his client's behalf.

"He is not a suspect, he is not a person of interest and he has been very, very clear with the police: He did not kill his wife," Blum said Friday afternoon, several hours before a candlelight vigil was to be held for Nancy in Cary, N.C.

Blum, who spoke a day after relatives of Nancy Cooper accused her husband of an affair in court papers, told reporters that 34-year-old Brad Cooper wished to mourn in private.

"The bizarre and unsupported theories that are floating around the television and the Internet have made it impossible for us to sit quietly and to say nothing," Blum said.

gozgals · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: Is he a suspect or not?

Is Brad a suspect or not or are LE keeping this underwraps?

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Is husband secret focus in slain mom case?
Expert: Decision to give children to relatives suggests police suspect spouse

Abrams on slain N.C. woman
July 18: TODAY’s Natalie Morales talks to NBC chief legal correspondent Dan Abrams about the murder of Nancy Cooper.
Today show

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:46 a.m. CT, Fri., July. 18, 2008

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The husband of slain North Carolina mother Nancy Cooper has not been named a suspect in her killing, but the fact that a judge agreed with her family that Bradley Cooper “posed a danger” to their two children suggests police may be investigating the spouse, a legal expert said Friday.

“To take the kids away from a biological parent is a big deal,” NBC chief legal correspondent Dan Abrams told TODAY’s Natalie Morales. “It tells us that they’re looking at the husband.”

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25732503/

gozgals · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:34 am Post subject: 911 tapes released

I'm shocked nobody (or the hubby) have not been named as a person of interest yet in this case. I do not think it was a random killing. I'm positive LE has a few things they are holding back. These two did not have the best marriage.

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Police release 911 calls in Cooper caseTuesday,
July 22, 2008 | 8:40 PM
ABC 11 News

CARY, NC (WTVD) -- Cary Police have released the 911 tapes made the morning Nancy Cooper was reported missing and the evening her body was found.

Nancy Cooper, 34, was reported missing by a friend on the afternoon of Saturday, July 12. Her husband, Brad, was apparently the last person to see her. He told police she went jogging that morning at 7 a.m., but never returned. Nancy Cooper's friend called 911 around 10 a.m. to report Nancy missing.

"According to her husband when I called around 9 he said she had left this morning around 7, but apparently she hasn't returned," the caller said. "The situation is a little bit... hum.. she should have been here."

Click here to listen to the audio 911 tape reporting Nancy Cooper missing. [Real Player is required]

"She's also having the same problem I am about her husband. Maybe that he's done something. I mean God forbid." The operator goes on to ask the caller if he'd been violent with Nancy in the past. "I don't know that he's been physically violent," the caller replied, "but there has been a lot of tension. So I wouldn't be surprised - I hate to say it."

The caller emotionally explains that it "was strange" Nancy Cooper left her identification and cell phone when she was expected at her home.
A second 911 call released by Cary Police details where and how a man found Nancy Cooper's body on Monday evening.

The caller reports that he was walking his dog when he found "a body" at the Oaks at Meadowridge development off Holly Springs Road. The caller told police he could see the body, but he quickly ran away. "I could see it. It wasn't that far away. I think she's dead and I couldn't see her moving."
Click here to listen to the audio 911 tape when Cooper's body was found. [Real Player is required]
Cary Police investigators have ruled Nancy Cooper's death a homicide. No suspects or person's of interest have been named in the case. Investigators say the crime is isolated, not random.

Click link for rest of story or to listen to tape
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6279615

gozgals · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: update on story

To date, no arrests have been made, and there appears to be no solid evidence against Brad but we will wait and see. There is time.

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Lawyers for North Carolina Murdered Mom, Husband Sling Mud in Affidavits Filed in Custody Hearing
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,390761,00.html

Lawyers for the husband of a North Carolina mother murdered earlier this month want the autopsy findings released, one of several motions filed ahead of Friday's scheduled custody hearing over the couple's two small daughters.

Brad Cooper's attorneys, Howard Kurtz and Seth Blum, took issue with a petition filed last week by Nancy Cooper's family claiming that Brad posed a danger to the children and was emotionally abusive to his wife, according to WRAL TV in Raleigh.

They believe the claim insinuated that 34-year-old Brad killed Nancy, also 34, while the couple was on the brink of divorce.

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Last week, a judge gave temporary emergency custody of the children to Nancy Cooper's parents Garry and Donna Rentz and her twin sister Krista Lister. Nancy and her family are from Canada.

gozgals · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:39 am Post subject: Custody Deal Reached

I wish the children would stay with their grandparents but as of yet, the husband has not been charged with any crime.. It's a shame. I'd like to see a break in this case soon and someone charged with her murder.

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Parents of Murdered North Carolina Mom Will Keep Custody of Children for 75 Days
Friday, July 25, 2008
Fox News/Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391479,00.html

The family of a slain North Carolina mother reached an agreement Friday with her husband allowing them to keep custody of the couple's two children for 75 days.

The deal came just before a District Court judge was to hear testimony in the bitter custody battle over Nancy and Brad Cooper's daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 2-year-old Katie.

Nancy Cooper, 34, was murdered earlier this month, her scantily clad body found in a cul-de-sac near her Cary, N.C. home. She disappeared on July 12, when her husband said she'd gone jogging; a man walking his dog discovered her dead two days later.

laskipper · Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 1232 Location: Northern Ohio

75 days- maybe they will have an idea what he did to her by then?

Enough rope....

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gozgals

It's about time we get some updated information on the Cooper case. Thank God LE is finally suspicious of the dirtbag Brad. Of course Nancy would always carry her keys and cell phone. Here we go again with this story by the husband... We have heard that before.

Brad still has not been named as a suspect or POI.

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Warrants: Police Suspicious of Husband in Nancy Cooper Murder Case
Associated Press

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Search warrants suggest that police were suspicious of the story a Cary father told police after his wife was reported missing, and later found dead.

Warrants released Tuesday said Brad Cooper's statements were inconsistent with interviews with family and friends. WRAL-TV reported the warrants reveal police found Nancy Cooper's cell phone and keys inside her home. Relatives had said she always carried her keys for protection.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415022,00.html

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9274 Location: Jacksonville, FL

Thanks for keeping us up to date on this, goz. Yet another silent ex. I've lost count of how many we have sitting around waiting for either the woman to be found or for law enforcement to figure out if they can convict them.

Knowing silent ex's, probably pretty smug too about makng her disappear without leaving a trail of blood. That's the only accomplishment they'll ever have.

rd

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gozgals · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:35 am Post subject:

I can't understand why Brad has not been named a POI yet. LE must be holding back till they get enough evidence against him. Thankful they finally got their act together and have some warrants to search.

These silent -ex's are real charmers, aren't they?

Goz

RD:

gozgals · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: Husband Brad Arrested

It's about time we start arresting some of these silent ex's for the murder of their wive's. I have been waiting for this slime to be arrested for quite sometime. It appears we are making arrests now. He gave another BS story about his wife going missing while jogging. It is another familiar story they like to use. May he rot in prison the rest of his life. Another one off the streets!!

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WRAL.com-Channel 5
Husband arrested in Nancy Cooper's death
Oct. 27, 2008
Reporters: Amanda Lamb, Sloane Heffernan, Adam Owens, Kelcey Carlson

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3359064/

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Raleigh, N.C. — A Wake County grand jury indicted a Cary man on first-degree murder Monday in the death of his wife, more than three months after he said she went jogging and never returned home.

"With this arrest, it should now be clear to everyone that Cary citizens have been, and are, safe," Cary police Chief Pat Bazemore said at a news conference Monday evening. "This has really never been the case about a jogger being randomly attacked. It has been a case of domestic violence of the very worst kind."

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Brad Cooper has admitted to police that he and his wife were having marital difficulties after he had an extramarital affair. They were in the process of separating at the time of her death.

In filing for temporary custody of the Cooper children, Nancy Cooper's parents and identical sister claimed that Brad Cooper is mentally unstable and had been emotionally abusive to his wife in the months prior to her death. Last week, a Wake County District Court judge awarded temporary custody to the family, who lives in Canada.
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gozgals

It's nice to see justice has snagged a few of these guys for taking out their wife's or their ex's. We have seen quite a few getting arrested. If only more were, maybe the trend in murdering one's wife or husband (ex/current) would slow down.

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The Raleigh Telegram / RTP-TV :: raleigh3.com Raleigh, NC
Tuesday, NOV 18, 2008
By Elliott West
Bradley Cooper Charged With Wife's Murder

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CARY - The Cary Police Department announced yesterday that they have charged Nancy Cooper's husband with murder. Cooper's body was found in Cary on July 14th, after she disappeared reportedly while jogging.

"Based on evidence presented by the Town of Cary Police Department, the Wake County Grand Jury today indicted Bradley Graham Cooper...for the murder of his wife, Nancy," said the Cary Police Department in a statement yesterday to the media.

The Cary Police Department said that as a result of their investigation, they wanted everyone to know that Cooper was not killed as part of some "random" act but as a result of her relationship with her husband. The Town of Cary has experienced only a handful of murders in previous years and the Cooper case has been under a microscope in the quiet suburban town.
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The Cary Police said that Cooper has been charged with First Degree Murder, which is a Class A felony in North Carolina punishable by life imprisonment without parole or the death penalty, if jurors find enough aggravating factors.
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