Crooked in Canada

When Nancy Cooper arrived home late on Friday, July 11 she was looking forward to going to bed after a late night of partying with her girlfriends, but her husband Brad likely had other ideas and now the woman is dead. Of course a jealous and angry Brad had other plans for her when she arrived home, and I have no doubt in my mind that he waited for her to arrive home on that Friday night so that he could tear a strip out of her, give her a piece of his mind.

I’m assuming that that was the case in the Cooper’s North Carolina home on that night, and I am also going to assume that in the heat of that argument he picked with his soon-to-be ex-wife, or perhaps in the aftermath of that argument the next morning while she was getting dressed to go for a jog, he strangled her, making sure the couple’s children were no where in sight at the time of his dastardly deed. The last thing he needed if he was going to get away with murder was for his children to see him strangling his mother. Maybe he planned her death, or perhaps he unintentionally killed Nancy while trying to make his point, but nevertheless Crooked in Canada firmly believes until evidence suggest otherwise, Brad Cooper, a man who has been described as cruel and emotionally detached by his ex-fiancée, is the reason Nancy’s half-clothed body was found faced down in a puddle of water a few  days after she was reported missing by a friend she was supposed to meet up with on July 12.

Interesting that the man I consider to be the prime suspect in his wife’s death didn’t feel the need to contact police about his missing wife and a devoted mother that it took a friend of his wife’s to realize that something wasn’t right when Nancy failed to call her.

An innocent man, especially one headed for a divorce and child-custody dispute would have contacted somebody if his wife failed to return to from a morning jog after being gone for several hours, if only to have the opportunity to paint his wife in a bad light, and to add weight to his argument that he would make the better parent to have sole-custody of the children. He didn’t though, and for a guy who did some research on fathers during custody battles, surely he would have learned that a mother abandoning her children is a card he could have played in divorce court, whether she was found dead or alive, after all according to him she was just going for a morning jog and she left the kids with for a long time before the police contacted him about his missing wife. It doesn’t make sense. Maybe I’m not making sense, which in Crooked in Canada happens to me sometimes. I’m as confused as this case is and Brad Cooper’s actions or lack thereof are.

The woman even called Brad to encourage him to call police. He didn’t of course, and that in itself indicates to me that he might have known that his wife wasn’t coming home, and the last thing he wanted to do was have the police on his doorstep asking him questions before he come up with a story to tell the police about his wife’s disappearance. He would have needed more than a few hours to compose himself for the onslaught of police interrogation he would face once the cops were on the case of the disappearing wife.

Whether I make any sense or not I still believe that Brad Cooper is responsible for the death of his wife, that he strangled her while she was getting dressed to go for her morning jog, and somehow managed to dispose of his wife’s body with the couple’s children totally oblivious to what was going on around them, if in fact they were even present, which I am assuming they were given that I haven’t read anywhere else that the kids were not at home while their mother was out for her morning jog.

Then again maybe Brad killed his children while they lie sleeping in their beds, and that he was able to sneak out of the house unbeknownst to his children for a few minutes after he killed his wife to dispose of her body. Nancy’s body wasn’t found all that far from the couple’s home was she, at the most what, a five, maybe 10 minute drive round-trip? I don’t know, but…

To add credibility to his claim that he had nothing to do with his wife’s murder Brad has gone out of his way to mention that despite having a $75 thousand life insurance policy on his wife at the time of her untimely death, he has yet to collect that money let alone even apply for it. He made that claim in a videotaped court deposition earlier this month, and I’ll assume that it had something to do with the child-custody dispute he is having with his in-laws who currently have custody of the couple’s two children.

Obviously he was trying to score brownie points when he made that claim, but I fail to see how making such a claim would help him in his child-custody dispute with his dead wife’s parents. It has nothing to do with whether or not is children would be safe with him or well looked after. His mental health; whether he suffered from depression or had thoughts of suicide, things that also came out during that same deposition would of course be relevant in a child-custody dispute.

Finally, I don’t think Nancy Cooper’s murder is getting the headlines it deserves, and that as long as the press is reluctant for whatever reason to give more coverage to this story, the amount of pressure North Carolina police are putting on her so-called grieving husband, the same man who many have described as being emotionally detached, isn’t enough to force Brad’s conscience to get the better of him and cop to his wife murder.

He knows he killed his wife, and he is smart enough to know that as long as there are no witnesses (which there are not-not even one who saw the woman on her morning jog) and as long as he sticks to his story, nobody will be able to pin the murder on him. He may have very well committed the perfect murder, and unless more pressure is put on him, he will never break.

Brad Cooper, the last person to see his wife alive, is being treated with kid gloves by both the North Carolina police and the press, and for somebody who should be the prime suspect in his wife’s death, he is getting off way to easy as far as his treatment by the police and press goes. There is something wrong with that picture when suspects in far less heinous crimes are put under the 10 times the amount pressure Brad has been put under.

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