Cheating husband finally admits killing his wife six years after dumping her semi-naked body in a drainage ditch and telling police she never returned from a jog
An adulterous husband has admitted killing his wife six years after he dumped her body dressed only in a bra into a drainage ditch before telling police she had just never returned from a jog.
Brad Cooper said 'yes' when a judge asked him if he had killed mother-of-two Nancy and hid her body on a construction site in Cary, North Carolina in 2008.
According to prosecutors Cooper, now 40, was having an affair with several women, including a neighbor, at the time while his wife was 'trying to get out of the marriage' and return to her native Canada.
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Brad Cooper pleads guilty to second-degree murder; gets at least 12 years in prison
RALEIGH The family of Nancy Cooper wanted to hear Brad Cooper say it.
They wanted him to acknowledge that he killed his wife of seven years, the mother of his daughters, Katie, now 8, and Bella, 10.
On Monday, as part of a plea deal worked out between Wake County prosecutors and defense attorney James Freeman, Bradley Graham Cooper, 40, uttered a quiet yes that spoke volumes for a family seeking closure.
Cooper, who had maintained for six years that he was not guilty of first-degree murder in the July 2008 death of his wife, pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder, avoiding a second trial in the case.
The former Cisco employee hesitated initially when Judge Paul Gessner asked him as part of the plea proceedings: Did you, in fact, kill Nancy Cooper and dump her body on Fielding Drive?
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