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Medicine Hat News
Police in Cary, N.C. have gone public with
the tape of a 911 call made by a friend of Nancy Cooper, the
murdered wife of Medicine Hat-raised Brad Cooper.
In the tape, Cooper’s friend Jessica
Adam told a 911 dispatcher that Nancy had failed to show up at her
house as scheduled. She said the Coopers were going through a
divorce and she was worried Brad may have done something.
"I don't know that he's been physically
violent, but I know that there's a lot of tension," Adam told the
dispatcher. "So I wouldn't be surprised, I hate to say it...."
Hours after police released the tape, Brad
Cooper’s lawyers issued a statement, calling the release
“extremely distressing.”
“Cases must be decided on evidence,
not insinuation,” said lawyers Howard Kurtz and Seth Blum.
“They must be tried in the courtroom, not in the press. The
police have no suspect or person of interest and this 911 call is
not new information to them. Selectively releasing prejudicial
information in this fashion is reckless, misleading and just plain
wrong.”
Nancy Cooper’s murdered body was
found near a construction site in Cary on July 14. Her friend made
the 911 call two days earlier. Brad Cooper told police he last saw
his wife when she left to go jogging around 7 a.m. that
morning.
–with files from the Raleigh
News and Observer |
