Latest / Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast / 92. [North Carolina] Nancy Cooper
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- 1:48North Carolina. So Nancy Lynn Cooper Nay Rinse Rent spelled r e n t
- 1:53Z, not Rinse. I think the rints gone up was born on August
- 2:00nineteen seventy three to Gary and Donna Rince. Nancy grew up in Edmonton,
- 2:04Canada, which I heard the nickname is Deadminton because there's like a lot of
- 2:09murders up there. I think someone wrote in about the Robert Pickton guy,
- 2:13and I believes he was up there in that area, the one that fed
- 2:16the bodies to the pigs. Anyways, he was a serial killer. So
- 2:22she grew up in Edmonton, Canada with her three siblings, an older brother
- 2:24Jeff, a twin sister Christa, and a younger sister, Jill. How
- 2:29Nancy was described as sporty and fun loving. She was a great athlete growing
- 2:34up. As she reached adulthood, she broughtened her interest into fashion, art
- 2:38and jewelry, and eventually running her own clothing store as a side business to
- 2:43her job in IT. So she was she was a go getter. She
- 2:46had a regular job. She was into fitness, not like my fitness,
- 2:51fitness, whole pizza, like real fitness, running a clothing store like just
- 2:57a real go getter. Now, in nineteen ninety nine, Nancy working at
- 3:00IBM in Calgary when she met twenty six year old Bradley Cooper. And this
- 3:04is not the Bradley Cooper from the Hangover. It's a different Bradley Cooper.
- 3:10Isn't that his name? Yeah? Okay. So Bradley was very quiet and
- 3:14reserved, not like the typical men that Nancy usually Dated's usually would go out
- 3:19with these kind of more social guys, more powerful guys, things like that.
- 3:25Those are the type of guys she would dated. So she met this
- 3:28kind of nerdy it guy and he didn't look nerdy, but he acted,
- 3:32you know, was quiet and reserved and things like that. So she decides
- 3:36to give brad a chance. And because she's ready to settle down and start
- 3:38a family, and Brad and Hurd just hit it off. He fit right
- 3:43in with her life and her family. Now, brad was very intelligent and
- 3:46was offered an IT job at Cisco in North Carolina. So for Nancy to
- 3:52go with Bradley United States, they would need to be married because she wasn't.
- 3:55They were only dating at this point. She's not He's getting the work
- 3:59visa. There wasn't a jobs, but you know, you have to have
- 4:01like a specialized job. We offered something to get you know, yes,
- 4:06as visa work visa. So anyways, shut up storm God. So anty
- 4:15ways. They had already planned on getting married in a big ceremony, so
- 4:19he gets offered this job. They had already gotten engaged, they were planning
- 4:23on getting married all this stuff, but then he got this job offer,
- 4:27so they changed all their plans. They canceled this big wedding. In October
- 4:30of two thousand, at a restaurant with his family and friends, the couple
- 4:33wed and they were soon headed off to Carrie, North Carolina as newlyweds.
- 4:39That where the honeymoon was. Yeah, Carrie, I guess I don't know,
- 4:43sue they didn't have a honeymoon. I don't think. I think they
- 4:45just had to get married and go get married and go to work. Yeah,
- 4:47their road trip to North Carolina was their honeymoon. Now, within a
- 4:51few years of relocating to Carry, which is a suburb of Raleigh, North
- 4:56Carolina, Nancy was already making friends and settling into her new life. Now,
- 5:00in two thousand and four, Brad and Nancy welcomed their first child,
- 5:04a daughter named Bella, and now two years later, Katie was born.
- 5:09In two thousand and six, Brad was very successful at Cisco. He did
- 5:15all sorts of crazy patented things. Like he was really really smart, this
- 5:19Brad guy. So anyway, so while Brad's you know, making it at
- 5:23Cisco, Nancy was a stay at home mom and took care of the girls.
- 5:27She just loved spending time with her daughters. They would go play outside
- 5:31like they were like like said, Nancy was an athlete, so she was
- 5:34always up for going outside, go to the parks, do all those things
- 5:38through their kids. Me, I'd like to just sit at home and hope
- 5:41they don't hurt themselves. So now, during this time, Nancy did not
- 5:45let her passion for athletics fade. She began training for a half marathon.
- 5:49Now she would go run on the trails near her home. Brad was also
- 5:54an athlete and was training for a triathlon. So they were this young,
- 5:57good looking couple, very successful, these two beautiful daughters, and they're living
- 6:01this American dream. Sounds like us. This does not sound does not sound
- 6:06like a Stewart at all. I don't think, Uh yeah, I don't
- 6:14know if we're living the American dream. But he was. I mean,
- 6:17god knows how much money they're making. This was in the early two thousands
- 6:19with the IT. I mean, come on, that'll be just tons of
- 6:25money rolling in. I mean, because Rawleigh's an expensive area too, like
- 6:30this, I'm sure that suburb out there was probably real expensive. I have
- 6:32no idea. I have to zello that. Okay, Well, I know
- 6:35Rawleigh is very expensive because it is like a tech capital on the East Coast.
- 6:42But anyways, I'll take your word for it. Okay, Well you
- 6:44should, because I'm right. I'm always right. On July eleventh, two
- 6:47thousand and eight, Nancy attended a neighbor hard neigh neighbor hard is that neighborhood
- 6:53barbecue? That kind of neighborhoods do never now? It was a barbecue with
- 6:59plans to meet her friend Hannah the next morning. After her daily run on
- 7:02July twelfth, Hannah had not heard from Nancy by about ten am. And
- 7:06found this was odd. Hannah felt that Nancy should have stopped by and by
- 7:11then at that point. Now, she decides to call Nancy's home to see
- 7:15if something happened, and Brad picked up and said that she went for a
- 7:18run. The friend asked what time she left, and Brad said, I
- 7:23don't know, six thirty or seven. Hannah thought she should have been back
- 7:27by now, but Brad didn't seem too concern so she dropped it. Well,
- 7:30yeah, because she is training, but this is a long time to
- 7:32be gone. Because if she left at six thirty or seven, say even
- 7:35seven at the latest, we're ten am, three hours. If she's training
- 7:40for a half marathon, I'm sure she's athletic, she's faster. I mean
- 7:45it would take me three he mind take me till six thirty seven at night,
- 7:48Like she's been gone for twelve hours. She was only going on at
- 7:51three mile run. They're like, oh, well, that's about right.
- 7:55She probably stopped for coffee, anna croissant like Chris Lawn. But yeah.
- 8:01Nancy, however, was an actual athlete, so running a half marathon,
- 8:05if running for that long three hours is just not would not be expected.
- 8:11Later that day, around one PM, Hannah received a phone call from the
- 8:16Cooper house and when she picked up, she assumed it would be Nancy finally
- 8:20calling. However, she heard Brad on the other end of the line and
- 8:24Nancy had still not shown up, and he was growing concerned. Yeah,
- 8:28because now we're I mean, this is a really long time. This is
- 8:31five six hours till one concerned. I don't know, Stu, I have
- 8:37to find out. Okay, Well I was just asking, yeah, because
- 8:39I know you wrote this case, so I did. I was deeply involved.
- 8:43I'm sure their friends were asking the same thing. So Hannah, she
- 8:46began contact, began getting in contact with other friends and found out that no
- 8:50one had seen her. And they're saying, well, maybe she went to
- 8:52such and such house. Like I said, she's friends with all these people
- 8:54in the neighborhood. She's running on these trails right by the house, like
- 8:58she she didn't even have to go back home. She could have went straight
- 9:01to one of her friend's house and met up with one of them. But
- 9:03nobody's seen her. So they start to call hospitals with no luck, thinking
- 9:07maybe something happened to her while she was out on these trails. So they
- 9:11reach out to her family in Canada and they haven't heard from her either.
- 9:13So now everybody's really concerned. So they contact the Carry police so they can
- 9:18start investigating where Nancy could possibly be. So they reach out to the media
- 9:22to get Nancy's picture out there, and Brad was at the forefront pleading for
- 9:26her help finding his wife. He goes on the news stations at the whole
- 9:30nine yards to think what you would expect. They searched the trails where Nancy
- 9:33ran with no luck and everyone was beginning to fear the worst. Her family
- 9:37traveled down from Canada to assist with the search and pass out flyers. Now
- 9:41Nancy had gone missing on a Saturday. They searched all day, Sunday and
- 9:46Monday with absolutely no sign of her. Then Monday night a call came in
- 9:50from nine one one. Now just outside of Carrie, several miles from the
- 9:54Cooper home, a man was walking his dog in an undeveloped subdivision. Now
- 10:00he noticed some vultures were swarming an area near a storm drain. He approached
- 10:03the area and saw a woman floating in some water. The nine one one
- 10:07operator asked if she was beyond help, and the man said, I think
- 10:11she's dead. Police arrived at the scene to find thirty four year old Nancy
- 10:15Cooper wearing only a sport bra and one diamond ring. Sports bras do I
- 10:20know, I forgot the Z, but that's how you pronounced it. Sports
- 10:22her Well, I don't own any so I'm not quite sure. Not a
- 10:26sport brawl. Maybe it's just for one sport. I have no idea.
- 10:30It's for multiple sports, yes, all the sports, because we all need
- 10:35the support. There were no signs of bruising or blood or sexual assault,
- 10:41and she still had one diamond ear ring, so robbery didn't appear to be
- 10:46the motive either, and autopsy would later reveal that Nancy had been strangled so
- 10:52hard that killer had broken one of her neckbones. Yeah, so even though
- 10:56she was missing some of her like I said, her closure only had that
- 11:00sport braun At said, remember this is July. If people aren't familiar with
- 11:07well, most people are, but July in the South. I mean,
- 11:09this is North Carolina. There's humidity, there's heat. It's probably ninety one
- 11:16hundred degrees out. You got animals. She was in the water like things
- 11:18are deteriorating quickly. With her clothing as well as her body. Now that
- 11:26they knew the fate of Nancy, they began asking around the area to see
- 11:28if anyone had seen her that morning running. A few people are called seeing
- 11:33a woman matching her description jogging, but nothing concrete or pointing to who might
- 11:37have done this. They speak to Brad to see where he had been the
- 11:41day of Nancy's disappearance, and he tells police that him and Nancy were up
- 11:45around four a him calming their two year old daughter, who had woken up
- 11:48crying. Which, we've been there. Our sleep's pretty well though, you
- 11:52know, and usually I'm the only one that goes in there. But because
- 11:56Stuke could sleep through a freaking train coming through our home. But whatever,
- 12:00that's another it's just a subject for it's a choice. Whenever I murdered you,
- 12:09it'll be because you've you've fallen asleep and you're it literally takes me hours
- 12:13to fall asleep, and you're just over there within two seconds and you're man,
- 12:16It's like it's like something I don't understand you. There's something wrong with
- 12:20you, Like what do you do? You don't have thoughts in your head,
- 12:24Like what do you do when you you're head hits the pillow. What
- 12:28do you do with your brain? What about all the things you have to
- 12:31think of for the day and the next day and all the things. Don't
- 12:33worry really stupid, You're like, no, no, because I know exactly
- 12:39what's going through head. You're like, I guess I could worry about that,
- 12:41but Kara's probably worried about it for us. So I'm just gonna go
- 12:45to sleep. Anyways, around six so they're both up, he says,
- 12:54they're both up at four am. Now, around six am, Brad said
- 12:56he went to the store twice to pick up some items. Now, when
- 13:00he returned home, Nancy left for her run, and that was the last
- 13:03time he had seen his wife. They also discussed with Brad the state of
- 13:05his marriage, and he finally admits a police that him and Nancy they had
- 13:09been struggling in their marriage, but he said that they were improving now.
- 13:13The reason for the struggle was that Brad had cheated on Nancy, but they
- 13:16were working on it. Please speak to family and friends about their relationship,
- 13:20and they were told a different story. They said that Brad and Nancy had
- 13:24been having problems for a very long time, almost from the start of their
- 13:26marriage. This is oh take off. Yeah, well, I mean,
- 13:31when you think about it, if they weren't so, they kind of had
- 13:33got rushed getting married because we were getting married, an I know that,
- 13:37but there was still extra time to think about it. You know, they
- 13:41kind of got rush getting married. They're having to move to a different country
- 13:46just them and started a whole new life together and all they have is each
- 13:48other. And if they're not strong at the beginning, I mean, that's
- 13:50a lot of pressure. And apparently she was married to a cheating asshole,
- 13:54so you know there's that too. Well, maybe Brad just tripped and fell
- 13:58on it. You just never known his penis just fell into it. Yes,
- 14:05Okay, Now Brad was a driven Now you sound like Vanderpup rules.
- 14:11You would you like me to start talking about that? Okay, I didn't
- 14:15bring it up. So, now, Brad was a driven smart man.
- 14:18He had near genius IQ level and he was very dead dude with the way
- 14:24he read that I do not choppy and whatnot. I know. Now,
- 14:30he was very dedicated to his job. He focused much more on his career
- 14:33than his marriage, and Nancy did not like this, but they continued on
- 14:37building their family trying to work through it until the spring of two thousand and
- 14:41seven. Nancy was out with one of her good friends, Heather, who
- 14:46told Nancy that she had slept with Brad Never Never this is Vanderpup rules.
- 14:50I'm telling thanks, Heather, were it's all happening. Nancy is Arianna,
- 14:56Brad is Tom Sandoval, and Heather Roquell. This is not true. This
- 15:01is true. Nancy wasn't shocked, and she immediately confronted Brad about this affair
- 15:07and he denied it. So things were very strained, as one might imagine
- 15:11in their relationship. I mean, at least Heather had the decency to tell
- 15:15Nancy to her face. Freaking Raquel just wasn't going to tell her at all.
- 15:18I mean, can we stop now. Nancy knew Brad was lying to
- 15:22her, and she wanted him to confess so they could start to rebuild their
- 15:26relationship, but he kept making her feel bad for even accusing him. Finally,
- 15:31on New Year's Eve, Brad admitted the affair, admitted but told her
- 15:35it was only a one night stand. I mean, on New Year's Eve,
- 15:39do this another day. You probably finally had had some drinking, and
- 15:43She's like, I know you did this. I know. I mean,
- 15:46if you have a friend that comes and tells you that, the fact that
- 15:50the husband just keeps denying, it's like, why would she say that,
- 15:52you know, why would it makes no sense for her to say that,
- 15:56Why would you keep denying this? I'm sure she every day. It just
- 16:00Aggie night. He's like, Oh, I'm gonna start this new year off
- 16:02right, and we're just gonna let me tell you on your birthday. Yeah,
- 16:07what an idiot, Brad, You're a dummy. Nancy agreed to remain
- 16:11with Brad, but only if they went to counseling. Now. During the
- 16:14counseling sessions, Nancy learned the real story. Brad admitted the one night stand
- 16:18was actually a long term affair and that he was in love with Heather.
- 16:22I'm telling you this is vander Roles. With this information, Nancy was done.
- 16:26So they start discussing how because that's ten times worse. Why I told
- 16:30you this. We went over this with the whole vander pup Roles thing.
- 16:33It's ten times worse. It's one thing if he just slept with her,
- 16:37a one off thing, but he like, they're starting relationships with people and
- 16:41they're falling in love. That means that they want to leave you for this
- 16:44person, not be It's only worse if you want to stay with that person
- 16:48and work things out. No, it's not okay. But if they just
- 16:52if he just cheated Whenever she thought he just cheated one time, she was
- 16:55willing to work through it. She's like, Okay, he just messed up
- 16:56one time. It was one time. Thing. He still loves me,
- 16:59he's wants to be with me. However, whenever it's all of a sudden,
- 17:03it's a no, actually we've been we've been together for a while.
- 17:06It's actually like, I'm in love with this person and I want to leave
- 17:10you. Because then all of a sudden, it's not your choice, which
- 17:12makes it worse because he's leaving her. He cheated on her, and he's
- 17:17leaving her. I at least want the higher ground, be like, well
- 17:19I'm leaving you, asshole. Yeah, yeah, because he's gonna leave him.
- 17:25Would be in a new relationship right off the bat, right away with
- 17:29the neighbor girl, supposedly happy and in love, and you're over here having
- 17:33to pick up the pieces from from this. No, it's not good riding
- 17:37bicycles with the new wife a tandem bicycle. Yes, he's terrible, so
- 17:44so is Heather. They start discussing ways to split up their assets and custody
- 17:49of their two daughters, which is going to be tricky because all of Nancy's
- 17:56families back in Canada. Job she don't want to stay there? Why?
- 18:00I mean I wouldn't want to stay there either, you know, what's the
- 18:03point. I mean, your visa has done expired. Whyn't you get divorced
- 18:06anyway? It's like, why are you here? I'm sure with her children
- 18:08being citizens, I'm sure there's something. There would be something. I'm sure.
- 18:14However, she didn't want to stay us. I'm saying she doesn't she
- 18:17could stay here, which she probably could well, Shet, So what's she
- 18:19gonna do? I don't know. Stuart cal take Brad's money, he owes
- 18:25her and he does. But I'm saying is that she's not gonna stay here
- 18:29anyways. If she she's want to want to go back to her family in
- 18:30Canada and go back to her life before she married this asshole take off a
- 18:36yeah. Yeah. So with that in mind, Nancy put her from down.
- 18:40She's like, I want to go back to Canada. I don't want
- 18:41to be here anymore. So they decide what's best is if they just sell
- 18:45their home split the money from the home, because like I said, they
- 18:48moved there together and got married right away, so or married before old dumbass
- 18:53started this job. So all the money and everything he's earned and everything is
- 18:57should be split equally between them. So they this way, you know,
- 19:03like she can move, she's going back to her family. She'll have support
- 19:04with raising her girls and everything, because someone's going to have to be the
- 19:07custodial parent in this. You can't do a fifty fifty if one of them
- 19:12living in Canada and one of them living in the United States. They're probably
- 19:15gonna do a every other weekend or something like that. So Brad he initially
- 19:22seemed on board with this plan, but then something in him changed. He
- 19:26canceled all of Nancy's credit cards and put her on a cash allowance. He
- 19:30used the money to control her, barely giving her enough to care for their
- 19:33two children now. She even said at one point she would have to call
- 19:37people and borrow money for like diapers and things like that because she'd run out
- 19:41of money. Christ yeah, he wouldn't even give her the money. No,
- 19:45she had like a cash allowance each week, and once she ran out
- 19:47of money, that was it. So don't be buying that starterbuck. You
- 19:49got to buy diapers basically. So Nancy was unable to work, like Stu
- 19:55said, because she didn't have a work visa or a green card or anything.
- 19:57So she starts picking up odd jobs on the side that paid cash,
- 20:00trying to supplement what Brad was giving her. Now this included she was painting.
- 20:07She offered to paint her neighbor's house and paint some in her neighbor's house
- 20:10and stuff with that, and she was going to pay cash because she didn't
- 20:12want to ask her family for money. She was real embarrassed about that.
- 20:17She wanted to make sure it was to her children. She wanted to pay,
- 20:18you know, work to pay to take care of them. So the
- 20:22friend was like, okay, well, if you don't want to take cash
- 20:25from me, when we'll work this side and you can come paint. Well.
- 20:26Whenever Brad found out that he was that she was going to get cash
- 20:30from working, he reduced her weekly because he said, well, you're supplementing
- 20:37what you what you were going to get, so I shouldn't have to give
- 20:38you as much. So anyways, he's just intentionally trying to make her life
- 20:42very difficult. Now, Nancy growing paranoid about Brad and what he was capable
- 20:48of, She began keeping all important papers, including the girls passports, with
- 20:52her locked in her car because she was afraid he was going to go and
- 20:56take him. And then if he took the passports of the girls, how
- 21:00she ever going to be able to snap them out of the country. Yeah,
- 21:03she needed to get out. How There's no way she could get them
- 21:04out of the country. I mean, that's that would be scary. And
- 21:08that's why you get the passport cards. Passport cards, Yeah, the little
- 21:12cards because you can cross into the United States or Canada. Oh, which
- 21:18is the passport cards okay old overland. Yeah, you can't do it in
- 21:26an airport, but if you drive across, Okay, Well, it doesn't
- 21:27change the fact that they didn't have those back then. And also, I
- 21:30don't know, so you're just giving tips to people that might be in this
- 21:33situation, this exact situation. Just make sure you get the passport cards and
- 21:37keep them on your person. Yes, I'd probably keep the passports on me
- 21:40at all times. I wouldn't even leave them in a car, you know.
- 21:44And if your car out broken into and somebody stole you down pass yeah,
- 21:47or if somebody broke into it, somebody with a key, yeah,
- 21:52and names on the title as well. Yeah. Now, Nancy's family told
- 21:56police that as time approach for Nancy and the girls to move to Canada,
- 22:02that began drafting up divorce papers outlining visitation, child sport alimony. And as
- 22:07soon as Brad saw the divorce papers, he immediately called off the deal and
- 22:11said the girls could not go. He managed to get hold of their passporch,
- 22:15which stopped nan passporch. I said, passport, You said, passport.
- 22:21Now, last week you kept saying, Stacy, No, that's not
- 22:23a true But okay, now this stopped Nancy from being able to leave the
- 22:27country with the girls. It looked like this was going only she'd had those
- 22:30passport cards. Yep. Now, it looked like this was going to be
- 22:34a very nasty divorce and child custody battle. But Nancy wanted out and she
- 22:41was miserable with Brad, her family said. But she was willing to fight
- 22:45for the girls too. So yeah, I mean, I don't even know
- 22:47what you do in that situation, you're kind of stuck. Like we said,
- 22:49she can't work, she can't do anything. She's dependent on Brad.
- 22:52And unless the courts step in and say you need to immediately give her access
- 22:56to half of everything finance, then she's screwed. I mean, she's in
- 23:03a real bad situation, all right. So that was kind of the state
- 23:06of their marriage leading up to Nancy's disappearance. So back to the investigation,
- 23:11please look into Brad's actions that morning, and they were able to find video
- 23:15footage of him going to the store around six am, like he said,
- 23:18but during the time that Nancy disappeared, he was just at home alone,
- 23:22like there weren't nobody there to vouch for him. So the family, they're
- 23:29growing concerned that Brad was involved with Nancy's murder, so they filed for an
- 23:33emergency custody hearing to have the girls place with Krista, which was Nancy's twin
- 23:37sister, temporarily. Now into the documents they filed, they talked about the
- 23:41emotional abuse Nancy had undergone with Brad and that ever since the murder, Brad
- 23:45had been isolating himself with the girls, which is very worrying. They worried
- 23:51about the safety of the girls, and they were afraid that Brad might do
- 23:55something crazy. Be back in a corner. He's keeping them with him,
- 23:57and then he hurts the girls, hurt himself. Suicide. Yeah, I
- 24:03mean that's happened before. We've seen that happened before. When when the person
- 24:07who has the children or is the spouse's being that everyone thinks did it,
- 24:12they become paranoid and they're like, well, you're not taking my children,
- 24:17so world is going to go together. So the judge agrees and the girls
- 24:19went to live with Krista and her husband in Canada. Now, just one
- 24:25might imagine, Brad was very upset about the custody decision and he started working
- 24:29to get his daughter's back. In the process of trying to get the children,
- 24:33Brad brack back, Brad had to go under oath for a deposition to
- 24:38answer questions about his marriage. During this deposition, he had to explain why
- 24:44he had taken Nancy's credit cards away and put her on a cash stipend.
- 24:48It's so funny this this happens a lot. People will get be in trouble
- 24:52for something and then there's some other other battle going on, so they have
- 24:56to go under oath, but this is opportunity unity for them to actually ask
- 25:00questions under oath, answering some of these things that they want to know about
- 25:04this whatever the that's probably how you're going to get caught in mind. Probably
- 25:10now. Nancy's family said it was to control and punish Nancy. Brad said
- 25:15it was to rain then an excess of spending that Nancy did. Supposedly they
- 25:19were in massive amounts of debt or else they were in massive amounts of debt,
- 25:25but supposedly both of them were just racking up tens of thousands of dollars
- 25:27in credit card debt, which sounds bad, But I don't know how much
- 25:33money he was making. Like, if you're making forty five thousand dollars a
- 25:40year, then sure tens of thousand dollars worth of debt is going to be
- 25:44you know, suffocating, like you're not built. But if you're making if
- 25:47he's making I mean back when I don't know how much he was making an
- 25:51it and he I mean, like I said, he was real smart.
- 25:53He was pioneering all sorts of things and specialized. There was only a few
- 25:56people that could do what he did. He's probably made two hundred thousand,
- 26:02Yeah, two fifty or something. So while it sounds bad, I don't
- 26:06know how bad comparison. I mean, they weren't hundreds of thousand dollars a
- 26:11death, they were tens of thousand. So if he's making two hundred and
- 26:12fifty thousand, I mean they could probably pay that off in a couple months
- 26:17of just tighten, tighten the budget, get on the budget. Yeah,
- 26:19like put her on a cash dipe and take away a card. Yeah,
- 26:22but it looks bad when you're getting a divorce and you do that, though,
- 26:26that's tend to look a little tend like a little controlling. Yeah.
- 26:30Now, he said he would give Nancy three hundred dollars per week to manage
- 26:33what she was spending. When asked about the bear, he said it only
- 26:37happened one time, back in two thousand and five. He said him and
- 26:41Heather had had sex in the master bedroom closet of his house, and then
- 26:48he had lied to Nancy for about it for about a year before he finally
- 26:53confessed. But that's not what Nancy said. Nancy was telling friends and family
- 26:59that in the therapist, which I'm sure they can't get the information from the
- 27:02therapist, because that's like a hippa. Yeah, but that's not what she
- 27:06was telling friends and family that he was in love with Heather and has been
- 27:08going on for a while. Why were they in the master bedroom closet.
- 27:11I'm wondering if Nancy might have been in the house. You know, that
- 27:15seems weird. I think he was just fun, just fun, let's do
- 27:22to the respectful to his wife. And he was going to have sex another
- 27:25woman in their bed. You're discussing here, just gonna have the affair in
- 27:29the closet. Three hundred dollars a week, though, let's go back to
- 27:33the I'm always so interested in the finances of it all. Three hundred dollars
- 27:37a week if you're just if you're don't have any expenses, but I don't.
- 27:42I wonder what he was making her buy with the three hundred dollars a
- 27:45week, because I don't spend three hundred dollars a week. STU gives me
- 27:51an allowance every week, and I'm kidding, I do. That's the last
- 27:56thing we would do. That's the last thing STU would do. Give me
- 27:59an allowance. That would not go well anyways. But if he told me,
- 28:03I'm going to give you an allowance each week for this, but three
- 28:06hundred dollars if she's not having to buy groceries or things, I don't know.
- 28:10Whenever they talk about this, all we have is what go off what
- 28:12he's saying. But I don't know. Maybe Nancy did have a spending problem,
- 28:15which that's that's fine. It doesn't mean she deserved to die or like
- 28:22that. I mean, but I'm just saying that we don't know if she
- 28:26did have a spending issue, because three hundred dollars a week to me,
- 28:29seems doable. It doesn't seem like crazy, you know, to me,
- 28:33especially back then, Like if all you're doing is buy diapers and things like
- 28:37that, then I don't know what you need the extra three hundred, Like
- 28:40what do you need? Unless he was making or buy groceries and everything,
- 28:42well, that's a different story. Quite possible. I could they she had
- 28:47to buy all the food defeated kid. Yeah, I mean if that's the
- 28:49case, then if she's having to buy diapers and spend on the groceries and
- 28:53that's the whole budget. Even so though that's like I feel like it's not
- 28:57that bad. That's just my opinion. Yeah, I mean you can get
- 29:02a box of diapers right now for forty bucks in a last year a month,
- 29:06yeah, three weeks to a month. Yeah. I'm a frugal person
- 29:08though. So Nancy's over here in Raleigh, a suburb of Raleigh. There's
- 29:12probably wearing like Lululemon all that fancy, yeah, and Louis Vaton little printed
- 29:18like diapers and all these things. Anyway, I think you're making rally out
- 29:23to be more. I think it's quite possible. Ye. I think anybody
- 29:29in Raleigh let us know. I think it's expensive. Yeah, I mean
- 29:30it might be expensive. I don't live there. I've never been there,
- 29:33so I don't know. Okay, anyway, so, yes, he was
- 29:38respectful, didn't have sex in the bed, did in the closet. We're
- 29:42gonna get ripped over this because I'm like, oh, bitch, should have
- 29:45had it together with three hundred dollars a week, You're over like, oh,
- 29:48he's being respectful not doing it. But we're joking people. I mean,
- 29:52I'm not about the three hundred dollars, but I still think that's enough
- 29:55money probably to survive. But it's still not good of him, especially if
- 29:59she's she should be allotted half of what he's making anyway, So and however
- 30:04she wants to spend it, that's her prerogative. Or they put a budget
- 30:08in a debt consolidation, planing down or something. Yeah, the stone and
- 30:12they're both living by that lifestyle anyway. One asked about what happened to the
- 30:19agreement for them to sell the house and for Nancy to move to Canada.
- 30:25He said when he added up all the items she wanted each month, the
- 30:29insurance, the private school, extracurricular activities, plus all the other add ons,
- 30:34it would be about five thousand and six thousand dollars per month and he
- 30:38didn't feel this was fair. Along with his daughters moving to Canada, so
- 30:41he would hardly see them during the deposition, he said he spoke to Nancy
- 30:45at about six forty am. She called him when he was coming home from
- 30:51the store. When he arrived home, he worked on his computer while holding
- 30:55his two year old daughter, and around seven am Nancy for her run and
- 31:00that was the last time he saw her alive. Yeah, so they were
- 31:03able to get some more answers sworn answers. This is what happened, and
- 31:10it did allow the lawyers on her side to be able to ask some of
- 31:14these questions and find out five to six thousand dollars per month. Well,
- 31:18you also got a figure that if he's going to go under if he's going
- 31:22to go on trial for her murder, he didn't have to go under oath.
- 31:26He's got to spit the minute rights. So this deposition, So going
- 31:32under oath for this deposition about what's going on with the finances, it's a
- 31:36totally different thing. So he has to go under oath and answer questions which
- 31:40they can then again use later. Well, yeah, he might have not
- 31:42testified on his but he I mean, he's being interviewed by police. But
- 31:45yeah, he might have not testified at his own trial, and so he
- 31:48would never have to answer these questions. But for the custody of his children,
- 31:52has to go under oath and start answering questions that he probably wouldn't rather
- 31:56not rather not answer and wouldn't have to answer otherwise. But the five to
- 32:01six thousand dollars a month, So let's go back, say he's making,
- 32:06say he's making twelve thousand dollars a month, which would be what one hundred
- 32:10and forty four thousand dollars a year. Yeah, Uncle Sam's going to get
- 32:15their cut, that's for sure. Okay, So say he's making that's about
- 32:19half of what he's making though, I mean, it's not crazy for two
- 32:22daughters and everything. And he's, like I said, he she's been a
- 32:25stay at home mom. That's the that's she's He went and got the job,
- 32:30he was working. She was supporting him, raising their children, keeping
- 32:32the home while he was able to go and excel at his career. That's
- 32:36surprise. You gotta pay motherfucker here on Nancy side in this divorce for summer.
- 32:39I am on Nancy's side. I don't feel like that's crazy. The
- 32:44five or six thousand dollars a month based on I think the dog parted.
- 32:49Sure, blame it on the dog. Now, police they didn't then spoke
- 32:53to the people who attended the neighborhood party that night before Nancy was murdered.
- 32:58They believe that Nancy was not murdered the morning of July twelfth when she went
- 33:01for that run. They believed that she was murdered sometime in the early morning
- 33:05hours before Brad went to the store. So this is like changes everything that
- 33:10they don't think he did this while she left and attacked her on the trail.
- 33:15Like whenever I heard this story, initially I was like, oh,
- 33:17he went out and while she was on this trail he attacked her or something
- 33:21like that. But that's not because nobody's heart. Nobody heard from her from
- 33:24when she left the party. That was it. That was the last time
- 33:27anybody spoke to her, besides Brad saying he saw her. So anyway,
- 33:31so they believe she was murdered sometime before those early morning hours before he had
- 33:37gone to the store. So they discussed with friends about what happened at the
- 33:39party. Well, friends said that they openly argued at the party and it
- 33:45was tense between the two of them. They said that Brad left around eight
- 33:47pm and Nancy stayed complaining about Brad the whole time, which must have been
- 33:52real fun for her friends. Yes, it's always good to get a little
- 33:54gossip, but whenever that your friends keep complaining about their significant you're like,
- 33:58Okay, we'll just fucking divorce him. I don't want to move on.
- 34:02Yeah, well then that's what they tell me when I'm complained about you.
- 34:07Same way. So she headed home around midnight. Well, Brad said in
- 34:10his deposition that he had gone to bed at nine pm, so he never
- 34:14saw Nancy after she came home that night. He saw her the next morning
- 34:17when she left for her run, and around four him when they were with
- 34:21their daughter. Well. Her friends said that they had a bad feeling about
- 34:23the Cooper marriage and they could tell tensions were running high and Nancy felt trapped
- 34:28based on how she was acting that night. Now, with nothing to go
- 34:31on but rumors of a bad marriage and a husband acting a little odd,
- 34:36police needed to confirm Brad's accounts of events that night, so they turned to
- 34:40his computer, which had been submitted to the FBI, to their forensic lab.
- 34:45What they found out was that Brad was active on his computer after nine
- 34:50pm, when he had said that he had gone to sleep. He was
- 34:55active actually all the way up until about eleven forty nine pm, which was
- 35:00around the time that Nancy returned home. They also found that the day before
- 35:04Nancy's murder, Brad had searched the Carry, North Carolina area and had zoomed
- 35:08in on Google Maps exact location of where Nancy's body had been found. Yes,
- 35:14and this is a very this isn't whenever, so whenever you see the
- 35:16Google Maps. Like I said, she was found in a undeveloped subdivision,
- 35:21so it's it was a what is it a cold de sac? Is that
- 35:25the round thing at the end, Yes, so it was a coul de
- 35:29sac where her body was found in this storm drain. So he's it's this
- 35:32piece of land that's outside a carry, you know, a couple of miles
- 35:36away there's and then literally nothing else built around it. It's not like he
- 35:39would be looking for a store or anything that that. Are you looking for
- 35:43a new house like many? I want to buy some land out there?
- 35:46Stewart, what did you? What are you doing? Anyways? Stewart's being
- 35:51facetious and annoying. I get it, guys. He's annoying me too.
- 35:55Anyway. So he zooms into this cold de sac that's out there with there's
- 35:59nothing out there but the trees, and all they built is the actual cold
- 36:01to sec like this, this street and the curb, and he zooms right
- 36:06into it for just to split second and then zooms back out. He searches
- 36:12that area, zooms in, looks at it, and then zoom's back out,
- 36:15and they have this all time stamped on Google Maps. On his computer.
- 36:20Yeah, and also this is the only location that he actually searched that
- 36:23day on Google Map. Yeah, he wasn't looking for a store, He
- 36:27wasn't looking for directions somewhere. This was a very calculated search. Or it
- 36:32was an accident. I just accidentally zoomed in on that location in the exact
- 36:37place my wife's dead body is going to be found hours later or a couple
- 36:42days later. Yeah, now before she went missing store, this was the
- 36:46day before. What is wrong with you? Where are you being? Where
- 36:50are you trying to explain this man's actions? The only thing I'm going to
- 36:53side on with I'm back on this money situation. I looked it up in
- 36:58today's money. That's four hundred thirty dollars a week. Some people that's there.
- 37:01Some people that's their entire paycheck. Yes, for a week, and
- 37:06Jo she only had to survive what like four hundred and thirty dollars a week
- 37:09for a four and a two year old. I mean, even if you
- 37:13bought Starbucks every day back then probably three, you can still survive. For
- 37:19even if you had to buy food. I could definitely survive at four hundred
- 37:22and thirty dollars a week. If like all the bills were paid and all
- 37:24I had to do was buy food and gas and things like that. They
- 37:30had a four and a two year old. I mean, I'm not explaining,
- 37:31like I don't know if he should have been given her allowance or not.
- 37:34I'm just saying it wasn't that dramatic of a He's not. He was
- 37:37like, here's fifty dollars a week. Good luck, bitch. Yeah,
- 37:42I mean it was. It was four hundred and thirty dollars a week.
- 37:44You could eat out every day of the week with the four and the two
- 37:47year old and still be okay. Yeah. Not these days, you can't
- 37:51noll no oh, I mean yeah, you go to McDonald's these days,
- 37:55it's ridiculous. I went to freaking Water Burger and I was I was out
- 38:00for work, So if it had been my money, I definitely would have
- 38:04just left. But I ordered like a regular meal and it was almost seventeen
- 38:07dollars, like a regular meal. Stud This wasn't something crazy. It was
- 38:12like a burger with the double meat and like fries in a drink, and
- 38:15it was almost seventeen dollars. If if that had been my money, I
- 38:19would have been like, sorry, no, thank you. And I would
- 38:20have just drove off. No way in hell I would have paid that much
- 38:22money. That's a lot of goddamn money for a guy, Yes, for
- 38:27a water Burger value meal and it wasn't even that good. Well they're based
- 38:31out of Chicago now, so I know it's really gone down. Well.
- 38:35Yeah, anyways, back to just the thing. We're gonna get emails about
- 38:39the four hundred and thirty dollars, but I'm just saying I don't feel like
- 38:42it's that dramatic, but especially still a controlling technique. I'm sure it's what
- 38:46but it was meant to Yeah, you put her on cash cash Yeah,
- 38:51and you haven't agreed to follow a budget to pay on your debt, just
- 38:54like here you go, I'm doing this arbitrarily. Yeah. Anyway, when
- 39:00police are trying to determine how he made the call at six forty am from
- 39:06the house to a cell phone, and they turned to people in Brad's own
- 39:08field of work in the IT industry, and Brad specialized in internet connections and
- 39:15phone lines, so this was specialized. It was a specialized subtype of it.
- 39:21Yeah, I want to say. They only said about fifty people in
- 39:23the world were experts at this interface between phone lines, and I mean,
- 39:30I don't know anything about it, but apparently it was very special that they
- 39:34started doing like voiceover IP in all kinds of weird thing. That's whenever you
- 39:39started getting your cable modems that you could you could win. They could the
- 39:45cable companies could be your phone company too, so you could get a modem
- 39:49with a a modem that you could plug your phone into and you could talk
- 39:53over the cable lines instead of having copper lines with AT and T. You're
- 39:58boring me, you're boring the people. But this is whenever that all that
- 40:00stuff started, well, he was specialized in this, so he was probably
- 40:05on the leading nage of this voice over IP stuff. Now, experts testified
- 40:08that a call could be programmed to make a call on a delay if you
- 40:15had a certain type of router, and it just so happened that Brad had
- 40:17borrowed that exact router from work a few months before Nancy was murdered, because,
- 40:22like we said, we needed He said that Nancy called him from the
- 40:27house from the house on his phone while he was out at the store,
- 40:30So they believed Nancy was already dead at that point in time. So he
- 40:36needed some sort of way to plan to make a phone call from Nancy.
- 40:39And this is where this specialized router comes in, is what they're saying.
- 40:44So he just left us two and a four year old at the house,
- 40:45you think, I think so. No, Well he went to the store.
- 40:51So yeah, I guess that they were probably asleep if it was that
- 40:53early. And the two year old they said had gotten up at four am.
- 40:58She was probably I mean it was six o'clock in the morning, did
- 41:00she or did she? Well, yeah, because he said Nancy was there,
- 41:04so probably not. She probably wasn't. Now that well, okay,
- 41:08so talking about the router again, please start looking for the rider. And
- 41:13the router's missing. Now Bradley has no explanation on why it's not at work,
- 41:17it's not at the house. Now, with all of this evidence,
- 41:22police believe that they have the person that they're looking for in the old murder
- 41:27of Nancy. Yeah, they can. They can. They believe this is
- 41:30how he planned to help cover his trucks. In October of two thousand and
- 41:35eight, brad was arrested and charged with Nancy's murder. Now, the prosecution
- 41:38argued that brad did not want to deal with Nancy anymore, and that divorcing
- 41:42her would be expensive. It'd be drawn out, cheaper to keep her,
- 41:46Yeah, well cheaper to killers what he was thinking, it's what they're arguing.
- 41:52So he just didn't want to deal with that anymore, and so they
- 41:53argued that when Nancy came home that evening, after they had already been arguing
- 41:58all night. If you're arguing in front of friends at this point, it's
- 42:02bad. Yeah, because normal couples that just fight maybe at home, and
- 42:08it's not that bad. You can hold it together out in public. Okay,
- 42:13we're going to talk about this. You just give a look and you're
- 42:16like, listen, motherfucker. The ship's coming up later. We might you
- 42:23know, you might not. You might argue on your podcast things like that,
- 42:27but you're keeping it together in front of the friends. You're not embarrassing
- 42:30yourselves and putting your marriage on display like that or your friends an awkward yes.
- 42:35So they're at that level where they're arguing in front of friends, so
- 42:37it's it's not good. So they had already gotten into this fight, been
- 42:43arguing everything, and so when she returned home, the fight escalated, and
- 42:46they believe Brad began choking her. Now once she was dead, he loaded
- 42:50her in the trunk of his car and drove her to the location he had
- 42:52searched the day before, that subdivision he had zoomed in on. And when
- 42:58it came time for the defense, they argued that the prosecution had no real
- 43:00evidence. They brought forward witnesses stating that they saw Nancy. Some you know
- 43:05people said they saw Nancy jogging that morning, which would contradict the prosecution's argument
- 43:10that Brad killed her and she never went jogging. They also brought forward other
- 43:15friends who said they had never witnessed Brad get angry or be abusive in their
- 43:19marriage. What I'd like to ask those friends was, well, did you
- 43:22see Brad fucking Heather in their master closet? Or just because you haven't seen
- 43:30it doesn't mean like I never understand that. You bring like we can find
- 43:35you can find anybody to say, oh, well I haven't I've never seen
- 43:37them them do that. I've never seen No one knows we do this podcast.
- 43:42If you brought them on a witnessing, all of our friends and family
- 43:45be like, I've never seen them doing podcasts. They've never told him told
- 43:51him, so that that's so that's just to me, that doesn't make sense.
- 43:54I can see saying yes, people have seen them argue, but bringing
- 43:59on witnesses saying that they've never seen him argue, it's like, well,
- 44:00you didn't see him screw and Heather in the closet, EI there, So
- 44:05where's your argument on that one? Now, they argued that the three hundred
- 44:07weekly allowance was only because the couple was in severe debt, like we talked
- 44:12about now. The final bombshell was that when they brought forward a witness saying
- 44:15he had sex with Nancy back in two thousand and five. Oh lord,
- 44:19yes, so they're saying Nancy cheated on Brad. First, he said it
- 44:22was at a Halloween party, they were both drunk, they had sex,
- 44:25and then they never spoke of it again. He said he didn't want to
- 44:29come forward as it would hurt his family, but he finally did because I
- 44:31don't know if he was still with his wife for what his relationship status was,
- 44:35but he wanted to cover this up. So they argued that others might
- 44:38have wanted to hurt Nancy, including the man she had slept with back in
- 44:42two thousand and five, which that was the whole point of bringing him up.
- 44:45There was not to say, I don't know how they found this fellow.
- 44:50Well, he finally came forward. I guess the pressure built and he
- 44:53finally came forward and said, yes, I slept with Nancy back in two
- 44:55thousand and five. But he's dumb because he should just kept his mouth shut,
- 44:59because the prosecution was like or the defense was like, well he wanted
- 45:02to kill Nancy. It's like, what the fuck would he want to shut
- 45:06up? And as he but they completely dismissed their whole entire argument because he
- 45:13willingly came forward and told about this affair. So anyways, the man,
- 45:19though had an airtight alibi, he had actually been with Heather. This this
- 45:24ancestor with this is vanderbump Rolls. The man had an air tied alb he'd
- 45:29been with Heather, the woman Brad had been cheating with. So this is
- 45:31all an incestuous bunch now. They also argued that police were gunning for Brad
- 45:37from the very start, even accidentally erasing all the content on Nancy's phone,
- 45:40which apparently did happen. Someone was messing around the phone the police station and
- 45:45they erased all of the data. Now, the defense argued that his computer
- 45:51was hacked and that it was where that's where the Google search came from.
- 45:53There, saying that someone hacked into his computer zoomed into that that day plan
- 45:59of the Yeah, it's planted that, But there was an expert from the
- 46:02FBI that said that they saw no signs of tampering with the computer. So,
- 46:06I that seems like a their argument seem a little flimsy, but that's
- 46:14what they were going with. These were there, I mean, basically,
- 46:19I mean, the only thing I see is that they didn't have much evidence
- 46:21besides the marriage and the zooming in on the Yeah, that's all circumstantial,
- 46:27definitely circumstantial. They don't have a murder location. There's no blood in the
- 46:32house or if she was killed in the house, they don't have any videos.
- 46:36Well, she was choked, so there wouldn't meany blood. They don't
- 46:38have any video of him taken leaving the house. Whether, I guess they
- 46:43didn't have any evidence that if they're saying that they she stuffed her in the
- 46:46trunk, I don't know if she'd be dead long enough for them to be
- 46:49able to put pick up a scent on a dead body. I don't know
- 46:52if she'd be circumstantial unless they could actually get her the dog to get up
- 46:59on the standard. Talk about it, talk about it. But anyways,
- 47:06those were the arguments from the defense. All right. So two, I
- 47:10was just going to throw it in here because I was able to find this
- 47:13out. He was making about seventeen thousand dollars a month. That was his
- 47:16income at the time. Just fy, everybody, not a bad little gig.
- 47:21Yeah, so he was making play. So five to six thousand dollars
- 47:23a month in child support alimony was I feel like reasonable in two thousand and
- 47:29definitely doable. Yeah. So anyways, after almost a two month trial,
- 47:35they find him guilty ste yes on the circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to
- 47:42prison. However, as he's awaiting trial, they do all these appeals,
- 47:45and there was a whole thing with the judge allowing these experts on this Google
- 47:51maps thing, because they were saying that they shouldn't have allowed the expert,
- 47:55that they weren't qualified enough to say that this Google Map thing on the computer
- 48:00was Brad's and all this stuff, and so the North Carolina Supreme Court actually
- 48:05overruled his conviction. I think it was in twenty fourteen, and then he
- 48:10ended up pleading instead of going to a second trial, he went ahead and
- 48:15pleaded guilty to second degree murder too, and then he also agreed to relinquish
- 48:21any rights to his children so that the twin sister could officially adopt them,
- 48:27and so he with time served and everything like that. He actually got out
- 48:30in twenty twenty and was extradited back to Canada. So it's Canada's problem now,
- 48:36bitches, ohez. Yeah. So anyways, the whole trial was apparently
- 48:40very salacious because of these it's all these rich people hanging out in this ritzy
- 48:46neighborhood and stuff like that, having these parties and then like sleeping with each
- 48:51other basically nice. So anyway, so yeah, so Brad is out and
- 48:54about right now, but he can't get to us. He can't, yes,
- 48:59unless he yeah, I'll just we'll just have to stay out at Canada.
- 49:02So but um, all right, well that's our episode for this week.
- 49:07Um, at least the daughter's gone away. I mean, that's the
- 49:10only thing that's good. Have they they're in the same country as dad now,
- 49:15well I know, but they got away. They're grown now at this
- 49:17point because they would have been two and four in two thousand and eight,
- 49:22fifteen years. Yeah, they're seventeen, nineteen years old, so it'd be
- 49:27well, I mean, it'd be up to them if they had a relationship.
- 49:29I mean, but I'm saying that they didn't. He didn't get to
- 49:30keep the girls and do something harm them or something in like a panic because
- 49:35he sold the walls closing in. Yeah. So anyways, so do you
- 49:38have a y'all need Jesus? Of course I got y'all need Jesus. I
- 49:42always have a y'all need us. Okay, are you ready right now?
- 49:44I had one two episodes ago. But when you went rogue with the with
- 49:47the Crescent Hotel, no with the van or pump Oh okay, yeah,
- 49:52that was whatever, Stu, I don't care. All right, this has
- 49:57been confirmed. I thought it was like an onion or one of the satire
- 50:00sites, but it was not. There was a hiker lost on mountain for
- 50:05twenty four hours who ignored calls from rescuers because he didn't recognize the number.
- 50:12I thought it might be spanned. I would say Florida or I Florida,
- 50:15but there are mountains of Florida now This is from October twenty fifth, two
- 50:23twenty one. A hiker who was lost on a mountain for about twenty four
- 50:27hours ignored calls from rescue crews because he didn't recognize the phone number, officials
- 50:30said. The hiker was reported mission should have left them dead last week after
- 50:37they never returned from a trek on Mount Albert in Colorado, the highest summit
- 50:42of the Rocky Mountains, according to Lake County Search and Rescue. After an
- 50:45unsuccessful search of an area where the hikers typically get lost, crews learned that
- 50:52the lost individual had returned to their place of lodging. One notable takeaway is
- 50:58that the subject ignored repeat phone calls from us because they didn't recognize the number.
- 51:02Officials said. If you're overdue according to your itinerary, and you start
- 51:07getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone. Official said.
- 51:13The hiker claimed they got lost when it got dark and that they reached
- 51:15their car the next morning. We have no name, so they found their
- 51:22way back on their own without the rescuers. Yes, but the rescuers were
- 51:28trying to call them to help them. Yes. Instead, he just wandered
- 51:31around loss for twenty four hours, yes, until you just meandered back in
- 51:35somehowp Car then went to his hotel. All right, well, if you're
- 51:42this is the PSA for today. You know. They just want to make
- 51:45everybody aware. Answer the phone calls if I'm lost, I'm why didn't he
- 51:49call one of his friends or something? I don't know why you don't call
- 51:52if you're lost? Ense getting dark and spend a night on a mountain.
- 51:54All right, Well, thank you for that, Stewart, you're quiet welcome.
- 51:58All right, Well it wasn't vander Pump role related, but no I
- 52:00had. I can probably circle circle it back to vander Pump rolls something.
- 52:06I'm sure you probably could. It's not about the hiking or something. Yeah,
- 52:09it's not about the pole stuff anyways. All right, well I guess
- 52:15that is it. I guess we will see you next time. By everyone
- 52:19say by stuy, don't you know it's by to be supersticious bottomping else it is working