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killers in true crime history. True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan

Zupansky.

Good evening, this is your host, Dan Zupansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking

killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them. Nancy Cooper

is missing, her husband said she went for a jog and never came home. Hundreds searched

for the vivacious mother of two young girls in the upscale North Carolina neighborhood.

Days later, Nancy's body is discovered face down in a ditch a few miles from her home.

It appears she's been snatched off a jogging trail and strangled. Yet focus immediately

falls on Nancy's smart, athletic and handsome husband Brad. Because a couple had been

embroiled in a violently contentious divorce. Brad Cooper steadfastly maintained his innocence.

Nancy's loved one knows of Brad's lies and his cheating. They know he wielded an unhealthy

control over his wife. They feared with good reason that the strong-willed Nancy was ultimately

no match for her husband's dark side. As the story unfolds in this peaceful suburb,

secrets are revealed, families are torn apart, and a trail of damning evidence paves the

path to final justice. The book that's featured this evening is Love Lies, a true story of

marriage and murder in the suburbs with my special guest, journalist and author Amanda

Lamb. Thank you for agreeing to this program, and welcome back to True Murder, Amanda Lamb.

Thank you, Dan. Happy to be here. Thank you. Now tell us a little bit about where exactly

this crime occurred. I know that we're dealing with North Carolina and we're dealing with

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