The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
December 5, 2008 Friday
Web site of Cary man charged with murder was collecting e-mail sent to wife;
Nancy Cooper's e-mail was from her lawyer
RALEIGH -- Brad Cooper was intercepting his wife's e-mail and read some messages the day before she disappeared, according to a search warrant made public Thursday.
The document also says some notes intercepted earlier were between Nancy Cooper and her lawyer, who was drafting a separation agreement between the Cary couple.
The search warrant application, signed this month by a Cary Police Department detective, says investigators searched a laptop computer belonging to Brad Cooper's employer and assigned to him. They learned that all incoming e-mail to Nancy Cooper's account was being copied and sent to an account associated with Brad Cooper's Web site.
The document doesn't say what was in the e-mail messages. In the warrant application, detectives requested permission to search a Google e-mail account associated with Bradley Cooper.
An examination of the laptop indicated Brad Cooper read e-mail messages sent to his wife's account three times on July 11, the document said.