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Nancy Cooper's body is identified
Cary police say her death was not random, but they release few details
Mandy Locke and Kristin Butler, Staff Writers
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CARY - Nancy Cooper's friends hoped she'd just gotten lost.
They could even swallow her hiding, perhaps attempting to escape her American life as the wife of a Research Triangle Park business executive.
Anything but this: a young mother dead, two young girls left behind, a family buckling with grief.
"We are devastated. We have to grieve," Mike Morwick, a friend of Cooper, said after police said Tuesday evening that the body found in an unfinished subdivision Monday evening was Cooper's.
On Tuesday, police scurried about this suburban haven. They scoured a construction site where Cooper's body was found, hunting for more clues. Other officers came and went from the Coopers' home; by evening, they'd wrapped crime-scene tape around Nancy and Bradley Cooper's two-story brick house in the Lochmere subdivision. Friends lingered at a nearby church, hoping police would tell them to resume their search, that their friend was still missing.
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A spreading silence
Tuesday, after police confirmed she'd been killed, Cooper's friends grew silent, reluctant to speculate.
"At this point we do not want to jeopardize the investigation in any way, nor do we want the hurtful images and stories to be propagated in a way that exacerbates an already incredibly difficult situation for those of us who were so close to Nancy," Morwick said in a statement.
Police said Bradley Cooper was "devastated" when he learned his wife was dead.
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