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Brad Cooper claims his wife went out for a morning jog on July 12, 2008 and never returned home. Sadly, her body was later found in a drainage ditch not far from the couples home. Three months later police arrested Brad Cooper for the murder of his wife. His murder trial is expected to start this week.
The court is having a difficult time filling the jury seats in this hard economic time. They’ve gone through the entire jury pool as they believe this case will take at least a month of time and payment will likely only be around $1,000 for the service.
Unfortunately, Brad didn’t speak out to the media outside of thanking people for searching for his wife early on in the case, and it wasn’t until his deposition was released that I got to see and hear Brad speak. I immediately noticed inconsistencies.
Brad gave us two different stories of what happened that morning. In one version, his wife notices they are out of laundry soap. In the other, he notices. In the deposition, he starts the laundry and does one load. In the affidavit, he says he “could not do laundry”. He gives us to distinctly different accounts for each. This is very telling to me. He can’t keep basic facts straight?
It’s also very notable that Brad talks about getting ready for the girls to “get up” that morning in the affidavit. Yet oddly, in his deposition, he talks about how Katie, his daughter, was up early and fussing because she didn’t have milk, and that he went to get her milk, came home and got a bottle of milk to give to Katie. Then he talks about putting her down.
Clearly, Brad has some serious explaining to do!
Read more of my deposition review here.
Thanks, Karon, for the story update.
Michelle Money was on the Women Tell All on the Bachelor last night. She was confronted by fellow contestants that her behavior was rude and out of line. Michelle told the audience that she just has a sarcastic sense of humor.
I personally don’t buy it. Did you?
Last night, Brad said something in the show that was unscripted and very telling if you ask me. He said that he wasn’t suppose to flirt or show emotions for the other girls–as that is what his “significant other” said to him before the show.
I thought about Emily Maynard and Chantal O’Brien. Which one would say that? Emily is too demure to request that of Brad, so it suggests the significant other is Chantel, if you ask me.
I further analyzed Brad’s behavior and remember that he told us that he doesn’t like to be put under pressure. Knowing that, I don’t think he’d like to have the added pressure to meet Emily’s high standards of her previous love. Will he match up? Will she always compare him? Will he meet her expectations? Brad is not one to like those challenges. He doesn’t want to be compared to the other guy.
Furthermore, Emily gives us the impression of a strong moral ethic and that puts Brad off. Not because he is unethical, but because he doesn’t want to always wonder if he measures up — if his actions are acceptable to Emily. I suspect he feels her standards may be too high for him.
While he is wildly attracted to her, that added pressure is too much for him. If you recall on Emily’s hometown date, at her house, the night he left, it was too much for him to even kiss Emily with her daughter sleeping upstairs. Why? Because he didn’t know if she would find it acceptable or not, and that conflict shut him down.
So based on those elements, I suspect Brad’s final rose will go to Chantel…though reality TV can fool you!
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The Daily, a newly launched newspaper for the IPad, did a story on Eyes for Lies this weekend in their Sunday edition. Do you have an IPad? If so, you can check out this article there, or you can see a print copy here: The Moment of Truth.
