Love Lies by Amanda Lamb

Author:Amanda Lamb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626819429
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2015-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Phantom Jogger

At this point in the criminal investigation, few people actually believed Nancy Cooper ever went jogging on July 12, 2008. Cary was considered to be one of the safest places to live in the country. It seemed unlikely that a bogeyman had been waiting in the bushes on a bright sunny Saturday morning hoping to prey on an unsuspecting jogger with so much foot traffic in the area.

Dozens of people had been out in Lochmere exercising on that beautiful summer morning, yet no one had reported a definite sighting of Nancy to Cary police. No one, that is, until Wednesday, October 15, 2008, when Brad Cooper’s attorneys filed an affidavit from Lochmere resident Rosemary Zednick, who claimed that she had seen Nancy Cooper jogging on the morning in question. According to the court filings, Zednick had contacted Brad’s attorneys in October 2008 after she said she had repeatedly tried to contact the Cary Police Department about what she’d seen, but had gotten no response.

Zednick, who was in her sixties, said she had been out walking her dog around 7:10 A.M. on the sidewalk that July morning along Lochmere Drive toward Cary Parkway when she saw Nancy running along a bike path toward Kildaire Farm Road. Zednick said she had stopped to untangle her dog’s leash when the woman, whom she did not know at the time, but recognized later from photographs, jogged by. Zednick said she made eye contact with Nancy and even spoke to her briefly.

“I said, ‘Hi.’ She turned her head and said ‘Hi’ back to me. We were almost close enough to touch,” Zednick said in her affidavit.

Zednick said Nancy was wearing a light-colored top and running shorts and that her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail behind her “long face.” She also said the jogger was wearing an iPod.

“I am positive the woman I saw was Nancy Cooper because I saw her picture on a flyer either that very day or the next. It was a photocopied picture, but I could clearly tell that it was the woman I saw jogging,” Zednick said.

Zednick said on Sunday, July 13, she called Cary police to report what she had seen. After a series of messages, she finally spoke to an officer by phone, but no one ever came out to her house to take her statement. She said on two subsequent occasions she told police officers at roadblocks in her neighborhood about what she had seen, and again, there was no follow-up.

But when she called Kurtz and Blum, the law firm representing Brad Cooper, their investigator not only came out and took a statement from her in person but walked the route with her and took photographs in the location where she said she had seen Nancy. They took her seriously.

It was clear to anyone reading the affidavit that Zednick was not happy with what she perceived as a lack of attention from the Cary Police Department and felt vindicated when Brad’s attorneys believed her.

“There is no question in my mind I saw Nancy Cooper jogging at 7:10 A.

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