. >> as for john pearson, whose indiscretion with nancy should have made him a suspect, at least accordinge defense, he had an alibi. on that friday night pearson spent the night with heather. the very same woman behind brad and nancy's breakup. >> at the beginning of the case -- >> still, as the long trial finally wound down, the defense hammered home its claim that the police and prosecution bought in to a whispering campaign by nancy's friends against brad. >> it made it easier for them to simply let the gossip about brad become their reality even when the facts and the evidence did not fit it. and now, the police department and the prosecutors are willing to send an innocent man to rot in a dungeon in essence for the rest of his life. >> but there were facts, said the prosecution, to send brad cooper away for life. >> fact, the defendant googled where he was going to place his wife's body. fact, the router that could help him automate a phone call is also now missing. fact, nancy cooper never left that house the morning of july 12th. >> so the jurors adjourned to deliberate. guilty of