After eight weeks committed to a gruelling court case south of the border, the parents of Nancy Cooper have arrived back home in Edmonton.
Gary and Donna Rentz spent much of the past two months in a Raleigh, North Carolina courtroom listening to testimony about how their daughter was murdered at the hands of her husband, Brad Cooper.
"We have to pick up the pieces of our lives we left behind and get back into a normal lifestyle," said Gary Rentz after arriving in Edmonton Tuesday afternoon.
Nancy Cooper’s body was found at a construction site near the couple’s home in North Carolina in 2008.
Last week, Cooper was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
"We left not knowing what the outcome would be," Rentz said. "Now there’s certainty and it enables us to plan for the future for the girls and our family and that’s very important to us."
Now that the family has found the closure they’ve been seeking for nearly three years, they plan on devoting themselves to helping victims of domestic violence, in hopes of preventing further tragedies.
"We can’t have Nancy back, but … we do have her legacy, and our family will work very hard to nurture that," Donna Rentz said.
With files from Carole Anne Guay
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