Cheating husband finally admits killing his wife six years after dumping her near-naked body in a drainage ditch before telling police she never returned from a jog

Brad Cooper said 'yes' when a judge asked him if he had killed mother-of-two Nancy and hid her body - dressed only in a bra - on a construction site in Cray, North Carolina, in 2008. According to prosecutors Cooper, now 40-year, was having an affair with several women, including a neighbor, at the time while his wife (pictured right with husband and their two children Katie and Bella) was 'trying to get out of the marriage' and return to her native Canada. Cooper, who previously worked for international corporation Cisco Systems, was in the Wake County Justice Center for a hearing on a plea deal which saw a life sentence without parole cut after he pleaded guilty to second degree murder. After successfully appealing the first-degree murder conviction he was given in 2011, his term has now been reduced to at least 12 years. With time served it means he could be released in less than seven.