CARY - Lawyers for Nancy Cooper's husband, Bradley, today accused police of inflaming emotions by releasing the tapes of 911 calls from a woman who reported her missing and a man who found her body.

Cooper's friend Jessica Adam called 911 on Saturday, July 12, when Cooper failed to show up at her house to help with a painting project the two had planned. She told a dispatcher that the Coopers were getting a divorce and that she was suspicious of Bradley Cooper.

"I don't know that he's been physically violent, but I know that there's a lot of tension," Adam told the dispatcher. "So I wouldn't be surprised, I hate to say it...."

Cary police this morning made public the tape recordings of the two 911 calls. Hours later, Bradley Cooper's lawyers issued a statement calling the release "extremely distressing."

"Cases must be decided on evidence, not insinuation," lawyers Howard Kurtz and Seth Blum said in the statement. "Selectively releasing prejudicial information in this fashion is reckless, misleading and just plain wrong."

Such 911 tapes are public records. The News & Observer had asked Cary police to release them.

Police have not named Bradley Cooper as a suspect in his wife's death.

Adam told the dispatcher that she had called Bradley Cooper, who said his wife had gone running with a woman Adam didn't know.

Adam said she thought it was odd that Nancy Cooper's car and cell phone were still at her house. "It doesn't really make any sense," Adam said.

The second call came Monday, July 14, from a walker who discovered Nancy Cooper's body in a subdivision under development. He told a dispatcher that he couldn't get a good look at the body.

The walker was not identified in the recording. He told the dispatcher that the woman was beyond help.

"I think she's dead. I didn't see her move," the caller said.

The recordings are available on the town's Web site, 911 tapes.

Police have released minimal information about their investigation into the death of Cooper, 34.

They have not said how she died. They also have not said whether they obtained useful information in a search of the home in Lochmere subdivision that Cooper shared with her husband and daughters, ages 4 and almost 2.