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CARY, North Carolina - The recording of the 9-1-1 call from a friend reporting Nancy Cooper missing has been released by police in North Carolina.

Jessica Adam is heard telling a dispatcher that the slain woman was hours late for a planned get together.

She said she phoned Cooper's husband around 9 a.m. the day of her disappearance, and he told her that his wife went running with a friend around 7 a.m., but hadn't returned.

Adam said Cooper and husband Bradley were going through a divorce that was causing considerable "tension.''

Cooper, an Edmonton native and mother of two, was found dead near her North Carolina home July 14. Police in Cary also released a call made by the man who found her body.

Police haven't named any suspects in the case. A memorial for Cooper is scheduled to take place in Edmonton on Wednesday.

CTV reports lawyers for Cooper's husband issued a statement Tuesday denouncing the decision to release the 9-1-1 tapes, saying it will not move the investigation forward.

"Unfortunately, today's leaks appear calculated to do nothing more than inflame already raw emotions," the statement read. "They instigate a rush to judgment at a time when reason and restraint should prevail."

Cooper's family travelled to North Carolina after her death and petitioned for custody of the couple's two daughters, Bella and Katie.

The family accused Bradley of being emotionally abusive and of having an affair, allegations which haven't been proven in court.

The couple moved to North Carolina eight years ago.