Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was convicted on Wednesday of the 2018 murder of her husband. Nancy is a romance author whose 2011 online essay ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ was not allowed to be used as evidence by the judge.
Although the author was arrested in September 2018 her trial didn’t begin until April 5, 2022.
Daniel Brophy, 63, was shot and killed at the Oregon Culinary Institute going to work. He was a chef and cooking instructor.
A jury consisting of seven women and five men found her guilty of second-degree murder. in the death of her husband, Daniel Brophy.
Multnomah County District Attorney Shawn Overstreet told jurors the author’s motive was greed. And the couple was in a state of ‘financial despair.”
The prosecutors also pointed to the $1.4 million life insurance payout that Nancy Brophy received.
Murder your husband and go to jail
During the seven-week trial, Overstreet claimed that Nancy Brophy “executed what she perhaps believed to be the perfect plan.”
The prosecution’s case included details of how Nancy Brophy acquired a “ghost gun kit” and spare gun parts online in the weeks before her husband’s murder.
