How to Kill Your Husband Writer Nancy Crampton Brophy Is Jailed For Life For Killing Her Spouse | US News
A romance novel writer who wrote an online essay called How to Kill Your Husband has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his own spouse.
Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71 years old, is found guilty of second degree murder on May 25 after a seven-week trial.
Her sentence includes the possibility of parole after 25 years in custody.
Prosecutors say Crampton Brophy fatally shot Dan Brophy, 63, inside the now-closed Oregon Culinary Institute, where he worked in 2018 because she stood to collect money from a life insurance payment his.
Daniel Brophy was killed in 2018
The prosecutor also told jurors that the couple was in financial difficulty at the time of the murder and said she researched and purchased a set of “ghost guns” online and then bought them. a Glock 17 pistol at a gun show.
Crampton Brophy’s attorney argued that the state’s evidence was circumstantial and denied the allegations of financial trouble.
They also brought witnesses to testify about the couple’s strong and loving relationship.
Crampton Brophy took a stance and said she and her husband both bought life insurance policies as part of their retirement and debt relief plans.
She also said that the study of ghost guns is to prepare for a future novel.
Romance writer Nancy Crampton Brophy found guilty of husband’s death
The Crampton Brophy case gained international attention after it emerged that she once wrote an essay on the murder of her husband.
The essay went into detail on several ways to commit an untraceable murder and avoid arrest.
But in the end Judge Roundabout Christopher Ramras exclude the essay from the test, note that it was published in 2011.
A prosecutor still addressed the subject of the essay without naming it after Crampton Brophy took a stand.
She has remained in custody since her arrest in September 2018.
