Wednesday 25 May 2022 09:34 PM BREAKING: 'How to Murder Your Husband' author convicted for murdering husband trends now
A romance novelist who once penned a blog post entitled 'How to Murder Your Husband' has been convicted of doing just that.
Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was convicted on Wednesday of second-degree murder for shooting dead her chef husband Daniel Brophy, 63, while he was working at the Oregon Culinary Institute in June 2018.
Police said he was shot twice, and was found dead by his students.
Prosecutors have claimed Nancy killed her husband in a scheme to collect his $1.4 million life insurance policy.
Sentencing is scheduled for June 13. She faces life in prison.
Nancy Brophy, 71, was convicted on Wednesday of the murder of her husband
Prosecutors have claimed that she shot her husband, Daniel Brophy, right, dead in June 2018 to collect his $1.4 million life insurance policy
Brophy once penned an essay titled 'How to Murder Your Husband' in 2011 while applying to a writer's group
Daniel Brophy was killed on June 2, 2018 in a teaching kitchen at the Oregon Culinary Institute in southwest Portland, where he had worked since 2006. His students arrived shortly afterwards, and discovered his body on the floor of a kitchen. Police said at the time he was shot twice.
Crampton Brophy was caught on camera half an hour before his death driving to the culinary institute.
Twenty minutes later, she drove away and went home to Beavertown.
Crampton Brophy testified in court that she did not remember that, theorizing she may have been making a coffee run and taking notes for her book, according to the New York Times.
Prosecutors claim that Crampton Brophy was motivated by his $1.4 million life insurance policy, and played an audio recording to the court of her asking a detective four days later to write a letter specifically
