Nancy Crampton Brophy wrote the romance novel in 2011. Seven years later it would end the life of Daniel Brophy, a renowned Portland chef
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Nancy Crampton-Brophy author of “How to Murder Your Husband” kill your husband and her partner Daniel C. Brophy, the fatal victim. The image of the woman was taken by the Portland Police at the time of her arrest (Portland Police Department)
The author of the book “How to Murder Your Husband” was declared guilty of killing his partner this Wednesday in a trial in the United States. The jury deliberated the verdict in eight hours and concluded that Nancy Crampton Brophy shot and killed her partner, Daniel Brophy . Writer of a saga in English called “Wrong never felt so good”, Crampton Brophy denies the accusation.
Recorded by the security cameras at the crime scene, she stated during the trial that she was visiting locations to get inspiration for her next works. He also says that the weapon that is missing, and that the police believe was used for the crime, was also purchased as part of his previous investigation for a novel, and denies that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that belonged to him her husband’s various life insurance policies were a motive to kill him.
The 71-year-old woman’s attorneys said they will appeal the Portland, Oregon, according to The Oregonian newspaper. ”We were hoping that [the jury] could see this as ‘could have been, should have been, would have been‘,” said attorney Lisa Maxfield. “ But it wasn’t like that .”
Prosecutors said the writer had faced financial problems before shooting her husband twice in the heart in June 2018 . The crime occurred at a cooking institute where he worked. His students found him on the floor of a classroom. Daniel Brophy was 63 years old.
His wife was arrested in September of the same year and has remained in custody ever since. The prosecutor Shawn Overstreet affirms that the author plotted the murder of her husband. “It’s not just about the money. It’s because of the lifestyle that Nancy wanted and that Dan couldn’t give her ”, she said during the trial.
Nancy Crampton Brophy, the author of ” How to Murder Your Husband”
Before the jury, Crampton Brophy said that his financial problems had been solved long ago. “I’m doing better financially with Dan being alive than with Dan dead,” she said. ”I would ask you where is the motivation? An editor would laugh and say ‘I think you need to do more work on this story, you have a big hole in it‘”, he added.
Facing the possibility of life in prison, the sentence has not yet been announced. The essay “How to Murder Your Husband”, available on a blog, addresses methods and motives for getting rid of an unwanted partner. Among them, financial gain and the use of firearms, despite considering them “noisy, dirty and require some skill”.
“But what I do know about murder is that each of us carries it within us when pushed hard enough”, he says.
Brophy, 63, passed away on June 2, 2018, while preparing to work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in southwest Portland. Crampton Brophy had no visible reaction when the verdict was announced Wednesday inside the packed room of the Multnomah County courthouse.
The murderer owned a weapon with the same make and model as the one used to kill her husband and could be seen on security camera videos driving to and from the culinary institute, according to evidence and testimony presented to the court. The police never found the gun with which Brophy was killed. Prosecutors allege that Crampton Brophy changed the barrel of the gun used in the shooting and then discarded it.
Defense attorneys claim the gun parts were inspiration for Crampton Brophy’s writing and hinted that someone else may have killed Brophy in a robbery gone wrong. Crampton Brophy testified during the trial that her presence near the culinary school on the day of her husband’s death was a mere coincidence and that she had parked in the area to work on her writing.
Crampton Brophy ‘s text on how to murder detailed various options for committing an untraceable murder and professed a desire to avoid discovery. Circuit Judge Christopher Ramras ultimately decided to exclude the essay from the trial, noting that it was published in 2011. A prosecutor alluded to the essay’s subjects without naming him after Crampton Brophy < /b>took the stand.
(With information from AFP and AP).-
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