Last Wednesday, May 25, The author of the novel ‘How to Murder Your Husband’, Nancy Crampton Brophy, was found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing her husband, chef Daniel Brophy, in 2018.
The litigation took place in Portland, in the US state of Oregon, after the alleged criminal left the preventive detention in which she was for almost four years, since she was found as the main suspect in the death of her husband. .
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According to local media reports, Brophy, who was 63 years old at the time, was found dead on June 2, 2018, in a room at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he worked as a teacher. The man had been shot four times in the heart.
His wife was identified as responsible for the crime, since was captured by the security cameras of the place leaving the institutefor which she was captured and detained in September of that same year.
the accusations
As reported by the local media ‘The Oregonian’, the 71-year-old woman denied the judge’s accusations and her defense, attorney Lisa Maxfield, stated that they will appeal the decision.
As for the images recorded on the security cameras, Crampton pointed out that it was all a “mere coincidence”, since that day he was in that place looking for sources of inspiration for his new work.
In 2011, self-published romance writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71 wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband.” On Wednesday, she was convicted of murdering her husband Daniel Brophy (on June 2, 2018). She was found guilty of 2nd-degree murder. pic.twitter.com/AYiJTBWz3c
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Additionally, the authorities demonstrated that the accused possessed a revolver with the same manufacture and of the same model as the one used to commit the crime. Prosecutors in the case claim that Crampton changed the cartridge in the pistol after Brophy was killed so that it could not be traced.
Through forensic studies it was possible to find out what type of weapon had been used in the murder, but the instrument was never found, so the investigators stated that the victimizer had acquired a “ghost weapon”.
Why did he do it?
According to statements by prosecutor Shawn Overstreet, Crampton planned the murder because he had financial problems and wanted to profit from the possessions of her husband: “It’s not just about the money. It’s because of the lifestyle that Nancy wanted that Dan couldn’t give her.”
Given this, the aforementioned denied that she had financial reasons to murder her husband since she had resolved them prior to his death by collecting a part of Brophy’s savings plan for his retirement: “I’m doing better financially with Dan being alive than with Dan dead ”.
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Despite the fact that Crampton pleaded not guilty, the judge scheduled his sentence for June 13 and the possibility of a life sentence is being evaluated.
stories in your book
The defendant’s most significant works, “How to Kill Your Husband” and “Wrong Never Felt So Right,” contain information that prosecutors say match the details of the crime.
In one of her books published in 2011, the writer describes tricks of how to commit a murder and eliminate all the evidence so that they cannot trace her.
“As a romantic thriller writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about the murder and, consequently, the police procedure. After all, if murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don’t want to spend time in jail.”
In addition, some methods are described in his works. Crampton claimed that the guns were “noisy, messy, require some skill” and that the knives involved “blood everywhere”.which would make the task much more complicated and obvious.
However, the jury carried out the trial without relying on Crampton’s texts, since it should not be taken as convincing evidence.
“I think it’s easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them (…) I don’t want to worry about blood and brains splattered on my walls. And really, I’m not good at remembering lies. But what I know about murder is that every one of us has it in him/her when pushed hard enough.”, wrote the woman.
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