A romance novelist in Oregon who once wrote an essay called "How To Murder Your Husband" is on trial for the murder of her husband.
Yep. This is a real story.
From OregonLive:
[Nancy] Crampton Brophy has remained in custody since she was arrested Sept. 5, 2018, facing a single count of murder in the fatal shooting of her husband, chef Daniel Brophy, 63, as he prepped for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Southwest Portland around 7:30 a.m. June 2.
Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet told jurors that Crampton Brophy was motivated by greed and a $1.4 million insurance policy.
She "executed what she perhaps believed to be the perfect plan," Overstreet said, when the then-68-year-old allegedly followed her husband to work and shot him in the back, piercing his spine and heart, before firing again as he lay sprawled on a classroom floor.
Either shot from the Glock pistol could have been fatal, Overstreet said.
So this lady's husband was shot twice in the back. There were no witnesses.
The story goes on to describe the circumstantial evidence that she was seen on traffic cameras driving in the area where her husband was murdered, leaving a 13 minute gap when the killing would have taken place.
Crampton Brody also ordered a "ghost-gun" set that prosecutors argued she just couldn't figure out. She also ordered a replacement barrel for a Glock pistol, which makes it harder for forensics to trace a weapon.
Crampton Brody's defense said they were both for research for her novels.
Let's not forget, this lady literally wrote a story called "How To Murder Your Husband"!
But, in the interest of fairness, the judge is not letting that fact be held against the defendant:
Before the jury entered the room, Circuit Judge Christopher Ramras ruled prosecutors cannot introduce as evidence an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" that Crampton Brophy wrote in 2011 while applying to a writer's group.
Crampton Brophy joined the Romance Writers of America in 2003, according to an online biography, and had published at least a half-dozen novels.
"None of them led to much financial success," Overstreet said.
The judge is really saving Nancy's bacon on this one.
She probably should have written an essay called "How To Get Away With Murdering Your Husband" instead of "How To Murder Your Husband."
Oh, Brody also worked for an insurance agency herself and despite living with her husband since 1997, only got legally married to him shortly before he was murdered. Her defense lawyers say she purchased the $1.4 million insurance policy on her husband "to demonstrate her belief in the product" when she changed jobs.
If she is guilty, and all the evidence seems to be circumstantial so it's definitely not a sure thing, writing her essay was a dumb move.
Even OJ knew to write the book AFTER the trial.
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