How To Murder Your Husband writer Nancy Crampton Brophy has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband Dan Brophy. Apparently, she followed whatever she wrote in that book and executed it perfectly. She isn’t a free woman as she will now have to spend years behind bars for the crime committed.
According to The Guardian;
Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was convicted of second-degree murder on 25 May after a seven-week trial. Her sentence Monday includes the possibility of parole after 25 years in custody, KGW-TV reported Monday.
Prosecutors said Crampton Brophy fatally shot Dan Brophy, 63, inside the now-closed Oregon Culinary Institute where he worked in 2018 because she stood to gain financially from his life insurance payout.
The case drew national attention because of the essay that Crampton Brophy had penned years earlier, but the piece was not permitted as evidence at trial.
The prosecution told jurors the couple had been facing financial difficulties at the time of the murder and contended that she had researched and purchased a “ghost gun” kit online and then later bought a Glock 17 handgun at a gun show.
Crampton Brophy’s attorney argued the state’s evidence was circumstantial, disputed the claims of financial trouble and brought in witnesses who testified about the couple’s strong and loving relationship. Crampton Brophy also took the stand and said she and her husband had both purchased life insurance policies as part of their retirement planning and had a plan to reduce their debt.
She also said her research into ghost guns was in preparation for a future novel.
They should make this into a movie. I would definitely go watch it. She obviously didn’t put in her book the best way to get away with it. That would have made it a best seller, but alas she will have a lot of time to write a sequel while in jail.
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