Date of publication: Apr 5, 2022 • 21 hours ago • 3 minutes reading • 6 comments Nancy Crampton Brophy had no reason to kill her beloved husband, according to the defense. Photo by the Sheriff of Multnomah County
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A romantic novelist from Portland, Ore, who wrote an essay entitled “How to Murder Your Husband” is on trial, accused of actually doing just that.
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Prosecutors say Nancy Crampton-Brophy, 71, fatally shot her 27-year-old husband, chef Daniel Brophy, 63, in exchange for $ 1.4 million in life insurance. Brophy’s colleague found his body in a kitchen at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where Brophy was teaching, in June 2018. He had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and back while preparing for class in the morning. Crampton-Brophy told investigators she was at her home at the time of the murder. He was arrested in September 2018 after it was found that he was close to the crime scene. Police have never publicly revealed any other suspects. A once prolific writer, Crampton-Brophy has written books about relationships that were “wrong” but “never felt right,” often with bare-breasted men on the cover. In “The Wrong Cop”, she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing” her husband.
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In “The Wrong Husband”, a woman tried to escape from an abusive husband by pretending to be dead. And in “How to Murder Your Husband” – an essay – Crampton Brophy wrote about how to get away from it. She wrote the November 2011 blog post “See Jane Publish”, outlining five key motives and a range of murder weapons from which to choose if her character kills a husband in a romance novel. He advised not to hire a killer to do the dirty work – “an incredible number of killers abused you in the police” – and not to hire a lover: “It is never a good idea”. Poison was not consulted either, because it is detectable. “Who wants to hang out with a sick spouse?” she wrote.
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“As a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and, consequently, the police process. “Ultimately, if the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly do not want to spend any time in prison.” “It’s easier to wish people dead than to actually kill them. “But what I do know about murder is that each of us has it in us when they push us hard enough.” At the start of the trial on Monday, Judge Christopher Ramras said the sample would be excluded from the evidence, KOIN reported. “Any minimal probative value of an article written a long time ago is substantially offset by the risk of unfair bias and confusion,” Ramras said. The most powerful proof of all: love In a personal biography on her website, Crampton-Brophy wrote: “I live in the beautiful, green and very humid northwest, married to a Chef whose mantra is: life is a science project.”
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“As a result, there are chickens and turkeys in my yard, a wonderful vegetable garden that also grows insecticide tobacco and a hot meal on the table every night. For those of you who crave this, let me warn you. The old saying goes. Be careful what you wish for, when the gods are truly angry, they fulfill our wishes “. Crampton-Brophy requested a letter from police saying she was not a suspect in her husband’s murder in order to collect a $ 40,000 life insurance claim. Court documents show that investigators later learned that the policy actually paid $ 1.4 million. Traffic cameras recorded the Crampton-Brophy minivan coming in close to the Oregon Culinary Institute and leaving near the time of the deadly shootings, court documents also reveal.
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Leading defense attorney Lisa Maxfield said the allegation that the author was motivated by greed was pure fiction. She said Crampton-Brophy’s name was not actually listed at their family home and that she could not go to work selling Medicare contracts because she was too distressed to return, OregonLive reported. She had no reason to kill her husband, Maxfield said, adding that the “occasional case” against her “begs you to look at the strongest element of all: love.” Crampton-Brophy is charged with murder and illegal use of a firearm. The trial is expected to last seven weeks. – Additional reports from the Washington Post
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