Novelist Wrote Essay ‘How To Murder Your Husband.’ Now She’s Been Convicted Of Doing Just That.

A romance novelist who once penned an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” has been convicted of murdering her husband.

Nancy Brophy, 71, was convicted by a Portland, Oregon jury of second-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband Daniel, a chef who was found dead inside a kitchen at the Oregon Culinary Institute in June 2018. Nancy Brophy was arrested in September 2018; she has been in jail since then.

Brophy self-published many romance novels; her Amazon bio states, “Her stories are about pretty men and strong women, about families that don’t always work and about the joy of finding love and the difficulty of making it stay.”

“As a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and, consequently, about police procedure,” Brophy wrote in her essay. “After all, if the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don’t want to spend any time in jail. And let me say clearly for the record, I don’t like jumpsuits and orange isn’t my color.”

“Prosecutors claimed the Brophys were facing financial ruin and that Crampton Brophy’s motive for killing her husband was to cash in on his life insurance policies and remove herself from the debt she was in,” KOIN noted.
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