Oregon romance novelist who wrote 'How to Murder Your Husband' goes on trial in fatal shooting of

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Oregon romance novelist who wrote ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ goes on trial in fatal shooting of longtime spouse in Portland


Loving wife or a cold-blooded killer?

Teams of prosecutors and defense attorneys painted two drastically divergent portraits of Oregon romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy as opening statements for the first murder jury trial in Multnomah County Circuit Court in more than two years began Monday.

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.

Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/04/oregon-romance-novelist-who-wrote-how-to-murder-your-husband-goes-on-trial-in-fatal-shooting-of-longtime-spouse-in-portland.html

[madaboutharry]

1. That was interesting.

I don’t understand the part about switching barrels.

There is a lot missing from the story, like what her explanation is for her car seen on traffic cameras.