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Author of “How to Murder Your Husband” on trial for murder of husband
A writer who penned a piece titled âHow To Murder Your Husbandâ is on trial in the United States for killing her husband.
It is a case that has all the hallmarks of classic detective fictionâ a huge insurance payout, an impecunious suspect who claims to have amnesia, a missing weapon, and surveillance footage that seems to have caught the culprit red-handed.
But for novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, itâs not the plot of her latest book; itâs real life in an Oregon court room.
Crampton Brophy, whose âWrong Never Felt So Rightâ series of novels include âThe Wrong Husbandâ and âThe Wrong Lover,â stands accused of shooting Daniel Brophy, using a gun whose now-missing barrel she bought on eBay.
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Prosecutors say the 71-year-old writer was struggling to make payments on her mortgage, but kept up multiple life assurance policies that would pay out a total of $1.4 million in the event of her husbandâs demise.
âI do better with Dan alive financially than I do with Dan dead,â she said as she took the stand in Portland this week, The Oregonian newspaper reported.
âWhere is the motivation I would ask you? An editor would laugh and say, âI think you need to work harder on this story, you have a big hole in it.ââ
Prosecutor Shawn Overstreet said security camera footage had captured Crampton Brophyâs minivan outside the Oregon Culinary Institute on June 2, 2018, at almost exactly the time her chef husband was killed in one of the schoolâs classrooms.
âYou were there at the same time that someone happens to be shooting your husband with the exact type of gun that you own and which is now mysteriously missing,â he said.
Crampton Brophy told the court she has no memory of being there, though acknowledges she must have been, insisting the CCTV images show her in the area because she was driving around getting inspiration for a story.
âThis is not a man I would have shot because I had a memory issue. It seems to me if I had shot him, I would know every detail.â
Daniel Brophy, 63, was found dead that morning by students readying for a class. He had been shot twice.
Investigators say the barrel from the Glock handgun used in the slaying was purchased by the suspect on eBay.
That barrel, which would contain damning forensic clues, has never been recovered, despite an exhaustive police search.
(Punch)
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