{"id":1492872,"date":"2022-05-26T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492872"},"modified":"2022-05-26T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:29:44","slug":"novelist-wrote-essay-how-to-murder-your-husband-now-shes-been-convicted-of-doing-just-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/novelist-wrote-essay-how-to-murder-your-husband-now-shes-been-convicted-of-doing-just-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Wrote Essay \u2018How To Murder Your Husband.\u2019 Now She\u2019s Been Convicted Of Doing Just That."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnovelist-wrote-essay-how-to-murder-your-husband-now-shes-been-convicted-of-doing-just-that%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A romance novelist who once penned an essay titled \u201cHow to Murder Your Husband\u201d has been convicted of murdering her husband.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Brophy self-published many romance novels; her Amazon bio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nancy-Brophy\/e\/B004XQN72U\/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1\">states<\/a>, \u201cHer stories are about pretty men and strong women, about families that don\u2019t always work and about the joy of finding love and the difficulty of making it stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A self-published romance novelist \u2014 who once wrote an essay titled \u201cHow to Murder Your Husband\u201d \u2014 has been convicted by a Portland jury of fatally shooting her husband. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kebdcW2HR\">https:\/\/t.co\/1kebdcW2HR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1529618432513216517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and, consequently, about police procedure,\u201d Brophy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/26\/how-murder-husband-writer-guilty-nancy-crampton-brophy\">wrote<\/a> in her essay. \u201cAfter all, if the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly don\u2019t want to spend any time in jail. And let me say clearly for the record, I don\u2019t like jumpsuits and orange isn\u2019t my color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsecutors claimed the Brophys were facing financial ruin and that Crampton Brophy\u2019s motive for killing her husband was to cash in on his life insurance policies and remove herself from the debt she was in,\u201d KOIN <a href=\"https:\/\/pamplinmedia.com\/pt\/9-news\/547093-437927-romance-novelist-guilty-of-killing-portland-chef-husband?wallit_nosession=1\">noted<\/a>. \u201cThe fall before Brophy was killed, the couple had taken $35,000 out of Brophy\u2019s 401K account \u2014 about half of its total amount \u2014 to pay down credit card debts and to catch up on the more than $8,000 they owed on their mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotives: 1) Financial (this is big): Divorce is expensive, and do you really want to split your possessions? Or if you married for money, aren\u2019t you entitled to all of it?\u201d Brophy wrote in her essay. \u201cThe draw back is the police aren\u2019t stupid. They are looking at you first. So you have to be organized, ruthless and very clever. Husbands have disappeared from cruise ships before. Why not yours?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators say they never found the slide and barrel or gun that fired the two bullets that went through Brophy\u2019s heart,\u201d KOIN reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe owned the same make and model of gun used to kill her husband and was seen on surveillance footage driving to and from the culinary institute, court exhibits and testimony showed,\u201d The Guardian noted, adding, \u201cProsecutors alleged Crampton Brophy had bought a \u2018ghost gun,\u2019 an untraceable firearm kit, and swapped parts with a shop-bought handgun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A romance novelist who once penned an essay titled \u201cHow to Murder Your Husband\u201d 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1492877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}