This case has all the characteristics of a classic of detective fiction: a huge insurance payout, a flawless suspect who alleges suffering from amnesia, a missing gun and surveillance footage that appears to have caught the culprit red-handed. But for novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy It’s not about the plot of his latest book, but about real life in an Oregon court.The author of the saga titled ‘Wrong Never Felt So Right’, which includes ‘The Wrong Husband’ (The wrong husband) and ‘The Wrong Lover’ (The wrong lover), is accused of shooting Daniel Brophy with a gun whose barrel, now missing, he bought on eBay.
Prosecutors say the 71-year-old writer he had difficulty paying his mortgagebut maintained several life insurance policies for which he would collect a total of 1.4 million dollars in case her husband died.
“I’m doing better financially with Dan alive than with Dan dead,” he said as he took the stand in Portland this week, reported the newspaper ‘The Oregonian’.
“Would I ask where the motivation is? An editor would laugh and say, ‘I think you need to do more work on this story, you’ve got a big hole in it.'”
Prosecutor Shawn Overstreet said security camera footage shows Crampton Brophy’s van was outside the Oregon Culinary Institute on June 2, 2018, around the same time her husband was killed in one of the dining rooms. class.
missing gun
“You were there at the same time someone happens to be shooting your husband… with the same type of gun you own and is now mysteriously missing,” he said.
Crampton Brophy assured the court that has no recollection of being therethough she acknowledges she should have been, insisting security camera footage shows her in the area because she was driving while looking for story inspiration.
“This is not a man to whom I would have fired because I have a memory problem. It seems to me that if I had shot him, I would know every detail.”
Daniel Brophy, 63, was found dead that morning by students who were preparing for class. He was shot twice.
The gun, bought on eBay
Investigators say the barrel of the Glock pistol used in the murder was purchased by the suspect on eBay. The piece, which would contain damning forensic clues, has not been recovered despite an exhaustive police search.
Crampton Brophy admits to buying a Glock pistol which she says was for her husband to protect himself when he went mushroom hunting in the woods, but says the missing barrel was bought as part of research for an unfinished novel.
“There was a huge gap between what was for writing and what was for protection,” he told the court, The Oregonian reported.
“Each one of us carries it inside”
Prosecutors indicate that Crampton Brophy, whose book ‘How To Murder Your Husband’ still available online and whose books can be purchased on Amazon, was facing financial ruin before her husband’s death, but continued to pay for 10 different life insurance policies.
There he discusses methods and motivations for get rid of an unwanted spouseincluding financial gain and the use of a firearm, although he notes that guns are “loud, dirty and require some skill.”
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“But what I know about murder is that every one of us carries it within us when pushed hard enough,” it read.
The trial, which began in early April, is ongoing.