An American novelist who wrote an essay entitled How to murder your husband has been found guilty of murdering her husband. It took a jury in Portland, Oregon, just eight hours on Wednesday to rule that Nancy Crampton Brophy shot and killed her husband Daniel Brophy.
Prosecutors argued that the 71-year-old writer, who wrote novels such as ‘Wrong never felt so right’, ‘The Wrong Husband’ and ‘The Wrong Lover’, faced financial difficulties when she married her husband twice in June 2018. shot through the heart at the culinary institute where he worked. However, according to the author, the hundreds of thousands of dollars in life insurance she would receive upon her husband’s death were not a motive for murder. Also, the images from security cameras that placed her at the crime scene would only show that she was looking for writing inspiration. According to her, the murder weapon was only bought for research for a novel.
In 2011, Crampton Brophy published the now infamous essay ‘How to murder your husband’ on the website See Jane Publish, which can still be read online for free. She discusses reasons and methods for killing your husband. She mentions financial reasons as her main motivation, in addition to being in love with someone else or because “it’s your profession”. She first mentions the use of a firearm as killing methods to consider, noting that firearms are “loud and messy” and “require some skill.”
Elsewhere in the essay, she writes, “What I know about murder is that each of us has it in us, if you’re pushed enough in that direction.”
Crampton Brophy was arrested in September 2018 and has been in jail ever since. The writer, who risks lifelong, will be told at a later date by the judge what her sentence will be.
Nancy writes essay ‘How best to kill your husband’. And then her husband dies under mysterious circumstances
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