‘How to murder your husband’ writer found guilty of killing spouse
- US romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy shot her partner twice through the heart, then claimed she was at the scene looking for writerly inspiration
- She said she bought a gun for research purposes and denied the hundreds of thousands of dollars in life assurance she stood to gain were a motive for murder
A US romance novelist who wrote an essay titled “How To Murder Your Husband” has been convicted of killing her spouse.
A jury in Portland, Oregon, took just eight hours on Wednesday to return a guilty verdict against Nancy Crampton Brophy for shooting dead Daniel Brophy.
Prosecutors said the writer, whose Wrong Never Felt So Right series of novels include The Wrong Husband and The Wrong Lover, had been struggling financially before she shot her husband twice through the heart in June 2018 at a culinary institute where he worked.
Crampton Brophy, 71, had denied the charge, insisting security camera footage that put her at the scene of the crime merely showed her scouting for writerly inspiration.
She also claimed a missing gun police believe was the murder weapon had been bought as part of research for a novel, and denied the hundreds of thousands of dollars in life assurance she stood to gain were a motive for murder.