In 2011, Nancy Crampton Brophy wrote about the different ways one could murder their husband. A little more than a decade later, she was sentenced to life in prison for doing so.
Clarinda Perez, the student, attributed the chef’s green-eyed, grief-stricken look to the last thing she said he’d seen before two bullets pierced his spine and heart: his wife, Nancy Crampton Brophy, holding a 9mm Glock pistol.
titled “How to Murder Your Husband” — was found guilty of second-degree murder. On Monday, she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for the 2018 murder of her then-63-year-old husband.the pain of knowing his grandchild will never meet him — all because Brophy was killed by the woman for whom he’d cooked meals, washed clothes and brought into his family’s fold for 27 years.
Over the course of Crampton Brophy’s trial, which began April 4, prosecutors with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office outlined for jurors how they believed she plotted the killing of the beloved chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute. They allege Crampton Brophy bought a ghost gun and attempted to collect life-insurance policies, mirroring things she’d written about in her romantic suspense novels.
Police never found the gun that killed Crampton Brophy’s husband. During the trial, prosecutors posited that Crampton Brophy had replaced the gun’s barrel and then discarded it to throw off investigators. Her defense team, on the other hand, suggested someone else might have killed Daniel Brophy — perhaps during a botched robbery.Through it all, Crampton Brophy has maintained her innocence.
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