In her essay “How to Murder Your Husband,” which was ruled inadmissible at the trial, Nancy Brophy had warned that “the police aren’t stupid. They are looking at you first. So you have to be organized, ruthless and very clever.”
Buy a gun, but also buy a replacement slide and barrel for that gun, so that before she killed her husband, she could swap out the parts with an untraceable set purchased on eBay. Learn how to load it, to shoot it. Wait for a morning she knew he’d go to work early, before anyone else would be at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where no cameras could record the crime. Leave her phone at home. Stake out the scene, to be sure he’d made it in the building.
Nancy Brophy wasn’t clever enough, Overstreet contended in closing arguments Monday on the 26th day of her murder trial. She failed to realize that in driving her minivan to and from the crime scene that morning, she’d be captured onShe told detectives she’d stayed home all morning, when those cameras showed that she had not.
Nancy Brophy and her attorneys offered a range of explanations throughout the month-long trial for her behavior, both for the June 2017 day of Dan Brophy’s murder and the months that preceded it, explain away a pile of circumstantial evidence the state contends leaves no reasonable doubt about who killed the 62-year-old chef.
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