It’s official: The woman who wrote the 2011 essay “How to Murder Your Husband” has been convicted of murdering her husband. Nancy Crampton Brophy, the wife of Oregon Culinary Institute Instructor Daniel Brophy, was found guilty of second-degree murder when a Multnomah County jury delivered its verdict Wednesday, May 25.
Brophy was found dead at the cooking school in 2018, shot twice in the chest. Months later, Crampton Brophy was arrested for her husband’s murder; a 2019 affidavit noted that surveillance cameras placed Crampton Brophy near the school around the time of Brophy’s death, as well as the significant life insurance payout Crampton Brophy would receive.
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