In 2018, Oregon Culinary Institute instructor Daniel Brophy was fatally shot, discovered inside the building of the now-closed cooking school. Brophy was a longstanding mentor within Portland’s culinary community, with decades of kitchen experience. Months later, his wife — romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy — was arrested and charged with murder. More than three years after her arrest, Crampton Brophy, the author of the 2011 essay “How to Murder Your Husband,” now stands trial for the murder of her husband, as opening statements began this week.
Prosecutors argued that Crampton Brophy killed her husband for financial gain: She was the listed beneficiary on Brophy’s multiple life insurance policies,
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