Author Of “How to Murder Your Husband” On Trial For Unexpected Crime


Nancy Crampton Brophy, author of “How to Murder Your Husband,” stands accused of actually murdering her husband and she allegedly confessed to the crime while in prison.

Crampton Brophy is accused of shooting her husband in an Oregon Culinary Institute classroom in 2018 and is currently on trial for the murder.

Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet claims the self-published novelist and blogger described how she murdered her husband in detail to a cellmate.

Her cellmate, Andrea Jacobs, told detectives that Crampton Brophy confessed to shooting her husband in the back and chest at close range. Jacobs also told detectives that Crampton Brophy was embarrassed after admitting that she killed her husband and that their relationship became “very awkward.”

The self-published novelist apparently committed the murder so she could collect the $1.5 million life insurance. The prosecution also alleges that Crampton Brophy spent $15,000 on parts for a ghost gun in 2017.

Along with authoring the novel, “How to Murder Your Husband,” a search of the couple’s computer revealed a bookmarked article entitled, “10 Ways to Cover Up a Murder.”

Crampton Brophy’s defense attorney has argued that she was at a Starbucks in Washington County when her husband was murdered. “Nancy Crampton-Brophy has always been thoroughly, madly, crazy in love with Daniel Brophy, and she still is to this day. For Nancy Brophy, he was perfect,” her defense team argued during opening statements.

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