Posted on 05/25/2022 2:05:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A romance novelist who wrote about “How to Murder Your Husband” was convicted in her husband’s killing Wednesday following a contentious trial in which prosecutors leaned on a “puzzle” of circumstantial evidence to portray the author as a duplicitous spouse who spent months quietly plotting the perfect crime.
Nancy Brophy, 71, stood quietly, a pandemic mask covering her nose and mouth, as the verdict was handed down, seven weeks after the trial began in Portland, Oregon. Her sentencing is scheduled for June 13.
Prosecutors had built their case with evidence showing that Brophy had acquired gun pieces in the months before the killing of her husband, Daniel Brophy, including one extra component that prosecutors said could ensure that the bullets used in the shooting would not be traced back to her gun. Prosecutors contended that she shot her husband in his workplace, where there would be no cameras or witnesses, then moved to collect on lucrative life insurance policies in the days that followed.
“She had the plan in place,” Shawn Overstreet, a deputy district attorney, said in closing arguments this week. “She had the opportunity to carry out this murder. She was the only person who had the motive.”
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How did they come by the evidence that she collected gun parts?
This gives a whole new meaning to “Murder, she wrote”
maybe, something like chapter 4. Or, 7. etc.
Libraries instructed to move the book
onto the DIY shelf.
Amazon is still selling her “Wrong Never Felt So Right” series.
Well they do say to “write about what you know about.”
Apparently not a very good how-to guide.
Same goes for internet searches. If you become a suspect, law enforcement can seize your computers and see every internet search you did.
So if some poor bastard happened to be googling how to poison somebody just out morbid curiosity and then his wife happens to die in her sleep shortly after, law enforcement is going to have him 50% convicted on that alone. All it would take is a little additional circumstantial evidence to make the case against him fairly airtight.
AKA a dust mask for the many years prior to covid
Oh, snap.
My wife tells me all the time that she’s going to make special tea for me from our garden… I guess I should be concerned if she writes a book “how to make special tea for your husband from your garden”
So when is this going to be on one of the Investigation Discovery true crime channels? My guilty secret. I miss “Wives with Knives.”
wrong, wrong, the husband did not read the book
On the morning of June 2, 2018, Daniel Brophy had gone to the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he taught classes. Students arriving after him discovered his body on the floor of a kitchen. He had been shot twice.
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“It was Mrs. White, in the kitchen, with a gun.’
looks like it took 4 years to declare the wife the killer.
She should have taken the money and gone to Europe and disappeared.
That would have been how I would have written the ending.
The headline takes care of itself. No need to even read the excerpt.
Wondering why the guy married her in the first place?
It’s like marrying a woman who wrote a book “How to Have Lots of Sex Outside Your Marriage, And Not Get Caught.”
Red flags, men... red flags.
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