Posted on 05/25/2022 4:24:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Brophy, 63, was killed June 2, 2018 as he prepped for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Southwest Portland. He had worked at the school since 2006.
Prosecutors told jurors that Crampton Brophy was motivated by money problems and a life insurance policy.
Crampton Brophy said during the trial, however, that she had no reason to kill her husband and that their financial problems had largely been solved by cashing in a chunk of Brophy's retirement savings plan.
She owned the same make and model of gun used to kill her husband and was seen on surveillance camera footage driving to and from the culinary institute, court exhibits and court testimony showed.
Police never found the gun that killed Brophy. Prosecutors alleged Crampton Brophy swapped out the barrel of the gun used in the shooting and then discarded the barrel.
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I wonder if the victim in the book was working at a culinary institute and married to a writer?
He should have titled it, Had I Done It, to avoid ambiguously admitting guilt.
I’m pretty sure the whole idea of the title WAS to ambiguously admit guilt. If you look at the actual cover, or at least the original, the “If” was in a tiny font that you wouldn’t notice on a casual glance, so it was obviously designed to make a customer in the bookstore think that OJ had actually written a book title “I Did It”.
Did he have to fork over his advance/royalties?
I’m not sure on that one, but I’m pretty sure there was a lawsuit over it.
This was literally an episode of Columbo!
Now she’s really in trouble, plagiarizing a murder!
One of the few women that dont farm out a desired murder to a patsy beta cuck white knight to do for them.
One quick bullet to the head is what she deserves. Or several. Don’t care.
She should have written “How to Murder Your Husband And Get Away With It” instead of just the murder part. The extra research she would have needed to do to write the part that fulfilled the title would have served her well.
Hypothetically, of course.
Agatha Christie disappeared for some time, making some believe that her husband had killed her. He was probably sweating it out until she was found.
Then there was Alec Guiness in Kind Hearts And Coronets - he was sent to prison made the confessions in his memoirs then was granted a reprieve by the governor (or the equivalent in England) only to realize on the way out of prison he had forgotten his memoirs in the cell.
This old man, he played one...
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