An American author who wrote an essay called “How to Kill Your Husband” has been convicted of murdering her husband Daniel Brophy.
How to kill your husband and get caught: Tell your cellmate.
Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was sentenced on Wednesday for second-degree murder for the 2018 murder of her husband, chef Daniel Brophy, 63, after telling her cellmate about the murder, the New York Post reports.
Multnomah County Jury handed down its verdict How to kill your husband author Wednesday morning after a five – week trial, according to the Portland devourer.
Nancy’s cellmate Andrea Jacobs testified on May 18 and told prosecutors that the romantic novelist had described in detail the distance at which she shot her husband.
Gesturing to the jury, Jacobs stretched out his arms to indicate the distance between Nancy and her late husband and said, “He told me he was shot twice in the heart and … he showed me the distance.”
Jacobs told authorities his relationship with Nancy became “very uncomfortable” after the exchange.
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According to police, Nancy had shot her husband in the back and then while on the floor at the Oregon Culinary Institute where she worked.
Prosecutors said Nancy had bought the same make and model of the weapon that was used in her husband’s murder, and believe she had changed the barrel of the weapon to make the weapon more difficult to locate.
The defense claimed that Nancy’s purchase of weapons was for research into her work as a novelist. However, this statement did not seem to keep up with the jury.
In addition to the rehearsal How to kill your husbandNancy Crampton Brophy had written another novel entitled The wrong husband.
The convicted novelist and the story has not yet been convicted.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission