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A jury in the US city of Portland, Oregon, has convicted a self-published romance novelist who wrote an essay titled How to Murder Your Husband of fatally shooting her husband.
The 12-person jury found Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty of second-degree murder on Wednesday after deliberating for two days over Daniel Brophys death, according to reports.
Brophy, a 63-year-old chef, was killed on 2 June 2018 as he prepared for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in south-west Portland.
Crampton Brophy showed no visible reaction to the verdict in the crowded Multnomah county courtroom. Lisa Maxfield, one of her lawyers, said the defence team would appeal against the decision.
The defendants 2011 how-to treatise detailed various options for committing an untraceable killing, written in the form of a brainstorming exercise for writers.
Its opening reads: As a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and, consequently, about police procedure. After all, if the murder is supposed to set me free, I certainly dont want to spend any time in jail. And let me say clearly for the record, I dont like jumpsuits and orange isnt my color.
The blogpost went on to detail motives financial, lying, cheating bastard, abuser and a discussion of possible methods. Knives were personal and close up. Blood everywhere, while poison, considered a womans weapon, was too easy to trace, Crampton Brophy wrote. Guns were loud, messy, require some skill.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/26/how-murder-husband-writer-guilty-nancy-crampton-brophy
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I almost put this under "Weird News" but decided not to
Mme. Defarge
(7,982 posts)and it was obvious to me from the get-go that they had a slam-dunk case. I was not surprised that the jurys verdict of guilty on all counts was relatively quick.
I watched the defendants masked face as the verdict was read and could discern no noticeable reaction in her eyes or her body language. My take on that is that she knew she was guilty.
Kaleva
(36,146 posts)womanofthehills
(8,584 posts)When I asked him the name of the book he was writing, he said Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.