After publishing a literary article titled “How to Kill Your Husband,” the 71-year-old American writer is on trial in the US Northwest for the murder of her husband, as mentioned in a text she published many years ago.
Nancy Crampton Brophy’s trial began in early April in a Portland, Oregon court. But it had to wait until this week for a writer of novels with such semantic titles as “Hell in the Heart” or “Bad Husband” to be cross-examined at the arch of the court by the prosecution, which presented her with conflicting evidence.
But the writer, who specifically published a literary article called “How to Kill Your Husband” and includes advice on how to get rid of her husband without arousing suspicion of a crime, found answers to everything and refuted all the accusations against her in detail.
Investigators confirm that Crampton Brophy killed her husband Danielle, then a 63-year-old chef, in June 2018 to collect damages on ten insurance contracts totaling $1.4 million. Despite being heavily indebted, the couple paid more than a thousand dollars a month on insurance contracts, but, according to the prosecution, they did not want to pay the cost of home loans.
Attorney General Sean Overstreet denied the allegations against Nancy Crampton Brophy, asking her to explain why she was in her car in front of her husband’s culinary college, security camera showed, minutes before he was killed by two bullets in one . from its halls. The defendant and the psychiatrist hired by the lawyers said that she forgot this detail due to memory loss as a result of the shock received by the news of her husband’s death.
In comments published by local newspaper The Oregonian, the prosecutor asked, “How can a writer be so sure she didn’t kill her husband,” although she says she has forgotten what happened. “You were there at the same time that one of them shot your husband six minutes apart with the same weapon that you had, but which is now mysteriously missing,” he said.
Nancy Crampton Brophy responded, “I’m under the impression that if I killed him I’d know all the details”, noting that she ended up near the crime scene by pure coincidence and may have been inspired by her novels. Also, investigators stop at the barrel of a Glock pistol she bought on eBay months before the crime, and the police allege that the defendant supplied her with the same type of pistol the couple owned in order to use in the crime a part that has not been found until today. despite the search intensive. The writer says she bought this weapon out of realism to use as an accessory while writing a novel, not knowing what happened to her afterwards. In previous statements, she also said that she purchased a Glock pistol to protect her husband while picking mushrooms in the forest.
