Author of ‘How to Murder your Husband’ on trial for murdering her husband

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Nancy Crampton Brophy allegedly murdered Daniel in 2018 after 20 years of marriage, Metro reports.

Daniel, 63, was shot dead at the Oregon Culinary Institute where he taught people how to cook.

Crampton Brophy – who also wrote a book called The Wrong Husband – denied murder when she faced trial in Portland, Oregon.

Lawyers wanted her 2011 essay to be presented to a jury, but a judge decided it could not be used as evidence because it was written so long ago.

Prosecutors said the couple was stuck in ‘financial despair,’ which fueled Crampton Brophy to shoot her husband in order to receive his $1.4 million life-insurance payout.

Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet told jurors the romance author was motivated by greed, and that she ‘executed what she perhaps believed to be the perfect plan.’

While the culinary school had no security cameras, nearby traffic cameras caught Crampton Brophy’s car on city streets near the institution around the time of the shooting.

Prosecutors say that she followed her husband to work and shot him with a Glock 9mm handgun she’d bought at a Portland gun show, which are the type of shell casings investigators recovered at the scene of the crime.

She had also bought a ‘ghost gun’ assembly kit that investigators found at a storage facility. ‘Ghost guns’ are unregistered and untraceable firearms.