A writer who titled her work ‘How to murder your husband’ is being tried in the United States for the death of her husband. This case has all the makings of classic detective fiction: a huge insurance payout, a flawless suspect claiming amnesia, a missing gun, and surveillance footage that appears to have caught the culprit red-handed.
But for the novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy It’s not about the plot of his latest book, but about real life in an Oregon courtroom.
The author of the saga titled “Wrong Never Felt So Right” (The wrong thing never felt so good, ndlr), which includes “The Wrong Husband” (The wrong husband) and “The Wrong Lover” (The wrong lover), is accused of shooting Daniel Brophy with a gun whose barrel, now missing, he bought on eBay.
Prosecutors say the 71-year-old writer was struggling to pay her mortgage but had multiple life insurance policies that would collect a total of $1.4 million in the event of her husband’s death.
“I’m doing better financially with Dan alive than with Dan dead,” he said as he took the stand in Portland this week, The Oregonian newspaper reported.
“Would I ask where the motivation is? An editor would laugh and say, ‘I think you need to do more work on this story, you’ve got a big hole in it.'”
Prosecutor Shawn Overstreet said security camera footage shows Crampton Brophy’s minivan was outside the Oregon Culinary Institute on June 2, 2018, around the same time her husband was killed in one of the dining rooms. class.
“You were there at the same time someone happens to be shooting your husband … with the same type of gun that you own and is now mysteriously missing,” he said.
Crampton Brophy She assured the court that she has no recollection of being there, though she acknowledges she should have been, insisting that security camera footage shows her in the area because she was driving while seeking inspiration for a story.
“This is not a man I would have shot because I have a memory problem. It seems to me that if I had shot him, I would know every detail.”
Daniel Brophy, 63, was found dead that morning by students preparing for class. He was shot twice.
Investigators say the barrel of the Glock pistol used in the murder was purchased by the suspect on eBay. The piece, which would contain damning forensic clues, has not been recovered despite an exhaustive police search.
Crampton Brophy She admits to buying a Glock pistol which she says was for her husband to protect himself when he went mushroom hunting in the woods, but says the missing barrel was bought as part of research for an unfinished novel.
“There was a huge gap between what was for writing and what was for protection,” he told the court, The Oregonian reported.
Prosecutors indicate that Crampton Brophywhose book ‘How To Murder Your Husband’ is still available online and whose books can be purchased on Amazon, was facing financial ruin before her husband’s death, but kept paying for 10 different life insurance policies .
There he discusses methods and motivations for getting rid of an unwanted spouse, including financial gain and the use of a firearm, though he notes that guns are “loud, dirty, and require some skill.”
“But what I know about murder is that every one of us carries it within us when pushed hard enough,” it read. The trial, which began in early April, is ongoing. AFP
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