Nancy Brophy, a novelist who wrote the article, ‘How To Murder Your Husband’, has been found guilty by a US court of killing her husband.
Gatekeepers News reports that Nancy wrote a blog post in 2011 wherein she detailed many ways a wife can deploy to kill her husband without getting caught.
Nancy’s husband, Daniel Brophy was found dead in 2018 at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he taught students as a chef instructor.
Brophy was said to have been shot twice in the back and the police, after investigations, charged the novelist with second-degree murder, an offence that carries a life imprisonment sentence. Nancy, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Investigators, according to The New York Times, discovered a video in the neighbourhood of her husband’s culinary institute which shows the novelist driving her old minivan in the area around the time of the killing.
When she was asked about her whereabouts during the time, the novelist said she could not remember the exact thing she was doing, adding that she might have been trying to get coffee run or taking notes for her writing.
During the trial, the prosecutors showed evidence of how the novelist bought gun pieces months before her husband’s death.
The prosecutors also informed the court that Nancy made sure that the bullets used in the shooting could not be traced to her gun.
According to prosecutors, she had moved to collect lucrative life insurance policies in the days that preceded the murder of her husband.
Shawn Overstreet, a deputy district attorney, said Nancy was the only person who had the motive to kill her husband.
In her defence, her lawyers argued that Nancy and her husband were planning for a future of travel, saying the prosecution’s case was built on “suspicion” and “conjecture”.
A Multnomah County jury found Nancy guilty of second-degree murder on Wednesday. The novelist will be sentenced on June 13.
