The morning of his assassination, Daniel Brophy’s body was in the kitchen of the Portland, Ore Culinary Institute, where he worked. One of the students who discovered his body on Monday described the chef’s last facial expression as “completely heartbroken”. Clarinda Perez, a student, attributed the green-eyed and sad chef’s look to the last thing she said she had seen before two bullets pierced his spine and heart: his wife, Nancy Crampton Brophy, holding a pistol Glock 9 mm. Last month, after a seven-week trial, Crampton Brophy – a 71-year-old romance writer known for writing a blog post in 2011 entitled “How to Murder Your Husband” – was found guilty of second-degree murder. On Monday, she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of release after 25 years for the murder of her then 63-year-old husband in 2018. Four years later, Brophy’s loved ones are still upset by the loss. They described his pain knowing that his grandson would never meet him – all because Brophy was killed by the woman he was cooking for, washing clothes and taking him to his family’s barn for 27 years. “You chose to lie, to steal, to cheat, to cheat, you finally killed the man who, for some reason unknowingly, was your biggest fan,” Brophy’s son Nathaniel Stillwater said in a statement before the release. of the sentence. “You executed my father in a cold-blooded act of premeditated murder. The man who did everything for you “. During the Crampton Brophy trial, which began April 4, Multnomah County District Attorneys described to jurors how they believed he was plotting to assassinate his favorite chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute. They claim that Crampton Brophy bought a ghost gun and tried to collect life insurance policies, reflecting things she had written about in her romance romance novels. The author of “How to Murder Your Husband” is on trial for alleged murder of a husband The Brophys’ wedding seemed idyllic on the outside – the “kind of relationship that made me personally think marriage might not be a bad idea,” testified Susan Estranda, the author’s niece. The couple built a quiet life on the outskirts of Portland, where chickens were partying in the backyard, serving hot meals every night and a “wonderful” vegetable garden flourishing, Crampton Brophy wrote on her website. But cracks began to form when it came to the couple’s financial situation, prosecutors said. The money was tight in the year before Brophy’s death – it was then that his wife came up with a deadly plan to collect life insurance policies, they said. The alleged plot involved a kit for building a ghost weapon, the kind of undetectable weapon that humans can assemble at home. But after struggling to assemble it, Crampton Brophy reportedly bought a pistol. Prosecutors say he replaced the gun’s transparency and barrel with one he ordered on eBay – making the gun holsters appear to not match the gun he had. 10-year-old in Florida shot deadly woman arguing with her mom, according to police On June 2, 2018, Crampton Brophy drove her minivan to the cooking institute shortly before her husband arrived at work, surveillance cameras showed. When Brophy got there around 7:20 a.m., the chef threw ice and water into buckets that filled up next to the commercial sink. That was when he was shot and killed. Students at the most inactive cooking institute found his body bleeding about an hour later. Perez, the student who testified against Crampton Brophy, tried CPR. Others called 911. Another “bravely cleaned the kitchen, so no one should see Chef Brophy the way [his wife] “She left him,” said Pereth. Shortly after the death of her husband, Crampton Brophy sought to raise $ 1.4 million in life insurance. That, prosecutors said, was the motive behind the killing. Police never found the gun that killed Crampton Brophy’s husband. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Crampton Brophy had replaced the barrel of the gun and then threw it to throw investigators. Her defense team, on the other hand, suggested that someone else might have killed Daniel Brophy – perhaps during a bad robbery. She tracked down her boyfriend using an AirTag and then killed him, police say Through all of this, Crampton Brophy has maintained her innocence. When she took office, Crampton Brophy said she and her husband had both purchased life insurance policies as part of their retirement plans. The weapons she bought, she said, were part of her search for her upcoming novel – one for a woman in a toxic relationship who gradually began acquiring gun parts to gain the upper hand against her abusive lover. But the jury was not convinced – instead, it was unanimously found guilty on May 25 after eight hours of debate. An upcoming hearing on the rehabilitation is scheduled for August. Judge Christopher Ramras, meanwhile, said he hoped the conviction could bring closure to the loved ones of a man he knew as “Chef Brophy” throughout the trial. “I think what you can take away, which I hope will give you a little consolation, is that he was a mentor and teacher for many and he had an impact on the lives of many people, and I hope they will come back and have an impact on others as they teach.” , said Ramras.
