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Woman who wrote an essay on how to murder a husband sentenced to life for murdering her husband
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Unlike the antagonists in her romance thrillers, author Nancy Crampton-Brophy did not get away with murder. A jury in Oregon convicted her in the 2018 slaying of her longtime husband.
Crampton-Brophy, 71, was convicted in May of second-degree murder in the June 2018 death of her husband, chef Daniel Brophy, who was gunned down at the culinary school where he taught cooking classes.
In court documents, prosecutors said the 63-year-old man had been shot twice -- once in the back as he stood at a sink filling ice and water buckets for the students, and then in the chest at close range.
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