The novelist, specialist in romance novels, had murdered her husband in 2018, after having published in particular “The bad husband”, or even an essay titled “How to kill your husband”.
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An American novelist who wrote an essay titled how to kill her husband began serving a life sentence on Monday June 13 for the murder of her husband. Nancy Crampton Brophy will have to wait no less than 25 years before being able to apply for parole, explained to her a judge of a court in Oregon, in the north-west of the United States.
The writer, specializing in sentimental novels with titles as evocative as hell at heart Where the bad husbandhad been found guilty on May 25 of the murder of Daniel Brophy.
During her trial, she had denied outright, assuring that the video surveillance images where she appeared near the crime scene simply showed her looking for inspiration for her books.
Nancy Crampton Brophy was in financial trouble when she shot her husband twice in the heart in June 2018 at the cooking school where he worked, prosecutors say.
Students had found Daniel Brophy, 63, on the floor of a classroom. His wife had been arrested in September of that year, and had been in pre-trial detention ever since.