An American novelist who wrote an essay titled
How to Kill Her Husband
began serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband on Monday (June 13).
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.
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The writer, who specializes in sentimental novels with titles as evocative as
L'enfer au coeur
or
The Bad Husband
, was found guilty on May 25 of the murder of Daniel Brophy.
During her trial, she had denied outright, assuring that the CCTV images where she appeared near the crime scene simply showed her looking for inspiration for her books.
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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.