Nancy Crampton Brophy testifies
A 71-year-old self-published romance novelist who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” will spend the rest of her life behind bars for murdering her husband, prosecutors announced. Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Christopher A. Ramras on Monday sentenced Nancy Crampton Brophy to life in prison for fatally shooting her husband, Daniel Brophy, in 2018.
An Oregon jury last month deliberated for roughly two days before finding Crampton Brophy guilty on one count of second-degree murder with a firearm in her husband’s death, as Law&Crome previously reported. Under the terms of the sentence, Crampton Brophy will be eligible for parole in 25 years.
Prior to handing down the sentence, Judge Ramras looked on as several members of Daniel Brophy’s family read victim impact statements.
“You are a monster and I’m ashamed that I have to admit to my children that people like you walk among us undetected,” said Daniel’s son, Nathaniel Stillwater, according to a report from CBS News. “You lived in the shadow of a great human being.”
“You opted to lie, cheat, steal, defraud and ultimately kill the man that was your biggest fan. You were – to borrow from your catalogue – the wrong wife,” Stillwater reportedly continued.
Clarinda Perez, a student at the Oregon Culinary Institute (OCI) where Daniel worked, also addressed the court. Perez reportedly performed CPR on Daniel after a group of students and faculty on June 18, 2018 found him on a kitchen floor suffering from two gunshot wounds to the chest. Perez reportedly refuted Crampton Brophy’s earlier claim that Daniel’s death did not affect OCI staff and students as significantly as she was impacted.
“All of us were affected that day and to hear…
