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A Multnomah County jury took about 24 hours to decide the fate of Oregon romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, who has for the past five weeks stood trial to face charges that she murdered her chef husband in cold blood.
The verdict: guilty of second-degree murder.
The unanimous decision by the 12-person jury comes after 26 days in court and after four years of suspense for the family of 62-year-old Dan Brophy, a beloved chef and instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute.
The verdict comes after a trial that included long, plodding expert testimony, a bombshell jailhouse snitch who wasn’t, and the riveting, rambling testimony of Nancy Brophy herself, who stumbled through a dizzying set of confabulations to explain the many contradictions between what she told police on the day of the murder and what detectives would eventually uncover.
I see Keithe Morrison narrating this future "Dateline" episode.
Wow. From the article it sounds as though she's playing with way less than half a deck (or something like that; I always get those sayings mixed up, so it might something different). I saw her name in an article list on another article but thought it was just another typical murder trial. And it's probably just me being paranoid and always thinking the worst, but murder isn't something to joke around about; writing stuff like that essay, it's like asking someone to frame you. But then it sounds like she did absolutely nothing to try to cover her tracks; the brief descriptions of the evidence seems pretty overwhelming like there was absolutely no thinking along the lines of, "You know, this sort of thing I'm doing is pretty simple to track." That's why it seems like she's a bit thick in the head.
Thanks for the info; these stories are always interesting to me. It's confounding to me how people can be so confident they can get away with murder with how easy it is to track things these days; but, it does still happen so there's way more improvement to be had in that area (but like I was saying, she didn't even take that stuff into account! Internet buying, cell phone data, cameras. No effort whatsoever. Wow.)
Well, that’s one case of putting your money where your mouth is and as a bonus putting herself in jail. Kill two birds with one stone! lol
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