Taking the Stand

Nancy Brophy (2x3)

Air date: Jan 26, 2023

A romance author writes about how to murder a husband, and then kills her spouse. It might sound like the plot of a novel, but it happened in Oregon in 2018. Nancy Crampton Brophy, 72, shot and killed her husband, Daniel Brophy, on June 2, 2018 at the now-closed Oregon Culinary Institute, where he was a well-respected instructor. She was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in September 2018, and was found guilty in May 2022 after a seven-week trial. She was sentenced to life in prison.